Web 8.38.8
This release updates the underlying Shaka player to improve playback stability and performance.
New Feature
- Updated the Shaka player to v4.4.3, ensuring enhanced compatibility, reliability, and overall playback performance.
This release updates the underlying Shaka player to improve playback stability and performance.
New Feature
We’re excited to introduce Video Studio, a new feature that automates video creation to help you scale production, reduce overhead, and keep your content fresh and engaging.
Video Studio integrates automated video generation into your publishing workflows, enabling teams to produce continuously updated, branded videos directly from content or data feeds.
Key Benefits:
Supported Video Types:
We’ve enhanced the dashboard’s System usage page with a new Cumulative contract period usage section, giving you a clearer view of how your usage aligns with your contracted limits.
The dashboard now includes a Cumulative contract period usage section that displays usage progress across key metrics (such as video plays, ad insertions, live delivery minutes, and storage) in cards all benchmarked against your contracted totals.
Key benefits:
You can view this new section on the System usage page in your dashboard.
To learn more about usage metrics, see our Usage Reference.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your account representative.
We’re excited to announce playback analytics, bringing deeper visibility into how your audience experiences your content.
Playback analytics helps you uncover trends and engagement patterns across your library with expanded ranges and per-video insights:
You can now include both DRM-protected and non-DRM media items in the same property. This update provides more flexibility in managing your content and streamlines workflows across your library.
New Feature
Properties can now contain a mix of DRM and non-DRM media, giving you greater control over your content management and delivery.
Per media DRM allows you to:
This release improves DRM playback handling and prevents focus issues with the "Keep Watching" button.
This release delivers smoother playback during ad loading and clearer on-player timestamps.
Bring Your Own Renditions (BYOR) is now available in beta, giving you the ability to upload custom pre-encoded renditions into the JW Platform. With BYOR, you can manage media, deliver streams, protect content, and monetize playback using renditions created outside of JWPC's automated pipeline.
New Feature
BYOR lets you bring externally transcoded renditions into the JW Platform for delivery through JW Player’s infrastructure. This provides a modular solution for broadcasters with advanced quality and workflow requirements.
Key benefits:
See our documentation to learn more.
We’re excited to introduce Streaming Custom Reports. This feature enables deeper, more granular analysis of your streaming data, helping you uncover trends and insights tailored to your business needs.
Streaming Custom Reports help you build flexible analyses of your streaming performance, extending beyond the high-level insights of the streaming analytics of the Analytics overview page:
Follow these steps to start building custom reports:
NOTE: Custom reports are limited to a maximum of 93 days from the selected start date, regardless of the date range you select.