Service configuration (WebApp)

You can now create a new service by duplicating an existing one.

In the service list, in the Actions column, you will now find a More actions button, which will let you either duplicate or delete the service.

See below a screenshot of the More actions menu.

Ad breaks for Virtual Channels

You can now create ad break slots in Virtual Channel services.

This is very similar to live ad replacement for Ad Insertion services, except that ad breaks are explicitly created through slots, rather than through SCTE-35 markers detected in the live source.

You first need to configure Ad Insertion for your Virtal Channel service, by selecting an Ad Server and an optional Gap Filler.

You may select a transcoding profile, which may be used for transcoding the inserted ads and/or the Gap Filler.

Server-Side Ad Tracking (SSAT) is supported and may be enabled, as well as the ad media segments availability check.

You can then create slots of type ad-break, which are identical to content slots, except that they do not need a replacement source.

For more details please check our Knowledge Center, and our API reference for Virtual Channel services and for Virtual Channel slots.

Server-Side Ad Tracking (SSAT)

You can now enable Server-Side Ad Tracking with Ad Insertion services.

This causes broadpeak.io to replace ad segment URLs in manifests with specific URLs that redirect the player to the actual segments.

When broadpeak.io receives these requests, it knows that the player has accessed the segments, and calls the ad tracking server with the appropriate beacons.

Thanks to this mechanism, the ad tracking server can track ad playback without any specific implementation in the player.

When SSAT is enabled, you can enable an option (Check ad media segment availability) that checks that the ad segment exists before replacing its URL, avoiding a call to the ad tracking beacon for a segment that cannot be actually played.

See below a screenshot of these options in the Ad Insertion configuration page of the WebApp:

Please see the serverSideAdTracking object in our ad-insertion API reference for the corresponding API.

Service configuration (WebApp)

When creating a service, the WebApp now displays possible use cases for each service type.

See below a screenshot of the service creation page:

Service configuration (WebApp)

We have added badges in the drop-down selection menus of the service configuration pages.

Blue badges indicate the source type, tan badges indicate their format.

You can filter the source list by typing their name, type or format.

Ad Server check

When we check the connectivity to an Ad Server, we now include the query parameters in the request.

Also, we now treat http errors (4xx and 5xx) as warnings, so that the source can be created.

These two changes will make it easier to use certain Ad Servers with broadpeak.io.

Slot management (beta, webapp)

We now display the seconds in the "Start time" and "End time" fields of the Calendar view.

Slot management API

We now check that a new or updated slot does not overlap with another slot on the same category.

This applies to both Content Replacement and Virtual Channel services and both the REST and ESNI APIs.

Pagination support

Pagination headers are now also present in the response of the GET all slots APIs.

Please see our API reference for examples and more details.

Slot management (beta, webapp)

In the Slot creation or edition form, the "Replacement content" field is now located between the "Event name" and "Start time" fields.

Service configuration

We have removed the second step in Content Replacement and Virtual Channel service configuration. It is no longer possible to create a slot in this process. This possibility is provided by our Scheduler function.

Slot management (beta, webapp)

We have fixed an issue where Chrome did not display AM/PM in certain time fields.

HTTP compression for streaming requests

We have enabled Gzip and Brotli compression on manifest requests (stream.broadpeak.io endpoint).

Compression is used when the client includes a Accept-Encoding header with either br, gzip, or both.

When both are accepted, Brotli is selected.

This allows reducing the egress consumption with clients that support it.

Slot management (beta, webapp)

It is now possible to delete future slots and end current slots with our scheduler.

The "Delete slot" button is present:

• in the "Actions" column of the List view
• in the slot edition window of the List and Calendar views.

The "Delete slot" button is replaced by an "End it now" button if the slot is in progress (started but not finished).

Clicking "End it now" changes the duration and endTime so that the slot ends in 10 seconds.

Note: past slots cannot be edited or deleted. The "Delete slot" button is greyed-out in this case.

Check status API

We now return an error when the manifests of a source do not match with the declared type (Live or Asset).

In DASH, Live sources must have a type="dynamic" attribute and Assets must have type="static".

In HLS, Live sources must have EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags in their media manifests, while Assets must not.

Therefore, it is no longer possible to create such sources.