Version 1.6.0 of the Mux Data SDK for media3 is now available. This version adds support for Media3 v1.4. We’ve also fixed an issue with verbose logging and another issue with tracking rebuffering time in some cases.
IMA users: If you are using a `VideoPlayerAdCallback` for your app, you’ll need to supply it to `ImaAdsLoader.Builder.monitorWith(...)`. Most IMA users shouldn’t have to worry about this.
This version of Mux Player for Swift adds support for FairPlay Streaming DRM using Mux Video. DRM is an extra level of security against unauthorized viewing or downloading of your content. Once your FairPlay certificate is set up, you can enable DRM playback in Mux Player with just a couple of lines.
Mux Video DRM is in public beta. If you’re interested in participating, please reach out via our beta page to get set up.
This version of Mux Player for Android adds support for Widevine DRM using Mux Video. DRM is an extra level of security against unauthorized viewing or downloading of your content. Once server-side setup has been completed, you can enable DRM playback in Mux Player with just a couple of lines.
Mux Video DRM is currently in public beta. If you’re interested in participating, please reach out via our beta page to get set up.
This version of Mux Player adds support for DRM using Mux Video. DRM is an extra level of security against unauthorized viewing or downloading of your content. Mux Player supports three industry-standard DRM protocols: Widevine, Fairplay Streaming, and PlayReady. Once server-side setup has been completed, Mux Player can play protected assets.
Mux Video DRM is in public beta. If you’re interested in participating, please reach out via our beta page to get set up.
Mux Video now supports Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is an extra layer of security that blocks or limits the impact of screen recording, screen sharing, and downloading tools.
Mux Video now supports receiving live streams over the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol, which can increase the reliability of live streams being sent over imperfect networks. Streams sent to Mux over SRT can optionally be sent with the HEVC codec to reduce network bandwidth requirements.
Auto-generated captions for on-demand video now supports 21 additional languages, including Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Catalan, French, Turkish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Finnish, Slovak, Greek, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Romanian, and Bulgarian.
Auto-generated captions can now be enabled on Mux Video Assets through the API at asset creation time. Additionally, a plain text transcript of the video is available for assets where auto-generated captions are enabled.
We now have 2 new SDKs for handling Direct Uploads from mobile applications. Mux Uploader for iOS and Android have been released in beta. Mux Uploader will handle file splitting and chunking logic to optimize upload speed and in cases of non-standard input Mux Uploader will process the video on the client in order to minimize the time it takes for the asset to be playable after upload.
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Mux currently supports videos with 8-bit color profiles. Converting video from 10-12 bit formats – such as HDR, HLG, and DolbyVision – to spec compliant 8-bit video, such as BT.709, isn’t something that we currently support. Previously all 10- and 12-bit colorspace assets would be naively transcoded to 8-bit video, but streams that originally had PQ colorspace would fail to play on some devices. In the future, we may improve our handling of these files and accept them. However, in an effort to provide more reliable functionality, we will now fail the ingest task. Please convert these files to 8-bit color, such as 4:2:0 mpeg(tv) range video BT.709, before sending them to ingest into Mux.
Version 1.0.0 of the Spaces Web SDK has been released. This version adds user experience reporting, QoS tracking, automatic reconnect handling on poor networks, and additional improvements and bug fixes. For more information: Spaces Web SDK 1.0.0 Release Notes
Mux has released version 7.0.0 of its NodeJS SDK. This release fixes some type issues for customers using TypeScript, and adds some missing module exports. In addition, it adds support for signing JavaScript Web Tokens (JWTs) for Mux Real-Time Spaces. In order to support signing of Spaces, the JWT.sign method has been deprecated in favor of separate JWT.signPlaybackId and JWT.signSpaceId methods.
Version 3.0.0 of the Mux Data SDK for AVPlayer is now available on SwiftPM and Cocoapods. This version adds support for overriding device-related metadata, such as OS name and version, device type, and so on. This update also adds official support for iOS 16, although apple updates have forced us to remove support for iOS versions 9 and 10.
For more information, see our release notes and our development guide
Version 0.9.0 of the Mux Data SDK for IMA Ads is now available. This update also adds official support for iOS 16, although recent updates to Google’s IMA SDKs have removed support for all iOS versions before 12.0
For more information, see our release notes and our development guide, and full changes.
We are announcing the exciting and extensive release of the Mux Data SDK v3.0.0 for ExoPlayer. This update converts most of the SDK to Kotlin, removes long-deprecated methods, and adds API changes. A more simple SDK setup process no longer requires you to specify the screen size of your device. You may now pass your `ENV_KEY` through a constructor instead of supplying it to `CustomerPlayerData`. Finally, we removed exposed internal callback methods that likely will not impact you.
For the full list of API changes, check out the release notes on GitHub.
Since we released Mux Player (HTML Element and React) to public beta, we’ve made a variety of improvements including additional control customizations, keyboard shortcuts, video titling, and fixes. Refer to the release notes below for more information.
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This update fixes player size and full-screen detection for users who are using MuxStatsExoPlayer.setPlayerSize() to manually override the detected size of their player. The method now takes physical pixels, as documented. If you are using MuxStatsExoPlayer.setPlayerSize(), you may need to update your code to supply physical pixels instead of density-independent pixels.
We’re excited to announce that Mux Player is now released to Public Beta! Mux Player is already integrated with Mux Video and Mux Data, and supports a variety of features such as adaptive controls based on stream type, timeline hover previews, Chromecast & Airplay, Signed URLs, Custom Domains, and more.
For more details, check out our Blog Post and Player documentation.
This update for the Mux Data SDK for Exoplayer allows you to override metadata about the device that is playing your video. This feature is has not been implemented on Mux Data backend yet, but you can start using it in the Mux Data SDK with this latest release.
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We’ve increased the maximum value of the live stream’s reconnect_window parameter from 5 minutes (300 seconds) to 30 minutes (1800 seconds). Reconnect Window is the time in seconds you want Mux to wait for the live stream to reconnect before considering it completed and generating a recorded asset. For many scenarios, Reconnect Window of 5 minutes just was not long enough, like an encoder machine reboot. You can set the reconnect_window parameter with live stream Create API and Update API endpoints.
We’ve released Reconnect Window support for all modes of live streams, including reduced & low latency, in Beta. Reconnect Window is the time in seconds you want Mux to wait for the live stream to reconnect before considering it completed and generating a recorded asset. You can also add a slate image as a video frame during live stream interruptions to let your viewers know the video isn’t over and you’re trying to reconnect. You can read more on docs and the blog post.
We’ve released Custom Domain for Mux Video to Beta. You can stream videos or serve images from your branded domain instead of from stream.mux.com and image.mux.com. You can learn more about Custom Domains, reasons to use, and information on requesting access from the announcement blog.
You can now measure the amount of time from content ingestion to playback on the client using the Mux Data SDK. The Live Stream Latency metric reports on the average stream latency experienced by each viewer. The metric is also available for historical reporting. Latency can be aggregated by country, type of stream, video title, as well as the other dimensions available in the Mux Data Metrics reporting. To collect this data, you'll need to use Mux Data with your HLS live streams, insert EXT-X-PROGAM-DATE-TIME tags in your manifests, and have an up-to-date SDK release. You can learn more in the Blog Post.
We've added version 4.0.0 of our mux-go SDK. New SDK versions typically introduce new features, bug fixes, and updates. You can read more on the 4.0.0 Release Notes.
You can now export Mux Data views to Amazon Kinesis or Google Pub/Sub. As views are completed they are immediately streamed to the service of your choice to ingest into your data warehouse for further processing. This feature is currently available for Media customers as a beta release. See the documentation for information on how to configure a stream and the data that is available.