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Renamed User Interface Application
With v.3.x we changed the naming of the User Interface from introduced a unified control application for all ToolsOnAir applications called Just Control. During the setup, the administrator can define which one of the two available solutions/user interfaces namely just:live and or just:play to "Just Control". This is a unified interface for all ingest and playout applications from TOA. Which playout interface is opened should be used for a certain channel is defined in the channel settings, and different kinds of channels can be used in the same interface.
For Customers Updating from previous versions to
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v.4.x
All customers upgrading from a previous version need require a new v4v.4.x activation code to be able to play out using just:out Just Out without a watermark on the output.
For Customers using the Event Option
Event devices are migrated as part of the channel file from v2 to v4 v.2.x to v.4.x as long as they are available under v4v.4.x. Crosspoints can not be taken over migrated and have to be added manually.
Please → contact ToolsOnAir in case you have any questions regarding Eventsthe migration from v.2.x to v.4.x.
Poster Frames in
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v.4.x
Poster Frames in v4 v.4.x are generated uncompressed in contrast to version 2.x, where the Poster Frames have been generated using a compressed format. Because of this, generating the Poster Frames is much faster, but they are also taking more disk space compared to previous versions. Make sure to save them on a fast and big storage which is not the same storage you use as the repository of your movies. The internal SSD or another fast internal disk is perfect for storing the Poster Frames.
SMB issues using some versions of macOS
Some versions of macOS are behaving very slow while connected to a shared storage using SMB. Please execute the following Terminal commands We have experienced performance issues with shared storage connections using older versions of the SMB protocol. If you encounter such issues please contact your storage provider for assistance. Alternatively, you might try using the following macOS Terminal commands, on all Macs running TOA software, to disable the SMB 1 protocol, which can may improve the faulty behaviour:
echo "[default]" | sudo tee -a /etc/nsmb.conf
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For Customers with more than 5000 Video files in a single Folder
In case Whenever a movie is added/removed or changed, the content of the whole folder has to be scanned to update the Library. During our tests we have seen, that this can take a few seconds in case when there are more than 5000 files in a folder. Because of this we recommend to limit limiting the amount of movies which are saved movie files in a single folder to not more than 5000 filesa maximum of 5000.