CERIFY CYSW Software for MS Windows V7.0.1.24

This version of Cerify for Windows (CYSW) can be installed as a new installation or to update an existing installation. It can also be used for trial in demo mode. It supports the processing of multiple files simultaneously on standard PC hardware or on a cluster of two or more such dedicated computers connected on a network. All Cerify UI functionality is accessible using this software, but in order to process video files, a separately available hardware license dongle is required. Please contact your Tektronix sales representative if you would like to obtain a dongle on a trial basis.
By downloading this software, you agree to the terms and conditions of the Software Download Agreement and the Cerify Software License Notices. This software uses source code licensed under the terms of the LGPL, which, including modifications, are part of the package downloaded from this page.

Version: V7.0.1.24
Software Type: Application

Release Date: Aug 10 2010 - 07:00 am
Part Number: 066423403

Release Notes

Release Notes

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Tektronix

Cerify
Automated Video Content Verification System
Release Notes

This document supports software version 7.0.1

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Release Notes
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These release notes provide the following information:

- List of the new Cerify features available in software version 7.0.1
- List of important defect fixes that have been made in version 7.0.1
- List of known installation and operational issues relating to Cerify
version 7.0.1
- Change log of the changes from previous releases of Cerify

CAUTION. To prevent loss of data in the unlikely event of the database becoming
corrupted, it is strongly recommended that you regularly back up the Cerify
database. See the Database Backup section of the Cerify User Manual (Tektronix
part number 077-0352-03) for details of how to do this.

Related User Documentation
--------------------------

The following user documentation applies to Cerify version 7.0.1:

- "Cerify, Automated Video Content Verification System, User Manual"
(English) Tektronix part number: 077-0352-03.
- "Cerify Software Quick Start User Manual" (English) Tektronix part
number: 071-2680-03
- "Cerify Automated Video Content Verification System, Software License
Notices" (English) Tektronix part number: 001-1513-00

No Japanese user documentation is provided with this release.

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Software Version 7.0.1
----------------------

Release type: Production release of Cerify 7.0
Release date: 23 July 2010

General Notes
-------------

The Cerify 7.0 release provides cluster support on Windows. It provides support
for AVC Intra, MXF operational patterns OPAtom1A/OPAtom1B and JPEG 2000.
This release also supports additional audio tests such as loudness and
true peak level tests.

Dongles used with Cerify 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2 can also be used with this release
except for processing files in a clustered environment, in which case the
dongle would need a remote update.

Users upgrading from version 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2 do not need to export and re-import
the Cerify database. The upgrade of the database is done in place and a backup
of the database will also be created as an option during the installation.

Enhancements from 6.2
-----------------------

- Support for clustering multiple Cerify units to greatly enhance processing
throughput.
- Support for analyzing AVC Intra files.
- Checks for "Class 50 AVC Intra Profile" and "Class 100 AVC Intra Profile"
are added in "H.264 video Template".
- Support for performing video quality checks when video data is greater than
8 bits.
- Support for processing Panasonic p2 files is added.
- Support for MXF operational patterns - OPAtom1A and OPAtom1B.
- Checks for MXF operational patterns - OPAtom1A and OPAtom1B are added in
"SMPTE 377M / MXF Container Template"
- Support for long and short audio loudness tests for all supported audio
codecs except Dolby-E codec. This test measures the audio loudness in the
stream according to ITU-R BS.1770 standard.
- Support for true peak level tests for all supported audio codecs except
Dolby-E codec. These tests are based on ITU-R BS.1770 standard.
- Addition of audio stream properties like Long Audio Loudness, Short Audio
Loudness Range and Maximum Peak Level. These audio stream properties will
be displayed only when the corresponding tests are enabled.
- Support for JPEG 2000 Video. This requires the user to install Apple's
QuickTime player (version 7.5.5 or later), available from:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/. Full support for video parameter
checking and baseband checking is provided, but there is no support for
syntax analysis of JPEG 2000 files.

Enhancements from 5.1 (Cluster related enhancements)
------------------------------------------------------

- Supervisor can now be now configured to process media files.
- There is no need to configure a private network for the cluster to work.
- Restarting of the cluster is now easier than before. Cluster can be
restarted by restarting only the supervisor.
- The number of channels can be configured on each node of the cluster
independently.
- The IP Address of the node where the file is processed is now displayed in
the job details page. This information is also available in report and
responses sent by Ceritalk's GetJobResults and GetMediaFileResults APIs.
- The Media Test Units page now contains the details like hostname, IP Address
and the number of channels configured on that node.
- It is possible to start the Media Test Unit and Supervisor in any order.
i.e. Media Test Unit can be started before the Supervisor is up and it will
wait till the Supervisor has started to establish a connection.
- The cluster does not need to be restarted if one Media Test Unit goes down.
- New Media test Units can be added to the cluster while the cluster is
operational.
- In a given network, we can now configure more than one cluster.
- When a Media Test Unit goes down, the files currently being processed by
that Media Test Unit will go back to waiting state and these files later
will be processed by other Media Test Units or the Supervisor.

Clustering related defect fixes
--------------------------------

- Shutting down a Media Test Unit will move all the processing jobs to
waiting state even if the jobs are not processed on that MTU.
- When booting up clusters or introducing additional Media Test Units
to a running cluster, occasionally a Media Test Unit does not correctly
join the cluster.
- When a Media Test Unit is restarted in a running cluster, it does not
correctly join the cluster.

Other Defect Fixes
--------------------

- Profile and Level exactness check for the video does not work correctly.
- File processing gets aborted because of the fatal errors related to
unsupported audio format even when no audio template is selected and
these fatal errors can not be suppressed.
- Some of the MXF files are not processed in Cerify and jobs stay at 0%
processing with no CPU activity.
- On generating reports 'Null' appears on the generated header inside the
xsl instead of the ip address.
- The channel name for audio alerts is displayed as "Unknown Channel" in
case of some audio formats.
- On Windows 7 and Windows server 2008, Cerify will not run when started
by any other user with administrative privileges other than the user
"Administrator".

Clustering Scenarios which may not work
-----------------------------------------

Following are the scenarios where clusters may not work:

- If the Supervisor and the Media Test Unit are in different subnets
wherein the switch blocks the multicast or UDP traffic.
- If any of Supervisor or Media Test Unit systems has Windows firewall running.
- If a Media Test Unit cannot resolve Supervisor’s host name.
- If the Supervisor does not have a hostname or if the Supervisor has
hostname with Japanese/Chinese characters.
- If the network has another system with the same host name as the Supervisor
system.
- If the host name of the Supervisor changes after the cluster installation.
- If the http port on the Supervisor is configured to a different port number
than 80. (In this case, Media Test Unit’s cerify.properties, the property
cerify.supervisor.httpport needs to be changed to the new port number).
- If either the Supervisor or the Media Test Unit has multiple network interfaces
and the IP addresses change after the installation (In this case the properties
cerify.cluster.bindaddress, cerify.jboss.bindaddress need to be changed to
the current IP address).
- If the Supervisor has multiple network interfaces connected to the same network
and if DNS/WINS are not configured properly. In this case you can troubleshoot
this problem by doing either of the following:
- By adding an entry containing Supervisor’s host name and the IP address used
by Cerify on Supervisor in "hosts" file which can be typically found in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc in all the Media test Units.
- By bridging all the network interfaces together.
- Cluster might not work correctly if there is a momentary network outage in
which case the cluster has to be restarted. To restart a cluster, you will
have to restart just the Supervisor unit.

Installation
------------

In addition to the guidelines noted in the user manual, the following
installation issues should be considered:

- An installation log is written to the "%userprofile%\Cerify\
CerifyInstallationLogs_<Timestamp>" folder. This log gives details of
selections you made during the install and any errors encountered in case of
failure to install.
- When installing on Windows XP64, the DVD auto-launch application may
not function correctly. If this happens, navigate to the Exec folder of your
DVD drive using Windows explorer and double click the
CerifySetUp<version>.exe to start the installation of Cerify.
- If you would like multiple users to be able to run the Cerify application
on the PC, make sure you select a location that has read and write
permissions for those users as the temporary video folder. A directory
located within a user's private directory is not suitable in this case.
- While choosing the location for storing temporary video files during
installation, make sure that there is sufficient free space in this folder
to store large video files.
- On Windows Vista, you may face problems if you install Cerify using one
administrator account and try to run Cerify using another administrator
account. You will be able to work around this problem by giving that
particular user modify, read, write and Execute permissions for the
installation folder or by unchecking the setting "Turn User Account
Control On or Off" in the case of Windows Vista.
- On Windows Vista, Cerify will not run when started by any other user
with administrative privileges other than the user
"Administrator" when installed in the default location
(program files (x86) in 64 bit systems and program files
in 32 bit systems).
- Cerify uses the computer name (as stored in the environment variable named
"COMPUTERNAME") to uniquely identify some of its network services. This will
not work if non-ASCII characters are used in the computer name.
- Cerify will fail to run if any other Web services using port 80 are
running on the system where the Cerify is installed (for example, the
IIS Admin service, Skype or Apache). You can run Cerify once you shut
down the other port 80 services running on the system. Alternatively you can
configure the Cerify Web port to use a port other than 80.
- It is not possible to install a lower version of Cerify when you have
higher version of Cerify already installed. For example, if you install
Cerify version 6.1 and then you want to go back to Cerify version 6.0,
then you will need to first uninstall Cerify 6.1 and then install Cerify
6.0.

Clustering
-----------

- All the Media Test Units should reside on the same network as the
Supervisor unit. It is preferable to configure the nodes with Static
IP addresses.
- All of the PCs in the cluster should be able to route to each other.
The Supervisor unit is given a network name that is recognized and
resolved by all the Media Test Units.
- You should know the fully qualified name of the Supervisor unit
and provide this when Media Test Units installer asks for the name
of the Supervisor unit.
- If the Supervisor or Media Test Units have more than one network
interfaces, it is better to bridge all the network interfaces together.
- Synchronization between all the units in cluster must be maintained.
For example, use an NTP server to synchronize the units in a cluster.
- All the units in the cluster should be configured to be in the same
time zone.
- If Windows Firewall is switched on in any of the nodes in the cluster,
the Firewall may need some additional configurations for the cluster to
work.

Network Connectivity
--------------------

- Unlike with the CY200 hardware Cerify, the Windows CYSW software does no
particular configuration of any network interfaces - IP address,
netmask, DNS, Net BIOS, etc. These should be set using the usual Windows
methods.
- For Windows XP machines, loss of network connectivity to the primary NIC -
e.g. removal of network cable, switch failure or hibernation of the PC -
after the Cerify application has started may cause incorrect behavior.
Specifically, management of jobs - creation, deletion, archival and
termination - will not have the desired effect. A typical symptom is jobs
appearing in the waiting state. When this occurs, it is recommended that the
network connectivity is restored and the PC and Cerify application restarted.
This problem does not affect Cerify installations on Windows Vista or Server
2008 SE. This problem will also not be exhibited if the machine is not
connected to the network when the application is started, it only occurs when
network connectivity is lost.

Licensing
---------

- The Cerify 6.0 or later software requires the use of a HASP NetTime
dongle. It is not possible to use a HASP Net dongle (as used with Cerify
5.x and earlier) without updating the dongle firmware. Green HASP Max
dongles (as used with CerifyLite) are no longer supported.
- When multiple HASP license servers are available on the network, there
is a chance that the Cerify unit will try to retrieve its license from a
wrong server and fail to obtain the required features, resulting in
licensing errors.
- It is possible to insert the HASP license dongle into a different
machine from that on which Cerify is installed. This might be desirable
if the Cerify hardware does not have a USB port - e.g. blade
hardware. Contact your Tektronix representative for more information on
how to do this.
- It is possible for the license server to retain handles to license
features that were being used by a Cerify machine that has suddenly lost
power or otherwise failed. As a result of this the Cerify application
will not be able to obtain a license until the license server is
restarted. This will only be a problem when the license dongle is not on
the Cerify machine, so in this configuration we recommend that the
license server machine is restarted when the Cerify application is
restarted.
- If Cerify reports license failures after the dongle has been installed,
it is possible that firewall software is interfering with the license
service. Please ensure that port 1947 is open in any firewall software
that is in use.

Database
--------

- It is possible (but unlikely) that a power failure could lead to database
corruption. Backup the Cerify database regularly (build this backup operation
into your operating procedures).
- To speed up backup/restoration of large Cerify databases, it is recommended
that you use the file:// protocol to backup to/restore from a local folder
on the Cerify unit.
- Due to a limitation of the MySQL database, which limits the size of a single
instruction to 1GB, it is possible in rare circumstances that Cerify fails
to create a backup of a database when this operation is attempted through the
Web UI. Contact Tektronix support if you encounter this issue.
- The latest database backup file should always be checked for integrity before
attempting a product upgrade to ensure that it can be successfully imported
into the system after the upgrade. A tool has been provided to do
this. From a command shell prompt change to the Cerify installation
directory and use the backup checker batch file. For example:

C:\Program Files\Tektronix\Cerify> BackupChecker.bat file://c:/Temp/backup.sql

Web User Interface
------------------

- Windows style paths (E.g. C:\Temp\file.text) are now supported the user
interface for creating MediaLocations and MediaSets. However, they should not
be used in Action Templates, where it is still necessary to use file:// style
file names.
- Altering the URL or user credentials of a MediaLocation that is being used
by one or more MediaSets may cause inconsistent behavior in the Web user
interface. If this occurs, create a new MediaLocation and recreate the
MediaSets that were using the old MediaLocation. Changing the properties of
a MediaLocation that is not yet being used by any MediaSets does not cause
any problems.
- When setting up Grass Valley MediaLocations, you must specify the username
and password to use to access the Grass Valley server. The system no longer
assumes the username "movie" when these fields are left blank.
- When jobs are restored from being archived they will always have a stopped
status. This avoids the restored job cause unexpected processing if the
relevant MediaSet has had media files added since the job was archived; this
would cause a previously complete job to resume processing. You can restart
stopped jobs using the Resume action in the drop-down menu at the bottom of
the jobs monitor page.
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