What’s new in Mediasite 8

The following features and enhancements have been added to Mediasite Video Platform:

Category

Description

Streaming

•      Added ability to stream live content from third-party streaming services using RTMP.

•      Added ability to make live RTMP streams available for on-demand viewing.

•      Added support for RTMPS

Jobs and services

•      Vodcast and MFVI jobs are part of the Transcode service. No longer need to be installed separately.

Licensing

•      Job farm workers do not need licenses.

Security

•      Increased the default security of Mediasite. HTTPS used everywhere.

•      Client IP address detection (X-Forwarded-For header) enabled by default

•      Admins can update client IP address detection for other header types

Troubleshooting tools

•      Improved logging when Config Editor is used to reset the system account and system maintenance Jobs, and updates to the Mediasite Directory.

•      Added site hostname to live broadcast monitoring UI in Service Manager

System requirements

•      Support added for Server 2022

•      Mediasite 8.20 and later now require .NET Framework 4.8+ (Microsoft requirement)

•      Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 (recommended)

•      Support for SQL Server 2019 and 2022