Internal Release Notes – 22.50.0 OpenTV Video Platform - DRAFT

Release Summary 

This release comes with improvements on the Operator Console that will help to handle content deletion as a bulk operation or short/extend live events for catch-up. We are also adding the integration with Gracenote ON for data ingestion.   

Bulk Delete Nodes(select multiple to delete)

Product / Foxtel

Customer will have the ability to manage the deletion of content as a bulk operation.

This release includes support for bulk deletion, in a similar manner to the existing bulk copy and move of nodes.

Euskaltel SRM Data

Euskaltel

Reporting requirements for Euskaltel upgrade to OPF 3.x

Feature to extract data from 2.x service SRM to enable the data extracts required by Euskaltel for reporting to continue in 3.x.

In order to support existing STB operators who do not have the ability to report data via insight SDK or UAV but do already have SRM in place we will set up a data feed from SRM to OPF3 for use in reporting. 

Dynamic Content Groups - DCG OpCon Management Completion

Euskaltel

This feature provides additional UI management for Dynamic Content Groups via OpCon.

Specifically:
    • Association of a DCG with a node via the UI
    • The ability to restrict the population of a DCG to content from a specific node.
    • The ability to set the ordering of the DCG within a node.

STB Upgrade management  (UGDM)

CLB

This feature supports Claro Brasil migration requirements for existing Client use of Medialive Upgrade Manager. This provides a Client-facing facade supporting APIs that mimic the original Medialive request/response scheme understood by Clients, but in the backend processes calls within the OPF 3 framework transparently to Clients.

PPV / mPPV Product Ingestion

CLB

Ingestion of PPV products from IMS into OPF.

[Graham] - Should not be in a release note, work incomplete.

Altice-US Migration.   STB API Compatibility

Altice-US

Altice US STBs cannot be impacted as part of the migration to OPF3.x.   This release provides API compatibility via the Auth Facade.

New Content Builder - ensuring production readiness

Product- @a user 

[David Merino] Gareth, could you please describe what adds the new content builder, so we can add the feature in the release notes?  

. Given its critical position in the Rails ecosystem it is considered prudent to conduct the necessary SIT and performance review prior to releasing it to the Production Playbook

Client  MDRM and License API facade

CLB

This Features supports Claro Brasil migration requirements in the area of Medialive MDRM and SDP License APIs as used by Claro STB. Facade APIs are provided to mimic the request and response of existing Client API calls within the OPF 3 framework, ensuring continuity for Medialive 2.x-based Client devices.

Search Façade improvements

Product - @a user 

The implementation of the lucene syntax is different between SAS and Search Facade.

The correct implementation is used by SAS.

SAS also has a schema implementation which tells the Visual Search component in OpCon which fields are available for the search, e.g. the title is actually title_s, it would be helpful if this was available for the Search Façade

Port Claro CAF Geolocation APIs in Client facades

CLB

Claro are using a custom Geolocation service based on a NodeJS and Redis CAF framework. Two Client APIs are provided by this service, getLocationInfo and getServiceList, used by Client applications to discover their region and filter metadata responses accordingly. This feature supports access to the original service via Client facade APIs that route the original request to the correct service location.

OPF3.x MDS Caching Sidecar

Claro Brazil ; FOXTEL; Internal

Following a round of client-side performance testing it was identified that adding nginx (or another cache such as within envoy) had a significant positive impact on MDS and CDF performance.

This feature is for adding a cache sidecar to both MDS and CDF, specifically validated for use with Dynamic Content Groups

AWS EKS has been upgraded to release 1.22 for all Customers that are running OPF3 Q2 Release

Internal - @a user 

AWS politics for EKS end of life is to perform the upgrade to a newer version automatically.
This is not acceptable as it is not a controlled upgrade and also it will not be a configuration that we have validated in our labs
 

User Recordings Performance Test during EPG ingest

Internal @a user  

Profile the behaviour of UserRec during EPG ingest and the load it is under and also the load it puts on Mongo

    1.  Take Claro ingest

    2. Run the full set of ingest files (~200 channels)

    3. Monitor the behaviour of MDS & UserRec during this time using a standard SD-MC profile

Egress URL in HTTPS format

Internal- @a user 

// NOTE: This feature is more of integration between Harmonic and OPF systems, and not for external publication

Harmonic need to provide egress URL in Https format for nPVR recorded content so that it is playable in client side browser environment such as Tizen, TVkey and Websites.

EditorialContent validity period is not updated when Deeplink is ingested

Telecolumbus

Changes made to reflect deeplink validity period in EditorialContent

Support for Edgeware DVB- Workflow

Euskaltel

Support for DVB-C integration with Edgeware.

Image Cache priming (IHS)

Internal - SLA - @a user 

To work with IHS in this instance - ImageService will be addressed in the next quarter

CWM to Encoder integration issues

Internal - SLA - @a user 

To improve the CWM to encoder integration/communication. As you may know, last week we encountered an issue(the requests towards encoders were failing) at QXC and the root cause was that CWM uses request headers which are large and may lead to failures in the communication.

Content Auth Bypass (a.k.a. OPF RED Button)

Internal - SLA  @a user 

When under load, the increased response times of components downstream of IAS (specifically CPM), is increasing the latency the IAS/RMG isContentAuth flow to a point that it is adversely impacting the end user experience.

The solution allows an operator to configure IAS to short circuit many of the checks it carries out during the isContentAuth flow, this includes the call to CPM, Geo checks, session management and device restrictions etc. 

Content Metadata Ingestion via Gracenote ON 

NCTC, Product, SLA

For customers who use Gracenote as their metadata provider, we have created a new OPF service to ingest data from Gracenote On API's 

This new service will allow OPF to ingest data from Gracenote more efficiently, we can now ingest just the changes to the metadata since the last import (deltas), this allows the 

service to be more efficient in its data processing reducing the time taken to import meta data, allowing the service to be configured to run more frequently if required and

resulting in less overall load on downstream services.

Shorting/Extending On-going Live event on OpConsole doesn't reflect changes on CU CaptureJob

Product - FIH/PMH, SLA, Product, Sports @a user 

This feature has been created to address issue raised on FIH/PMH  for Shorting/Extending On-going Live event.

One of the very common operations during Live events on PMH and FIH customers is to short a certain Live Event as it is going to finish earlier than the original scheduled time.

As operator, I would like to cut the endTime of the event while the event is being still broadcasted and short its duration.

This is feasible using opConsole but this duration changes are not getting reflected to the WFM LTCU_Capture job attached to the event.

Compatibility matrix

List of known issues @a user 

The following issues are still open (not resolved) in this OPF3_22.50STD0 release.

New issues

The following are new issues found in this OPF3_22.50STD0 release.

List of resolved issues

The following issues resolved as part of the OPF3_22.50STD0 release.

Deprecated APIs