Broadcast Live has improved support for static ingest points, DVR functionality, and Live2VOD for OTT Apps.

New Features

• Static ingest points can now be applied to 24/7 live channels. 
• DVR can now be enabled on SSAI properties. Read more about how DVR functionality behaves on SSAI-enabled properties.
• For OTT Apps, the publish date of the Live2VOD media can now be updated to match the event's start date once the stream has started. Broadcast Live will no longer automatically make changes to the publish date beyond the stream start.

Setting up Broadcast Live webhooks lets you receive notifications about stream events.

New Feature

Webhooks allow you to automate your workflow for Broadcast Live events by sending notifications to a designated URL endpoint when specific events occur, such as stream creation or streams going live.

Possible Webhook Events:

• Stream created
• Stream deleted
• Stream go live
• Stream transitioned
• Stream updated

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.

We've made an API route name update and expedited the advertising workflow with JWP’s Broadcast Live to VOD workflow with SSAI.

New Features

• The list (GET /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) and create (POST /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) routes in the v2 Management API have been renamed to tags (List tags and Create a tag associated with a given site) to better fit their purposes as well as to better align the endpoint nomenclature with the other existing remove_tag and rename_tag routes.
  
  This change is reflected in both the routes and their response bodies. Please take this into account for any future interactions with these routes.
  
  
• SCTE-35 ad markers in SSAI enabled Broadcast Live streams are now extracted and saved when your live stream is converted to VOD media. Maintain these ad cue points or edit them further on the media-level.
• The original advertising segments in your Broadcast Live stream are now automatically stripped out when the live stream is converted to VOD media. Allowing for seamless new server side ads to be scheduled in the VOD stream leveraging the same ad cue points that have been preserved. 

All Broadcast Live streams now support real-time clipping of key moments from 24/7 live channels and live events.

New Features

• Live Clipping enables the creation of clips of key moments as they occur during a live stream. 
• A live clip can be created from any point of a live event up to the live edge of the stream.
• Once created, live clips appear in the Media Library and can be posted to social media accounts and other digital channels.
• Live Clipping is supported in 24/7 Broadcast Live channels and live event streams.

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. 

Broadcast Live now enables scheduled live streams up to 24 hours with advanced features and automatic VOD conversion.

New Feature

You can now easily schedule Live Event streams from your JW dashboard with Broadcast Live. 

This new feature offers several key benefits:

• Live, time-bound event streams capable of durations of 5 minutes to 24 hours
• Dedicated infrastructure for each live event
• Automatic generation of a live2vod recording when the live event ends
• Support for the same advanced features as Broadcast Live 24/7, such as multiple ingest formats, multi-region design, DRM, SSAI, and multi-language support

The JWP dashboard now allows you to create Broadcast Live 24/7 streams with enhanced features: enabling multiple language channels through Audio Definitions and the capability to generate Broadcast Live streams from an HLS (Pull) streaming protocol source.

New Features

• When creating Broadcast Live 24/7 streams in your JWP dashboard, you can enable multiple language channels by selecting Audio Definitions in the Optional Settings. This setting is limited to streaming protocols supporting multiple language channels.
• Broadcast Live streams can now be created from a HLS (Pull) streaming protocol source.

  
  

New Feature

You can now easily set up Broadcast Live from your JW dashboard, enabling you to easily create continuous 24/7 streams that offer:

• Dedicated infrastructure ensuring stable content delivery per stream
• Versatile protocol compatibility, embracing RTMP, SRT, and RTP
• A multi-regional design for enhanced reliability
• Robust security features, such as stream redundancy, geoblocking, and DRM
• Adaptive streaming to optimize the viewer experience

Contact your JWP representative for information about enabling this for your account.

New Feature

Added support for CEA-608 captions via API.

See https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/patch_v2-sites-site-id-channels-channel-id for implementation.