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 |
