Mediasite Video Platform 8.15.0 Release Notes

Added the ability to disable views on channel thumbnails and channel player page with a unified control

Changed the location of simplified content planning and layout from player details to presentations, schedules, and templates

Added the ability to set player options in bulk within the Management Portal

Added a live indicator to live presentation thumbnails in spotlight view

Added the ability to call the API to deliver tracked daily user information

Changed the height of the QA text box to match those of Chat and Polls

Added the ability to sort by date, popularity, and title

Added the ability for live presentations to start automatically, with the volume muted

Added the ability to respect hidden picture in picture streams on conversion to Premier Player

Converted Mediasite captions powered by Vidable to using the Vidable API

Added label pills identifying presentation features such as captions, quizzing, 360 video, and more to the presentation detail screen in Management Portal

Added the ability to import schedule user profiles for Mosaic using XML import

Added the ability to bulk import schedules in CSV file format

Added the ability to set security permissions/visibility on presentations to an individual user(s) or role(s) via schedule import

Added the keyboard shortcut hints to the tooltips in the Premier Player

Added standard Mediasite workflows for generating, displaying, and editing captions to 360 video presentations

Added additional keyboard shortcut keys to the Premier Player; these are documented in the player help page:

Updated the keyboard shortcuts to seek forward and reverse in the player

Improvements to the speed and accuracy of Captions powered by Vidable

Deliver Premier Player and convert all existing players to use the Premier Player. The Premier Player is a modern video player designed to be easy to use, accessible to all, and act as the foundation for immersive video experiences.

Removed obsolete Publish to Go UI in the context of the Premier Player

Added the capability to include guided onboarding and feature highlighting to the product

Added the ability to playback 360º videos in the Premier Player

Expanded the details returned in presentation results when using the search API

Added the ability to make live presentations available for on demand viewing immediately after the presentation ends

Added CORS support to the PlayerService

Implement new Premier Player as a player choice; create jobs to convert existing players to Premier Player and retain player options.

This is a limited availability feature, please contact your account rep to express interest in participating in the preview.

Created a flag allowing Mosaic to determine if users have a Mosaic Pro license and to enable those capabilities

Enhancements to caption generation in AVEngine enabling for more accurate captions

Enabled Smart Rendering for Smooth Streaming presentations in AVEngine

AVEngine can now better detect a users hardware and use more capable hardware automatically if available

Updated the editor to support smart rendering of adaptive content. Now smart rendering is supported on all media types.

Updated a step in our Zoom integration code to be more performant, addressing an issue where import jobs timed out if the customer had a very high volume of users

Added support for Mediasite captions powered by Vidable

• Added a new Audio Transcription Template
• Updated the transcode worker to support Mediasite captions powered by Vidable

This is a limited availability feature, please contact your account rep to express interest in participating in the preview.

Implemented a faster setup for video files to increase the speed of smart rendering edits

Enhance third-party content ingest via the secure version of RTMP, RTMPS

Added the ability to use SCIM standard for managing user identities in cloud-based applications and services

Made some internal improvements so AVEngine utilizes less memory when processing videos

Added the ability in the editor to have edits to the timeline apply to captions content.

Added the presentation labels to the presentation detail page.

Add the capablity to create an on-demand version of live presentations streamed using RTMP. An archive server must be setup in Config Editor to enable this capability site-wide. RTMP is a limited availability feature, please contact your account rep to express interest in participating in the preview.

Updated analytics to report RTMP as a presentation source when the on-demand content is created using Instant On-Demand.

Installed user analytics software in the video platform.

Standardized channels across Mediasite Video Platform, converting showcase channels to standard channels, allowing them to be re-used in multiple places.

Replacing MediaFoundation in the AVEngine transcoder with FFmpeg for encoding audio.

Added additional hostname information to the Deliver service manager, which is especially helpful for installations with multiple sites.

Added support for the Juba timezone.

Improved support to open SAML IdP in a new window before loading the presentation in the original iFrame. This is necessary if the IdP has the X-Frame-Options set to DENY. Please contact Customer Care for instructions on configuring this.

Added 48 kHz audio gap filling support.

Modified form fields to match other areas of Mediasite, with the label above the field

Added support for third-party RTMP sources to broadcast live using Mediasite.

• Added ability to retrieve stream key and stream URL for a presentation in Management Portal.
• Added ability to retrieve stream key and stream URL for a presentation in My Mediasite.
• Added ability to manage live third-party streams to Deliver Module Service Manager.

This is a limited availability feature, please contact your account rep to express interest in participating in the preview.

Added support for scheduling Mosaic recordings.

• Added support for user profiles to enable scheduled presentations using Mosaic in Management Portal.
• Updated the WebApi to support Mosaic scheduling.
• Added ability to download Mosaic configuration file from Management Portal Application Settings.
• Added user profiles with schedules to the filters in Management Portal Recording Calendar view.

This is a limited availability feature, please contact your account rep to express interest in participating in the preview.

Added the ability to import Zoom webinars into Mediasite and created as presentations. Note: admin users with existing Zoom integrations will need to modify their configurations in Zoom by adding the webinars scope to the oAuth app. Documentation has been updated appropriately.

Added the backend transcoder support to enable MVP to call on the Background Noise Removal and Echo Removal

Added the ability to add external URLs to showcase navigation menus.

Added support for the first AI based media processing feature: background noise removal. This is a limited release feature, stay tuned for updates.

Added the ability to register Mosaic when it is launched for recording.

Simplified Mosaic registration by adding in-line registration to every Mosaic launch from My Mediasite.

Moved the configuration of client IP address detection from Management Portal to Configuration Editor. Also, no longer limited to only X-Forwarded-For as the header used in resolution. For new installations and upgrades, the value will default to X-Forwarded-For.

Added support to open in a new window before redirecting to the SAML IdP inside an iFrame. This is necessary if the IdP has the X-Frame-Options set to DENY. Please contact Customer Care for instructions on configuring this.

Added support for RTMP communication between the Mediasite Recorder and Deliver for live broadcasts.

• Requires Deliver 8.3.0 or higher
• Required Mediasite Recorder 8.3.0 or higher
• Smooth Streaming used if RTMP support isn't available on both the Recorder and Deliver

Added support to automatically import meeting recordings made in Microsoft Teams from OneDrive.

• Allows a Mediasite Admin to monitor the status of files imports from OneDrive
• Asks a My Mediasite user with a OneDrive integration on to confirm the source folder for imports which is set by their Mediasite Admin
• Creates the process by which a My Mediasite user gives Mediasite permission to access files from OneDrive, contingent on Mediasite Admin enabling OneDrive integration
• Ensures a user's My Mediasite settings are shared with OneDrive for the integration, when enabled
• Allows a user to create a Mediasite Import Job for OneDrive video files
• Allows a Mediasite Admin to configure a OneDrive integration in Mediasite, requiring tenant and application ID and secret info from the org's Azure AD admin
• If a My Mediasite user has the OneDrive integration enabled but isn't able to connect, this allows the user to manual refresh the OneDrive token to attempt to reconnect
• Allows a user in My Mediasite to enable a OneDrive integration, once enabled by the Mediasite Admin, through My Settings > OneDrive Sync
• Provides the Mediasite admin the ability to set a default OneDrive folder that Mediasite will collect user integrations from. Defaults is set to a folder names "Recordings". Admin sets once for all users, not once per user.

The editor will now take substantially less time to post-process basic edits like cuts & trims without enhancements

Added the ability to modify channel options in bulk within the Management Portal.

Added the ability to change the channel menu bar color in channel creation/editing screens

Added the ability to sort content by views, highest to lowest or lowest to highest

Improved the timeliness of logging the live request summary to the Deliver trace logs.

Added the abillity to integrate mediasite with the LMS Canvas "test" environments (in addition to existing "beta" and production)

Updated the encoding settings used by Mosaic and My Mediasite uploads to be more efficient, the names have not been changed, but the bitrates have changed.

Added the ability for a user to cancel upload to a presentation

Added a play button to presentations in the My Mediasite grid

Added the ability to type in exact start/stop times for individual captions in the caption editor

Added the ability to include present time in presentation as part of email share link

Added the ability to hide/show various presentation metadata that may not be relevant or desired by the user

Updated Voluntary Product Accessibility Template document for 8.0 release

Added a new Audio Transcription Template for Amberscript.

Simplified Mediasite to use channels in place of catalogs.

• Channels have more options for interactivity and engagement
• Channels have a modern UX
• Links to converted catalogs will automatically redirect to the new channel.

Simplified configuration of Mediasite by eliminating job farm worker licensing.

Improved logging when Config Editor is used to Reset System Account, Reset System Maintenance Jobs, and updates to the Mediasite Directory.

Simplified Deliver by removing support for Windows Media Services and IIS Media Services as there are no available operating systems that support those services.

Improved on-demand playback performance for Smooth Streaming content.

Updated the Mediasite integration with Blackboard using Native LTI. Note, this change requires a minimum version of Blackboard 9.1 Q4 2019 (version 3800).

Moved the processing of the Login Audit Export into an asynchronous job that will update progress back to the page while building the file for download.

Improved search results in Management Portal to support bulk editing of presentations.

Simplified Mediasite Recorder management from Management Portal.

Improved the bulk content management workflow in Management Portal.

• Detailed progress information
• Automatically continues after an error is encountered
• Improved performance when operations are deleting files from storage
• If an error is encountered, a detailed summary page will show just the presentations that could not be updated, and why they were not updated.

Added standardized headers and footers with logo, navigation bar, user profile icon, and search bar (where applicable) to the following applications:

• Showcase
• Channels
• My Mediasite
• Management Portal
• Search
• Moderate
• Polls
• Tools

Added three standard themes: Light, Dark, and High contrast to the following applications:

• Channels
• My Mediasite
• Management Portal
• Search
• Moderate
• Polls
• Tools

The high contrast theme has great WCAG color contrast ratios!

Simplified channel editing by allowing My Mediasite users to edit a sub-set of fields for any channel they have write permission to.

Simplified the architecture of the Showcase application.

• Responsive design - means only one app to customize/theme
• Simplified customization - only one CSS and one JS file
• Updated design to be more similar to Mediasite Channels and My Mediasite

Updated all the server-side transcode workflows to use AV Engine.

• Zoom meeting import - to improve the streaming experience
• Mosaic - to reduce storage
• Upload - to reduce storage
• Podcast - remove third party dependency

Updating to use AV Engine will benefit all recorded content in Mediasite because of the platform-wide use of advanced bitrate control. AV Engine is being used to provide per-title encoding so each presentation is optimized for quality and storage.

Improved the external video workflow by showing the content owner, when possible.

Updated the Mosaic and Media Upload quality level choices in Management Portal to reflect the maximum bitrate used at the quality level. Mediasite will now preserve the source aspect ratio of the media without letter-boxing or pillar-boxing.

Updated the Vodcast workflow to use AV Engine. This will produce higher-quality composited files that use less storage space. Also updated the names of the Vodcast encoding settings to reflect the new naming conventions.