A quick look at what’s now available ✅ and what’s coming soon 👀:
VOD ENCODING
✅ Dolby: Dolby E to Dolby Digital(+) support
✅ Oracle: Oracle storage + processing support in BETA
👀 Audio: Passthrough is coming soon for AAC and PCM audio to retain the source file quality and save on processing costs.
👀 UX: A dashboard wizard for Cloud Connect to take care of the initial setup steps to run encodings in your own cloud environment via an UI or automated Terraform setup scripts.
👀 GCP: Additional region support for Dammam
LIVE ENCODING
✅ UX: Encoding name is now included in triggered event messages, making it easier to correlate events when running multiple concurrent live encodings.
✅ Azure: We added metadata to prevent live manifests from being cached and set the correct mime type for live manifests when uploading them to Azure Outputs.
✅ API: We now offer a reset time shift option, this can be used to support a “Preview” mode before going Live.
👀 UX: We are soon developing a “Live Heartbeat” feature that will enable the live encoders to directly issue periodical web hook notifications, including data such as input bitrates, codecs and health.
👀 Azure: Automatic Closed Caption generation with Azure Cognitive Services
👀 GCP: Additional region support for Dammam
PLAYBACK
✅ AI Session Interpreter (NAB Best of Show Award Winner!)
✅ Bitmovin Advertising Module available on Mobile ✅ Analytics and Custom DRM headers in Stream Lab 👀 LL-HLS support on WebSDK 👀 SSAI debugging in Analytics 👀 > Scalable Alerting in Analytics
For more information on any of the above items, please get in touch!