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2023-12-06 Service & Feature releases
We have expanded the available translation languages for automatically generated on demand subtitles to include Chinese and Portuguese.
2023-11-27 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to set a default deletion date for new items uploaded to a project.
2023-11-14 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to upload attachments to a video file. These attachments are available for download in the player
2023-11-13 Service & Feature releases
In our webcast you can now display a slide gallery to your viewers to preview and review presentation slides
2023-11-09 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to set the date when a video should be automatically deleted from your account.
2023-11-08 Service & Feature releases
In on demand projects you can now see which user uploaded an asset. This information is only shown for newly uploaded assets.
2023-09-26 Service & Feature releases
We now have a new live streaming low latency option with greatly improved performance. The previous low-latency mode has been renamed "reduced latency - deprecated".
2023-09-22 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to specify the start time of a video when using the direct player URL
2023-09-20 Service & Feature releases
Our Alerts module has been expanded to include podcast events.
2023-09-06 Service & Feature releases
We have integrated the Kollective eCDN. Please note that you will need an account with Kollective to use this feature.
2023-08-21 Service & Feature releases
We have added support for srt in our 3rd party publishing module. You can now distribute a signal in rtmp or srt, regardless of the input signal protocol.
2023-08-04 Service & Feature releases
You can now manage your playlists via the SDN API v2
2023-08-04 Service & Feature releases
You can now query the current number of users watching a livestream via the API.
2023-07-18 Service & Feature releases
Please note that we have changed the format for newly created srt ingests. If you are already streaming with srt, your ingest URL will remain the same.
2023-07-11 Service & Feature releases
We’ve added a podcast migration tool to help you easily move your existing podcasts to SDN Podcast.
2023-06-26 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to preview each live stream of a multi-language webcast in the webcast control center
2023-05-26 Service & Feature releases
You can now upload prelive, post live and technical difficulty images to your livestream project to display in the player. In addition we now support failover with primary and secondary ingests and source stabilization as separate options.
If you activate source stabilization, your uploaded technical difficulty image will be used to bridge any temporary drop outs in the ingest.
2023-05-23 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to change the player for a multi-channel embed code via the API. For more information, please see our API documentation.
2023-05-10 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to upload a list of custom terms to a player to rename the player labels.
2023-05-03 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to add additional delay to a livestream signal. SDN live projects now provides a DASH streaming URL for use with external players
2023-05-02 Service & Feature releases
SDN live projects now optionally provides a DASH streaming URL for use with external players. You can activate this in the transcoder Advanced Settings menu.
2023-04-27 Service & Feature releases
There is a new API endpoint for repackaging a file. For more information, please see our API documentation.
2023-04-25 Service & Feature releases
There is now an option in the player management to play a video in a loop.
2023-04-17 Service & Feature releases
There is now an option to use a single live chat for all webcast languages.
2023-04-17 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to edit livestream advanced audio settings via the API. For more information, please see our API documentation.
2023-04-14 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to activate live transcription via the SDN API. For more information, please see our API documentation.
2023-03-20 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to add subtitles to your livestreams. Find out more in our documentation.
2023-03-17 Service & Feature releases
Webcast login options have been moved to their own menu “Login options”. If you are using SSO authorization for webcast, you can now edit the settings yourself in this menu.
2023-01-12 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to manage events via the SDN API. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-12-30 Service & Feature releases
There is a new module for Multi Channel Livestreaming, which you can use to embed different live streams (e.g. for multiple languages) in one live stream player. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-12-06 Service & Feature releases
There is a new VOD-to-Live module, which you can use to schedule VOD files to be played in a livestream. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-11-25 Service & Feature releases
We have improved the behaviour of default players. It is now possible to assign a default player to be used for each project as well as for the whole account. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-11-11 Service & Feature releases
The usage for “Info Points” has been extended. It is now possible to configure the info point so the user can jump to another point in the video. This creates more interactivity within the video. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-11-16 Service & Feature releases
Some significant improvements in the live streaming functionality have been released. The failover logic between primary and secondary ingest has been revised. Please note that If you wish to send both primary and fallback signals, you must activate failover in the input signal settings. This will also enable stream stabilization. Find out more in our documentation documentation.
There is an option in the player management livestreaming tab to make comment name read only. Find out more in our documentation documentation.
2022-10-26 Service & Feature releases
You can now create Magic-Links for the management of Webcast slides and comments. Find out more in our documentation documentation.
2022-09-16 Service & Feature releases
Analytics events filter: There is now an event filter option in the Analytics module. This allows you to retrieve statistic data for the exact pre-defined events time frame. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-09-14 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to define separate audio channels (each left and right) with individual languages in the advanced transcoder settings for live stream projects. This allows multi language live streaming. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-09-13 Service & Feature releases
In Livestream projects it is now possible to use the same playout management logic as jn onDemand projects. Find out more in our documentation.
It is now possible to include metadata for SEO in onDemand embed codes. Find out more in our documentation.
The loop functionality is back in our player configuration. Find out more in our documentation.
There is a new player option to enable Chromecast. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-09-05 Service & Feature releases
There is now an option to automatically transcode only the first audio track or all audio tracks of a video with multiple audio tracks to streamline the processing of these videos. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-08-23 Service & Feature releases
It is now possible to offer your viewers a preview of a video or audio file if they’re not authorized to view the full file. Find out more in our documentation.
2022-08-10 Service & Feature releases
If a user logs in to a Webcast via SSO the first name and last name will be automatically placed into the corresponding fields within the chat.
The switch from one Webcast to another via SSO has been simplified. A logout button appears when a user has been logged in to a webcast already and wants to switch to another one also using SSO.
2022-07-01 Service & Feature releases
In order to save storage space you can now delete the original source file of a video in your SDN project. For more information click here.
2022-06-27 Service & Feature releases
You can now see the RTMPS link in the input signal settings UI within a live stream project.
2022-06-23 Service & feature releases
It is now possible to see video statstics for a particular video in the Analytics Basic version. This was currently only possible in the paid advanced version.
2022-06-17 Service & feature releases
Our webcast module now supports players with token protection for additional security
2022-06-15 Service & feature releases
We will no longer provide the source output URLs in live stream projects. End of service page
2022-04-05 Service & feature releases
It is now possible to upload your own favicon to a webcast template.
2022-03-31: Service & feature releases
The new option “Automatically create events” in the “Events” tab allows you to define that an event is automatically created with every live stream that runs for at least 10 minutes in the live stream project. For more information click here.
2022-03-29: Service & feature releases
Livestream projects now contain a list of live events which have run in that project. For more information click here.
2022-02-23: Service & feature release
To improve the security of our platform, if a user attempts to log in 5 time with the wrong password, that user account will be suspended for 5 minutes.
2022-02-17: Service & feature releases
With help of the new player setting “Use tracking cookie” it is possible to disable the use of cookies while still supporting the tracking of video statistics.
2022-01-26: Service & feature releases
The player selection in the embed code tab (VoD and Live) has been improved. Only player are shown:
that are assigned to a project
when no project is assigned to the player
2022-01-21: Service & feature release
It is now possible to trigger the reencoding of a file via the API. Click here to see the API documentation.
2022-01-17: Service & feature release
Login will be blocked for five minutes after five wrong password attempts
Password rules are displayed when entering a password for your user account
2022-01-12: Service & feature release
Possibility to use extended password rules for new passwords and optimized form protection
2021-11-18: Service & feature release
Possibility to integrate external Content in Webcasts with Embed Code (like Slido)
2021-11-16: Service & feature release
New User Right: Edit Project Settings
Possibility to disable Magic Links
Possibility to disable Upload Links
Bugfix: Create Webcast
2021-11-15: Service & feature release
Two Factor Authentification with E-Mail and SMS
Block form login for individual users. Must be configured by 3Q SDN support
Option for SSO with SAML for webcasts: restrict to IDP group
2021-11-09: Service & feature release
Magick Links: Links for moderating comments can now be created for external employees.
Permissions for webcasts: Users can only see webcasts for which they have the permissions for the project
2021-10-29: Service & feature release
Settings for Podcasts in Playerconfigurations implemented
In the project settings you can now set that the metadata PublicFrom and PublicUntil are taken into account for the availability of the videos in the playout.
2021-09-07: Service & feature release
The logging of the livestreams has been extended and now displays the following information in case of an error:
RTMP address is not correct (e.g. wrong app name)
Stream Name (Key) is not correct (e.g. upper & lower case)
Stream Name (Key) does not belong to the livestream
Missing video stream
Missing audio stream
Unknown error with recommendation to change ingest or resync
2021-07-04: Service & feature release
SDN users can set their individual time zone in the account settings
2021-05-18: Service & feature release
API
Bugfix: 01.00 Welcome is not available
Get Channel IngestPoint status implemented
2021-05-04: Service & feature release
VoD Metadata Form
Metadata form view optimized (tab navigation)
Release Date and State in form header
Check for changes when leaving the form
Asset List
Color codes for release state
colorRelease stateRelease dategreen
published
between
yellow
published
outside
orange
draft
-
red
unpublished
-
File Upload
Show link (edit button) to metadata form after successful upload
2021-04-26: Service & feature release
Billing & consumption
Correction of transcoding minutes accounting. Due to a measurement error, too few transcoding minutes were recorded. This has been corrected.
Fixed an incorrect output of the used storage on the page “Account -> Packages & Usage”.
2021-04-20: Service & feature release
Player
Player release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
File Metadata
New Widget for Tags
New Datetime Picker for Release from (Date) and Publication until (Date)
Timezone for Release from (Date) and Publication until (Date) is now MESZ/MEZ (Europe/Berlin)
Analytics
Performance improvements
Bugfixes
Quizzing
New Question Types
Player Management
2021-03-29: Feature release
Player release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2021-03-22: Feature release
Player release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2021-03-15: Service release
Analytics
Fixed a bug causing negative and inaccurate watchtime in rare cases
Podcasting
Fixed a paging bug
Timeshift2VoD
Improved format selection when using the transmux option
2021-03-02: Service & feature release
Channel Comments
completely revised
It is now possible for the moderator to respond to channel comments
Dashboard
Dashboard List view searchable and sortable
other
Preview of not encoded files disabled until a fix is available
Analytics Bugfixes
2021-02-16: Service & feature release
Player Bugfix release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2021-02-15: Service & feature release
Player Service release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2021-02-14: Service & feature release
Assetmanager
Original FileName displayable + searchable
Bugfix Status updates
Create Text to Speech in GUI (Bottalk API Key in Project Settings is required)
API
HasError Flag in File Object added
Analytics
Bugfix in Datepicker for this and last Week
Usermanagement
Select / Deselect all Modules / Projects
Setting “Access to Contract Data” added
Setting “Automatically Assign new Projects to this User” added
Encoding
Cropping is now available
Channel Comments
List view in Control Center enhanced
Ability to reply to comments (private and public)
2021-01-05: Service & feature release
Added the player module to control several player configurations more efficient and by the backend
Disabled Video analytics tracking in our customer interface (sdn.3qsdn.com)
Player Service release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
Player Module
New feature: Domain protection
New feature: Password protection
2020-10-27: Service & feature release
Alerts Module
You can now choose between GET and POST for webhooks
With POST, the object (File or Channel) is sent as JSON
2020-10-13: Service & feature release
Revised embed code for Live-streams, Files & Podcasts
Released Player Version v5.0.6 https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
Fixed: Subtitles where not generated if the option “use AI” was not enabled
2020-10-09: Service release
Alerts Module
New event type for VoD Projects “Metadata Changed”
Webhook fires, Messages are send if
File Metadata Form is saved
File is added or removed from category / type
Release status is changed
all above via API calls
E-Mail Subject and SMS Text changed for event “Signal Fault”
event type is send with all Webhooks, e.g. &event=file.new
File overview
Update interval for unfinished files increased
2020-10-08: Service & feature release
Live-streaming
Added ability to choose a primary server when streaming to several ingest points
Improved transcoder rendition selection. In case you are not using “automatic transcoder selection”, the system now do not start renditions higher than given source signal
The system now marks a stream as offline if SRT port is connected without a existing signal
Encoding / Video Asset management
Fixed issues copying and moving files to another project
Fixed an issue collecting AI data
Added automatic subtitle creation and translation for Video on-demand
Generate subtitles automatically
Translate subtitles from German and English to: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian.
File upload
Improved upload GUI for uploading on-demand files
Analytics
Fixed issues on date selection
Added city and country detection for live-streams
Fixed issues in Unique users calculation
Added filter clear button
Fixed export issues
2020-09-15: Live-streams
Added capabilities to stream with higher frame rates (e.g. 50/60 fps). For renditions less then the quality level 720p the smaller resolutions gets scaled to 25/30 fps.
Added EXT-X-STREAM-INF:FRAME-RATE attribute to our Master playlists.
Removed Failoverstitching option for moving forward to redundant transcoding, manifests and chunklist.
2020-09-15: Player
Service release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-09-02: Service release
Bug in API Endpoint PUT /api/v2/channels/{ChannelId}/picture fixed
You can now set UseEncoding to false when uploading files via API to disable encoding for individual files
Metadata[OriginalFileName] is now updated if you replace a file via API
2020-09-01: Service release
Added function to analyze account usage by projects under “Packages&Usage”
Several bug fixes and improvements on our analytics module
Removed AI-functions from Encoding-API
Added Video AI subtitle function for generating subtitles automatically
2020-07-13: Player
Service release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-07-09: Player
Player v5.0.5 release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-07-09: Player
Service release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-07-08: Player
Added chapter cuepoints to timeline https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-07-08: REST API
Added ChannelRecorder API
2020-07-07: CDN and web services
Rolled out TLS1.3 Support
2020-06-15: Player
Player v5.0.4 release https://docs.3q.video/en/Player_API/Release_Notes/v5.0.html
2020-06-15: Live-streams
Bugfix: Boardpicture not visible in player v5
2020-06-15: Files
Bugfix: GeoIP Blocking rules were not recognized by player v5
FileReleasesStatus added: [‘draft’,‘published’,‘unpublished’]
Added Bulk action for adding FileType in our asset management
Added Text2Speech API: https://sdn.3qsdn.com/api/doc#section-04.13%20File%20-%20Text2Speech
Bugfix: Title not displayed when no metadata is stored
2020-04-27: Live-streams
New live-stream system and ingests deployed
Live to VoD transmuxing option added
2020-03-03: Live-streams
When using DVR, the live-streams are getting now appended to the existing playlist instead of clearing the existing dvr.
Improvements regarding SRT
2020-03-03: Files
Added new encoding renditions
OPUS Container format now allowed for uploading
Added encoding progress to API
Added ability to add custom metadata fields
2020-03-03: Player Configuration
Added option to disable tracking and cookies
2019-11-21: Alerts
Webhook URI can now secured by auth basic. The Webhook URI must be specified in the form: https://username:password@www.webhook.url. The SDN parse these and send username:password as Authorization header.
2019-11-21: Core
Enabled gzip on hls chunklists using ingestv2 live-streams
Fixed an issue with live-stream alerts
Fixed CSS issue on Mac/Safari using player v4
Changed cookie policies https://web.dev/samesite-cookie-recipes/
Added mp4 audio format to the encoder settings
Fixed a Video On-Demand issue during the re-packaging of subtitles to hls
2019-10-19: Player
2019-10-19: SDN
API: Added Timeshift2VoD by DateTime API Doc
Support: Added the ability to reopen tickets; Inactive will be closed after a while now
Added GUID to MRSS feeds (Media share)
Added live thumbnails for live-streams
2019-04-01: SDN
New: add Attachment to Support Ticket Answers
2019-03-29: SDN
We have extended the Media RSS Feed from the Media Share module. There are now the new tags
<keywords>, <media:title>, <media:description>, <media:keywords>with the information stored under metadata of the files.Playlists can now be retrieved as Media RSS Feed. The corresponding URL can be found under “Playlists” -> “Player Code” in the tab “Media RSS Feed”.
Playlists can now also be retrieved via API.
2019-03-27: SDN
New: add Attachment to new Support Ticket
New: if you add Files to Playlist you can choose to add first or at the end
2019-03-04: WordPress-Plugin
2019-02-27: SDN
Improved Timeline Thumbnail creation
Improved Replace / Copy / Move File function
New: copy File in same Project
New: show “User Name” and “Customer No” in Account menu
2019-02-08: Player
Subtitles: Improved UI
Code clean up
Now using HTMLVideoElement[poster] instead of own logic
2019-02-07: Player
Safari: Fixes issue with thumbnails on the timeline, loading in a loop.
2018-12-06: Player
Improvements: In DVR mode (Timeshift), the player now recognizes when the stream is offline. The playback starts now at the beginning of the DVR and changes the time-presentation from
Live -hh:mm:sstohh:mm:ss/hh:mm:ss.
2018-11-20: Player
Bugfix: Stream not playing using live-stream with ingest platform v2
2018-11-14: Player (v4.1.2)
New Features
Ad Stitching: Video starts instantly after video ads (excluding iOS devices)
Improvements & Bugfixes
Improved audioTrack handling
Improved live latency
Improved playback startup time
Fixed: player displayed “live-stream offline” in DVR mode
Fixed: player turned back to live when using DVR
Code-cleanup
2018-10-09: Player
Bugfix Call-to-Action form credentials (CORS)
Added method getStreamType()
2018-09-14: Player
Enabled to display Ads on mobile whiles using autoplay and mutedautoplay for mobile
Added custom GA function parameter
2018-08-07: Player
Bugfix video looping if autoplay enabled and ads disabled
2018-07-27: Player (v4.1.1)
Added events: subtitleChange, audioChange
Added methods: getAudioTracks, setAudioTrack
Code clean up
Cast Support: Removed google’s media library from code-base; Added subtitle and alternative audio support
2018-07-20: Player
Improved handling on manifest load timeouts
2018-07-18: Player
Sticky feature improvement
Fixed thumbnail aspect ratio on IE11
2018-07-11: Player
Settings menu UI improvement for mobile
Improved handling for streams with alternative audio on ios and safari
2018-07-09: Player (v4.1.0)
getLiveDelayInSeconds() added for live streams
locale config param added
2018-06-20: Player
Added new audio player UI including visualizer
Code clean up
2018-06-18: Player
Added view port and env to debug info
Hide cast button while playing ads
Hide volume slider after muting/unmuting on mobile
Hide ads countdown when remaining time is not available by API
Improved ready callback
Added poster frame preload before displaying
2018-06-15: Player
Fixed unrecognized jscallback Parameter (audio on-demand)
Added custom SkipButton UI for Google IMA
2018-06-14: Player: Player
Fixed player-ui issues on IE 10
Code clean up
Fixed player-ui issue regarding buffering spinner after postroll
Fixed missing ready call for audio streams
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