Broadcast Live now includes stream preview, reusable static ingest URLs, SRT support, time-shift functionality, up to 32 languages per stream, embedded captions, and improved SSAI monetization workflow.

New Features

• Before streaming content to your viewers, you can preview a stream in the JWP dashboard and adjust your encoding settings accordingly. 
• Reusable static ingest URLs can be created to maintain consistent encoder configurations for repeated live events.
• Broadcast Live streams can be created from SRT (Pull) sources.
• By defining a value for the time_shift parameter, you can adjust the channel timing for different timezones or create a catch-up channel. 
• Live streams now support up to 32 languages per stream.
• Broadcast Live now supports embedded 608/708 captions.
• Broadcast Live SSAI monetization workflow has been improved.

Bug Fix

• Live DRM streams can be previewed in the dashboard.

The JW Platform now enables you to playback media with Digital Rights Management (DRM) encryption in your DRM-enabled properties. 

New Feature

You can now preview DRM-encrypted video-on-demand (VOD) media hosted in your DRM-enabled properties.

• Playback of VOD DRM media will leverage the Low Default DRM Policy. Any changes made to the policy may cause playback failure in the dashboard. 
• You may experience initial playback latency of VOD DRM media in the dashboard.

Geoblocking is now available for live streams.

New Feature

Geoblocking is now supported for live streams, allowing you to restrict live content to viewers in certain countries:

• You can select a geoblocking rule when creating a live 24/7 channel or live event stream. 
• Geoblocking rules applied to a live stream will be displayed in the stream details section. 

There are now more management options for your primary and alternate audio tracks, making it easier to deliver accessible content tailored to your audience’s needs.

New Features 

• Upload alternate audio tracks for DRM-protected media.
• Edit the names, language, and ISO language codes of default audio tracks for both DRM and non-DRM media using the v2 Management API.
  
  NOTE: Currently, these editing options are only available for newly uploaded media. JWP will soon enable you to edit names, language, and ISO language codes for older default audio tracks. 

Studio DRM now supports DASH trick play, meeting Roku's standards. Only media post-23 August 2023 has this feature.

New Feature

Studio DRM with JW Platform now supports trick play in DASH streams and adheres to Roku's trick mode requirements. All DRM customers are automatically entitled to trick play support. 

Only media uploaded after Wednesday, 23 August 2023, will have trick play tiles. 

Media uploaded before 23 August 2023 will not have trick play tiles added.

New Feature

An Offline policy has been added to the Default DRM Policies. Offline playback will no longer be checked by default in the Highest and High Default DRM Policies. Learn more about the Offline and other Default DRM Policies.

New Feature

Opened up access to metadata for unsigned requests for DRM media. Now unsigned Delivery API requests to Single DRM media objects and DRM Playlist objects will return metadata (e.g. thumbnails, descriptions) along with unplayable video source URLs.

Playable video source URLs are only returned on signed requests. This enables an anonymous user to browse content in a web app but requires the user to be logged in for video playback.

New Feature

Broadcast Live streams provisioned with DRM can now be added as an externally hosted media item in DRM-enabled properties.

NOTE: It is not recommended to externally host media in a DRM-enabled property except if it is an encrypted Broadcast Live stream.

New Feature

Added support for SPEKE v2 Milestone 3 which allows multiple encryption presets for live to the SPEKE Key Provider API

New Feature

GA of Studio DRM Token v2 API