CERIFY v7.1.1 SOFTWARE - MS WINDOWS V7.1.1.18

Cerify v7.1 (Windows) can be installed as a new installation or to update an existing installation of Cerify (Windows). It can also be used for evaluations in demo mode.

If your evaluation involves processing of files other than the ones provided with this package, you will need a demo license dongle. Please contact your Tektronix representative to attain a demo dongle. Please refer to the release notes for details about what's new in this release.

Version: V7.1.1.18
Software Type: Demo

Release Date: May 19 2011 - 07:00 am
Part Number: 066423404

Release Notes

Release Notes

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Tektronix

Cerify
Automated Video Content Verification System
Release Notes

This document supports software version 7.1.1

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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 7.1.1
- List of important defect fixes that have been made in version 7.1.1
- List of known installation and operational issues relating to Cerify
version 7.1.1
- 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 077-0352-04) for details of how to do this.

Related User Documentation
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The following user documentation applies to Cerify version 7.1.1:

- "Cerify CYSW Automated Video Content Verification System User Manual"
(English) Tektronix part number: 077-0352-04
- "Cerify CYSW Automated Video Content Verification System Quick Start
User Manual" (English) Tektronix part number: 071-2680-04
- "Cerify CYSW 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 7.1.1
----------------------

Release type: Production release of Cerify 7.1
Release date: 20 May 2011

General Notes
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The Cerify 7.1 release provides support for analyzing multiple audio tracks
in a stream.

Dongles used with Cerify 7.0 can also be used with this release.

Users upgrading from older versions do not need to export and re-import the
Cerify database. The upgrade of the database is done in place.

The Cerify properties named vqual.io.delayfilesizeread and
cerify.cluster.bindaddress are removed from cerify.properties file as they
are no longer used.

Enhancements from 7.0
---------------------

- Support for processing multiple audio tracks in a stream. This includes
the following changes:
- Support for adding multiple audio templates to a profile.
- Support for attaching single template to multiple tracks by
assigning range of track IDs or track Indexes. The range can be
in the following formats where a,b,c,d are decimal or hexadecimal
numbers. If they are hexadecimal numbers they should be prefixed
with 0X.
a-b
a-b,c
a,b-c
a-b,c-d
a,b,c,d
*    (This applies to all the tracks in that particular standard)
-1   (This applies to default track. The result of processing will
be similar to the case where the rule for choosing track id/
track index is not selected)

- Enhanced support for H.264/AVC. Includes support for all the AVC
Intra profiles: High10 Intra, High422 Intra, High444 Intra, and
CAVLC Intra.

- Added new rule "AVC-Intra Restrictions" in H.264 template, which can
be used to enforce AVC-Intra restrictions as per the
"SMPTE RP 2027-2007 AVC Intra-Frame Coding Specification" standard.

- Support for adding multiple short and long audio loudness tests in
one audio template. With this support, different group of channels
can be tested against different loudness thresholds.

- Support for suppressing audio and video alerts for first and last
few milliseconds or frames of the file. The configuration for skipping
first and last few alerts can be done in the container template. This
feature does not work on audio only files.

- Support for ignoring audio quality alerts when the audio track does not
have data in it. There is an addition of new rule in audio templates
for this function.

- Performance improvements on large drop box updates. The time taken to
update the large dropboxes is now reduced by a large extent.

- Inclusion of new property cerify.dropbox.scheduleperiod in the
cerify.properties file. This property can be used to configure the
time interval between the drop box updates in terms of minutes.
The default value for this property is set to 1.

- Cerify service scripts are now packaged along with the Cerify installer.

- Support for accessing the Cerify Web UI on multiple IP addresses
has been added.

Defect Fixes
------------

- An MXF file with mpeg2 video elementary stream was giving some false
blockiness alerts. Also, the timestamps reported in alerts for this
stream were not correct.

- Cerify aborts with memory allocation error while processing some GXF
files with faulty FLT packets

- Cerify does not do silence and mute tests when channels selected in
the audio template for those tests are not present in the stream.

- Creation of job fails when the job is created against a drop box
media set having large number of files.

- Refreshing the Job page comes up with "Cerify Internal Error" during the
update of a drop box pointing to a directory with large number of files.

- Silence and mute audio alerts does not come up when more channels than
available are selected in the audio template.

- Cerify reports the field order wrongly for some H.264 streams.

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

Following are the scenarios where clusters may not work:

- If the Supervisor and the Media Test Units are in a network wherein
the switch blocks the multicast or UDP traffic. (The solution
for this is configuring Cerify cluster to run in unicast mode.
Contact your Tektronix representative for more information on
how to set up this configuration.)
- If any of Supervisor or Media Test Unit systems has Windows firewall running.
- If a Media Test Unit cannot resolve the 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 the IP addresses of the Supervisor or Media Test units change after
the installation (In this case the property cerify.jboss.bindaddress needs
to be changed to the current IP address).
- If the Supervisor has multiple network interfaces connected to the same network
and if the DNS/WINS are not configured properly. In this case you can troubleshoot
the problem by doing either of the following:
- Adding an entry containing the 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.
- Bridging all of 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 have 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 of 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. Contact your Tektronix representative for more information on
how to set up this configuration.

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
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- 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
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- 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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