A quick look at what’s now available ✅ and what’s coming soon 👀:
VOD ENCODING
✅ Improved Cloud Connect wizard in the Dashboard
✅ Support for GCE Dammam region (me-central2)
✅ Audio passthrough for AAC in MOV and PCM in WAV
✅ Several improvements for SSAI by optimizing keyframe + fMP4 in DASH workflows (+ WebVTT in fMP4)
👀 Encoding Templates for VOD & Live
👀 Dolby Vision Profile 8.1
👀 Turnaround speed improvements for complex 4k Dolby Vision encodings going from realtime to even faster
👀 Styling passthrough for Segmented WebVTT
👀 SCTE-35 metadata insertion in HLS
LIVE ENCODING
✅ Live Heartbeat and accompanying blog
✅ Live Pool Management in the Dashboard
✅ Archive Live to Progressive File Muxing Outputs
👀 Encoding Templates for VOD & Live
👀 Live Groups for Main and Backup Live Encoders
👀 More updates to the Dashboard
PLAYBACK
✅ LL-HLS Support
✅ SSAI debugging in Analytics
👀 HLS Interstitial Support
👀 Scalable Alerting in Analytics
👀 AI Error Interpreter (see Session Interpreter)
For more information on any of the above items, please get in touch!