v2.4.0-NRK-RC5

What's Changed

This includes everything from upstream CasparCG v2.4.0 and some unreleased fixes in the v2.4.x branch as of 07-08-2023 (2b9c040).

Changes relative to Upstream 2.4.x as of 07-08-2023 (2b9c040)

• Remove Flash Producer

Changes relative to 2.4.0 NRK RC4

Core

Improvements

• Support 4K DCI frames
• Remove undocumented CII and CLK protocol implementations
• Config parameter can be an absolute system path, not just relative to the working directory
• AMCP: Add commands to subscribe and unsubscribe to OSC on any port number
• AMCP: Add CALLBG command to perform CALL on background producer
• Build: Require C++17 for building
• Build: Replace nuget and locally committed dependencies with direct http downloads
• Build: Allow configuring diag font path at build time
• Linux: Initial ARM64 compatibility
• Linux: Rework build to always use system boost
• Linux: Rework build process to better support being build as a system package
• Logging: add config option to disable logging to file and to disable column alignment

Fixes

• Crash upon exiting if HTML producer was running
• AMCP: Ensure all consumers and producers are reported in INFO commands
• AMCP: Deferred mixer operations were not being cleared after being applied
• AMCP: LOAD command would show a frame or two of black while new producer was loading
• Fix bad config file examples
• Fix casparcg_auto_restart.bat not starting scanner
• Revert removal of tbbmalloc, due to notable performance loss on windows
• Supress some cmake build warnings
• Build failure when doxygen installed on system

Producers

Improvements

• Decklink: Require driver 11.0 or later
• HTML: Expose cache-path setting
• System Audio: Allow specifying output device to use

Fixes

• Decklink: Log spamming when using some input formats
• FFmpeg: Don't lowercase filter parameters
• FFmpeg: Support parameters with name containing a dash
• HTML: Expose angle backend config field, the best backend varies depending on the templates and machine
• HTML: Crash when multiple iframes were loaded within a renderer
• Image: Improve file loading algorithm to match the case insensitive and absolute path support already used by ffmpeg
• FFmpeg: Ignore ndi:// urls
• Route: Race condition during destruction

Consumers

Improvements

• Artnet: New artnet consumer
• Decklink: Output a subregion of the channel
• Decklink: Add secondary outputs in a consumer, to ensure sync when used within a single card
• iVGA: Remove consumer

Fixes

• Decklink: subregion copy not respecting frame height
• Decklink: subregion vertical offset
• Decklink: subregion height limited with some formats

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nrkno/sofie-casparcg-server/commits/v2.4.0-NRK-RC5