✨ Features added

• Encoding transform can now ingest files in WebM format including AV1 video codec.
• Encoding transform can now ingest files in WMV format with Microsoft MPEG4 video codec.
• Encoding transform can now ingest using H.263 video codec.

Docs: Encoding Transform

✨ Features added

• Encoding transform can now ingest files in content using MJPEG video codec.

Docs: Encoding Transform

✨ Features added

• Encoding transform can now ingest files in WebM format including VP8, VP9 video codecs and Opus, Vorbis audio codecs.

Docs: Encoding Transform

✨ Features added

• WebVTT subtitles can now be side loaded to an existing VOD asset.

Docs: WebVTT subtitle side-loading

✨ Features added

• VOD processing jobs now support clipping the input using a start and end time.

Docs: Job with input clipping

✨ New region deployed

• We are opening one new region: West US

Docs: Cloud region support

✨ Features added

• Live events can now use RTMPS as ingest transport protocol.

✨ Features added

• Live events can now use Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) as ingest transport protocol.

✨ Features added

• Our transition to MP4 format for transcoder is now complete and available in all regions.
• Encoding transforms now support input content with variable frame rate.
• A new transform preset is available for thumbnails and sprite generation. Use the MediaKind.ThumbnailGeneratorPreset to build the transform you need to generate thumbnails.
• JSON Web Token (JWT) is now the main method for authentication and authorization.

Docs: Thumbnails generation | API tokens

✨ Features added

• It is now possible to use asset conversion presets CopyTopBitrateInterleaved, CopyAllBitratesNonInterleaved or CopyAllBitratesInterleaved to convert live event or legacy MP4 content to the latest MP4 file format.
• Encoding transform can now ingest files using MPEG-1 and VC-1 video codecs.

Docs: Asset Conversion Transform | Encoding Transform