Dashboard and Applications Release Notes

Updates to the Dolby.io Dashboard and Applications.

2024-10-15 | Dashboard

You'll find this latest dashboard release provides access to the new live clipping feature and ability to manage media assets such as recordings and clips.

You can find additional related changes in the REST APIs and GraphQL Release Notes.

🆕 Live Clipping

With live clipping you can capture a partial clip from an active ongoing stream that is immediately available. This can power many solutions such as social network sharing, replay capabilities, as well as archival and auditing. Learn more from the Stream Recordings guide.

Media

The recordings menu has been replaced with a new Media section. This is where you can find any media being stored for your account. This view allows you to filter by type and all media is grouped by the token used to generate the media.

Token Setting

Live clipping is a setting that must be enabled on a token in order to create clips. It is an optional on any Publish Tokens and has cost implications for storage and usage. This is a premium feature so please work with your account team to have it enabled for your account.

2024-09-26 | Dashboard

You'll find usability improvements included in our latest Dolby.io dashboard release. It is now easier to manage your account profile, organization, team and security settings.

Account Profile Dashboard

Select the Profile item from the account dropdown and you'll find additional settings you can use to manage your Dolby.io account.

From here you'll find additional menu items:

  • Account Profile: This is where you can update your name, title, and contact details.
  • Organization: Access your organization id and change the name to match your business.
  • Team: Add additional users to your account to share access with your team.
  • Security: Update your password, turn on two-factor, and manage active sessions.


2024-08-19 | Dashboard

🆕 Distribution Tab with Re-stream Configuration

With this dashboard update you can now find a new Distribution tab within the publish token with settings that allow you to modify how the CDN distributes the stream to end viewers.

  • Re-streaming: fan-out a stream to up to ten (10) endpoints that accept incoming RTMP connections for syndicated broadcasting and distribution.
  • Geo-cascading: configuration of edge servers that handle the last-mile distribution of a stream for playback can be found.
Re-stream is found in the Distribution tab of a publish token

Re-stream and Geo-cascading is found in the Distribution tab of a publish token

2024-07-25 | Millicast Player (1.5.1)

🆕 View Metadata

The Hosted Player now supports propagation of metadata events to the application such as timecodes from SEI / AMF / PIC_TIMING. There is a query parameter &metadata=true that will enable the processing of received metadata and displays it to a rendered canvas. Any unregistered metadata is sent to the browser console.

🆕 Force Playout Delay

You can adjust the playback buffer to make trade-offs between quality and latency. You need to specify both query string parameters forcePlayoutDelayMin and forcePlayoutDelayMax to enable this behavior

2024-02-15

Dolby.io Dashboard

Live Monitoring

Introduced the Live Monitoring dashboard, which allows customers to view information about stream ingests to quickly diagnose and triage any issues.

2023-10-27

Dolby.io Dashboard

Multi-source Builder

Introduced the Multi-source Builder that allows you to build and configure multiple publishing sources from the Streaming Dashboard. You can add multiple SRT, RTMP or WebRTC sources and use the user-interface to configure multi-bitrate publishing. The Multi-source tab also includes a URL to launch the hosted player with the multi-viewer configuration, customizable code to embed the hosted player into your webpage, and the ability to export your multi-source configuration as a file.