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Topic: Dolby DSS200/220 software version 4.8.4.10 released
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-19-2015 02:03 PM
Dolby 4.8.4.10 is the only good version of 4.8 I've used. So YES...definitely update to 4.8.4.10!
If you have a CAT862 system then you get "instant start". It doesn't just reduced the checking licenses time at show start, it effectively eliminates it. You still get the checking licenses when the show is selected...but once you pay your dues once, you don't have to keep repaying them! This includes if you want to jump to somewhere else in the play list.
If you have a Cinedigm TMS system, it will save you crashed shows were the TCC "floods" the CAT862 demanding audit logs and thus filling up a 2-year storage a bit quickly with each request.
If you have a DSL200, it fixes a log export problem where earlier 4.8 versions it might not give you all of the logs.
In the about 3 months of beta testing this one, I don't think we've had ANY issues on 4.8.4. The same could not be said of earlier 4.8 versions.
As for Dolby's numbering scheme...they seem to require a relocation change for a full version change. Content and Build used to be under one heading in version 3.x. Typically, but not always, the next place has some "feature" change and the rest are refinements. There are a bazillion cases in point where those rules don't apply but you'd have to ask Dolby as to the numbering scheme.
If it were up to me...the DCI compliant version would have necessitated a full version change...you'd know immediately if you were on version 5, that it was DCI compliant...it is sort of a "big deal." When they dropped the DSS100/DSP100, that should have been a version change. That is...version 6 will NOT run on a DSS100...rather than having to keep track of that 4.8 doesn't but 4.7.3.3 does. But I don't get to make such rules. The big "feature" of 4.8 was the "intermission" show.
I think another thing that has them increment the second place is for software update licenses. If you qualify for 4.8...you qualify for all 4.8.x.x but not necessarily for 4.9...etc. So they are going to tick it up 1 each year or so.
I wonder if the Doremi stuff will have to endure this.
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-20-2015 06:24 AM
Really? Cinelink TLS won't work on it? Must be a VERY old series 1 projector. Thus far, all of my series 1s have been able to to to TLS though I suspect some DP100s/DP90s and Christie CP2000-S would have an issue.
Updating to 4.8.4.10 should NOT trigger an Enigma log download (hasn't any of ours). And one can initiate the Enigma download via the CLI with Administrator privileges. One thing 4.8.4 does bring to the table (though I haven't had to test it) is the ability to tell the Enigma to give up the logs even if it IS FULL. A problem one can get into with Enigmas is if they fill up, they turn the tail light red so the server will disconnect and therefore won't connect to download the logs...it is a catch-22. To the best of my knowledge, 4.8.4 will still connect to download the logs. (Though I don't see it in the release notes).
If you haven't downloaded all logs...it is worth doing it to purge the Enigma...after you do that, you'll have to deal with up to 16 shows downloading approximately 512 logs each. If you set up a set of shows with a 5 second blank clip and space them 5 minutes apart, you can clear it all out in 1:20. Updating Enigma to 1.8.24 cannot be over emphasized. Without that update, sooner or later, you will likely be hosed.
We tested 4.8.4.10 on the gamut of Dolby types. It is on CAT862 and CAT745 systems. DSS200, DSS220 and DSL200s. So far, it is a winner-winner.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-23-2015 10:32 PM
quote: Steve Guttag
If Cinelink TLS isn't working on your series 1...there are things to check...which version of TI board do you have?
quote: Status page from DCC
Normal operating mode
Release 14.0 (48) [Selected Release]
Cinema-boards: Release 14.0 (48) [Selected Release]
Formatter-Subsystem: Release 14.0 (48) [Selected Release]
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Interface Board Type = Series-1S (Type 3)
ARM Boot App 4.00 (53)
ARM Main App 14.00 (255)
Intf FPGA [1] 5.48 (258)
Intf A/D PIC 0.00 (5)
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Processor Board Type = Series-1
DSP Boot App 2.02 (20)
DSP Diag App 2.01 (12)
DSP Main App 4.01 (179)
Proc FPGA [1] 1.00 (26)
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Fmt-Intf Board Type = EFIB
EFIB Boot App 3.08 (82)
EFIB Main App 3.08 (82)
EFIB FPGA 3.10 (148)
EFIB Seq [DC2K] 4.08 (59)
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Formatter Type = DDP1000
RED ModFmtr Boot App 1.10 (26) 1.10 (26)
RED ModFmtr Config 1.00 (17) 1.00 (17)
RED ModFmtr Main App 1.22 (132) 1.22 (132)
GREEN ModFmtr Boot App 1.10 (26) 1.10 (26)
GREEN ModFmtr Config 1.00 (17) 1.00 (17)
GREEN ModFmtr Main App 1.22 (132) 1.22 (132)
BLUE ModFmtr Boot App 1.10 (26) 1.10 (26)
BLUE ModFmtr Config 1.00 (17) 1.00 (17)
BLUE ModFmtr Main App 1.22 (132) 1.22 (132)
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DMD Type = DC2K
RED ModFmtr Sequences 4.08 (59) 4.08 (59)
GREEN ModFmtr Sequences 4.08 (59) 4.08 (59)
BLUE ModFmtr Sequences 4.08 (59) 4.08 (59)
quote: Steve Guttag
Also, try manually updating the CAT862 with the Dolby software update program and check the box "reinstall all components." This will put it back to factory fresh. Note, this will WIPE your Dolby 3D settings, if you have them so be sure to save the 3D coefficients first. Do NOT save the entire CAT862 settings because it will have the corruption in it (I've seen that before).
Thanks. The problem with that is that I don't have the 4.3.5.13 cat862-only update file to install using the Dolby software update program, and I can't see it on the Dolby customer portal. I don't want to try putting in a substantially newer version, in case new software in the cat862 won't work with the older software in the server itself, thereby bricking the thing.
As things stand, when I put the link encryption into TLS mode, the server reboots and gives me "Error connecting showstore to projector" (or equivalent wording). If I set the encryption back to DH and reboot, it works again. So either the cat862, or the TI board, or both, don't like TLS link encryption.
quote: Mike Renlund
Leo, you should also look into the Series 1 TI Certificate Recovery Procedure. Some Series 1 Interface boards need that procedure done to allow TLS communication. The software and instructions are on NEC's Partner Website.
Thanks. Got a show starting soon, and so will do this when I get a moment. I would like to be able to update the software in that server, if only to address the increasing number of subtitle problems we're having with SMPTE DCPs, the consensus of opinion about which seems to be that if we weren't using a several years old version of the DSS200 software, we wouldn't be having.
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