Product Release Notes

Below are recent product updates for January-March 2022

Video Cloud

Feature: Dolby Atmos Audio

Product Area: Ingestion

Date: 25-March-2022

Description: Dolby Atmos audio can now be passed through to specific Video Cloud renditions

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Feature: Notifications for changes to shared video assets for affiliate accounts

Product Area: CMS API

Date: 25-March-2022

Description: New master-video-change event allows affiliate accounts to receive notifications when assets of videos shared to them have been modified

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Feature: HEVC video with EAC3 or AC3 audio

Product Area: Video

Date: 25-March-2022

Description: EAC3 or AC3 audio is now supported for HEVC in Video Cloud

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Feature: Native SDK for iOS/tvOS release 6.10.3

Product Area: Native SDK for iOS

Date: 25-March-2022

Description: Native SDK for iOS release 6.10.3

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Feature: Native SDK for Android release 6.18.2

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 25-March-2022

Description: Native SDK for iOS release 6.18.2

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Feature: S3 bucket configuration

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 4-March-2022

Description: Configure one or more AWS S3 buckets to use as a destination for Cloud Playout channels

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Feature: Live redundancy

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 4-March-2022

Description: Use Live Redundancy using Studio

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Feature: Channels with Live redundancy

Product Area: Cloud Playout APIs

Date: 4-March-2022

Description: Adding support for Live redundancy and SSAI with Live content

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Feature: Roku Trick Play support for HLS and DASH

Product Area: Roku

Date: 25-February-2022

Description: Added support for mid-roll ads with both HLS and DASH

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Feature: Notifications

Product Area: CMS API

Date: 18-February-2022

Description: Two new fields - action and updated_by - added to notifications to indicate the kind of action that was taken and who performed it (if that information is available).

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Feature: Generic stream concurrency

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 28-January-2022

Description: Playback will now terminate if the player is unable to contact the server to verify concurrency limits

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Feature: Text tracks and auto captions

Product Area: Dynamic Ingest API

Date: 28-January-2022

Description: You can now set the status of ingested text tracks or auto captions to "published" or "draft"

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Feature: Android SDK Release 6.18.1

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 28-January-2022

Description: Android SDK Release 6.18.1

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Feature: Generic Stream Concurrency

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 14-January-2022

Description: Added player configuration properties to control how often and how many times the player retries contacting the server to check concurrency limits.

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Feature: Import Closed Captions

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 7-January-2022

Description: Importing 608/708 closed captions into Cloud Playout Channels

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Feature: Searching for Channels using the Channels API

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 7-January-2022

Description: Search for Cloud Playout channels with advanced filtering

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Product Area: Cloud Playout Channels API

Date: 7-January-2022

Description: Search for Cloud Playout channels with advanced filtering

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Live

Feature: Playback token / ad_config_id

Product Area: Redundant Groups

Date: 18-March-2022

Description: New operation to create playback token for redundant groups

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Feature: Playback Restrictions with Live events using Studio

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 18-February-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to use Video Cloud Studio to create a Live Event with Playback Restrictions.

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Feature: ad_configuration_compensation_disable

Product Area: Live API - SSAI

Date: 18-February-2022

Description: New setting will over ride ad timing compensation, a setting that reduces timing drift when ads that get returned are longer than expected. This is normally achieved by shortening the next ad break. When set to true, all ad break durations will be called as-is, and compensation will not happen.

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Beacon

Feature: S3 bucket configuration

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 4-March-2022

Description: Configure one or more AWS S3 buckets to use as a destination for Cloud Playout channels

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Feature: Live redundancy

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 4-March-2022

Description: Use Live Redundancy using Studio

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Feature: Beacon Plugins Introduction

Product Area: OTT Plugins

Date: 25-February-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn about Beacon plugins; what they are, why you would use them, and an introduction to how to implement them. This is the first of ten documents on Beacon Plugins.

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Feature: Protecting Beacon app content with Forensic Watermarking

Product Area: Forensic Watermarking

Date: 4-February-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to implement Forensic Watermarking with Beacon apps.

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Feature: Import Closed Captions

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 7-January-2022

Description: Importing 608/708 closed captions into Cloud Playout Channels

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Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 7-January-2022

Description: Search for Cloud Playout channels with advanced filtering

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SSAI

Feature: Performance analytics for SSAI

Product Area: Analytics

Date: 25-February-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to use the Analytics module to monitor the performance of your videos enabled for Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI).

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Zencoder

Feature: CAE Settings

Product Area: CAE

Date: 14-January-2022

Description: Added 4 fields that can be used now for Context Aware Encoding jobs

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CorpTV

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