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Document History
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation in this release of Amazon Elastic Transcoder.
API Version: 2012-09-25
Last documentation update: 2016-11-17
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Cross-Regional Warnings: Elastic Transcoder now warns you when you create, update, or retrieve a pipeline with cross-regional settings. | February 19, 2019 | |
Clip Stitching: You can now use Elastic Transcoder to stitch together parts of multiple files into one output file. | November 17, 2017 | |
The AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region: You can now use Elastic Transcoder in the AWS region ap-south-1. | August 30, 2016 | |
Monitoring with CloudWatch: You can now set up monitoring of Elastic Transcoder resources and api calls through your account. | August 20, 2016 | |
New Feature | Extended audio (WAV): Elastic Transcoder now supports the WAV container for audio. | July 19, 2016 |
New Feature | Extended playlist support (MPEG-DASH): Elastic Transcoder now supports MPEG-DASH playlists for FMP4 containers. | May 24, 2016 |
New Feature | Extended video support (VP9): Elastic Transcoder now supports the VP9 video codec for WEBM containers. | April 20, 2016 |
Extended caption support (CEA-708): Elastic Transcoder now supports CEA-708 embedded caption outputs for MP4 and MPEG-TS containers. | October 21, 2015 | |
Extended format support (MXF, FLAC, and more): Elastic Transcoder now supports additional formats, including MXF, FLAC and OGA, and additional flexibility for your output audio. | May 20, 2015 | |
PlayReady DRM: Elastic Transcoder now supports PlayReady DRM for your files. | March 31, 2015 | |
New Feature | Detected Parameters and Job Timing: Elastic Transcoder now now records the detected properties of the input files, the output files, and the time it took to process the jobs in epoch milliseconds. | March 24, 2015 |
New Feature | Extended format support (PAL, NTSC, and more): Elastic Transcoder now supports additional formats, interlaced signalling, chroma subsampling, and color conversion. | March 17, 2015 |
HLS Content Protection: You can now set content protection settings for your streamed media. | January 13, 2015 | |
User-Defined Metadata: You can now create custom metadata for your files, which Elastic Transcoder will pass through the transcoding process unchanged. | December 10, 2014 | |
Encrypted Files: You can now encrypt your output files and transcode files that are encrypted. | November 24, 2014 | |
Logging with CloudTrail: You can now set up logging of Elastic Transcoder apis calls through your account. | October 27, 2014 | |
New Feature | HTTP Live Streaming v4: You can now generate HTTP Live Streaming v4 streaming files. | October 13, 2014 |
New Feature | Smooth Streaming: You can now generate Microsoft Smooth Streaming files. | October 1, 2014 |
Closed Captions: You can now include closed captions in transcoded output. | June 18, 2014 | |
New Feature | Audio profiles: You can now configure Elastic Transcoder to use different audio compression schemes, including AAC-LC, HE-AAC, and HE-AACv2. | December 18, 2013 |
New Feature | Clip Generation: You can use Elastic Transcoder to generate partial excerpts of content, or "clips," from your source media. This feature lets you transcode only a portion of your source media. | November 8, 2013 |
New Feature | New audio parameters | October 9, 2013 |
New Feature | New job framerate parameters | July 8, 2013 |
New Feature | New job paramaters. | May 16, 2013 |
Initial Release | This is the first release of the Amazon Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide. | January 28, 2013 |
