March 24, 2025

DASH SSAI Update

• Handle out of sync closed caption adaptation sets in source streams when creating new periods for ad breaks.

March 19, 2025

DASH SSAI Update

• Handle out of sync trick play adaptation sets when creating new periods for ad breaks. Sometimes a source packager trick play lags behind the video and audio streams causing timing calculations to change and be incorrect over time. This change ensures such divergence will not result in inconsistent manifest rendering.

March 3rd, 2025

Please note accounts that are currently on V3 will not be automatically moved to V4. Please consult with your Transmit point of contact for more information. V3 will continue to receive updates and support as necessary.

• Performance optimizations for manifest manipulation, ad server integrations, and encode pipeline
• Dynamic configurations for using streams across various domains
• Encode stream override rules for flexible DRM configurations
• DASH manifest compatibility updates to handle more complex implementations of the spec 
• SCTE35 updates to support even more styles of markers and payload

January 13th, 2025

SSAI Update

• Updated and enhanced Reporting in Console for more detailed analysis
• Ad Break Schedules for creating automated insertion rules
• Ad Encode CDN override configuration option
• Improvements for DASH compatibility

January 7th, 2025

SSAI Update

• Enhance break tracking metrics with more thorough tracking of durations for ad availability and opportunity.

November 19th, 2024

DASH SSAI Update

• Align manually inserted InStream breaks with SCTE inserted breaks when calling ad servers to avoid potential collisions that would result in missing ad fill for certain sessions for DASH manifests.

November 14th, 2024

DASH SSAI Updates

•  Improved support for DASH multi-period manifests with SCTE-35 ProviderAdvertisementEnd events that occur before the declared duration of the previous ProviderAdvertisementStart event
•  Add overlap threshold for calculating out of window breaks to increase compatibility with certain DASH packager conditioning

October 16th, 2024

HLS SSAI Fix

• Ensure discontinuity sequence is always present for CMAF HLS manifests in all cases

October 2nd, 2024

Stream Configuration Updates

• Global stream prefetch - Specify VAST URLs per stream to schedule encoding ads ahead of time

September 25th, 2024

Full DRM support for SSAI InBreak and InStream

• Flexible configuration for standard DRM providers and workflows
• Support for Playready, Widevine, Fairplay, and Clearkey