ROAD

New Features

Service

• Support of secure connection protocols https and wss
• Support for output live monitoring
• Scheduling extended by new queryable data fields and sort fields
• Extended generic query expressions for case-insensitive comparison and regular expressions (new comparators ~, !~, ==~, !=~)
• HTTP and socket relaying between ROAD hosts
• Support PreJobId for Relay Subscriptions and Notifications
• Grouping socket notifications to reduce network load
• New endpoints add - see https://learn.davidsystems.com/road1v2/learn-and-explore/road-service-api/rest-api
  • api/schedules new parameter "ResetOccurrences", which leads into immediate stop or start of a new schedule as specified
  • api/timezones added
  • api/hosts added
  • api/versions added
  • api/variables added
  • api/filterSettings added to update DirectShow filter settings of a running job
• Extended "DELETE jobs" operation
• Allow Client Data in Job Description
• Read Credentials from Hidden Variable; Save with "***"
• All support for "DpeUpload" specification was removed (has been labelled as "deprecated" since a long time)

Worker

• Replaced Direct Show filters from Datastead with FFmpeg (streaming source, streaming output, limiter, …)
• Strongly improved and hardened streaming source filter (esp. in regards to connection breaks)
• Support for deferred entry creation by DPE Writer filter
• DPE Writer creates ".entry" files for failed uploads
• Store metadata also with DPE Writer's "backup" file
• Change Worker Log File Naming
• Support Placeholders for LocalFile
• Option to create only a local file
• Add "Monitoring via T-Filter" option to ROAD Worker
• Create DirectShow Filter shell for VST3 support
• Add VST3 functionality to VST3 transformer filter
• Integrate FFmpeg Audio Transformer into Road Worker
• Update DirectShow filter settings for a running job
• ASIO Source Filter: Option to "auto-select" audio sample rate

Installer

• Extended ROAD installer
• MongoDB connection is checked in the setup
• Make Setup usable for enterprise

Fixed Issues

• STT-6599 - Jobs Which are Finished by Service Shutdown Have Still "Running" State
• STT-6692 - Interview Recorder Setup fails after upgrade to .net 4.8
• STT-6788 - Clarify and Fix Time Zone Issues on Schedules
• STT-6846 - Premature Start of Recording
• STT-7045 - ROAD: Playout job loses output data in Pause/Resume sequence