EEG Video has announced a number of new features and bug fixes for its industry-leading HD492 iCap caption encoder for live broadcasting. Updates to the release include:
- iCap, EEG’s cloud-powered caption connectivity system that’s fully integrated with the HD492, now supports SSL
- iCap supports sending multiple audio programs to captioners or to Lexi, EEG’s automatic captioning service
- Addition of the ST 2110-40 IP Simulcast module
- Lexi now supports automatic caption positioning via Lexi Vision, which automatically positions captions based on detection of on-screen text, faces, and other items that captions should not obscure
- Time synchronization via PTP is available as a higher-precision alternative to NTP
- Startup settings can be applied immediately without rebooting
- Telnet input port is now configurable
- Users can download all software logs with one click, as a .zip file
- Various bug fixes
Visit the appnote for information on requesting the download of the HD492 iCap Encoder 3.3.1 update.