Video-SkiAlp-Pro

New Design:
New control bar at the top for readability
Hub: The cameras are up and the media down to match the video mode control.
Removed the Logos/slideshow/video modes that duplicated the media channels.
New buttons on media inputs: scenarios can be edited directly + access to settings.
New Media slideshow, to manage slideshows independently of scenarios.
Enhancements of the textures minification/magnifications for a more crisp rendering.
New protection replacing the sliding bars.
The clips can be recorded with the sound.
Thumbnails are loaded as you scroll the send list of clips.
New protection key encoding based on temporary keys for Clips-Pro and WebTV.
Other corrections and optimizations.

The last scenario used is saved and selected during the next opening of the software.
Fixed the "Always active" option in the ranking that replaced the live ranking lines.
Take into account the "Add to main display" option.
Added a "After start" data for the scenario, + Add a default scenario that displays the last competitor left for 10 seconds.
Added hardware acceleration support for video decoding.
Addition of the support of the PTZ camera flew.
Added an option to perform a precise cut of the clips.
The selection of the displayed streams is saved and restored at the start of the program.
Updated the decoding library for better support for Intel QSV processors.
Fixed the calculation of the position of the video and the timing on certain video formats.
The program no longer crashes when the slow motion editor is closed and playback is paused.
The pause button is displayed instead of the play button when the slow motion editor is opened.
Fixed opacity pre-loading media.
NVidia encoders are limited to 2 streams (fallback to the software encoder).

The configuration of the recording directory of the clips is taken into account.
The status of the "Timing Connection" button is restored when the program is reopened.
The program will not create any more errors when you delete a slide if the slide show is currently playing.
When you open the editing of a slide the rendering is forced to this slide.
The program is no longer blocked if an IP camera is no longer available on the network.

Fixed the recording of the IP cameras that recorded a blue video.
Fixed the recording of the Clips-Pro outputs not configured in the first position.
Fixed the download of videos to a Clips-Pro space.

Improvement of the quality of the encoding of the stream to a BlackBox output.
If an error occurs in the camera record manager, the message will no longer appear in the popup but in the message label of the record.
Prevents software from blocking during shutting down if no audio interface is available on the computer.

Better management of the cleaning of buttons textures.
Other corrections and optimizations.

Adaptation for the 6.0.00 version of SKIALP-Pro.
Added independent multi-output management that requires different encoding.
Added preview full screen modes (keyboard support for keys A, B, C, D displays the full screen flow).
Added a clip editing mode to cut or add a slow motion.
Added a drive to preview or review the clips before sending.
Added an entry to handle different overlays with different scenarios.
Added support for USB cameras.
Updating the Encoding bookseller: Now 3 encoders are available and automatically selected according to the PC's capabilities: by the Nvidia graphics card (very high performance), by the graphics processor of the Intel CPU (best performance), or by Software mode.
Many other fixes and optimizations.

- (VLS238) The running time with factor is well accumulated in the 2nd run..
- (VLS240) Intermediate time are factored.
- (VLS241) Telemark: The penalty is applied only once in the second round.
- (VLS243) Clips: A different clip resolution from the original format of a HDMI camera no longer distorts the image.
-Minor fixes and optimizations.

- (VLS4) Better support for networking camera.
- (VLS5) Adding a portrait-image mode running on the flags principle.
- (VLS18) The images of the flags are no longer limited to 3 characters.
- (VLS20) The position displayed in the starting list is based on the order of the starting list.
- (VLS39) Competitors fields parameters are based on thoses configured in SkiAlp-Pro.
- (VLS79) Optimizing the import of scenario-tabbed backups.
- (VLS92) The clips are sent in the right race even after changing of event.
- (VLS97) Correction of the title of the series displayed on the parallel ranking (linked to the field "Last name and first name").
- (VLS98) Handicap race: the factor is applied on running time.
- (VLS100) Added information to show that "Final" and not "Small Final".
- Update of SQLite 3.16.2.
- Correction of the recording of an HDMI camera (the image was flipped).
- The slideshow stops its videos when it is stopped (for resource saving purposes).
- The number of rows reimported when saving a scenario is correct.
- Others corrections and improvements.

The demo mode is correctly desactivated with a coded dongle in network use

Updating the program to reflect the changes made in SkiAlp-Pro 5.0.00.
Video clips can be uploaded manually.
The bandwidth allocated for sending clips may be limited.
The quality of the video captured by Blackmagic acquisition is at maximum.
New mode of cameras recording scenario (before and after finish).
General improvement in performance and stability of the program.

Better stability for video clips recording.
Clip cutting is based on heat indepandantly of classification choose in SkiAlp-Pro.
Avoid to restart recording if last frame has not been transferred to final file.
Little adjustement for the offset during start of recoding.
Add of checks to avoid possible error before start recoding vidéo.
Camera simple scenario : avoid to retrieve old configuration.
Camera simple scenario : hide the preview graphic.
Show the recording frame count on the main gui.
Video stream are correclty close at the stop of clip recording and live streaming..
Video library is closed only one time on the main thread.
Correction of error « nvoglv32.dll » at the stop of recoding.
Cleaning of context transition buffer at the stop of recording and when sizes change.
Stop the recording before changing size parameters instead of after.
Better release of ressources at the stop of recording and live streaming.
Destruct of OpenGL buffers at the program close.

Reducing the number of buffers needed for encoding and decoding the stream.
Fixed error when loading a run into the manager of recording video clips.
Updating the textures management library to the 3.17.0 release.
Correcting the definition of timing directory to install the software.
When selecting a video file the Width / Height is no longer distorted.
The main window is now always over the render window.
Fixed freezes the video in a slideshow after a first reading.
Fixed freeze when playing the background video overlay channel.
Adding a button to forward all videos at once.

- Update of Sqlite librairy v3.11.0.
- Add of camera scenarii for different track depending on the graphic scenario choosed.
- Separate of live streaming and clips recording.
- Add of a button to start recording before the first competitor start.
- Correction of freeing locks in runing buffer.
- Improve buffer management in video decoding.
- Better internal organisation for recording and live streaming.
- Avoid a null pointer exception on event changing.
- Improve the bandwith target for clips recording.
- Change of bandwith level in clips parameters.
- Add of FPS info on video decoding tiles.
- Others optimizations et improvements.

- Increase timeout on Clips-Pro video post.
- Correction of I-Frame in video clips. (at the start and on a camera switch).
- Resolve a conflict between the live streaming and video recording.

- Live video streaming to new serveur address.
- Correction of video index in video inputs parameters window.
- Lowering video quality limit for live streaming.
- Rtsp stream (IP camera) are forced to TCP.
- Camera scenarii : add of a simplified mode.
- Camera scenarii : 3 new possible mode : before and after start, between start and finish, before and after finish.
- Preview window is not always on top.
- Mouse cursor is hide when it pass on the render window.
- Use of libopenh264 to encode and decode H264 video.
- Little optimizations for video recording.
- Update of FFmpeg library (20151211).
- Correction of some traductions.

- Correction of protection key detection.
- Avoid error if you delete a camera displayed on the final render.
- Better cleaning of buttons textures.
- Background UI is darker.
- Better support if vidéos and camera (By using FFmpeg LGPL3.0 v09/11/2015).
- Access to media are now on a separate thread.
- New progress and time bar for playing videos.
- Add play/pause buttons for video.
- New integrated support for live streaming to Vola servers.
- Support audio from interface for streaming.
- Correction of differents video resolution for video clips.
- Better timestamping for video clips.
- Superior preset used for video clips (better quality with same bitrate).
- Better video splitting management (percent are now used for all the race).
- Others littles optimization for video clips recording.
- Video streams are now cadenced at 30fps.
- Avoid stop recording or live streaming when your resize the software window.
- Optimizations of textures loading (no unecessary file walk).
- Textures : correction of 24 bits images loading.
- Image selection : proportionality check is now disabled when you change image.
- Alpha channel is set at 255 for BMP 32bits file.
- The mini preview use all the available space.
- Show the time when playing a slideshow.
- Support for video in slideshow.
- Correction of time when swaping a slide.
- Backround slide is now fade out when using fading effect between slide.
- Slide duration is now 5 seconds by default.
- Key F1 à F4 : Now directly send camera stream to the final render.
- Key 1 à 4 : Now preview/take control of media channel.
- Lighyweight setup pak 60Mo => 29Mo.
- New Vola logo in default graphic template.
- Correction of firstname/lastname field in the default scénario.
- Others littles corrections and optimizations.

- Competitors at start: update of the exchange format of SkiAlp-Pro v3.0.20.
- Databases: correction of errors by changing write modus to cache only.
- Correction of gap at intermediates calculation when there are two runs and a "total of runs" classification type.
- Parallels: update of the serie when the competitors numbers change.
- Optimisation and cleaning. Correction in the scenario tabs creation. Deletion and creation at each switch among scenario tabs.
- Save and load of all lines in a scenario tab.
- Correction of the menu for data directory configuration.
- BlackMagic capture card: SDK update to version 10.3.4.
- Modifying lines positions affects all effects for position too.
- New capture card: support of Vola HD Capture Card.
- New translation: addition of the language file in dutch.
- Correction selection of "No media" on already assigned media.
- Correction Intensity image hang if audio is active.
- Several corrections (COM objects initialisation in the main Thread, calls of destructors)

Parallels: update of the name of the serie when competitors numbers change.
Parallels: start list is now separated into series.
Parallels: start list data: addition of data « Result of competitor ... ».
Parallels: addition of a start list scenario in the template graphic file.

•      Encoding / cutting / joining videos in one pass instead of 4.
•     Added moov atom in the recorded videos for online play starts immediately.
•     The miniature is done at the crossing of the finish line.
•     Adding an entry "Still images" to load and position logos (to be used instead of Media Player for logos and other still images).
•     Adding of the management and support of live streaming for the Vola Web TV
•     Integration of FFmpeg in Shared mode.
•     Downsizing of the pack to 12mo
•     Recording a video is not valid if the assembly of video is not done correctly.
•     settings of trackbars  and different panels.
•     Correction of the handling of the different runs in parallel events (running time and rankings).
•     Adding buttons to manage rankings / start list for the Video-Pro interface.
•     Adding shortcut M and C to change the transition from one media to preview.
•     Cleaning the source code.

•      Change order of layers of the media: F1 = foreground F4 = background.
•      Disabling of error message at launch if the sound is not initialized.
•      No black semi transparent square if a flag is captured but the file does not exist.
•      Initialization Fixed video player connected to the overlay channel.
•      If media is an image, one copies it only once in graphics memory.
•      Fix the source of the ranking in parallel mode (for records).
•      Minor optimizations.

- Sound integration for video and media captures: the sound is internally managed in Stereo 48000Hz.
- The sound is picked up by the HDMI or RCA on BLACKMAGIC interfaces or directly from a media.
- Windows Vista / 7: It is necessary to have updated DirectX to use sound (http://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/download/details.aspx?id=35).
- Option to turn the sound continuously or only when the image is online.
- Insert the sound depending on the input transition, MIX mode, the sound appear fused to the maximum value set.
- The sound comes out bland on media with an output transition defined MIX.
- Adding stereo VU meters to monitor audio input.
- The deletion of a media settings are now correctly restored.
- Optimization of final render layers: a Cut drain the layer list.
- Margin settings between previews of cameras to make best use of available space.
- The funds of the video inputs are now checkerboard to better visualize transparency.
- Optimization of the re-calculation rankings (Launch faster and no more delays at arrival and at a large number of classified competitor).
- Fixed handling of the hours of the start / finish to manage records in parallel tests.
- If the reference of a record is the arrival then the recording time is the percentage of the total course.
- No launch update verification.
- Reduction of 20 mega bytes package.
- Other minor updates

•      Integration of the window to set a recording scenario.
•      Cleaning, restructuring and optimizing code recording the video stream.
•      Headers of the temporary video files are correctly added as header before any writing.
•      Avoids freezes when the recording starts.
•      Registration is now shut down properly when the box is unticked.
•      The flow is necessarily stopped even after changing the scenario of cameras.
•      The thread registration is now correctly stopped and cleaned.
•      The time of end recording is now updated regularly: no more error stream selection.
•      Better management of the shutdown / reboot by camera.
•      Correction of the calculation of ranking positive and negative differences after arrival and after an intermediate
•      Changing the scenario by default to display the positive / negative differences over the total race time instead of the run time.

- Integration of multi-cameras management.
- Up to 4 cameras simultaneously.
- Up to 3 media (video files).
- Here are the formats and media supported: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=input
- The inlays are considered as media and can be mixed or not. A transition effect can be set.
- The preview window is now optionnaly divided into four parts:

• - Top left: a preview area where you can see a media before sending it to the final stream.
• - Top right: the final stream sent on the screens.
• - A strip of four frames containing the signal from the cameras in real time.
• - A strip of four frames, the first containing the inlays and the three others videos to choose from.

- This preview can be switched from mosaic mode, or as before, to just having the final.
- Video inputs and the media can be incorporated into the final stream with transition effects, for now CUT = Gross, MIX = fade.
- The time for the fade can be defined.
- Keyboard shortcuts are defined to manage the flow:

• - Keys F1 to F4 => Put in the foreground the media or the overlays (F1).
• - Keys 1-4 => Video-caption inputs.
• - Enter key: showing video.

- The video position is now applied to the inlays and input signals.
- Cleaning, reorganization, simplification of the code and optimizations:

• - A single OpenGL context for the preview and rendering.
• - Only FrameBuffers are now used, RenderBuffer are abandoned.
• - Only an update of the timing data on ~ 3 frames instead of 2 updates per frame. (update every 50ms).
• - Remove unnecessary buffers deletion.

- Integration of an intelligent cache for banners and flags => better management of the random-access and graphic memory.
- Video replacing overlays now uses VLC too.
- Updating the Library to the BlackMagic 10.3.4 version dated of 2014-10-24.
- Video capturing by a BlackMagic card is now optional. Withdrawal of error messages at launch if there is no card.
- The data unloading is done only once at the close of the program.
- Limitation of files recording to 1.5 Go (limit C ++ 32 bits).
- Remove of infinite loops when an error occurs while recording in database.
- Optimizing the loading of images of format .BMP.
- Optimization of the calculation of transition effects (faster and more accurate).
- Adding effects: text or background angle and opacity of the text.
- Correction of the delay effect on the page change in ranking mode, or start list.
- When launching the application, the first video input and the inlays are directly displayed.
- Integration of running time for parallel events.
- Managing the start list and ranking in parallel events.
- Update of the example scenario for parallel ranking.
- Add of a test pattern for video adjustments.
- Add of a button to space vertically and evenly a group of data lines (between the first and the last selected line).
- Add of a button to space horizontally and evenly a group of data lines (between the first and the last selected line).
- Add of a button to align to the left a group of data lines (takes the first value).
- Add of a button to align to the top a group of data lines (takes the first value).

- Correction of the time of displaying of a data after a finish.
- Scrolling effect improved in relation with the alignment of the background.
- Update of the sample of scenario in mode Time Measurement: adjusting the background for the last name and first name.
- Update of the sample of scenario in mode Ski School.
- Logo Vola Racing replaced by Vola Timing.

- Addition of "Penalty" data.
- Translations: several updates.

- Option for texts to scroll if they are too long.
- Addition of a color light for the event directory validity, and a color light for the connection to timing.
- Direct update of the replacement of the timing computer with another computer: no need to stop and start again Video-SkiAlp-Pro.
- Scenario, tab "Effects": addition of a button "Copy the list". The button "Paste" now adds a new effect with the copied content.
- Creating a graphic taking another graphic as a model: character fonts and diaporama are copied too.
- Nation flags: new flags with a shadow and rounded corners are now downloadable from Vola server.
- Scenario: text or flag: new parameters "Opacity" and "Angle".
- Scenario data: new option "Finish dwell time".
- Video recording: record parameters are initialised for each new graphic.
- Parallels: update when there is a competitor change at start.
- Optimisation of the encoding and publication of videos. Use of the x64 capacities of the computer OS.
- Option to record videos with or without overlays.
- School of Skiing: whatever the country regulation, possibility to set a scenario "Time measurement - School of Skiing" with medals.
- Update of the default graphic template.
- Support of the English language and possibility to translate the software.
- Texts change happening during a transition out are now recorded.
- New data arriving precisely during a transition out are now recorded, even if they are identical to the previous ones.
- Display of all data even if the new competitor has been introduced during the transition out of another (previous) competitor.
- Display of texts having the value "0" (for example: "0" points in a ranking).
- The parametrised display delays are now taken into account on effects for transition in.
- When opening a new graphic, improvement of the re-initialisation of text fonts, background images and effects.
- When starting Video-SkiAlp-Pro, the main window is resized if it does not fit in the PC screen.
- Blackmagic capture systems: update of the driving library.
- Possibility to record a "bug report" when an "Access violation" occurs.
- Software recast: update of user controls (buttons, entering, grids, etc.), internet exchanges, HTML encoding, read/write of files, etc.

Publication of on-line videos :

• Automatic save and publication on the web
• Selection of the different parameters of starts
• Information on the current save
• Increase of the delay for publication
• Number of trials limited to 3
• Test of the size of the files before publication
• Wait of a valid synchronisation before the start of the recording
• Pause if no competitor is on course
• Close the encoding plugin if you close Video-SkiAlp-Pro

Encoding of videos :

• Adaptation for Smartphones.
• Force the position of window at the bottom right of the screen.
• Avoid the memory saturation if too many frames are captured.
• Manage of personalised resolutions.
• Other small improvements