1.3. Release Notes¶

1.3.1. Future Releases¶

TBD

1.3.2. Active Versions¶

Release 1.0¶

FEATURES

Client-Server Architecture, includes:
- Central Boro VoD Server is a centralized server that:
  - Manages accounts and projects
  - Controls validation templates
  - Orchestrates validation tasks
  - Task Load Balancer automatically distributes tasks across available probes
  - Collects validation data
  - Generates and stores reports
  - Provides Web UI and API
- Probes (Validation Analyzers)
  - Perform media file validation tasks
  - Analyze container, video, and audio according to the template
  - Send statistics and errors to the server
  - Probes can be grouped per project and scaled horizontally to increase processing capacity
  - Probe health monitoring (CPU, RAM, Network)
  - Support for running probes as system services (Linux, Windows)
  - Multi-thread CPU support for parallel media file analysis
Project system
- Multi-user simultaneous access to the system
- Management of roles and access. Available roles in the project: Owner, Administrator, User
- Ability to share projects across teams
Template generator
- Boro VoD includes pre-defined templates
- Template includes a list of tests. A test is a rule used by the probe to analyze a media file. a severity level, compliance conditions or thresholds and responsible for analyzing a specific parameter or error.
- List of available tests is provided here
- Ability to edit existing templates
- Ability to create new templates
- Ability to import and export templates via Web interface or API
- Each test has a detailed description, including the most common thresholds and best practices
Validation Tasks
- Ability to create a verification tasks
- Task prioritization
- Real-time status tracking
Quality report
- A detailed report is automatically generated for every validation task
- Available Report Formats: PDF, JSON, CSV
- Ability to download reports
- Ability to share report links
- Each report includes:
  - Task configuration details
  - Media Information
  - Summary of passed/failed tests
  - Detailed error log with timestamps
Web interface
- Provides full control of the solution:
  - Dashboard page allows to launch new tasks and monitor Queue, Running tasks as well as Completed or Incomplete
  - Task page provides complete information about a specific media file validation task.
  - Templates page displays the list of templates and allows to manage them
  - Probes page, allows users to add and manage probes
  - Settings page is responsible for management of server, account and project settings
- Visual analytics:
  - Media Information overview of container, video and audio tracks
  - Bitrate graphs
  - Audio level graphs ( Momentary, Short-Term and Programme Loudness)
  - Video frame thumbnails
- Journal
  - Detailed results for each completed test
  - Ability to filter by Passed/Warning/Error/Fatal results, Test Group, or certain Test
  - Precise timestamps indicating when an error or template condition mismatch occurred
API
- Provides full control of the solution, including:
  - Project methods: list, create, change settings
  - Probe methods: list, state
  - Template methods: list, upload, download
  - Task methods: start, stop, status, report, report generation
Supported Formats
- Containers:
  - MP4, MOV (Quick Time)
- Video:
  - MPEG-1
  - MPEG-2
  - AVC/H.264
  - HEVC/H.265
  - Ability to identify (no further analysis): VVC/H.266, AV1, Google VP9, Google VP8, JPEG, Motion JPEG, MPEG-4 Visual, Apple ProRes
- Audio:
  - MPEG Audio
  - AAC
  - Ability to identify (no further analysis): PCM, AC-3, E-AC3
Supported Methods for Accessing Media File Storage:
- Local file system
- HTTP/HTTPS
- NFS, SMB, FTP implemented by mounting the specified storages to the file system
Supported Operating Systems
- Boro VoD Server: Rocky Linux 9, AlmaLinux 9, RHEL 9
- Boro Probe: Ubuntu 20.04-24.04, Debian 11, Rocky Linux 8/9, AlmaLinux 8/9, RHEL 8/9, Windows 10/11

1.3.3. Change Log¶

Release 1.0¶

1.0.0 (2026.05.14 09:00:00 UTC) - First release