DekTec SDK

REVISION HISTORY

SDK
Mar 2023

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DekTec SDK Revision History

SDK version Dec 2022.2

Versions DTAPI: v5.51.8.212
Drivers: Dta v4.28.8.285, DtPcie v2.1.4.342, DtaNw v3.5.13.44, Dtu v4.15.2.90
DtapiService: v4.0.1.109
Changes New features:
• [Matrix API] timestamp added signalling the transmit time of a frame to DtMxFrame

Bug fixes:
• [Matrix API] SDI input with pixelformat DT_PXFMT_YUV420P2_8B did crash
• [Matrix API] creation of a crashdump for an application sharing a port with others results in blocking
of other applications sharing the same port
• DTA-2172/74B/75/78: ASI-output data was corrupted when writing too much data

Linux only changes:

• DtapiHwFuncScan did not finish in some cases

SDK version Dec 2022.1

Versions DTAPI: v5.51.3.207
Drivers: Dta v4.28.7.283, DtPcie v2.1.1.339, DtaNw v3.5.13.44, Dtu v4.15.2.90
DtapiService: v4.0.1.109
Changes Bug fixes:
• DTA-2178: potential DTAPI_E_OUT_OF_MEM on port 8
• DTA-2172/74B/78: SetTxClockOffset() returned DTAPI_E_IN_USE

SDK version Dec 2022

Versions DTAPI: v5.51.0.203
Drivers: Dta v4.28.7.283, DtPcie v2.1.0.338, DtaNw v3.5.13.44, Dtu v4.15.2.90
DtapiService: v4.0.1.109
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2116 All-Standard 3GHz Modulator for PCIe

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2139C: potential QAM-B fail when using Nov2022 SDK

Linux only changes:

• Matrix API SDI output crash in libatomic was seen when using Nov2022 SDK ABI0 Linux build
• Matrix API audio for 3G level-B streams is not always found on expected channels
• DtPcie driver compiler error for CentOS7 introduced in Nov2022 SDK

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SDK version Nov 2022

Versions DTAPI: v5.50.1.199
Drivers: Dta v4.28.7.283, DtPcie v2.0.3.333, DtaNw v3.5.13.44, Dtu v4.15.2.90
DtapiService: v4.0.0.107
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2127 Quad S2X Receiver with 3G-SDI/ASI Port for PCIe
• Matrix API: support for sharing the same input between multiple processes. Typical use case is en-
coder applications encoding the same signal with different codecs, resolutions, bitrates, etc.
• DTU-315/DTA-2115B: Support for GSE-lite HEM for DVB-NIP in DVB-S2X modulator

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2131: Improvement for locking on 7 and 8MHz ATSC3.0 signals
• DTA-2132: HEM-mode frames for L3-Input channel is now processed
• DTA-2139C: ATSC3.0 demodulation was not working due to change in Feb2022 SDK
• DTA-2160/2162: Improvement for potential minor resource leak
• DTA-2172/74B/78: GetGenlockState did report a 1080i reference signal as a 1080psf
• Matrix API: rare crash in Matrix API that occurred in a call to DtOutpChannel::Detach

Linux only changes:

• Linux drivers did not build on kernel version >=5.18
• DTAPI_OK_PARTIAL_DEV was seen on AttachToSerial for Linux configuration with 2x DTA-2179

-latomic linker flag is needed for some Linux distributions (this change is introduced in June2022 SDK)

SDK version Jun 2022

Versions DTAPI: v5.49.0.194
Drivers: Dta v4.28.6.282, DtPcie 1.15.2.311, DtaNw v3.5.12.43, Dtu v4.15.1.89
DtapiService: v3.10.1.100
Changes New features:
• Matrix API: extended raw VBI option with the ability to access all VANC and video lines as raw VBI.
Note, raw VBI can only be used with SD-SDI signals.
• Matrix API: introduced a zero-copy mode for native UYVY 422 video, meaning no internal copies are
made within the DTAPI reducing the memory footprint of the DTAPI.

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2139B/C: Fixed potential memory leak
• Fixed access violation that would occur when DTAPI_TXMODE_ADD16 is used with an IP output
channel.
• Fixed string formatting error in DtapiDtDeviceDesc2String for DTU-3xx devices.
• Fixed failure to extract ANC packets in DtSdiUtility::GetAncillaryData.
• Fixed issue that would lead to an DTAPI_E_BUSY error when using SetIoConfig to switch between ASI
and SDI mode on a DTA-2172/2174B/2178.

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SDK version Feb 2022

Versions DTAPI: v5.48.0.190
Drivers: Dta v4.28.5.281, DtPcie 1.15.0.305, DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.15.0.88
DtapiService: v3.10.0.99
Changes New features:
• Matrix API: Support for insert/extracting RAW VBI (for SD-SDI only) while still being able to use audio
(de-)embedding and video extraction/insertion functionality of the API
• Matrix API: Support to weave (de-interleave) interlaced video
• DTA-2111/DTA-2115B/DTU-215/DTU-315: Support for DVB-T hierarchical modulation
• DTA-2139C: Prepare for new hardware revision 0.2 that support ATSC 3.0 Korean mode
• DTA-2174B: 525i59 (NTSC) GenRef can now also be used to lock 720p29.97, 1080i59, 1080p29,
1080psf29 and 2160p29.97, this requires new DTA-2174B firmware version 3

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: Improvement on application exit on high CPU load
• DTA-2172/74B/75/78: Improved synchronization to low input bitrate streams (<255.375bps)
• DTA-2179: Improved temperature regulation and reporting
• DTU-315: ATSC 3.0 modulator did produce out of band spurs in HQ mode

SDK version Dec 2021

Versions DTAPI: v5.47.0.179
Drivers: Dta v4.28.4.274, DtPcie 1.14.0.297 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.15.0.88
DtapiService: v3.9.0.98
Changes New features:
• Support for Visual Studio 2022 (VC17) DTAPI libraries
• Support for null-packet stuffing on ASI capable DtPcie cards
• Support for synchronizing the onboard Time-of-Day clock to a monotonically increasing OS clock
(clock_monotonic_raw on Linux and the query-performance-counter on Windows), such that the arri-
val timestamps assigned to SDI frames are expressed in the clock domain of the selected reference.
Note: this is pre-release functionality (i.e. experimental functionality).

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2115B potentially SFN TOO_LATE_ERROR could have occurred due to a buffer handling issue
• Matrix API: For V210 pixel format with 720p and an alignment of -1(/1) the video in the SDI output
was corrupted
• Matrix API: Original video should be shown in line 23 when WSS is marked as invalid
• Potential high stack memory for DtDvbT2ComponentPars::m_Plps[] reduced by using a vector
• VPD items after a deleted item could have become inaccessible

Linux only changes:

• Support for relocating the named pipes used for DTAPI/DtapiService communication to a “DekTec”
dedicated directory instead of /tmp
• Matrix API: DTAPI was not compiled with the proper avx/avx2/sse3 flags this did result in a crash for
specific processors

Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 DTAPI libraries are no longer distributed

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SDK version Sept 2021

Versions DTAPI: v5.46.0.174
Drivers: Dta v4.28.4.274, DtPcie 1.13.19.295 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.15.0.88
DtapiService: v3.8.7.96
Changes New features:
• DTU-245B support for firmware v2: bug fix for 188+16 ASI output mode

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: For V210 pixel format with 720p and an alignment of -1(/1) the video in the SDI output
was corrupted (probably introduced in May 2021 SDK)
• DtPcie driver improvement for potential start up issue on specific PCs
• DTA-2132: DVB-S software demodulator stability improvement
• DTA-2132: Fan speed was fixed, temperature controller was not operational
• DTA-2172/74B/75/78(-ASI): SetTsRateBps(DtFractionInt) was not implemented

Linux only bug fixes:

• System clock change did result in errors, seen using DTA-2139C
Latest changes require adding a linker -lrt flag in application makefile for Linux glibc versions <2.17

Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 support will be discontinued from Q3 2021

SDK version July 2021

Versions DTAPI: v5.45.0.172
Drivers: Dta v4.28.4.274, DtPcie 1.13.6.282 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.1.86
DtapiService: v3.8.6.95
Changes New features:
• DTA-2172: Support for firmware version v1; double buffered output support added
• DTA-2178-ASI: Support for firmware version v1

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: An underflow could result in a permanent genlock offset
• Matrix API: Increasing end-to-end delay did not result in more frames to be buffered in the buffer
• Matrix API: After a recovery from a TX underflow event, the frame numbering was not always monot-
onously incremented
• Matrix API: ANC packets that were not added in order of increasing line number might not have in-
serted in the output
• DtapiModPars2TsRate could report incorrect fractional bitrate
• DTA-2131: GetDemodControl m_Interleaving value did always return 0xF for a QAM-B-64 signal
• DTA-2139B/C: Non-exclusive attach did fail due to changes in Nov2020 SDK
• DTA-2139C: Occasionally ports did not lock for ATSC 3.0 configurations with multiple subframes
• DTA-2139C: BerPresRs value was too low for QAM-B (J.83B)

Linux only bug fixes:

• Drivers did not build on CentOS v4.18.0-305.3.1.el8.x86_64
• Dtu driver did not build on CentOS 239-41.el8_3.1

Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 support will be discontinued from Q3 2021

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SDK version May 2021

Versions DTAPI: v5.44.1.162
Drivers: Dta v4.28.2.273, DtPcie 1.12.0.271 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.0.85
DtapiService: v3.8.5.93
Changes New features:
• DTA-2115B: Support for firmware version v3; bug fix for 8 channel variant firmware
• DTA-2132: DVB-S software demodulation support added for virtual port 2
• Matrix API: Added ability to report reception time of the last Top-of-Frame event on the Genlock port
• Matrix API: Added multi-threading support (for latest cards) to make better use of server PCs with lots
of (“lower” performance) cores
• Matrix API: Support for horizontal offset within HANC/VANC space for each ANC packet

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2174/79: DetectVidStd() for 2160p30 LinkStd SMPTE 425, was reported as 1080p30 LinkStd -1

Linux only bug fixes:

• Drivers did not build on Fedora 33 (v5.10.15-200.fc33 and v5.11.11-200.fc33)

Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 support will be discontinued from Q3 2021

SDK version Feb 2021

Versions DTAPI: v5.43.2.149
Drivers: Dta v4.28.1.271, DtPcie v1.11.1.263 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.0.85
DtapiService: v3.8.4.91
Changes Bug fixes:
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 improvement for signal locking
• DTA-2131: Improvement for potential memory leak for DVB-T2 demodulation
• DTA-2139C: ATSC 3.0 improvement for possible incorrect PLP-ID in ALP-message for multi-PLP
• DTA-2139C: Spectrum Inversion statistic was inverted
• DTA-2172, 2175, 2174B, 2178: Input change from fractional to non-fractional was not detected
• DTA-2172, 2175, 2174B, 2178: For SD video formats the callback function was called too often
• Matrix API: Unclear status DT_FRMSTATUS_ERROR_INTERNAL was reported now using
DT_FRMSTATUS_INVALID

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTAPI could not find the VLAN adapter when udev rules were used

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SDK version Nov 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.43.0.147
Drivers: Dta v4.28.1.271, DtPcie v1.11.0.262, DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.0.85
DtapiService: v3.8.3.90
Changes New features:
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: Support for ATSC3.0 STLTP (Studio–to-Transmitter Link Transport Protocol)
• Matrix API: Support for encoding and decoding of digital vertical interval time code (D-VITC)

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: Improvement of default line numbers for Video Index embedding and de-embedding
• Local NIC bitrate calculation was inaccurate due to March 2020 SDK changes
• Improved TS over IP (RTP) handling for streams that are not fully compliant with SMTPE spec 2022
(some codecs generate non-monotonic timestamps like seen for FFmpeg HEVC)

Linux only bug fixes:

• DtPcie/Dta driver did not compile for Debian Linux v2.6.32-5

SDK version Aug 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.42.0.146
Drivers: Dta v4.28.0.270, DtPcie v1.10.0.257 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.0.85
DtapiService: v3.8.2.89
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2178 Octal 12G-SDI/ASI Ports with Genlock for PCIe
• Support for DTA-2174B/2178 quadrant (SMPTE-425-5 Annex B) quad-link 4K
• Support for SD-SDI 525 with 508 active video line and 625 with 608 active video lines (SMPTE RP
202-2000)
• DtDevice::GetGenlockState() function overload added to also return the detected video standard

Bug fixes:
• Pictures per second in DtVidStdInfo.m_Pps was incorrectly calculated
• DTA-2174B: Odd and even lines from a SMPTE 425-5 quad-link input were swapped

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SDK version July 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.41.1.144
Drivers: Dta v4.28.0.270, DtPcie v1.9.2.254 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.14.0.85
DtapiService: v3.8.1.88
Changes New features:
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: Support for Digital Radio Mondial (DRM/DRM+)

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2132: L3 frames were not handled correctly in DTAPI_RXMODE_STL3 mode when padding bits
were used
• DTA-2139C: Added DTAPI_STAT_FREQ_SHIFT and DTAPI_STAT_SAMPRATE_OFFSET statistics
• DTA-2139C: Optimized calibration of the RF level measurement
• DTA-2152 Doubly buffered output was not working for firmware version 6
• DTA-2172, 2175, 2174B, 2178-ASI: ASI output performance improvement
• DTA-2172, 2175, 2174B, 2178-ASI: ASI output returned a too high load
• DTA-2178-ASI: Driver did sometimes failed to load (with generic power failure error)

Linux only changes:

• Added support for GCC5.1 ABI=0 to fix Debian Stretch using static stdc++ library issues
• DTA-2139B Read() function performance improvement for a 24-core CPU

SDK version May 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.40.0.141
Drivers: Dta v4.27.8.269, DtPcie v1.9.0.250 DtaNw v3.5.11.42, Dtu v4.13.7.84
DtapiService: v3.8.0.87
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2178-ASI Octal Bidirectional ASI Ports
• Support for DTA-2139C 12x ATSC T/T2 ISDB-T QAM Receiver

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2174B: V210 pixel format with an alignment of -1 fix of March2020 SDK was not working for
720p

Linux only changes:

• Drivers support added for Linux kernel v5.6
• Drivers support added for CentOS 8.1
• DtaNw driver support added for Fedora 31 (kernel 5.5.8)

Support for DTA-2178-ASI and DTA-2139C requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie
driver installed

SDK version March 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.39.0.138
Drivers: Dta v4.27.7.266, DtPcie v1.7.0.153 DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.6.83
DtapiService: v3.7.2.86
Changes New features:
• DTA-2174B: Support for 12G and quad link 4K (firmware v1 package required)

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2139B: Improvement for potential tuning conflict resulting in an error or DtapiService crash
• DTA-2174B: V210 pixel format with 720p/1080p and an alignment of -1 was not working

Support for DTA-2174B requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed

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SDK version February 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.38.0.136
Drivers: Dta v4.27.6.265, DtPcie v1.6.0.149 DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.6.83
DtapiService: v3.7.1.84
Changes New features:
• DTA-2172/74B: Support for per port pixel offset, relative to a Genlock reference

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2132: Improved locking for specific symbol rates
• DTA-2174/79/95: 3G level B format reception was not working due to a Jan2020 SDK change

Support for DTA-2174B requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed

SDK version January 2020

Versions DTAPI: v5.37.0.134
Drivers: Dta v4.27.5.264, DtPcie v1.5.0.128 DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.6.83
DtapiService: v3.7.0.83
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2174B Quad 3G-SDI Ports for PCIe (variant 1 firmware)
• DTA-2132: Auto symbol rate and fast blind scan support

Linux only features:

• Support for 32 bit DtPcie driver

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: Improved efficiency of YUV422P2_16B to UYVY422_10B conversion
• Synchronized DTAPI .NET with DTAPI, added amongst others ATSC3.0 modulation
• DTA-2115/DTU-315: Corrected Nov2019 fix for ATSC3.0 ALP packets larger than 4096 bytes
• DTA-2132: Low SNR and lock issue could occur
• DTA-2132: Invalid statistics could have been returned
• DTA-2152: Possible SDI lock issue was seen
• DTA-2172/75: DtDevice::GetRefClkCnt did return DTAPI_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
• DTA-2274B: Genlock for the 3G-ports fixed

Linux only bug fixes:

• Linux drivers did not build on Ubuntu 19.10
• DtPcie driver did report IOMMU errors and no data was received for some server configuration

Support for DTA-2174B requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed
Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 DTAPI libraries are no longer distributed

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SDK version November 2019

Versions DTAPI: v5.36.3.130
Drivers: Dta v4.27.4.262, DtPcie v1.4.0.111, DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.6.83
DtapiService: v3.6.1.82
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2274B 12G-SDI and Triply-Buffered 3G-SDI Output for PCIe
• Support for Visual Studio 2019
• Matrix API: SetIoConfig option to enable/disable automatic black frames insertion
• DTA-2132: Improved tuning configuration for IQ port
• DTA-2137C: Improved power level calibration
• DTA-2172/75: Added DtDevice::SetTxClockOffset() for precise control of the transmit clock

Bug fixes:
• DTAPI classes returned unclear error codes when using an incompatible DtPcie driver
• DtOutpChannel did repeat the last few SDI frames when an underflow occurred but should repeat
the last frame only
• DTU-351: Disabled auto correction of errors (CRC checksum) in SDI input signal
• DTA-2115/DTU-315: ATSC3.0 ALP packets larger than 4096 bytes were not supported
• DTA-2131: Another process could stop main data processing (seen using DtInfo and StreamXpert)
• DTA-2132: Data reception was not possible without explicitly setting Rx-Mode using SetRxMode()
• DTA-2172: Missing audio samples in 3G SDI level B output
• DTA-2172: DtPcie driver didn't update after installing DtPcie installer v1.3.0
• DTA-2172/75 ASI-input channel occasionally returned an invalid timestamp
• DTA-2172/75 4:2:0 video processed by the Matrix API had jagged edges in the SDI output
• DTA-2195: SetRowConfig did fail when more than one VPID overrule was configured for a 4k signal

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2175: Outputting of data was stopped when a child process was forked from within the process
controlling the DTA-2175

Support for DTA-2274B requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed

SDK version July 2019

Versions DTAPI: v5.35.0.124
Drivers: Dta v4.27.3.259, DtPcie v1.3.0.72, DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.5.82
DtapiService: v3.6.0.81
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2132 High-End Satellite Receiver
• Matrix API: Support to receive/transmit raw 4k formats
• DTAPINET now supports DtPcie cards (DTA-2132, DTA-2139B, DTA-2172 and DTA-2175)
• DTA-2115B: Support for the 2 types of noise generators (requires firmware v2)
• DTA-2131: Support for larger ATSC sample rate offsets

Bug fixes:
• NicInpChannel methods ClearFlags() and GetFlags() were missing
• Modulator cards: noise generation was not working for IQ-direct mode
• DTA-2131: STMP2 RX-mode was missing
• DTA-2131: AdvDemod::OpenStream() function returned unclear error on no license
• DTA-2131: Improved ATSC 3.0 demodulator for adjacent channel interference
• DTA-2136/39: tuner offset for possible lock delay was accidentally removed in SDK Jan2019 release
• DTA-2175: Failsafe functions were not available

Linux only New features:

• Driver support for linux kernel v5

Support for DTA-2132 requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed

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SDK version May2019

Versions DTAPI: v5.34.0.120
Drivers: Dta v4.27.2.258, DtPcie v1.2.0.66 DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.4.81
DtapiService: v3.5.2.79
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2172 Dual 3G-SDI/ASI Ports for PCIe
• DTA-2131: Support for constellations and transport stream packets with timestamps
• DTA-2175: Support for Transmit on timestamp DTAPI_TXMODE_TXONTIME

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API: DtMxFrame::m_Video::m_Planes::m_WidthInSymbols did report unscaled width
• DTA-2131: Nominal bitrate instead of actual bitrate was reported
• DTA-2136/2139: For some frequency changes a long lock delay occurred
• DTA-2136/2139: Bad packet count was very large after a tune action
• DTA-2137: Inserted dummy frame in STL3FULL mode were invalid.
• DTA-2139B/2175: DtPcie driver did not support Windows standby condition
• DTA-2139B: InputChannel GetStatus did not return DTAPI_PCKSIZE_188
• DTA-2139B: GetFlags returned an incorrect latched sync error
• DTA-2139B: DTAPI_E_INVALID_LEVEL was reported incorrectly for DTAPI_STAT_RFLVL_CHAN
• DTA-2152 disabling SMPTE-352 descriptor insertion did not work
• DTA-2160/62: DTAPI_E_INVALID_IP_ADDR was reported on broadcast address configuration
• DTA-2174/2195: DtapiVidStd2IoStd was missing support for DTAPI_VIDSTD_2160P50B
• DTA-2175: Support for Transparent Packets was missing
• DTA-2175: The video configured for NV12 (=DT_PXFMT_YUV420P2_8B) was corrupted
• DTA-2175: 8-bit SDI file format playout was not received by some receivers
• DTA-2175: CPU did require SSE4.1support, now minimum requirement is SSE3.0
• DTA-2195: DtAvOutput::GetHdmiStatus could report old values

Linux only bug fixes:

• DtapiService connection errors did occur after a long time
• GCC5.1 DTAPI binaries were not correctly build

Support for DTA-2172 requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the 64 bit DtPcie driver installed

SDK version Feb2019

Versions DTAPI: v5.33.0.117
Drivers: Dta v4.27.1.257, DtPcie v1.1.0.59 DtaNw v3.5.10.41, Dtu v4.13.4.81
DtapiService: v3.5.1.77
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2139B Twelve-Channel Cable/Terrestrial Receiver for PCIe

Bug fixes:
• DtapiService crash was seen on older PC’s that did not support AVX instruction set
• DTA-2131: ATSC stream with long echoes was not received
• DTU-315: DTAPI_E_INVALID_LEVEL was reported when Output Level was configured during playout

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2136 AttachToPort did hang in some cases
• DTA-2160/2162 DtaNw driver did not build on Linux kernel >=v4.20

Support for DTA-2175 and DTA-2139B requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the new 64 bit DtPcie
driver installed

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SDK version Jan2019

Versions DTAPI: v5.32.0.115
Drivers: Dta v4.27.0.256, DtPcie v1.0.9.55 DtaNw v3.5.9.40, Dtu v4.13.3.80
DtapiService: v3.5.0.75
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2175 HD-SDI/ASI Input+Output with Relay Bypass for PCIe
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: option to (re)set the ATSC 3.0 Time Information
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 L1B and L1D constellation support
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 output of raw BB-frames support
• DTA-2174/79: Quad Link (DTAPI_CAP_QUADLINK) capability to simplify configuration of 4K

Bug fixes:
• Unexpected DTAPI_NOT_SUPPORTED on SetModControl() was reported
• SMPTE-352 descriptor insertion was not disabled when using DtOutputChannel for SDI HD cards
• DTU-245: DtInpChannel::Read() junk bytes were seen at start of the buffer
• DTU-315: DTAPI_E_INVALID_LEVEL was reported when Output Level was configured during playout
• DTU-315: DTAPI_TX_DMA_UFL was sometimes reported for DVB-S2X/ISDB-S3
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: MISO signal was not correct for ATSC3.0
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: no error code on SetModPars() containing an ATSC 3.0 PLP collision
• DTA-2115B: SFN TOO_LATE error was seen at specific sample rates
• DTA-2152: Doubly Buffered configuration did not work
• DTA-2182: DtapiService communication error did occur resulting in no license points available
• DTA-2195: Line doubling on 4K output was seen for DT_PXFMT_YUV422P_16B

Linux only New Features:

• GCC4.8 and GCC5.1 DTAPI binaries are now distributed; adding full C++11 support and better
support for latest distributions

For Linux GCC4.8.5 or higher is required

Support for latest boards (DTA-2175/DTA-2139B) requires Visual Studio 2013 or higher and the new 64
bit DtPcie driver installed

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SDK version July2018

Versions DTAPI: v5.31.0.109
Drivers: Dta v4.26.4.253, DtaNw v3.5.9.40, Dtu v4.13.2.78
DtapiService: v3.4.1.72
Changes New features:
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: support for ISDB-S3 modulation released

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2160: identical multicast reception could fail for IP channel 16th

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2160/62: DtaNw build error for CentOs 7.5

Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 support will be discontinued from November 1th 2018

SDK version May2018

Versions DTAPI: v5.30.0.108
Drivers: Dta v4.26.2.251, DtaNw v3.5.7.38, Dtu v4.13.1.77
DtapiService: v3.4.1.71
Changes New features:
• Added support for DTA-2131 new licenses: XPRT (C2Xpert T2Xpert, Atsc3Xpert support), RXAB (Basic),
RXA3 (ATSC 3.0) and RXAT2 (DVB-T2)
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for getting/setting the AFD (RP186-2008)
• Matrix API 2.0: AncGetPacket wildcards and selected range of lines parameters added
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: Initial support for ISDB-S3 modulation
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 support for reception of ALP-packets up to 64K byte
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 support for 2016 and 2018 LMT/RDT ALP encapsulation modes
• DTA-2195: DtAvOutput supported HDR formats added in DtHdmiTxStatus struct
• SHA256 driver signing support

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: Timing of generated teleletext waveform was not correct
• Matrix API 2.0: Sometimes a segmentation fault in MxHdAncParser::DeEmbedAudio was seen on a
disruption in the input signal
• Matrix API 2.0: AES validity bit was not ignored like specified when extracting audio as AES3 samples
• DTA-2136: Frequency offset to lock was needed when analog channel was active
• DTA-2162: Multicast without source specified was not possible for SSM IP address range
• DTA-2162/2160: GetFifoLoad() could be incorrect for IP playout
• DTA-2195: In some cases 2160P24 displays were not detected
• DTA-2195: DTAPI_E_INVALID_LNKSTD on DtMxProcess::Start for 4K could be seen
• DTA-2195: HdmiTx SCDC initialisation fails sometimes after hot plug detect

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2152\74\79\95: DTAPI_E_OUT_OF_MEMORY was seen on ASI playout due to Feb2018 Linux
SDK change

Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 support will be discontinued from November 1th 2018

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SDK version Feb2018

Versions DTAPI: v5.29.0.105
Drivers: Dta v4.26.0.248, DtaNw v3.5.7.38, Dtu v4.13.0.76
DtapiService: v3.4.0.70
Changes New features:
• Added support for DTA-2182 Dual H.264 Encoder
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for WSS and Teletext output
• DTA-2131: L1-detail version 1 support added for ATSC 3.0 demodulator

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2115B: QAM-B signal was inverted
• DTA-2131: QAM-B bitrate and timestamps were 0
• DTA-2154: Robustness improvement for possible hang seen on multiple video standard switches
• DTA-2174: Possible invalid FIFO-load was reported on first call

Linux only bug fixes:

• DtapiService did generate a lot of DtapiDemoSvc Pipe files in /Tmp folder
• Dta and Dtu driver build errors were seen for Fedora 27 (kernel v4.14)
• DtaNw driver build errors were seen for RedHat/CentOs 7.4
• DTU-315/351: Kernel page fault was seen for some Linux distributions

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SDK version Nov2017

Versions DTAPI: v5.28.0.103
Drivers: Dta v4.25.0.245, DtaNw v3.5.6.37, Dtu v4.12.1.74
DtapiService: v3.3.5.64
Changes New features:
• Added DtAvOutput::SetHdmiAudioChannel for DTA-2195
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for Line 21 CEA-608 CC output
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for ancillary data VPID configuration per frame; DtMxAuxConfigSdi::m_Disa-
bleVpidProcessing should be set.
• Window 10 secure boot driver support
• DTA-2131: Support for QAM-B demodulation

Bug fixes:
• DVB-S2 CID GUID is now using a default unique value, but could still be overridden
• DtInpChannel::GetStatistic() did not return errors like DTAPI_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
• Matrix API 2.0: Pixel format DT_PXFMT_YUV420P2_8B caused a crash or corrupted output
• Matrix API 2.0: Callback did not return error for 1080i60 configuration but 1080i59 input signal
• DTA-107: SetSnr() was failing although a valid CM license was used
• DTA-2115B: Spurious in the ATSC 3.0 output was seen
• DTA-2115/DTU-315: ATSC 3.0 ALP parsing incorrect when SIF or HEF is used
• DTA-2131: ATSC (8-VSB) demodulator did not set TEI bit in case of stream errors
• DTA-2131: ATSC (8-VSB) demodulator statistic DTAPI_STAT_BER_PRERS did not return correct value
• DTA-2131: ATSC 3.0 demodulator MER was not precise for constellations with an irregular pattern
• DTA-2131: Invalid ATSC 3.0 ALP-packets when ALP-header contained additional headers
• DTA-2180: Potential driver divide by zero crash was seen
• DTU-236A: Incorrect lock status was reported

SDK version Aug2017

Versions DTAPI: v5.27.0.97
Drivers: Dta v4.24.0.242, DtaNw v3.5.6.37, Dtu v4.12.1.74
DtapiService: v3.3.4.63
Changes New features:
• Added DtAvOutput::SetHdmiColorimetry for DTA-2195
• DTA-2131: Maximum number of LDPC iterations increased to improve performance

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2131: NO_SUCH_DEVICE errors were seen in case of enabled “Windows fast startup”
• DTA-2195: driver was not updated when previous version was installed
• DTU-351: Windows dtu driver was failing due to June2017 SDK changes

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2160/62: kernel > 4.11.0 (like Fedora 25) resulted in a DtaNw compile error
• DTU-315: DVB-S(2) playout was failing
• DTU-245/225/205/215: Dtu driver used on kernel > 4.8.0 did not start

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SDK version June2017

Versions DTAPI: v5.26.0.96
Drivers: Dta v4.23.0.240, DtaNw v3.5.5.36, Dtu v4.12.0.73
DtapiService: v3.3.3.62
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2195: 12G SDI input + output with HDMI-2.0 output
• DTU-315: Linux support

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible crash was seen for 32 bit VS2008 and VS2010 configurations
• DTAPINET DtInpChannel::SetErrorStatsMode was missing
• DTA-2131: Threading issues could occur for calls like SetTunerFrequency(), Tune()

SDK version April2017

Versions DTAPI: v5.25.0.94
Drivers: Dta v4.22.0.236, DtaNw v3.5.5.36, Dtu v4.11.0.71
DtapiService: v3.3.3.61
Changes New features:
• ATSC 3.0: Transmitter Identification (TxID) support for modulator (DTA-2115B/DTU-315) and de-
modulator (DTA-2131)
• Matrix API 2.0: Added function to configure AFD line number
• Matrix API 2.0: Added function for Genlock pixel offset
• Visual Studio 2017 support added
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: Support for negative SNR for testing robust ATSC 3.0 and DVB-S2X modes
• DTA-2154/2174: Added DtDevice:SetVcxoState to control the VCXO
• DTA-2180: Support for Dolby Digital Pro audio encoding; requires firmware v2
• DTA-2195 12G-SDI I/O adapter with HDMI 2.0 output: Initial support added

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: for some equipment audio decoding issues occurred
• DTA-2131: GetTsRate always reported 0bps for QAM-C,DVB-C and 8-VSB
• DTA-2160/2162: trying to fill the transmit FIFO on HOLD mode resulted in a deadlock
• DTA-2160/2162: FEC reconstruction status did change continuously for large matrices

Linux only bug fixes:

• Dta driver build was failing due to a signature mismatch
• For Fedora 25 DtaNw driver compile error was seen
• Matrix API 2.0: only one frame was received for the DTU-351

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Visual Studio 2005 DTAPI libraries are no longer distributed

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SDK version Feb2017

Versions DTAPI: v5.24.0.91
Drivers: Dta v4.21.0.229, DtaNw v3.5.4.35, Dtu v4.11.0.71
DtapiService: v3.3.2.60
Changes New features:
• DTA-2131: Support for 8-VSB demodulation
• DTA-2131: Support for QAM-A and QAM-C demodulation
• DTU-315: Support for DVB-CID

Bug fixes:
• ATSC 3.0 demodulator issue was seen when using guard interval 12_4864
• ATSC 3.0 demodulator lock statistic reported in_lock when signal was lost
• DTAPINET DtStatistics::GetName function didn’t return the string correctly
• ISDB-T modulation did result in high PCR-jitter when PCR was part of the video PID
• Matrix API 2.0: For 4K level B audio data/control packets were not always located in the correct link
• DTA-2115(B): Continuous Wave configurationdid result in 3dB offset
• DTA-2131: Potential DVB-T2 synchronisation issue was seen after cable disconnect-connected
• DTA-2136/2137/2139: Constellation points were not in range of -16k..+16k
• DTA-2152: Doubly buffered mode was not working for firmware version V3
• DTA-2160/2162: VLAN configuration using SetIpPars was not working
• DTA-2162: BSOD was seen in a specific condition on loop-through and multicast IP addresses

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2160/2162: MAC address changes were not applied correctly

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SDK version Dec2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.23.0.89
Drivers: Dta v4.20.0.226, DtaNw v3.5.3.34, Dtu v4.10.1.70
DtapiService: v3.3.1.59
Changes New features:
• ATSC 3.0: Changes incorporated for latest specification update
• ATSC 3.0: Support for IQ over ASI option (DTA-2145 and DTA-2160)
• Matrix API 2.0: Added minimal byte alignment setting (DtMxVideoConfig::m_BufAlignment)
• Matrix API 2.0: Decoding performance improvement by using separate threads for Video and Anc
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for thread priorities (DtMxProcess::SetThreadScheduling())
• DTA-2131: Support for QAM-A (DVB-C) and QAM-C demodulation

Bug fixes:
• VLAN driver was not updated by Installer
• Matrix API 2.0: Embedding an audio service with more than 4 services could cause a crash
• DTA-2115B: 8 Channel configurations for ATSC 3.0/DVB-T2/DVB-C2 resulted in inverted spectrum
• DTA-2138B: RF level accuracy was1dB instead of 0,1dB
• DTA-2138(B): DTAPI_E_INVALID_SYMRATE was reported when configuring the symbol rate
• DTA-2160/2162: IP output did take broadcast MAC address instead of the default gateway
DTA-2160/2162: IP-Address in DtHwFuncDesc did return 0.0.0.0 in case of a static defined address
and disconnected cable

SDK version Sep2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.21.0.85
Drivers: Dta v4.19.0.224, DtaNw v3.5.3.34, Dtu v4.10.1.70
DtapiService: v3.3.0.58
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2179: 12xSD/HD/3G-SDI and ASI; maximum performance 8x3G(2x4K) + 4xHD
• Matrix API 2.0: Performance improvements including support for thread affinity for call back threads
• Matrix API 2.0: Added support for setting VPID bytes (part of DtMxAuxConfigSdi)

Bug fixes:
• VLAN configuration option was missing for Windows 10
• Matrix API 2.0: Crash when receiving SD-SDI, aux data enabled and a non-default pixel format
• Matrix API 2.0: AES sample parity was not computed correct for HD streams
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible assert when scaling SD-SDI signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Incorrect VPID was used for 4K output (3G level B)
• Matrix API 2.0: Lines were duplicated for a 4K output using the DT_PXFMT_YUV422P_8B pixel format
• Matrix API 2.0: Columns were swapped on 4K sample-interleave output when configured as
DT_PXFMT_UYVY_8B
• DTA-2174: Signal detected but no new frame interrupts after short signal interruption
• DTA-2180: In some rare cases input standard detection on HDMI port was failing

Linux only bug fixes:

• Lock up was seen on CentOS 7 HP DL380 G9 server

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Visual Studio 2005 and Windows XP support will be discontinued at the start of 2017

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SDK version Aug2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.20.0.83
Drivers: Dta v4.18.0.222, DtaNw v3.5.2.30, Dtu v4.10.1.70
DtapiService: v3.3.0.58
Changes New features:
• DTU-315/ DTA-2115: ATSC 3.0 modulator updated with support for Multi PLP and Hybrid Time In-
terleaver (HTI)
• DTA-2160/2162: Support for routing tables
• Matrix API 2.0: Add support for inserting SMPTE-337 data-burst as audio samples (enables embed-
ding of AC-3 and E-AC-3 audio)
• Support for DT_EVENT_TYPE_IOCONFIG that fires when any IoConfig on attached device changes

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible segmentation fault on high load
• Matrix API 2.0: Output with pixelformat DT_PXFMT_UYVY422_8B causes application crash
• Memory leak in driver on each SetIoConfig call (only applies for the Windows driver)
• DTU-315: Spectrum inversion for DVB-C was incorrect
• DTA-2136: Spectrum inversion measurement was incorrect
• DTA-2139: Driver installer failing when multiple DTA-2139 units are installed
• DTA-2154/2174: Potential hang of DMA after call to detect video standard
• DTA-2162: BSOD when using port2 and SMPTE-2022-7 disabled
• DTA-2180: Number of Dolby-E services is limited to 3

Linux only bug fixes:

• Driver compile failure for kernel 4.6+
• DTA-2160/2162: Default gateway for IPv6 could not be found

SDK version June2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.19.0.81
Drivers: Dta v4.17.0.221, DtaNw v3.5.2.30, Dtu v4.10.0.69
DtapiService: v3.2.1.57
Changes New features:
• DTA-2115 and DTU-315 ATSC 3.0 modulator support
• DTA-2131 ATSC 3.0 demodulator support
• Support for multiple source IP address filtering using new struct DtIpPars2
• Support for override of default gateway address
• Support for DTU-245B
• Support for reboot without powercycle for the DTA-2154
• Support for License Programming (DtDevice::SetLicenseFromFile, DtDevice::SetLicenseFromString)
• Matrix API 2.0: Performance improvements for 4K
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for teletext decoding from 625I50 signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for audio frame number when no audio control packets are available

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: DtMxRawConfigSdi::m_LineAlignment set to -1 (no alignment) did result in data
buffer with a size of 1 line
• Matrix API 2.0: RGB->UYVY conversion used wrong constants for BT709 colorspace
• Matrix API 2.0: WSS parsing failed on some valid streams
• Matrix API 2.0: YUV_422P_16B input did corrupted data in V plane
• DTAPI naming conflict with standard C libraries did occur due to atan2f function
• DTA-2115B: ATSC playout was not working for 8*8MHz mode
• DTA-2115B/DTU-315: wrong channel filter was used for ISDB-Tmm
• DTA-2135: SetTunerFrequency was failing when both ports were used

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SDK version April2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.18.1.78
Drivers: Dta v4.16.0.217, DtaNw v3.5.2.30, Dtu v4.9.1.68
DtapiService: v3.2.0.56
Changes Bug fixes:
• DTA-2115B: Power level for 8x8MHz mode was incorrect for DVB-T2 and DVB-C2
• DTA-2131: More improvements for 1.7MHz adjacent channels were needed
• DTA-2180: Audio pass through configuration was failing
• DTA-2180: Added encoder limitation: max 2 AAC audio channels for 1080p H.264 configurations
• DTA-2180: Added encoder limitation: max 3 Dolby-E audio channels are supported and only 2 for
all 1080p H.264 configurations

SDK version March2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.18.0.77
Drivers: Dta v4.16.0.217, DtaNw v3.5.2.30, Dtu v4.9.1.68
DtapiService: v3.2.0.56
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2115B 8x 8MHz VHF/UHF channel modulation (HW8CH option)
• Support for DTA-2115B GPS clock synchronisation
• Support for DTA-2115B Phase noise emulation
• Full support for DTA-2180 H.264 HD Contribution Encoder for PCIe

Bug fixes:
• DtapiHwFuncScan returned no NICs when more than 20 NICs were present
• DTU-315: did not output a signal at low symbol rates
• DTU-315/DTA-2111/DTA-2115: power level for Multi-channel modulation (SWMC) was incorrect
• DTA-2131: difficult to receive a signal when many adjacent channels were present
• DTA-2162: listening on IP-inputs, when no data was received, did cost a lot of CPU resources

SDK version Jan2016

Versions DTAPI: v5.17.0.74
Drivers: Dta v4.15.0.212, DtaNw v3.5.1.29, Dtu v4.9.0.67
DtapiService: v3.1.1.54
Changes New features:
• Initial support for DTA-2180 H.264 HD Contribution Encoder for PCIe
• Matrix API 2.0: performance improvements for 4K
• DTU-315 dual channel software modulation

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 1.0: z-bit in audio samples was set for both channels of a channel
• DAB playout resulted in audio artefacts when play DAB ETI file containing audio reconfiguration
• GetIpStats m_NumIpPacketsReceived was not incremented when header identification field was zero
• IPv6 receive for UDP resulted in a crash
• Possible application hang was seen occasionally due to race condition in DMA abort
• DTU-236(A) QAM annex was not reported correctly in StreamXpert

Linux only bug fixes:

• DtapiService install fix for Ubuntu 14.04
• DTA-2137: High CPU load seen when controlling multiple units

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SDK version Oct2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.16.2.71
Drivers: Dta v4.14.7.207, DtaNw v3.5.1.29, Dtu v4.8.3.66
DtapiService: v3.1.0.52
Changes New features:
• Support for new DVB-C2 statistics for DTU-238 and DTA-2138(B)
• Support for latest DTU-238 hardware revision 1

Bug fixes:
• DtOutpChannel::SetFailsafeConfig did return invalid value on DTAPI_IOCONFIG_FAILSAFE
• DtInpChannel::GetStatistics did return unclear error when tuning action was still in progress
• Matrix API 2.0: Number of dropped frames was not accurately reported for DTU-351
• Matrix API 2.0: No error was returned when configuring raw SDI input for multi-link
• Matrix API 2.0: Out-of-memory issue was seen when call-back on input-only matrix was to slow
• DTA-2107: DVB-S2 outputs was failing due to a DTAPI change in Aug2015 SDK
• DTA-2160: Firmware upgrade was failing for latest DtInfo version

SDK version Sep2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.16.1.68
Drivers: Dta v4.14.6.205, DtaNw v3.5.1.29, Dtu v4.8.2.65
DtapiService: v3.0.4.51
Changes Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: performance improvements for 4K NV12 input
• Multiple IP channel detach at the same time could have resulted in a crash
• DTU-236: DtInpChannel::Equalise disable call did fail
• DTU-238: ISDB-T statistics BER PRE-RS and PER where invalid
• DTU-238/DTA-2138B: DVB-C2 relock on input signal stop and start was failing
• DTU-315: Programing a license file using DtInfo did not succeed
• DTU-315: Modulator output errors were seen in some cases
• DTA-2137: Link margin statistic was not calculated correctly
• DTA-2174: Internal genlocking error, caused 4K output issues

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SDK version Aug2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.16.0.67
Drivers: Dta v4.14.4.203, DtaNw v3.5.1.29, Dtu v4.8.0.63
DtapiService: v3.0.3.50
Changes New features:
• Support for DTU-315 VHF/UHF/L-band modulator for USB-3
• Support for Visual Studio 2015
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for 4:2:0 (NV12 pixel format)
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for parsing WSS from 625i signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for parsing Line21 data from 525i signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Support for parsing/generating Video Index data from SD signals

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: performance improvements for 4K input + output (V210)
• Matrix API 2.0: performance improvements for DTU-351
• Matrix API 2.0: Assert was seen for DTU-351 used in debug mode
• Matrix API 2.0: SD audio parsing was resulting in a crash
• Matrix API 2.0: callback was not called (with DT_FRMSTATUS_NO_SIGNAL) when there was no input
present on startup
• DTU-236/238: SpectrumScan was failing when start frequency was near the minimum frequency
• DTU-236/238: SpectrumScan improvements for duration
• DTU-351: DtDevice::DetectVidStd was not implemented
• DTA-2131: RfLevel measurement was incorrect caused by latest DtapiService changes
• DTA-2135: in some cases DtapiService crash was seen using T2Xpert
• DTA-2138B: RfLevel was having an incorrect offset
• DTA-160/2160: SDI over IP transmit was not working
• DTA-2162: for Source Specific Multicast only IP address was configurable not the Port number
• DTA-2152/2154/2174: Genref port was not configurable when a port has genlock=on configured
• DTA-2152/2154/2174: driver was failing when configuration in the registry was invalid
• DTA-2174: Genlock was not calibrated (a few lines offset)

Linux only bug fixes:

• DtaNw driver did not build on Linux kernels >= 3.16
• DtapiService did not install/start correctly on Ubuntu 15.04
• DtapiService was hanging when DtInpChannel:Detach() was called
• AttachToPort failure was seen when using old SDK and new drivers

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SDK version June2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.15.0.60
Drivers: Dta v4.14.0.194, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.7.0.61
DtapiService: v3.0.1.46
Changes New features:
• Support for 3G level B. NOTE: requires DTA-2174 firmware version 3.
• DTU-351 support for Linux
• Added DtDevice::DetectVidStd() capable of detecting 4K video standards and link number
• Added DtDevice::GetTemperature(), DtDevice::GetFanTemperature() is now deprecated

Bug fixes:
• Documentation for DtInputChannel::GetConstellationPoints() points ranges were incorrect.
• DtInputChannel::SpectrumScan() for DTU-236A/DTU-238 was not working properly
• DtDemodEvent DTAPI_EV_TUNE_FREQ_HAS_CHANGED was not triggered in some conditions
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible corrupted audio was seen for SD signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Wrong audio status bits for DtMxAudioChannelStatus:: GetPcmNumBits()
• Matrix API 2.0: Invalid BCH was inserted for HD audio packets
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible crash when DtMxRowConfig::m_Enable was set to false
• DtSdiUtlity Table Of Contents size was too small
• DTU-236A did report incorrect levels in some cases
• DTU-238 did fail to lock in certain situations
• DTA-2131: configuring more than two DTA-2131 units in one PC did result in an error
• DTA-2154/DTA-2174: PSF input formats were not detected
• DTA-2152/DTA-2154/DTA-2174: No data was received after some fast input switch conditions

SDK version May2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.14.0.56
Drivers: Dta v4.13.3.191, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.6.1.59
DtapiService: v3.0.0.44
Changes New features:
• Support for the DTU-238
• New V3 DtapiService uses statistic caching to significantly improving speed of demodulator related
DtInpChannel methods (e.g. GetStatistics or SetTunerFrequency)

Bug fixes:
• DTA-2115: crossing the 9991000Mhz and 13991400Mhz frequency boundaries caused a dis-
continuity in the RF signal
• DTA-2137: for DVB-S the PRE-VIT-BER was returning invalid
• DTA-2154: arrival timestamps were assigned to wrong frame (one frame to late)
• DTA-2154: Dta driver v4.13.0.180 introduced a backwards compatibility issue with firmware ≤V4
• DTE-3137: lost signal lock when a second application is monitoring statistics (only in DTAPI mode)

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SDK version Apr2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.13.0.54
Drivers: Dta v4.13.0.180, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.5.1.57
DtapiService: v2.2.15.39
Changes New features:
• Support for SMPTE ST2022-5/6 and ST2022-7, including support for seamless SDI over IP using
DTA-2162
• Full support for SMPTE-2022-1-2007 FEC handling
• Support for ISDB-S B15 format
• Matrix API 2.0: support for v210 for 10-bit video (DT_PXFMT_V210)
• Matrix API 2.0: m_DataFormat is removed in various structs, functionality now part of m_PixelFormat

Bug fixes:
• Matrix API 2.0: Audio input for 4K was not processed correctly
• Matrix API 2.0: Deadlock on DtMxProcess:Stop() was seen in exceptional cases
• Matrix API 2.0: Minimum end-to-end delay increased by 1 frame, default end-to-end delay increased
by 2 frames.
• Matrix API 2.0: Stability improvements especially on systems with a heavy CPU/memory load
• IP RTP receive delay seen on switch of input streams
• Possible race condition in IoConfig when set from multiple applications, for example on SDI IOSTD
• DTA-2111: DVB-C symbolrate < 4MBaud did not work
• DTA-2115: Undefined signal for frequency changes 999-1000MHz and 1399-1400MHz

Windows only bug fixes:

• DTAPINET: DtInpChannel::ReadFrame call was broken

Linux only bug fixes:

• Enumerating old dta driver was failing with error: DTAPI_E_DRIVER_INCOMP
• Makefile order was incorrect Udev rules were not in proper location before module was loaded
• Linking to DTAPI now needs the “-ldl” flag besides the already required “-lpthread” flag

SDK version Feb2015r2

Versions DTAPI: v5.12.0.51
Drivers: Dta v4.12.1.168, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.5.0.56
DtapiService: v2.2.15.39
Changes Hot Fixes:
• DTA-2154 Rev 4: Fine-tuned FAN control settings to make sure FAN does not run faster than neces-
sary for lower temperatures
• DTA-160/2160/2162: FEC reconstruction logic did not restore all packets it could potentially repair

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SDK version Feb2015

Versions DTAPI: v5.12.0.51
Drivers: Dta v4.12.0.165, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.5.0.56
DtapiService: v2.2.15.39
Changes New features:
• Support for dual channel software modulation; new license available for DTA-2111/DTA-2115
• Support for HD-SDI Progressive Segmented Frame (PSF) formats. NOTE: requires latest firmware ver-
sions for DTA-2152 (V2) and DTA-2154 (V5)
• Matrix API 2.0: RGB support
• Support for DTA-2154 hardware revision 4.0
• GENREF IO-config no longer takes a reference video standard as par-extra0
• Matrix API 2.0: added a frame arrival timestamp to DtMxFrame
• Support for DTA-2152 firmware version 2 and DTA-2154 firmware versions 4/5

Bug fixes:
• Possible crash on older CPU’s (that did not support SSE3)
• LocalNIC 127.0.0.1 loopback did not work when IP cable was disconnected
• Matrix API 2.0: The 3G-outputs in a 4K matrix row were not always in-sync with each other
• Matrix API 2.0: Possible corruption of received ancillary data for 3G-SDI signals
• Matrix API 2.0: Checksum was missing on DtMxFrame::AncGetPacket
• Matrix API 2.0: Assert was seen when starting SDI output as 1080i59.94
• Matrix API 2.0: Improved performance of ancillary data generation
• Matrix API 2.0: DtMxFrame::AncGetPacket failed for audio ancillary data
• DtFrameBuffer::AncAddAudio/AncCommit was significantly slower for fractional SDI standards
• DTAPI.NET was missing previous DTAPI changes, like DVB-S2x and DtDvbCidPars
• 204 bytes DVB-S modulation resulted in incorrect TS-rate
• DTA-2107: 204 bytes playout was failing (remark: TxMode MIN16 is required)
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X errors were generated for VCM stream with VLSNR and other modcods
• DTA-2139: QAM-B tuning was sometimes failing for some high frequency signals
• DTA-2152: Fixed genlock alignment, to ensure outputs are aligned within 1.5us of the genlock refer-
ence

Windows only bug fixes:

• On Windows XP, the DTAPI would crash (introduced in Nov2014 SDK release)
• Memory usage was increasing slowly on multiple AttachToPort/DetachToPort actions

Linux only bug fixes:

• All threads in an application linking to the DTAPI were renamed “MX log thread”

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SDK version Nov2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.11.0.49
Drivers: Dta v4.11.0.148, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.4.16.55
DtapiService: v2.2.14.38
Changes New features:
• Support for the DTA-2174 (Quad 3G/HD-SDI / ASI Ports with Genlock Adapter)
• DTAPI- Matrix 2.0: Matrix API 2.0 further abstracts from SDI interface implementation details and ena-
bles your application to concentrate solely on processing the video, audio and ancillary data. For ex-
ample it can be used to easily build SMPTE-425-5 compliant 4K input/output applications using the
DTA-2174.
• DTA-2115: Support for DVB carrier identification for satellite using DtOutpChannel::SetModControl(
DtDvbCidPars)

Bug fixes:
• Local NIC did not report errors like DTAPI_NO_LINK
• DTAPINET was missing new SMPTE ST 2022-7 functions
• DTAPI_RXMODE_IPRAW was failing for non MPEG 192 bytes packets
• DtInpChannel::RegisterDemodCallback in some cases failed for slow PC’s
• Constant audible crack when embedding audio into a XXXp59.94 SDI standard
• DTA-160: Windows Sleep/Hibernate for some PC’s resulted in a BSOD
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X modulation for 32-APSK 32/45 short frames was incorrect
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X modulation for VLSNR BPSK was incorrect
• DTA-2131: DtAdvDemod MER and Impulse Response was incorrect for second MISO channel
• DTA-2131: DVB-C2 demodulator tuning to signal with 32MHz was failing
• DTA-2131: DVB-C2 reception of a G/I=128 configuration was not error free

SDK version Oct2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.10.0.46
Drivers: Dta v4.10.0.144, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.4.16.55
DtapiService: v2.2.13.37
Changes New features:
• Support for SMPTE ST 2022-7 ‘Seamless Protection Switching’ using the DTA-2162
• Support for all possible number of FEC rows and FEC columns (before only the SMPTE specified)
• Support for block aligned FEC generation using DTAPI_FEC_2D_M1_B and DTAPI_FEC_2D_M2_B
• DTA-2138B support; upgraded demodulator includes ISDB-T and T2 lite (DVB-T2 v1.3.1) support
• DTA-2144B support

Bug fixes:
• Fractional SDI video standards did not contain the correct amount of audio samples in their output
• DTA-2137: Calling SetTunerFrequency() twice on same frequency in some cases stopped the receiver
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X performance issue was seen on some new PC’s

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2154: Possible driver crash on application exit
• DTA-2160: Possible failing network port attach for Ubuntu 3.11

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SDK version Sep2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.9.0.45
Drivers: Dta v4.9.1.142, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.4.15.54
DtapiService: v2.2.12.36
Changes New features:
• Support for 20%, 25% roll-off for DVB-S modulation
• DTA-2131: DAB Transmitter ID support
• AncPacket class extended with m_LineNumber field
Note: Line parameter removed from DtFrameBuffer::AncAddPacket old interface of AncAddPacket is
marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Bug fixes:
• Dta crash could occur on application exit
• T2-MI input stream was not correctly modulated when IL-Type = 1
• T2-MI output through a virtual port was not working for DTA-2111 and DTU-215
• Registration for DT_EVENT_TYPE_GENLOCK did trigger an assert
• DtAdvDemod: For DVB-C2 all opened streams were closed on SetTunerFrequency()
• DtAdvDemod: Virtual input support did not work correctly
• DtAdvDemod: Did return DTAPI_OK on AttachToPort() when port was already in use
• DTU-351: Calling DtFrameBuffer::AncGet* twice with the same frame number caused an DTAPI error
• DTA-2115: DVB-T2 single PLP was not working without DVB-T2 (multiPLP) license
• DTA-2115: DVB-S, DVB-S2 and QAM levels were not correct
• DTA-2152: Genlock was misaligned for several formats (720p50 does still have misalignment)
• DTA-2154: Configuring port 4 as double-buffered from port 3 was no possible
• DTA-160/2160: A zero in a multicast address was treated as a wildcard

Linux only bug fixes:

• IP V6 support was not working correctly

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SDK version June2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.8.0.43
Drivers: Dta v4.9.0.140, DtaNw v3.5.0.28, Dtu v4.4.14.53
DtapiService: v2.2.12.36
Changes New features:
• Initial support for the DTA-2174 (Quad 3G/HD-SDI / ASI Ports with Genlock Adapter)
• Support for runtime changes to channel modelling settings (i.e. no need to stop modulation anymore)
• Support for extra option to force link IP speed to 1Gbps
• Support for DVB-S2 16/32-APSK constellation shape configuration
• DTA-2115: Optimized DMA performance, so that card can be used in PCIe gen2 slots at maximum
sample rates
• DTA-2154: Reduced time needed to achieve genlock
• DTA-2154: Support for ancillary data checksum inserter

Bug fixes:
• HyperV installation did result in a DTAPI_E_NW_DRIVER error for DTA-160/2160/2162
• Spectral inversion was enabled by default for DVB-S2 / ISDB-S (introduced in Apr2014 SDK))
• VLAN for Windows 8.1 did not function correctly due to administrator right changes
• Audio control packets were not added for embedded audio in HD SDI streams
• DTA-2115: Shoulder attenuation was not according specification for OFDM signals
• DTA-2115: Non-default bitrates for ISDB-T were not accepted
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X dummy frames were incorrect
• DTA-2115: DVB-S2X 16-APSK-L:5/9,8/15,1/2 did not create a correct signal
• DTA-2144: Driver did crash after driver/PC restart when a genref was configured
• DTA-2154: GetStatus(AsiLock) did always return 0

Non-backwards compatible API change (a code change might be required!):

• Buffers used for DtFrameBuffer and DtSdiMatrix must now have their addresses aligned at a 32-byte
boundary (instead of 8-byte boundary) and their sizes must be a multiple of 32 bytes (instead of 8
bytes).
• DTE-3137: RF level statistic was incorrectly using dBm unit, now using dBmV. Also statistic for MER was
incorrect. Spectral Inversion, Link Margin, Es/N0 and Eb/N0 statistics are added (similar statistic sup-
port like DTA-2137)

Linux only bug fixes:

• Dta driver did not compile for Linux kernel versions >= 3.13
• DTA-2160 network port did not function for a network configurations were only 2 interfaces descrip-
tions were found

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SDK version Apr2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.7.0.41
Drivers: Dta v4.8.0.121, DtaNw v3.4.6.27, Dtu v4.4.13.52
DtapiService: v2.2.11.35
Changes New features:
• Support for DTA-2115 (All-Standard, All-Band Modulator) including DVB-S2x modulation
• SDK support for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12)
• Support for non-exclusive attaching to input channels, to allow read-only access to port status parame-
ters. NOTE: this is not supported for all input types
• Support for DTAPI_STAT_SPECTRUMINV statistic for DTA-2136

Bug fixes:
• In some cases invalid DVB-T2 GSE packets were sent
• Matrix API did not embed audio ANC packets in switching lines
• DtInpChannel::SetIpPars crashed when unicast addresses were specified in combination with seamless
protection mode
• DTA-2152/2154: Driver did crash when IO Standard for GenRef port was set to SD-SDI
• DTA-2154: Analog genlock did not work
• DTA-2162: On high network transmit load the non real-time transmit stalled

Linux only bug fixes:

• DTA-2154 ASI input did not work
• DtapiGetDeviceDriverVersion(DTU) did return DTAPI_OK when no DTUs were present

SDK version Feb2014

Versions DTAPI: v5.6.0.40
Drivers: Dta v4.7.4.107, DtaNw v3.4.5.26, Dtu v4.4.11.50
DtapiService: v2.2.10.34
Changes New features:
• DTA-2131: added Advanced demodulation API support for DVB-T2/DVB-C2 BBframes
• DTA-2131: added Advanced demodulation API support for GSE using DVB-T2
• GSE support added for DVB-T2 modulation
• ISDB-Tmm support added for DTA-115,116, DTU-215 (only < 13 segments, DTA-2111 can do all)
• Matrix API support for 24 and 32 bit PCM SDI audio added
• Matrix API support for timestamps in DtFrameBuffer::GetFrameInfo added
• Device temperature and fan-speed support added in DtDevice for DTA-2139, DTA-2154
• Now making use of Visual Studio generated _WIN64 and _WIN32 defines for DTAPI.H

Bug fixes:
• For Windows 8.1 adding a VLAN did not succeed
• DVB-T/H was not correctly modulated/demodulated when using 2k in-depth interleaving
• DtapDeviceScan order of devices returned was changed in Oct2013 release, changes reverted and
optional parameter added for serial number sorting
• DTU-351: SD SDI reception did result in lost frames
• DTA-2131: Possible crash on detach of DVB-C2/T2 demodulator; introduced in Dec2013 release
• DTA-2136: Packet loss on Port 2 when tuning port 1 and shared antenna mode was active
• DTA-2137: VCM lock issue on low SNR; mute mechanism introduced using DtDemodParsDvbS2Adv
• DTA-2154: Auto detect failed to detect standard of HD signals when port was configured for SD-SDI
operation

New Linux features:

• Added ini file mechanism which specifies the default IO-configuration values for a card

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