August 28th, 2024

HLS SSAI Update

• Full support for #EXT-OATCLS-SCTE35 tags in HLS Manifest

August 8th, 2024

Creative Studio and Monitoring Updates

• External ad hosting support for Squeeze Back & Overlay formats
• Status endpoints for composer to enable client API integrations

August 2nd, 2024

Stream Configuration Updates

• Stream authentication tokens on configuration to enable playback urls for testing
• Inherit query string on HLS manifests setting on configuration to support streams that require it for playback and encoding

July 10th, 2024

Global endpoints
Encode and playback capability in all AWS locations for faster regional connections and redundancy

InStream pods
Encode and play a pod of ads for InStream breaks

Vanity URLs
Client branded vanity domains for all playback urls

Zero config authentication
No configuration required for user playback or encoding for auth protected streams

Single prefix for VOD and LIVE
Playback prefixes support both VOD and LIVE playlists and manifests that switch between VOD and LIVE

FMP4 HLS playlists
Support for encoding and playback for HLS FMP4 playlists

DASH in-stream
Support inserting break periods into DASH manifests to render in-stream ads

SCTE UPID in-stream breaks
Specify break type in SCTE UPID payload

SCTE break metadata
Parse SCTE metadata and include in ad server requests