Release Notes

Bring SD or HD video up to higher resolutions while improving detail and clarity, reducing artifacts, and expanding reach across modern screens without manual restoration. Available with three modes for enhanced control.

Turn VR footage into standard video you can publish anywhere. VR Mode converts immersive VR sources into flat, production-ready video, making it easy to bring an existing VR library to websites, social media, and most modern streaming platforms.

Use Qencode with your AI assistant or a swarm of agents with the Qencode MCP. Allows you to submit jobs for any of our features, track progress, control storage, retrieve results, and access Qencode documentation using natural language.

Monitor live-stream ingest quality in real-time with a full dashboard that samples video and audio bitrate, framerate, and resolution, providing full summaries, charts, and a Session Timeline for each stream so you can monitor and act on issues right away.

Boost video click-through rates by letting AI automatically pick the best thumbnails. We scan the video and select the most visually compelling frames to deliver a series of ranked, presentable, engagement-optimized thumbnails.

Instead of calculating coordinates for each output size, you can now place your watermark based on each output video's dimensions. Now, you only need to get one watermark configuration that stays pixel-perfect across every resolution.

Every page of the documentation now has a "Copy page" button that grabs clean Markdown, and appending .md to any docs URL returns the plain-text version.

The Qencode Newsroom is live. Get details on all the latest announcements, new product launches, partnership expansions, and all the latest happening at Qencode.

Analyze video content as part of your transcoding jobs using five AI-powered modes: Description, Categorization, Content Moderation, Custom, and Search. Results are returned as structured JSON. Available via the API and Portal UI.

Protect your platform's credibility by catching AI-generated videos before they reach your viewers. Use AI-Detection to get a structured JSON report with an AI-GENERATED or REAL verdict across the whole video, along with the percentage of frames classified as AI, and per-frame reasoning.

The Qencode blog is live. Deep dive on use cases, transcoding workflows, and efficient streaming architecture. Get a behind the scenes look at the features we ship directly from the team building them.

Automatically translate subtitles and transcripts into multiple languages within your existing transcoding workflow. Add the translate_languages parameter to any Speech-to-Text job to generate translated SRT, VTT, JSON, and TXT files in up to 15 target languages per job.

Process multiple videos with a single click! This powerful new feature allows you to transcode dozens or even hundreds of videos simultaneously through the Qencode UI. Upload files via URLs, CSV/TXT files, or direct selection, configure your encoding settings once, and let our system handle the rest with parallel processing.

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.

Restrict access to your live streams using signed JWT tokens. Generate a signing key, create a token with expiration and time-gating controls, and append it to your playback URL. Unauthorized viewers are blocked at the CDN edge before any video data is delivered. Supports custom domains, key rotation, and includes code samples in Python, PHP, Node.js, C#, Java, and Ruby.

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.