Release Notes

Introducing Dark Mode to your User Portal. Make browsing more comfortable for your eyes, especially in low-light environments. Dark Mode can match your device’s settings or stay on permanently. Update your Account Settings to enable it.

You can now choose specific frame numbers for thumbnail generation instead of specifying a timecode in the video. This is ideal for highly accurate thumbnail selection and machine-learning workflows that use videos with unique frame rates.

Incremental ABR allows you to add or remove video resolutions to your existing streaming playlists (like HLS and DASH) without re-encoding the existing resolutions.

Make HLS files available for playback faster than ever with our Refresh Playlist functionality. This feature updates the playlist / manifest as soon as the first rendition finishes encoding, and the playlist is automatically refreshed each time a new rendition is completed.

Transcode your video and audio with a wide range of audio codecs, including MP3, Opus, FDK-AAC, AAC, and Vorbis.

Easily add poster images to your video player that will be displayed to your viewers before playback begins. Use images generated during thumbnail creation or custom images created offline.

Want to test our functionality without worrying about your trial expiring? All new users now receive a Free Plan account that never expires, with generous limits for each of the services we provide. As a bonus, all trial users have been upgraded to a Free Account.

You can now transcode video files up to 16K resolution. This is especially useful for users with ultra-high-quality VR content.

Introducing the new User Portal, featuring easier navigation, detailed statistics, expanded Job History filters, and an improved Request Builder. Enjoy many new features and optimizations across every aspect of the platform, with enhanced functionality and quality-of-life improvements at each step.

Incremental ABR allows you to add or remove video resolutions to your existing streaming playlists (like HLS and DASH) without re-encoding the existing resolutions.

Reduce the need to manually resubmit transcoding jobs by enabling 'retry_on_error', allowing the system to intelligently resubmit transcoding jobs with fixable errors such as network interruptions or intermittent processing issues.

Customize output priorities within any transcoding job by choosing which outputs should be allowed to "soft-fail". This helps ensures that critical outputs are completed without needing to reprocess entire jobs for non-critical output errors.

Get additional information to better help with troubleshooting transcoding errors. This includes details for many common issues, like problems decoding the source media or with sending callbacks. The warning messages are designed to support more robust error handling systems and better trend identification.

Generate subtitles and transcripts from your audio and video files in over 50 languages using automatic speech recognition powered by AI. Instantly create SRT and VTT files for captions, as well as a full transcript and timestamped JSON to further enrich your content pipeline.

Get better video compression for H.265 with our Per-Title Encoding update. This enhancement to AI-powered HEVC bitrate prediction improves streaming quality and reduces data usage, making it especially useful for UHD content, VR experiences, or for delivering high-definition video to users with low bandwidth connections.

We have expanded our documentation to be more complete and user-friendly. This is just the beginning, more updates are coming soon.

Allow your users to access secure content seamlessly across multiple requests without needing to re-authenticate each time. This is especially useful in HLS and DASH to better handle re-authentication for each video segment.

Create an Organization and add team members to your account. Assign roles to each member based on the desired level of access to your Organization details.

Use your own domains and generate signing keys, enabling secure HTTPS access through managed TLS certificates and enhanced control over content access, to improve security and personalization in accessing stored media and live streams.

Safely share time-sensitive or premium content by generating secure, time-restricted URL links to your media files. This enhances content security while mitigating unauthorized data exposure. Key functionality includes JWT token generation and management, managing expiring time for secure file accessibility.

Control content distribution more effectively by creating 'Public' or 'Authenticated' Playback IDs. This enables you to create separate, policy-controlled URLs for each live stream, providing access control at a granular level.

Maximizing your bonus credits with automatic refills to our wallet. Set a balance threshold will trigger an automatic deposit from the designated payment method when reached.

Access infinite storage capacity that grows with your media library. Supported globally with high-speed content delivery and organized through a simple user interface.

Make your live streams available for on-demand viewing anytime by recording them automatically and saving them to your desired destination.

Broadcast your live streams simultaneously to multiple endpoints, like streaming or social media platforms. Compatible across various solutions like RTMP, WebRTC, and SRT.

Launch high-quality live streams at scale, with high-speed encoding across protocols like RTMP, SRT, and WebRTC. Enhanced with robust features and global CDN for minimal latency.