Product Release Notes

Below are recent product updates for October-December 2021

Video Cloud

Feature: Custom Fields

Product Area: CMS API

Date: 24-December-2021

Description: Use the CMS API to create, get, update, and delate custom fields for an account

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Feature: Ad Intelligence Plugin

Product Area: Brightcove Player

Date: 24-December-2021

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to use the Ad Intelligence plugin with Brightcove Player to generate reports that provide insights into ad performance.

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Feature: Text Tracks

Product Area: Dynamic Ingest API

Date: 24-December-2021

Description: New embed_closed_caption request body field for text tracks allows them to be embedded as 608/708 captions in MP4 renditions

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Feature: Native SDK for Android release v6.18.0

Product Area: Native SDKs

Date: 24-December-2021

Description: Native SDK for Android release v6.18.0

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Feature: Managing Program Content

Product Area: Cloud Playout

Date: 3-December-2021

Description: Increase the limit of program items to 1000 and updated UI with new capabilities for managing Cloud Playout channel programs.

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Feature: Auto Captions

Product Area: Dynamic Ingest API

Date: 3-December-2021

Description: Added 6 new supported languages.

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Feature: New release of the Video Cloud - Drupal connector

Product Area: Integrations

Date: 26-November-2021

Description: 3.0 release of the connector for Drupal 9

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Feature: Generic Stream Concurrency

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 19-November-2021

Description: Limit stream concurrency to end-viewers with a heartbeat mechanism and without DRM.

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Feature: Concurrency Service API

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 19-November-2021

Description: API used to implement Generic Stream Concurrency in non-Brightcove players.

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Feature: Connector for Sitecore Experience Platform 10.1

Product Area: Integrations

Date: 19-November-2021

Description: Installation process for the Brightcove Video Connect module on the Sitecore CMS.

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Feature: Fallback HDCP

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 12-November-2021

Description: Use HDCP-protected content to block streaming on unauthorized devices, with a standard definition fallback for devices that do not support HDCP.

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Feature: Text tracks

Product Area: CMS API, Dynamic Ingest APi, text tracks

Date: 12-November-2021

Description: New transcripts kind and new status field

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Feature: Adobe-AEM-Brightcove Connector

Product Area: Integrations, CMS Connectors

Date: 5-November-2021

Description: Added support for In-Page Experiences

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Feature: Viewer dimension

Product Area: Analytics API

Date: 29-October-2021

Description: New Analytics API viewer dimension. The viewer dimension provides analytics by viewer. Only available if the account has been enabled for viewer analytics.

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Feature: Average Viewed Minutes

Product Area: Analytics

Date: 22-October-2021

Description: New Average Viewed Minutes field

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Feature: New API endpoint for getting all devices

Product Area: Playback Restrictions

Date: 15-October-2021

Description: New endpoint for getting all devices within an account

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Feature: Support for Android 11

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 15-October-2021

Description: Added support for Android 11

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Feature: Support for ExoPlayer 2.14.2

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 15-October-2021

Description: Added support for ExoPlayer 2.14.2

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Feature: SDK version 6.17.1

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 15-October-2021

Description: Native SDK for Android release 6.17.1

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Feature: Ingest videos with multiple audio tracks

Product Area: Dynamic Ingest API, Multiple Audio Tracks

Date: 8-October-2021

Description: Language audio tracks in your source videos can be preserved in your Video Cloud video renditions. Ingestion of multi-language audio tracks is supported through the Dynamic Ingest API only,

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Feature: Get As-Run Logs

Product Area: Cloud Playout, Channels API

Date: 8-October-2021

Description: Get As-Run Logs for Cloud Playout Channels

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Live

Feature: Static Entry Point jobs

Product Area: Live API, SEP, Redundant Groups

Date: 22-October-2021

Description: 2 new endpoints use to activate or deactivate SEP jobs in a redundant group

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Beacon

Feature: Beacon Web App

Product Area: Beacon Web App

Date: 22-October-2021

Description: Steps that are required for setting up the Beacon Web App

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SSAI

Feature: SSAI Ad tracking log

Product Area: Logging

Date: 15-October-2021

Description: SSAI Ad tracking log is a new feature that looks to provide details of how SSAI ads are working. This feature is for VOD and Live.

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Zencoder

Feature: Auto Captions

Product Area: Encoding Settings

Date: 3-December-2021

Description: Added 6 new supported languages, and a table of supported languages.

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Feature: deinterlace_mode

Product Area: Video Processing Settings

Date: 19-November-2021

Description: New deinterlace_mode setting allows you to create outputs with 2x the source framerate

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Feature: Auto Captions

Product Area: Auto Captions

Date: 12-November-2021

Description: New include_transcription_json and transcription_filename fields

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Feature: Auto Captions

Product Area: Auto Captions

Date: 12-November-2021

Description: New include_transcription_json and transcription_filename fields

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