Update V. 27477 online

- Major Improvement: Archive-Handling
When recording a very long show in high quality, the recorded streams could have been bigger than 2 GB beeing unable to properly transcode them.
Now recorded streams get automatically chunked, so recording long shows in high quality is no problem anymore.
We also improved the volume-handling in archives beeing now more reliable.

- Major Improvement: Increased Stream-Quality
The make.tv Player now shows video-streams with improved quality. There are less edges in low-resolution streams and the picture looks smoother in general.
This improvement does not affect the make.tv Studio.

- General Improvement: Color-Templates
We designed some color-templates for your embed-player. You can easily select a template and preview it. You still have the possibility to change any color-value.
Be creative: If you think that you have designed a perfect colored player, let us know. Maybe we add your color-design to our templates.

- General Improvement: Faster Scene Loading
When you are showing a scene, that contains of more than three different media-objects all elements will be downloaded parallel now, resulting in a faster scene-loading in general.

- General Improvement: Advanced Encoding Tools
You can now see the wide variety of encoding tools make.tv offers even if you are not logged in.

- General Improvement:
All running votings will now be stopped if you finish your show or recording.

- Changes:
- Monitor-Button (M) is now Ear-Icon for a better understanding of its purpose

- Fixed Bugs:
- Studio & Player: Having a (temporary) poor internet-connection could lead to black video-streams
- Studio & Player: Ghost-Users (Users that did not disconnect properly) will be removed after maximum one hour from the user-list
- Studio & Player (non Windows OS): Due to a bug in FlashPlayer 10.1 and above users behind a firewall were unable to connect to make.tv
- Studio: viewer-minutes-limits were not displayed properly in the Studio
- Studio: moving library items into folders is now synced with other opened studios
- Player: volume-settings in Player were stored but not applied, when watching a pre-roll advertising
- Page: video-upload could have been stored in wrong user-folder

Update V. 27046 online

- New Feature: Select And Start Multiple Pre-Planned Shows
If you have several pre-planned shows you can now select these every time you start a show.
The title and description of the show will be the title and description you set when planning the show.
You can even select shows, that were planned for a specific time, which would be in the past now.

- New Feature: More Embed Features In Player
If you click on "menu" in the player and select "share" you have some more sharing-features available.
So even if your player is embedded somewhere outside make.tv you can easily find links to get to the embedding-page or a direct link to your channel on make.tv.

- New Feature: Integrate Own Pre-Roll-Video-Advertising (beta)
If you have a Business or Whitelabel-Account, you can now easily integrate pre-roll-video-advertising in every channel.
We offer a simple administration interface in your channel-settings. You just have to enter the url to your advertising-server. The server has to give back a xml as result. You can then select xml-nodes for the url to the video-file, a tracking url and a click-url.
You could even use this feature to enable a custom trailer in your channel, that will be displayed every time a user opens your channel, either during a live-show or when watching an archive.
This feature is still beta, since we can not guarantee that it will work with all the different advertising-servers. If you are interested in using this feature please contact the support team. We can enable this feature and assist you with configuring this service and are thankful for any response to this service.

- General Improvement: Invite Function
The invite-function has been improved. It is now more reliable and can be restarted from the studio if something went wrong in the viewer

- General Improvement: Automatic Naming Of New Text- And Voting-Objects
If you add a voting- or text-object to your library and directly modify the question in the voting or the first line of the text-object, it will have the same name in the library as the line you just entered.
If you change the library-name before you modify the contents the object will of course not change its name automaticly.

- General Improvement: More Reliable Scene-Changes In Player
The player will now switch to the current live-scene, even if the actual switching-message was not received by the player for example due to a temporary connection-loss.

- General Improvement: Improved Default Show-Names and -Descriptions
If you start a kamikaze-show or a show form the channel-broadcaster in your player, we offer better default-show-names and descriptions.

- Fixed Bugs:
- Free-Account-Users had no billing-period set
- Player dropped volume-information of streams on start-up
- Player running in Windows had problems with tooltips
- Player had a display problem when disabling anonymous chatting
- Studio could have problems with the personal chat with several active users
- Player had problems when displaying advertising in fullscreen
- Follow Liveset in Studio could lead to unknown sceneset
- When adjusting the optional Viewer-Minutes-Limit, these changes were not displayed in the Studio

Update V. 26713 online

- General Improvement: Immediate Live-Stream Deactivation
If a live-stream is disconnected, it will immediately be displayed as unavailable in your scenes in the Studio. You can directly exchange the missing stream by any other available live-stream in your input-bar by simply dragging another input-stream on the stream-placeholder.
- General Improvement: Proper Camera Deactivation
If you change the camera in one of our flash-applications it will no be deactivated properly. This way you can use the deselected camera in any other application without closing the flash-application.
- General Improvement: Easier Integration of Planned Shows
You will find a new combo-box in the Kamikaze-Show-Popup in the Studio. This combo-box lets you select any of your pre-planned shows and will fill out the title and description field with you pre-entered values. You can now start multiple pre-planned shows without reloading the studio.
- General Improvement: Easier Login in Player
Since it is possible to broadcast a show via the make.tv Player if you are a crew-member of the channel, we added a Login-Button to the menu. You can now easily login and broadcast with your make.tv account even on websites that only embed your channel-player.
- General Improvement: Comments Without Reload
You can now comment any channel or show without interruption of the current playback. Comments will now be posted without reloading the whole website.
- General Improvement: User-Status-Links
Ever noticed the yellow ON-flag or the red LIVE-flag next to your user-name on make.tv? These will now link to your home-channel or the live-show you are producing.
- General Improvement: Live Show on Channel-Page
When you are broadcasting a live show the name and description of your live-show will now show up on your channel page.
- Fixed Bugs:
- Library: Deletion of a music-item will now remove the item from the music-slots, if it was placed there.
- Library: It was possible that the deletion of a folder was undone.
- Text-Object: It was possible, that two text-objects with the same content were swapped.

Update V. 26198 online

- New Feature: Embed Player On facebook
It is now possible to embed your player on your facebook-account as status-message. You can either embed your whole channel player by clicking on "share on facebook" on your channel page or embed a specific show or player-design by clicking on "share on facebook" on your embed-page. This will add a status-message to your profile, so others, following your profile can load your player and view live or recorded shows directly on facebook.
- New Feature: Mail-Settings
On your My Account page you will find a new link "account settings". There you can specify which kind of notification-mails you wish to receive from make.tv.
- New Feature: Optional Viewer-Minutes-Limit
If you have a Business- or Whitelabel-Account you don´t have any limitations regarding the viewer-minutes. But you can now set an optional viewer-minutes-limit, which can be smaller than your included minutes or bigger. You can change this optional limit at any time with direct effect, so if you used up all viewer-minutes until your optional limit was reached, viewers won´t be able to see any of your shows, either live or recorded.
You will get an email when the limit is reached, so you can decide, whether to keep the limit to keep costs low or to increase the limit to make your audience happy.
- Major Improvement: Better Image Quality
We improved the quality of displayed images, especially scaled images in a scene. Especially if you have text in an image you will see the benefit of this improvement.
- Improvements:
- When uploading a video with our Video-Upload-Application, you can now already save your "one-video-show" when the video has finished uploading but not yet finished transcoding.
- Fixed Bugs:
- duration of archives were sometimes displayed malformed
- AdBlocker could cause errors in players

Update V. 25873 online

- New Feature: Cut / Copy / Paste Scene
In your studio you can now cut, copy and paste complete scenes. Placing a channel-logo with the same dimensions and position in every scene is no problem anymore. Just align your logo in one scene and copy and paste it into other scenes.
Simply right-click in an activated scene and you will see new items in the context-menu.
You can also use your keyboard by pressing the well-known combinations CTRL+x / CTRL+c / CTRL+v while a scene is activated, which is indicated by a yellow border around the scene.
(Keyboard-shortcuts won´t work in Internet Explorer)
- New Feature: Live-Preview-Picture while joining a live show
If your viewers join a live show it can take some seconds until they receive your streams. Until then, they will now see the latest snapshot of your show in the background.
- Major Improvement: ShowControl more stable
The ShowControl is now more stable when working with other opened ShowControls or Studios.
- Fixed Bugs:
- Live-show and archive runtime showed cryptic values when opening a Studio or ShowControl during the show
- On connection-loss the Studio was sometimes not able to recover
- When a Player joined a running live show it could happen, that the screen stayed black for several seconds