Technology Turning on the new Camera and Microphone Selector & Preview in Chrome Starting with Chrome 123 there's a new feature that allows you to 1. select the desired camera 2. select the desired microphone 3. preview the selected camera video stream 4. test
Product Updates Outline Positioning Feature for the 2.0 Recording Client You can now add an outline to the desktop recording client to help users better position their head & body when making a video recording. There are 3 shapes to choose from and
Product Updates Integrating The Pipe Recorder With React Via NPM We’re excited to announce the release of our new NPM package, @addpipe/react-pipe-media-recorder, which integrates the Pipe recording client directly into React projects. Why Use React With Pipe? Integrating media recording infrastructure
Product Updates Control what PII Data is Collected We're introducing a new feature that lets you directly control what PII (personally identifiable information) data Pipe will collect and store together with each recording. This new feature sits alongside the
Formstack How to Integrate Pipe Recorder with Formstack's V4 Form Builder Formstack has recently made a significant update with the release of the V4 Form Builder, transitioning from a server-side rendered approach (V3 and below) to a client-side rendered architecture. This change affects how
Product Updates Canada Recording Region is Now Live We've just launched a new recording , processing & storage region: Canada or CA1. The new region joins the already existing EU and US regions (EU2, US1, US2) and is composed of:
Technology Dealing With Huge MediaRecorder Chunks A more technical blog post. We've been monitoring the size of the chunks made available through MediaRecorder's ondataavailable function for a while. For example, with a timeslice of 200ms,
WordPress New Pipe Recorder Plugin for WordPress We’re excited to announce the release of a new plugin for WordPress called Pipe Recorder. The new plugin does a much better job of integrating the Pipe Recording Client and Pipe Platform
Ninja Forms Integrating Pipe with Ninja Forms 3 With Ninja Forms and Pipe, you can easily set up a form that allows users to record videos directly from your website. This guide walks you through integrating Pipe with Ninja Forms version
Tutorials Integrating Pipe With Amazon Transcribe This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to integrate Pipe with Amazon Transcribe. This tutorial involves advanced coding techniques, including PHP scripting, AWS SDK integration, and managing transcription jobs through webhooks. We'
Product Updates Recording The Webcam And The Screen At The Same Time Introducing Screen Recording With Camera: Taking Screen Recording to the Next Level Until now, our video recording capabilities were limited to capturing either a camera feed or a screen/window, but never both
Product Updates Building the Best Camera & Microphone Selector Why We Need a Camera & Microphone Selector Historically, with our browser-based desktop recording client, we've relied on the browser features for the user to choose their audio and video recording
Gravity Forms How To Add One or More Video Recorders to Gravity Forms Using the 2.0 Embed Code In this tutorial, we will show you how to add one or multiple video recorders to your Gravity Forms form. We have an older article showing you how to integrate between Pipe and
Product Updates Important Announcement: EU1 Will Stop Accepting New Recordings on the 1st of August 2023 After introducing the EU2 region and migrating from EU1 to EU2 in the Auto-all distribution mechanism, it is now time to say goodbye to EU1. Starting with the 1st of August 2023, the
Responsive Desktop Recording Client Over the past few weeks, we've worked together with our new colleague Alexandru on two related front-end tasks: 1. The ability to specify the CSS length unit for width in the
Product Updates Support for Explicit FTP over SSL/TLS Yesterday we've rolled out support for FTPS (Explicit FTP over SSL/TLS) to the Pipe Platform. This means that our customers can now transfer recording files to their final storage location
Amazon S3 Object URLs When we push a file to your Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon will generate a (private) https link (named Object URL) for the file. The link is available in the AWS Management Console for
Important Announcement: the EU2 region will replace EU1 in Auto-all The EU2 region has been introduced on the 1st of September 2021. It's now time to phase out the EU1 region. 1st step The 1st step is to replace the EU1
Product Updates Simple Region Switching Guide: EU1 to EU2 This is a blog post version of a Google docs we shared with our clients when we introduced the EU2 region. In September of 2021 we rolled out a new files processing region
Product Updates A New Dropbox Integration We've just rolled out a new way to push recordings and their associated files to Dropbox. This new integration is simpler - it does not require you to create your own
Monthly Update June & July 2022 Update Most of our work hours during June have gone into iterating on the export feature and preparing it for production. By the end of June we were ready to use it with a
Product Updates New Feature: Export Recording Data A new feature has been rolled out today: the ability to export the recording data on your Pipe account as .csv. The feature is available to all accounts (trial, PRO, Standard, etc.) in
Product Updates Price Increase for the PRO Plan and Old Grandfathered Subscriptions Our last subscription price increase was on the 1st of October 2017. Since then, we've put in almost 5 years of work into the Pipe platform. We've added CDN
Technology Using Gearman in 2022 We're using Gearman to process tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of recordings per day. This is the summary of work & research done by all 3 engineers at Pipe:
Monthly Update May 2022 Update At the beginning of May, we had to process a significant volume of small recordings on our us1 region in a small amount of time. This event took over the entire engineering month.