UI3-307

Version 307

• The Streaming Quality profile editor has been updated to reflect recent encoder improvements in the Blue Iris 6 beta.
  • Added explicit toggle between Rate control modes: CBR/VBR/inherit. Your selection affects which encoder parameters are available to override.
    • Rate control CBR requires you to enter the Bit Rate target.
    • Rate control VBR requires you to enter the Quality % target and a Max Bit Rate.
    • Rate control inherit means you can't enter Quality and/or Bit Rate parameters. These are inherited from Blue Iris.
    • The Max Bit Rate field is no longer optional in VBR mode, to make the interface easier to understand and ensure more predictable encoder behavior and compatibility.
• Upon loading UI3-307+ for the first time, existing "Quality" fields from Streaming Quality profiles are transitioned to the new Quality % scale introduced during the Blue Iris 6 beta. Backwards compatibility has been implemented to improve behavior for users that may run UI3-307+ with Blue Iris 5.
• Added a section to the Help file that describes in detail the relationship between Quality % and the H.264/H.264 Quantization Parameter.
• Added nerd=5 URL parameter to automatically open the "Stats for nerds" panel upon UI3 startup. This parameter is automatically added and removed from the current URL when the "Stats for nerds" panel is opened or closed, so that sharing the URL or reloading the page will preserve it. Different numbers in the nerd=# parameter change where it is positioned within UI3. Read more about this in the Help file.
• Deleted the "sounds" directory again to reduce release file size, since the BI 5 branch should not receive any further stable updates.