
Mediacaster 4.0
- Support for more video formats such as .webm and .flv.
- Ability to select codecs to use for different video formats in player setup.
- New player scheduling rule: play last week.
- Copy schedule date range.
- Automatic firewall port and application permission setting.
- Playlist backwards compatibility.
- Data integrity checks added to manager.
- Plugin object zip file validation.
- Windows 7 scrolling text (ticker) update.
- Windows 7 font size check.
- Windows 7 start button hide update.
- Windows 7 backup and restore update.
- Playlist media preview update.
- Player video input setup update.
- Check network status update.
- Codec pack check added to player setup.
- Sneakernet update.
- License manager update.
- FTP server uniqueness update.
- Player mirroring update.
- Events and actions update.
- Overlay designer layer update.
- Replacing a media file update.
- Tree context menu update.
- Quick start update.
- Server NT service availability update.
- Import overlay images from flash drive update.
- Player setup interface update.
Mediacaster 3.0 Service Pack 2
- Frame accurate synchronized playback.
- GPS location .kml file logging option.
- PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 support.
- Player text from file update.
- RSS feed symbol support update.
- VOD support for all media types.
- GPS schedule update.
- Events and actions schedule update.
- Codec pack detection update.
- Events and actions update for mouse events.
- Scrolling text operating hours update.
- Video preloading update.
- Flash support on XPe update.
Mediacaster 3.0 Service Pack 1
- Number of items in a playlist is now unlimited.
- RSS 2.0 support.
- Overlay web object FIDS support.
- Media grid view now shows total duration, selection and size.
- Samsung I2C bus interface support.
- Scheduling when using Operating Hours update.
- Job number reported by players update.
- Schedule data entry validation update.
- Creating overlapping schedule entries assistant update.
- Media reverting to thumbnail view from list view update.
- Playlist with media loops update.
- In Windows 7 the tree scrollbar was partially cropped.
- In Windows 7 the server upload % was off screen.
Mediacaster 3.0
- Multilingual support
- Event triggered playlists
- Support for XML data feeds
- SQL Server support
- Windows 7 compatibility
- Web version
Mediacaster 2.1 Service Pack 3
- Copy schedule data update
- Compact database update
- Player scheduler mixed media update
- Player scheduler starting time update
- Player operating hours update
- Sneakernet update
- Synchronise slideshow update
Mediacaster 2.1 Service Pack 2
- Primary and slave mode for bandwidth reduction
- Synchronization of playback for mirrored sub networks
- VOD update
- License manager update
- Player always-on-top update
- Warn user of DirectX support on Windows Server 2003
- Foreign language support updated
- Option not to use DirectX in Designer and Player
- RSS timeout reduced to 5 seconds
- Overlay text from file object update, including sneakernet update
Mediacaster 2.1 Service Pack 1
- GPS module now supports Nexcom GPS
- Get GPS coordinates button added to waypoint window
- View waypoint in Google Earth added to waypoint window
- License manager update
- Long scrolling text ticker update
- Player download resume update
- Mirroring from primary player to secondary player added
- Retrieve player display status (check network status, network health, manual control)
- Option to not use DirectX for scrolling text ticker in overlay designer
- Scroll direction property did not show for new installs
- RSS scrolling text ticker update
- Instant message duration update
- Scrolling text ticker alignment update
- Text from file object update
- Detect if DirectX is available
- Maximum picture objects increased to 50 per overlay
Mediacaster 2.1 Highlights
- Manual improved and packaged in application as CHM
- Licensing system upgraded
- Scrolling text ticker enhanced to include support for Unicode languages, transparency and bi-directional scrolling
- Interface enhancements including new icons and user assistants and popup reminders
Feature Improvements
- Tree navigation and node display
- Improved support for non standard media
- Authentication required to delete a client/group
- Various live video input improvements
- Job number for upload confirmation
- Set network health time range, also now in parallel
- XP Home full support
- Non western script support in scrolling text ticker
- Transparency added to text ticker
- Transaction log system optimized
- Various VOD improvements
- Check network status improvements
- Import of old data into new databases improved and optimized
- Media multi-select interface
- Media import defaults to application samples folder
- Display on secondary monitor support added
- Option to disable extraction of thumbnails
- Log upload and download time and
- Manual upload and download
- Preset Samsung display control commands added
You can find the release notes for the previous versions here.
Quicklinks
News
| Isenzo Releases Mediacaster 4.0 Friday, 02 December 2011 Isenzo announces a new version of its easy-to-use digital signage software application. |
| Isenzo Releases Mediacaster 3.0 Service Pack 2 Thursday, 02 December 2010 Mediacaster 3.0 Service Pack 2 has been released adding numerous exciting new features |

