AJA Releases V1.1 Firmware Update For HELO

AJA Video Systems v1.1 firmware for HELO – the company’s portable H.264 streaming and recording device – is now available as a free download from the AJA website. The latest update streamlines live streaming, encoding and recording content.

HELO v1.1 release highlights include a recording and streaming scheduler that can be programmed locally through HELO’s web UI by importing ICS files or linking to external calendar providers such as Google Calendar; simultaneous redundant recording of one file to two media destinations; increased recording file segment duration of 360 minutes for TS (transport stream) files; support for up to 10 RTSP streams; REST API documentation describing how to automate basic HELO functions.

Also included are automatic power-on start encoding to stream and/or record; auto-reconnect and resume after streaming disconnect; RTP and MPTS over UDP streaming with unicast and multicast support; expanded support for Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and appliances; AWS Elemental Live encoder appliances and AWS Elemental Cloud; Amino set-top boxes; Wowza Appliance and Cloud; StreamShark; and Akamai and Akamai hosted services.