CasparCG Server Versions Save

CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.

v2.4.0-stable

4 weeks ago

Changes since 2.4.0 RC 1:

Core

Improvements

Support 4K DCI frames
Build: Allow configuring diag font path at build time
AMCP: Add CALLBG command to perform CALL on background producer

Fixes

OSC: Background state not being produced
Scanner: resolve issues with database not being updated

Producers

Improvements

HTML: Expose cache-path setting

Fixes

FFmpeg: Unable to play files with extra dots in filenames
FFmpeg: Support parameters with name containing a dash
FFmpeg: Audio channels being swapped unexpectedly

Changes since 2.3.3

Core

Improvements

Custom resultions can be specified in casparcg.config
Interlaced mixer pipeline to ensure field accuracy
Preserve unicode characters in console input/output
Producers to be run at startup can be defined in casparcg.config
Support 8K frames
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 CLEAR ALL command
AMCP: Command batching syntax
AMCP: LOAD/LOADBG/PLAY commands accept a CLEAR_ON_404 parameter, to instruct the layer to be cleared when the requested file was not found
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: Support newer versions of Boost
Build: Support newer versions of TBB
Build: Disable precompiled headers for linux
Build: Support VS2022
Build: Replace nuget and locally committed dependencies with direct http downloads
Build: Allow configuring diag font path at build time
Linux: Support setting thread priorities
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
Transitions: Support additional audio fade properties for STING transition

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
OpenGL: Fix support for recent Linux drivers
Linux: Fix endless looping on stdin
Route: Fix error when clearing layer
Transitions: Fix wipe duration

Producers

Improvements

Decklink: Require driver 11.0 or later
Decklink: Scale received frames on GPU
FFmpeg: Update to v5.1
FFmpeg: Improve performance
FFmpeg: Allow specifying both SEEK and IN for PLAY commands
HTML: Update to CEF 117
HTML: CALL 1-10 RELOAD to reload a renderer
HTML: Expose cache-path setting
NDI: Upgrade to NDI5
System Audio: Allow specifying output device to use

Fixes

Decklink: Log spamming when using some input formats
FFmpeg: Prevent loading unreadable files
FFmpeg: Unable to play files with unicode filenames
FFmpeg: Don't lowercase filter parameters
FFmpeg: Support parameters with name containing a dash
HTML: media-stream permission denied
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

Consumers

Improvements

Artnet: New artnet consumer
Decklink: Configure device duplex modes in casparcg.config
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
NDI: Upgrade to NDI5

Fixes

Decklink: Fix stutter when loading clips
FFmpeg: Fix RTMP streaming missing headers
NDI: dejitter

v2.4.0-rc1

4 months ago

Changes since Beta 1:

Important

There is a known bug in the version of media-scanner included in this release. It is recommended to replace it with v1.3.2 or newer from https://github.com/CasparCG/media-scanner/releases

Core

Improvements

Config parameter can be an absolute system path, not just relative to the working directory
Linux: Rework build to always use system boost
Linux: Rework build process to better support being build as a system package
Audio: 16 channel audio

Fixes

Crash upon exiting if HTML producer was running
AMCP: LOAD command would show a frame or two of black while new producer was loading

Producers

Fixes

FFmpeg: Unable to play files with extra dots in filenames
FFmpeg: Don't lowercase filter parameters
HTML: Debugger connection closes
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

v2.4.0-beta1

5 months ago

CasparCG 2.4.0 Beta 1

Core

Improvements

Custom resultions can be specified in casparcg.config
Interlaced mixer pipeline to ensure field accuracy
Preserve unicode characters in console input/output
Producers to be run at startup can be defined in casparcg.config
Support 8K frames
Remove undocumented CII and CLK protocol implementations
AMCP: Add CLEAR ALL command
AMCP: Command batching syntax
AMCP: LOAD/LOADBG/PLAY commands accept a CLEAR_ON_404 parameter, to instruct the layer to be cleared when the requested file was not found
AMCP: Add commands to subscribe and unsubscribe to OSC on any port number
Build: Require C++17 for building
Build: Support newer versions of Boost
Build: Support newer versions of TBB
Build: Disable precompiled headers for linux
Build: Support VS2022
Build: Replace nuget and locally committed dependencies with direct http downloads
Linux: Support setting thread priorities
Linux: Initial ARM64 compatibility
Logging: add config option to disable logging to file and to disable column alignment
Transitions: Support additional audio fade properties for STING transition

Fixes

AMCP: Ensure all consumers and producers are reported in INFO commands
AMCP: Deferred mixer operations were not being cleared after being applied
OpenGL: Fix support for recent Linux drivers
Linux: Fix endless looping on stdin
Route: Fix error when clearing layer
Transitions: Fix wipe duration

Producers

Improvements

Decklink: Require driver 11.0 or later
Decklink: Scale received frames on GPU
FFmpeg: Update to v5.1
FFmpeg: Improve performance
FFmpeg: Allow specifying both SEEK and IN for PLAY commands
HTML: Update to CEF 117
HTML: CALL 1-10 RELOAD to reload a renderer
NDI: Upgrade to NDI5
System Audio: Allow specifying output device to use

Fixes

Decklink: Log spamming when using some input formats
FFmpeg: Prevent loading unreadable files
FFmpeg: Unable to play files with unicode filenames
HTML: media-stream permission denied

Consumers

Improvements

Artnet: New artnet consumer
Decklink: Configure device duplex modes in casparcg.config
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
NDI: Upgrade to NDI5

Fixes

Decklink: Fix stutter when loading clips
FFmpeg: Fix RTMP streaming missing headers
NDI: dejitter

v2.3.3-lts-stable

3 years ago

Improvements:

Image Scroll Producer

v2.3.2-lts-stable

3 years ago

Producers

Fixes

Packages: Update TBB library to v2021.1.1 - fixes CPU and memory growth when deleting threads
FFmpeg: Fix possible deadlock leading to producer not being cleaned up correctly

v2.3.2-lts-beta

3 years ago

Producers

Fixes

Packages: Update TBB library to v2021.1.1 - fixes CPU and memory growth when deleting threads
FFmpeg: Fix possible deadlock leading to producer not being cleaned up correctly

v2.3.1-lts-stable

3 years ago

This is the first patch release for 2.3.

Primarily this contains a crtical fix to provide support for flash templates to be used after the flash player EOL at the end of 2020. For more information on the issue see: https://github.com/CasparCG/server/issues/1352

Thanks to @silid for developing the fix and @didikunz for documenting the process and being a key member of chasing for these releases to be made

See the attached PDF, or the copy in the Zip for steps on how to prepare your system.

For any help or questions, check the forum

Changes

Producers

Fixes

Flash: Use proper file urls when loading templates, to allow it to work after Flash Player EOL
FFmpeg: Various HTTP playback improvements

v2.0.7.1-flash-eol

3 years ago

This is a critical fix for the 2.0.7 release, to provide support for flash templates to be used after the flash player EOL at the end of 2020

For more information on the issue see: https://github.com/CasparCG/server/issues/1352

This has been built to be as close as possible to the previous 2.0.7 release, to minimise any risk of deployment.

Thanks to @silid for developing the fix and @didikunz for documenting the process and being a key member of chasing for these releases to be made

See the attached PDF, or the copy in the Zip for steps on how to prepare your system.

For any help or questions, check the forum

v2.3.0-lts-stable

3 years ago

CasparCG Server v2.3.0 LTS Stable 🚀

We're are really thrilled to announce that we are releasing first LTS version ever of CapsarCG Server, version 2.3.0 LTS. We have focused on stability, reliability and the code base in this version so we have a solid base to stand on for future versions. For a complete list of changes please check out the changes below:

A version of CasparCG Client that works with this version of the server is found as attachment below

Changes

Producers

Features

FFmpeg: Add more common file extensions to the supported list
NDI: Require minimum of NDI v4.0
Flash: Disable by default, requires enabling in the config file
FFmpeg: Remove fixed thread limit to better auto select a number
Decklink: Detect and update input format when no format is specified in AMCP
Decklink: Improve performance (gpu colour conversion & less heavy deinterlacing when possible)
Decklink: LOAD DECKLINK will display live frames instead of black
FFmpeg: Update to 4.2.2
HTML: Better performance for gpu-enabled mode
HTML: window.remove() has been partially reimplemented
NDI: Native NDI producer
Route: Allow routing first frame of background producer
Route: zero delay routes when within a channel, with 1 frame when cross-channel
Transition: Add sting transitions
Add frames_left field to osc/info for progress towards autonext

Fixes

HTML: Minimise performance impact on other producers
Decklink: Downgrade severity of video-format not supported
FFmpeg: Correctly handle error codes. Ignore exit errors during initialisation
Route: Detect circular routes and break the loop
Colour: parsing too much of amcp string as list of colours
FFmpeg: Always resample clips to 48khz
FFmpeg: Ensure frame time reaches the end of the clip
FFmpeg: RTMP stream playback
FFmpeg: SEEK and LENGTH parameters causing issues with AUTONEXT
FFmpeg: Ensure packets/frames after the decided end of the clip are not displayed
FFmpeg: Incorrect seek for audio when not 48khz
FFmpeg: Some cases where it would not be destroyed if playing a bad stream
HTML: unlikely but possible exception when handling frames
HTML: set autoplay-policy
HTML: animations being ticked too much
Route: Sending empty frame into a route would cause the destination to reuse the last frame

Consumers

Features

Bluefish: Various improvmements including support for Kronos K8
Audio: Fix audio crackling
Audio: Fix memory leak
Bluefish: Various improvmements including supporting more channels and UHD.
NDI: Native NDI consumer
Screen: Add side by side key output
Screen: Add support for Datavideo TC-100/TC-200

Fixes

Decklink: Tick channel at roughly consistent rate when running interlaced output
Possible crash when adding/removing consumers

General

Features

Add mixer colour invert property
Restore INFO CONFIG and INFO PATHS commands
Linux: Update docker images to support running in docker (not recommended for production use)

Fixes

Diag not reflecting channel videoformat changes
NTSC audio cadence
Ignore empty lines in console input
Fix building with clang on linux
Fix building with vs2019
Better error when startup fails due to AMCP port being in use
Backslash is a valid trailing slash for windows

v2.3.0-lts-rc

3 years ago

CasparCG Server v2.3.0 LTS RC (Release Candidate)

Continued work with the first LTS version ever of CasparCG Server. With that said, we're are happy to announce that we are releasing CapsarCG Server v2.3.0 LTS Release Candidate (RC). As mentioned in previous release, we are working and focusing on stability and reliability and a stable release is planned at the end of Q2.

CasparCG Server v2.3.0 LTS RC can be downloaded directly from this release (see attachments).