Software release 10.2 is now available for all Max devices. Please be sure to refer here for release notes. Below is a list of some exciting features Max offers and some known behaviors in this software version.

LiveEdge® Max Feature Enhancements in v10.2.0

Front Panel LED enhancements:
- Boot-up sequence
  - Upon powering the device, LED is illuminated red, then yellow as the start-up processes are running, and blue upon boot completion
- Software update indication
  - Flashes between yellow and purple every 0.25 second until the update is complete and blue upon completion of update installation
Support for SCTE-104 ingest on SDI
Fallback to Link-Local IP Address in compliance with RFC3927
XML Control for WHIP Video and Opus Audio support

Changed Audio mapping for 6 channel sources to be compliant with SMPTE 320M
Fixed audio distortion resulting from SDI sources supplying asynchronous audio samples
Fixed SD resolution multichannel audio issue
Fixed WHIP/WebRTC connection issue to Phenix RTS
Bug fix for colorspace metadata reporting incorrectly via SDI or HDMI
Bug fix preventing illegal characters from being entered in via XML and REST API for File Record output
Local Web UI enhancements:
- When various components are deleted on the local Web UI, the dialog boxes now contain a more consistent messaging
- Local Web UI Save button will now temporarily disable and present a loading icon while the device is saving configurations
- WHIP outputs will now reflect their custom name in any pop-up dialog boxes that are displayed

Constant Bitrate:

Constant Bitrate workflows may experience significant video quality issues on the LiveEdge® Max platform. Macroblocking can be observed during scene changes between black/still frames and transitions to dynamic video content. This is currently scheduled to be addressed in software release V10.2.1.

XML Control:

HTTP Request Headers are not currently providing expected device status information for XML requests. As a workaround, we recommend pointing LiveEdge® Max devices to a specific XML file. This is currently scheduled to be addressed in software release V10.2.1.
SD cards with XML files installed will not function on LiveEdge® Max.
XML Control will sometimes take up to 90 seconds to apply the changes that have been configured to an XML file.
XML Control-created Data Profiles/Encoders are not properly deleted when removed from the XML file.
- We recommend manually deleting any Data Profiles/Encoders using LiveEdge® Cloud Control or the local web UI after a Data Profile/Encoder is removed from the XML file. If you allow the Data Profiles/Encoders to exist, they will still be re-used in a new XML file containing them.

External Storage:

External storage device functionality may have unexpected results
- External USB storage devices are not supported with this release of software.
- An SD card must be inserted prior to device boot in order for it to mount properly. SD cards being removed from the system post-boot will require a reboot to remount them.

Video and Audio Profiles/Encoders:

Only “Normal” and “Lowest” Quality/Latency settings are supported in Video Profiles/Encoders.
B-frames are not strict in the encoding architecture and are “adaptive”, meaning you may not see consistent IBPBP...BPBP GOPs. Sometimes it skips B-frames, so you can see GOPs like IBPBPPPPPBPBP. The higher the bitrate, the more B-frames get skipped.
B-frames in the GOP structure are not supported on Max with Constant Bitrate encoding mode. When streaming with Constant Bitrate encoding mode, please select “Lowest” Quality/Latency.

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