Version History

The Makito X4 Decoder can now output SMPTE ST 2110 compliant content, containing active video, audio and ancillary metadata, through the SFP+ port. To enable SMPTE ST 2110, your decoder must have an ST 2110 license. 

• Configuring ST 2110 Outputs

• System Settings

• personality

ST 2110 outputs use Precision Time Protocol (PTP) to synchronize essences with the local time at the Decoder's location. PTP references adhere to ST 2110-10 / SMPTE 2059 standards. 

• Configuring Date and Time

• Date and Time Settings

• ptp

The Makito X4 Decoder now supports AMWA NMOS IS-04, IS-05 and IS-09 specifications when configured for SMPTE ST 2110.

• Enabling and Disabling Network Services

• Configuring NMOS

The Makito X4 Decoder now decodes and processes Dolby Digital AC3, Dolby Digital Plus E-AC3, and Dolby ATMOS audio. 

• Surround Sound Audio

The cryptographic engine and security packages have been updated to support FIPS 140-3.

• Managing Security Policies

A new Help Center experience is available across Haivision products. 

• Help Center

This version includes an enhanced user interface to provide a more streamlined and intuitive experience.

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The percent of CPU and Memory Usage can now be viewed through the Web Interface or the Command Line Interface.

• 'System Monitoring' in Navigating the Dashboard

• cpuinfo

A number of additional stream monitoring features are now available, including bandwidth charts for all stream types, audio level meters, and graphs tracking skipped, replayed, and displayed frames.

• Navigating the Dashboard

The Makito X4 Decoder can now receive uncompressed audio in the format of SMPTE 302M Linear PCM, and output it over SDI as Embedded AES.

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Users can now filter Program ID from incoming MPEG-TS streams from the Web UI or the CLI.

• Configuring Streams

• Stream Settings

• stream

This version can decode and output surround sound audio.

• Audio Decoding

• Surround Sound Audio

To help avoid glitches and interruptions on video outputs, the decoder can be configured to receive redundant transport paths with SRT streams.

• Configuring SRT Path Redundancy

Support for a new hardware revision (version D)

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SRT is now upgraded to version 1.5.2 for additional security and other various improvements. 

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The Makito X4 Decoder now supports Authenticated-Encryption with Associated-Data (AEAD) for encrypted SRT streams

• Configuring Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)

• SRT Stream Settings

• stream

Users can now upload custom Still Image files for the decoder to display when there is no input stream present (instead of the default blue/black/bars patterns previously available).

• Configuring Still Image Streaming

• Configuring Decoder Outputs

• mkstill

• still

• dec

The Makito X4 Decoder now supports deployment over two distinct network subnets in order to partition streaming and management services. This requires that an SFP+ Network Interface Card (Optical or Electrical) be installed in the SFP+ port.

• Connect to the Network

• Configuring Network Settings

• ipconfig

A preset auto-save setting is now available. This setting will prevent loss of configuration settings in the event of sign-outs, rebooting, or sudden power disconnection to the unit, even if users have not manually saved their configurations into presets. When preset auto-save is enabled, the decoder configuration is automatically saved every time changes are applied. Preset auto-save is enabled by default on new units and after factory reset, but disabled when upgrading from an older version of firmware that did not support this feature.

• Saving and Loading Presets

• config

In order to connect with SRT services that use the Stream ID identification mechanism (SRT 1.4 or later), Stream Publishing IDs may now be assigned in the SRT stream creation workflow. Using Stream Publishing IDs allows multiple streams to connect to a single destination using the same UDP port number.

• Configuring SRT Access Control

Implementation of FIPS 140-2 security improvements.

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A new option is available to restrict the user's ability to change their password. Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. The range is from 0 (no restriction) to 7 days. The default is 0.

• Managing Security Policies

• policy

In order to properly support future interactions with Haivision Hub over HTTPS, the Makito X4 firmware now includes a list of trusted root certificate authorities (ca-certificates.crt installed under /etc/ssl/certs/). This list may be used to validate certificates returned by remote servers.

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• Corrective action to resolve identified security issues affecting certification. Including:

  • Disabling accounts after a specified period of account inactivity  

  • Limiting the number of invalid sign-in attempts by a user during a specified time period 

  • Limiting the number of concurrent sign-in sessions per user 

• Managing Security Policies

• policy

The Makito X4 Decoder now supports slice-based streams from the Makito X4 Encoder (i.e., streams that use multiple slices per frame instead of the normal one slice per frame). Encoding latency is improved since encoded slices can be transmitted on the network without having to wait for the whole frame to be encoded. 

There are no user interface changes on the decoder, only on the encoder interface.

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The Makito X4 Decoder now supports High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG), including both Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) and Perceptual Quantizer (PQ) HDR transfer functions. When licensed and configured for HDR, the decoder detects the inbound transfer function signaling within the stream (transmitted from a remote Makito X4 Encoder or any other compliant 3rd party encoder) and forwards this information within the SDI output signal.

HDR is a licensed feature. If the unit is not licensed for HDR, the colorspace is Standard Dynamic Range (SDR)/BT.709 in the output stream. The EMS agent has been updated to support HDR options. 

• "Dynamic Range" in Decoder Settings and dec

The following Security pages have been added to the Administrative section of the Web Interface:

• Account Management (add new accounts)

• Audit

• Banner

• Certificates

• Messages

• Policies

• Managing Users and Security

Preview Thumbnails have been added to the Control Center Decoder configuration panels to provide a visual reference of each video decoder’s output. Preview Thumbnails can be enabled/disabled and the Preview capture interval configured from the Web Interface Admin Services page.

Preview settings persist through reboot. By default, previews are enabled and set to 10 second intervals.

• Enabling and Disabling Network Services

The following improvements have been made to the Certificates page:

• Removed type "root-CA" in Identity import modal

• Removed type "Identity" and "ca-chain" in CA import modal

• Added confirmation notification when changing default certificate

• Added more custom error messages on certificate upload failure

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There are no user interface changes on the decoder, only on the encoder interface.

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New statistics are available on the Web Interface, including enhanced statistics supporting multi-channel synchronization between Makito X Series encoders and decoders.

• Decoder Statistics

• Stream Statistics

• Multi-Channel Synchronization.