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Changes Since 6.1.37

Limitations

• (4Kx42) USB3 Super Speed (XHCI) support has been disabled.

• (4Kx42, XDx32) DTCP encryption/decryption support has been disabled.

End-User Notes

New Features

• Support for storage devices with sizes up to 1TB

• Multi-touch support for the NEC OVL-V463 touch screen Improvements

• (4Kx42) The Diagnostic Web Server (DWS) now reports when a connected 4K display supports the following HDR protocols: BT2020 RGB, BT2020 YCbCr, SDR EOTF, ST2084 EOTF.

• The Log page on the Diagnostic Web Server (DWS) now contains a link below the log output for saving crash dumps.

• The Diagnostic Web Server now displays the WiFi signal if the player is connected to a wireless network.

Bug Fixes

• HDMI-input playback via HTML has been fixed.

• Playback of portrait-mode HD video (1080x1920) has been fixed.

• (4Kx42) MJPEG video windows now display correctly with 4K video modes. • (4Kx42) Players now correctly output the max luminosity of HDR 4K videos. • (4Kx42) HTML pages that download numerous high-resolution images no longer cause the player to crash.

• HTML pages are now responsive to mouse inputs at the edges of the page.

• Playing an HTML video that has 44.1kHz audio no longer causes the screen to go blank momentarily. This issue would occur the first time after presentation start or after playing a video with 48kHz audio.

• RTSP streaming video now plays correctly when preceded by an HTTP streaming video.

• Time-server configuration no longer fails if the specified URL for the NTP server contains a trailing slash (e.g. "ntp://time.brightsignnetwork.com/").

• When downgrading firmware versions on a player, the progress bar is once again displayed on screen.

• The Logitech Wireless Presenter R400 works with BrightSign players again.

• DVB subtitles now display correctly.

• Multichannel AAC is supported again.

• HDMI-input audio passthrough no longer fails on some Blu-Ray players when switching from a disc with ATMOS audio to a disc with DTS audio.

• HDMI-input passthrough of Dolby Digital Plus audio no longer exhibits breakups with some Sony and Marantz Blu-ray players.

Developer Notes

New Features

• New roBtManager and BSBtManager objects, which allow players to transmit using USB BLE beacons

• WebRTC support for HTML widgets

Improvements

• The roRtspStream object is no longer required to play a video stream; streaming URLs can now be played directly using the roVideoPlayer.PlayFile() method, as shown in the following example: v.PlayFile({url:"http://172.30.1.37/file.ts"})

• The roVideoPlayer object now generates event 30 (MediaError_NotStarted) when a video fails to start. For backwards compatibility, event 16 (MediaError) is generated as well.

• New allow_seamless parameter for roVideoPlayer.SetLoopMode() makes it possible to configure video playback to loop non-seamlessly in all cases, as shown in the following example: v.SetLoopMode({enable:true,allow_seamless:false})

• (4Kx42) The roVideoMode.GetEdidIdentity() method now returns the following values related to 4K HDR support: bt2020_rgb_support, bt2020_ycc_support, hdr_st2084_support, sdr_eotf_support, hdr_eotf_support.

• (4Kx42) New roVideoMode.OverrideHDMIDynamicMastering() method allows you to override the HDR mode set by the video content.

• The roUrlTransfer.AsyncMethod() method now accepts the output_object parameter, which enables processing of a downloaded HTTP body before passing it to an object.

• New roKeyStore object allows you to add client certificates to HTML widgets.

• (4Kx42) The roHtmlWidget.EnableSecurity() method now accepts an associative array with websecurity and camera_enabled keys. This allows a webpage access to a USB camera connected to the player.

• Players now ignore the "viewport" parameter in the <meta> tag of an HTML page. This behavior is equivalent to desktop browsers.

• The roHtmlWidget.SetHWZDefault() method now a