Encoding REST API Services

• Added a fail-fast for enableHLGSignaling set to true: ColorTransfer needs to be: ARIB STD-B67, UNSPECIFIED, or not set. In the last 2 cases, ARIB STD-B67 will be set implicitly. To avoid creating undesired output any other specific color transfer will result in a fail-fast for encoder versions newer than 2.138.0 (incl.) or equal to LTS verion 2.103.1.
• To easily access the resulting Manifest files of the VoD encoding jobs, output artifacts have been added to the output objects that are returned by Simple VoD Encoding Job Response.

• Re-Subscribing to an account which was expired for more than 14 days did not re-activate the CDN feature
• Performance- and stability improvements for high load scenarios

• Added the Live profile LOWER_LATENCY to the Simple Encoding API which introduces much lower latency than the regular profile. Additional information about the Simple Encoding API Live profiles can be found here

• Internal stability improvements

• Fixed an issue with notifications called very often (like Encoding Status Changed Webhook) that could lead to notifications (email or webhook) being delayed or being delivered multiple times.

• Internal stability improvements.

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• HLG output which is backward compatible with SDR is now supported: Using enableHlgSignaling in addition to setting the ARIB STD-B67 color transfer function will perform an ARIB STD-B67 conversion but signal it as BT.2020 10 bit. The ARIB STD-B67 conversion will be signaled in the SEI messages.

• When calling the list call for DASH, HLS or Smooth manifests with an encodingId, limit and offset parameters were ignored.

• Fixed wrong and invalid return value loudnessControl.dialnorm=0 for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus Audio Configurations when not specifying a dialnorm property at all in the loudnessControl object during codec configuration resource creation. This behavior caused the Bitmovin Python SDK to fail parsing the response from the Bitmovin API.

• Internal stability improvements.

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