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Version 11.1.1: What's New?
Release Date: 30 April 2025
(For details of more major changes between 11.0 and 11.1, see further down this page.)
If updating a DVR PC from 11.0.x to 11.1.x please see the attached guide for information on drivers and pre-requisites.
VisualDVR 2023 Edition
Improvement: Optimise Windows Resources for VisualDVR processes.
Improvement: Switchable Source: Tab key navigation has been disabled on main screen.
Bug Fix: If the countdown on the Summary screen of VisualDVR was paused, clicking the Help, Manual, or Licence options caused the countdown to resume.
Bug Fix: Output streams were reinitialised when closing settings, even if streaming settings were unchanged.
Bug Fix: Received survey data via VS comms from another VisualDVR was not displayed.
Bug Fix: Start/Stop Controller was not working with Legacy DVR.
Bug Fix: Still and Clips: VisualDVR would freeze when showing image preview if specified destination sub-folder did not exist.
Bug Fix: Switchable Source: "No Signal" alarms always showed Channel 1 not the current Video Source.
Bug Fix: FileService copy failed for non-standard (e.g. Nexus IC) destinations if VisualArchive Transfer completed first.
VisualDVR Legacy Edition
Bug Fix: DVR Legacy edition was not disconnecting from TCP Server when disabling NEXUS IC-Inspection control.
VisualArchive
Bug Fix: Updating most recent transfer details threw an exception in Archive if VisualWorks folder did not exist in root of the drive.
VisualEdit & VisualReview
Bug Fix: When saving a clip in VisualEdit, file was not saved if user did not specify a file extension.
VisualDVR Player
Bug Fix: Current row in data tables was not highlighted when playing back video.
Bug Fix: Survey Data font size selection did not work.
VisualDVR Network Player
Bug Fix: Alarms published by the Network Player appeared to come from the Start/Stop Controller.
Bug Fix: Display flicker / channel swapping in Network Player.
Bug Fix: Network Player crashed if selecting a layout after closing an undocked video window.
VisualSoft Admin Panel
Bug Fix: Admin Panel 11.1.0 started minimised if opened from Start Menu.
Bug Fix: CPU usage was high in 11.1.0.
Bug Fix: Licence details were not always correctly displayed.
What Was New in Version 11.1.0:
Release Date: 7 April 2025
VisualDVR 2023 Edition
Along with VisualSoft Suite 11.0 we introduced new VisualDVR hardware and a new VisualDVR “2023 Edition”. With the release of software version 11.1 we have now added significant new functionality to VisualDVR 2023 Edition:
IP Video Inputs
VisualDVR 2023 Edition now supports SDI video inputs and/or IP streaming video inputs. You can use a mix of both types or use just one or the other. We have tested with IP cameras from C-Technics, i2S/Orphie, Imenco, Otaq, and STR, as well as with various other streaming sources.
The use of IP inputs requires an extra high speed 4-port network card, which will be fitted as standard in new VisualDVR hardware and which we can readily supply to retrofit in existing systems that are capable of running VisualDVR 2023 Edition (most easily identified as those DVRs with blue doors on the hardware). Please note that we have tested robustly with specific hardware and drivers, and we do not advise the use of other network cards.
If you plan to use IP video inputs and have a VisualDVR with blue doors that does not yet have the 4-port network card installed, please contact our sales team using visualsoft.sales@f-e-t.com.
Switchable Source Mode
For structure inspections with a single channel video deliverable rather than the multiple views used for pipeline inspections you can now connect multiple cameras and record any one at a time, switching between them even while recording.
You can mix sources with different resolutions and framerates, choosing one as “Primary” with the other cameras being scaled up or down as necessary to match and create a recording with a constant resolution and framerate.
Colour, Contrast and Brightness Corrections
New controls give you full control of colour, contrast and brightness settings with immediate preview. Settings can be applied differently to each video channel or can be applied to all.
Still Image Grab: Instant Preview and Retake
There is now an option to get an immediate preview when you grab still images, whether that’s from one video channel or from all four at once. For each image, either separately or all at once, you have options to Retake, Accept, or Discard the image.
Quick Overlay
Video overlay can now be edited and switched even while recording. A new Quick Overlay Panel slides out from the right side of the screen giving you options to change any of the following:
- Change the colour and background text items
- Apply the colour or background of one item to all others
- “Live” editing of text labels
- Turn individual items on or off
- Turn whole layers on or off
- Quick shortcut to the full layer editor
Bug Fix: The overlay editor's preview for NTSC video sources was the wrong size.
Bug Fix: There were occasional problems closing video files after recording which prevented transfers to VisualArchive.
Bug Fix: When building or editing an overlay layer using data from Integrity Elementz, saving the layer while that data was not being sent by IE was causing an error.
Bug Fix: The column names for Survey Position data sometimes reverted to defaults.
Bug Fix: It was possible to use characters in video channel "Friendly Names" which were not supported when using those names as part of the video file name.
Bug Fix: It was possible to have duplicate column names in Survey Position data.
Bug Fix: Receiving Survey Position data at a baud rate not matching the VisualDVR settings could cause a freeze.
Bug Fix: Receiving Survey Position data at very high data rate (records per second) could freeze the overlay editor.
VisualArchive
Improvement: We have prevented accidental changing of the selected offline storage drive when using a mouse wheel.
VisualEdit & VisualReview
Bug Fix: Video was occasionally jumping slightly when stopping playback.
Bug Fix: Video was occasionally jumping to the end of a dataset when it finished loading.
VisualDVR Network Player
New: The network player now has a standalone installer, in addition to still being part of the full VisualSoft Suite installer.
New: The network player now supports audio sent with video from VisualDVR 2023 Edition.
VisualDVR Legacy Edition on Windows 10
For details of hardware restrictions when using VisualDVR Legacy Edition on Windows 10, please see this article.
System Requirements
Please note that VisualSoft Suite version 11 is only supported on Windows 10.
It cannot be installed on Windows 7 or older and is not yet officially supported on Windows 11.
Support for Windows 11 is expected in Q2 2025.
Downloads
Please click HERE to download the full VisualSoft Suite which includes Visual3D-Inspector, VisualArchive, VisualDataLogger, VisualDVR, VisualEdit, VisualEvent Logger, VisualOverlay, VisualReview, and other associated tools.
Please see the link at the bottom of the page to download the complete What's New file, with a full history of all changes in this and older versions.
Installation
Before running the installer, please make sure that all VisualSoft applications are fully closed. Check the notification area at the bottom right of your screen, including clicking on the arrow to check for any application icons which might be hidden.
If updating a DVR PC from 11.0.x to 11.1.x please see the attached guide for information on drivers and pre-requisites.