Update V. 28987 - minor bugfix update online

- Fixed Bugs:
- Player: When having a playlist enabled in an embed-player the "live-show click here" button did not work properly
- Player: Tracking-Call for viewer statistics could have been not sent when a live show was running, resulting in too less visitors in the location-part of our live show statistics
- Studio: Advanced Encoding Settings now has 15 instead of 10 frames set as default
- Player / Studio / ShowControl: Flash Player 9 compatibility restored

Update V. 28987 online

- New Feature: Channel-Playlist
You are now able to define a playlist of archives in every channel. For details on how playlists work please go to:
ENG: http://make.tv/pages/_forum/top/307
GER: http://make.tv/pages/_forum/top/306

- New Feature: Facebook Like-Buttons
Below the channel-player and the player on every show-page you can now find a Facebook like-button.

- New Feature: Advanced Camera Settings in Studio
Just like in the make.tv Online Encoder you are now also able to change the streaming-settings of your camera used in the make.tv Studio. Just click on the gear-icon at the top of the studio.

- Major Improvement: Enhanced Live-Show-Statistics
The Live-Show-Statistics now not only show the amount of viewers during your show but also where your audience came from. The country with the most viewers also shows the amount of viewers per city.

- Major Improvement: Better archive-playback (not active yet, testing in live-environment in progress, will be deployed soon)
We completely improved the whole archive-creation. The creation of archives will now take longer (at least the airtime). But this way archives will start faster and seeking inside an archive is a lot faster especially in complex shows with many streams.

- General Improvement: Players embedded on Facebook now have adpated colors.

- General Improvement: Streaming-backend has been improved.

- General Improvement: Creation of preview-pictures has been improved.

- General Improvement: When loading a player during a live-show the show-title is displayed.

- General Improvement: Result-view of voting-object has been redesigned to show the full answer-text.

- General Improvement: Pressing and holding the sceneset-left and -right buttons now scroll through scenesets.

- General Improvement: Effect-Settings are now hidden when no scene-object is selected in the studio.

- Changed: Sorting of shows in conference.make.tv is reveresed.

- Changed: Viewers can't have the same name at the same time in a channel-chat.

- Fixed Bugs:
- Page: Link "Encoding Tools" in footer now leads to the Encoding Tools page of your home-channel
- Page: Calculation of available storage in accounts was not triggered when deleting archives
- Page: Past Live-Shows without recording were displayed as planned shows
- Page: If an '-character was used in the channel-descritpion it could lead to a non-functioning embed-page.
- Page / conference.make.tv:
- If a show was marked as trailer, the show did not appear in the show-list.
- It was not possible to set the imprint-link without setting the logo-link.
- Streaming: Videos and music played in a live show could lead to short "ghost-occurence" in new shows.
- Player: Trimming a show could lead to a caching-problem, resulting in not showing the trimmed show.
- Player: Runtimes of archived shows are now displayed properly in player.
- Player: Music that was already running before the show actually started to record was played back wrong in archives.
- Player: When using the channel-broadcaster it could happen that the recording of a live-show was not stopped properly.
- Studio: Renaming of an asset in the library was sometimes not porperly propagated to other opened studios.

Update V. 27900 online

- New Feature: Talk Back
It is now possible to talk from the studio to any viewer that appears in the user-list. This is meant for guiding an invited user through the setup-process. You now don't have to type instructions in the private-chat, just press and hold the talk-button and speak. All other sounds will automatically be lowered, so your voice can be heard without interference. You will notice a "T"-Button in every live-stream-preview being sent by the studio or an invited viewer. This way you can also communicate with a certain team-member, while still being able to use the intercom-module to talk to all members at the same time.

- Major Improvement: Webpage Facelift
We updated the design on most pages on make.tv. We just rearranged and grouped most of our links. This was made to improve the general usability of our website and all its functionality.

- Fixed Bugs:
- stalled streams in archives should not occur anymore
- make.tv logo now repositions properly on chat-open and chat-close in player
- renaming of library items in studio was not stored properly
- text-changes in text-objects were not stored properly
- starting a pre-planned-show for a recording-only-show could lead to a new show, instead of starting the pre-planned-show
- custom background-color was ignored in archive
- play-button in a music-control-element turned the play-button red, but music was not started properly

Update V. 27477 online

- Major Improvement: Archive-Handling
When recording a very long show in high quality, the recorded streams could have been bigger than 2 GB beeing unable to properly transcode them.
Now recorded streams get automatically chunked, so recording long shows in high quality is no problem anymore.
We also improved the volume-handling in archives beeing now more reliable.

- Major Improvement: Increased Stream-Quality
The make.tv Player now shows video-streams with improved quality. There are less edges in low-resolution streams and the picture looks smoother in general.
This improvement does not affect the make.tv Studio.

- General Improvement: Color-Templates
We designed some color-templates for your embed-player. You can easily select a template and preview it. You still have the possibility to change any color-value.
Be creative: If you think that you have designed a perfect colored player, let us know. Maybe we add your color-design to our templates.

- General Improvement: Faster Scene Loading
When you are showing a scene, that contains of more than three different media-objects all elements will be downloaded parallel now, resulting in a faster scene-loading in general.

- General Improvement: Advanced Encoding Tools
You can now see the wide variety of encoding tools make.tv offers even if you are not logged in.

- General Improvement:
All running votings will now be stopped if you finish your show or recording.

- Changes:
- Monitor-Button (M) is now Ear-Icon for a better understanding of its purpose

- Fixed Bugs:
- Studio & Player: Having a (temporary) poor internet-connection could lead to black video-streams
- Studio & Player: Ghost-Users (Users that did not disconnect properly) will be removed after maximum one hour from the user-list
- Studio & Player (non Windows OS): Due to a bug in FlashPlayer 10.1 and above users behind a firewall were unable to connect to make.tv
- Studio: viewer-minutes-limits were not displayed properly in the Studio
- Studio: moving library items into folders is now synced with other opened studios
- Player: volume-settings in Player were stored but not applied, when watching a pre-roll advertising
- Page: video-upload could have been stored in wrong user-folder

Update V. 27046 online

- New Feature: Select And Start Multiple Pre-Planned Shows
If you have several pre-planned shows you can now select these every time you start a show.
The title and description of the show will be the title and description you set when planning the show.
You can even select shows, that were planned for a specific time, which would be in the past now.

- New Feature: More Embed Features In Player
If you click on "menu" in the player and select "share" you have some more sharing-features available.
So even if your player is embedded somewhere outside make.tv you can easily find links to get to the embedding-page or a direct link to your channel on make.tv.

- New Feature: Integrate Own Pre-Roll-Video-Advertising (beta)
If you have a Business or Whitelabel-Account, you can now easily integrate pre-roll-video-advertising in every channel.
We offer a simple administration interface in your channel-settings. You just have to enter the url to your advertising-server. The server has to give back a xml as result. You can then select xml-nodes for the url to the video-file, a tracking url and a click-url.
You could even use this feature to enable a custom trailer in your channel, that will be displayed every time a user opens your channel, either during a live-show or when watching an archive.
This feature is still beta, since we can not guarantee that it will work with all the different advertising-servers. If you are interested in using this feature please contact the support team. We can enable this feature and assist you with configuring this service and are thankful for any response to this service.

- General Improvement: Invite Function
The invite-function has been improved. It is now more reliable and can be restarted from the studio if something went wrong in the viewer

- General Improvement: Automatic Naming Of New Text- And Voting-Objects
If you add a voting- or text-object to your library and directly modify the question in the voting or the first line of the text-object, it will have the same name in the library as the line you just entered.
If you change the library-name before you modify the contents the object will of course not change its name automaticly.

- General Improvement: More Reliable Scene-Changes In Player
The player will now switch to the current live-scene, even if the actual switching-message was not received by the player for example due to a temporary connection-loss.

- General Improvement: Improved Default Show-Names and -Descriptions
If you start a kamikaze-show or a show form the channel-broadcaster in your player, we offer better default-show-names and descriptions.

- Fixed Bugs:
- Free-Account-Users had no billing-period set
- Player dropped volume-information of streams on start-up
- Player running in Windows had problems with tooltips
- Player had a display problem when disabling anonymous chatting
- Studio could have problems with the personal chat with several active users
- Player had problems when displaying advertising in fullscreen
- Follow Liveset in Studio could lead to unknown sceneset
- When adjusting the optional Viewer-Minutes-Limit, these changes were not displayed in the Studio