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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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.