Product Updates Changes to Sub-processors In light of the Schrems II decision from last year, which invalidated Privacy Shield, we're adding Hetzner (Germany) and Scaleway S.A.S. (France) as sub-processors. We plan to use Hetzner to host
Product Updates Auto Delete Recordings with the New Lifecycle Feature Today we're rolling out a new way to delete recordings. Similar to the AWS S3 lifecycle, the Pipe lifecycle allows you to automatically delete recordings (files from our storage and their metadata from
Product Updates Support for Safari 14 Yesterday, in a surprise move, Apple silently released desktop Safari 14 ahead of the macOS Big Sur release. Unfortunately, desktop Safari 14 removes Flash Player while at the same time it does not
Product Updates We're rolling out a 2nd US region Next week we'll start rolling out a 2nd US region on the east coast to complement the existing one on the west coast. With the new region rolled out, we'll have more processing
Product Updates New Feature: Screen Recording With System Sounds In Chrome When we 1st introduced standards compliant screen capture in the Pipe recorder, capturing system sounds was not supported by Chrome or Firefox. However, since the release of Chrome 74 back in April, capturing
Tutorials Pushing Recordings to Google Cloud Storage Cloud Storage is Google's solution for unified object storage which works very similar to the way Amazon S3 does. The storage cost is based on a combination between the storage class you choose
Product Updates Better Copy For Getting Camera & Microphone Access One place where Chrome and Firefox did a good job of aligning is in the use of keywords in the camera & microphone permissions dialog. Luckly, for some reason, they ended up using
Product Updates A New and Improved Webhook Section We're kicking off this week by introducing a brand new Webhooks section in the Pipe account area. This section will make it a lot easier to understand, test and debug your webhook integrations
Product Updates Introducing the Transcoding Engine We've long considered the idea of allowing our users & clients to change certain aspects of the transcoding process like the resolution and aspect ratio. The feature was also demanded by some of
Tutorials Pushing Recordings to DigitalOcean Spaces Learn how to push new audio and video files recorded through the Pipe platform to your DigitalOcean Space.
Product Updates Screen Recording In Chrome and Firefox Without Extensions We've first introduced the screen recording functionality in Pipe more than a year ago. It only worked in Chrome and it required a self published Chrome extension for the website where Pipe was
Product Updates getUserMedia() Logs To The Rescue For a long time we've been in the dark about the problems and errors users had with granting access to camera and microphone devices. We knew there were occasional problems but we had
Product Updates Inline HTML5 Desktop Recorder on Chrome on Android Pipe’s HTML5 desktop recorder can now be used inline on Chrome 63+ on Android devices. The move is part of our effort to provide desktop like inline recorders on mobile devices. Safari
Product Updates Record Through Unstable Connections - New Reconnect Mechanism in the HTML5 Recorder We’ve added a reconnection mechanism to the desktop HTML5 recorder. Until now, when the connection to the media server was lost, an error message was shown (Your connection to the server has
Product Updates Introducing Per Second Pricing One thing we’ve been pondering on for a long while is removing the round up to the 1st minute we’ve had in place since launching and moving towards no round up.
Product Updates Pipe's New Retry Mechanism For Failed Copy, Transcode or Storage Attempts September 2020 update: we’ve updated this blog post to make it more clear that: Up to 12 retries can be made for each of the 3 big processing steps (copy, conversion, all
Product Updates New Pipe Embed Code v2.0 Is Released In Beta Today we are finally ready to release our new 2.0 embed code in beta to all our client and trial accounts. This new embed code is one of the most important changes
Product Updates Way Better Storage Logs In The Pipe Account Area One of the lower priority items we worked on when we added the ability to push the recordings to your preferred storage was showing the logs created in the process. Given the development
Product Updates Pipe Just Got Better - US Recording Region Now Available A new US region for recording videos is now available in all Pipe accounts. Until now only the EU region was available. This new region, just like the existing EU region, hosts 3
Product Updates Pipe is Now GDPR Compliant As a European company, we’re glad to see the EU making updates to the aging data protection regulations from 1995. As you may know, GDPR, the new regulation, goes into effect tomorrow.
Product Updates 4 Changes To Our Webhooks Over the following month we are planning to revamp the number of webhooks and the data we send through them. We’re doing these changes to: better group webhooks around the video lifecycle
Product Updates Audio & Video File Uploads From Desktop Browsers One of the more popular feature requests we got is the ability to upload existing audio & video recordings from desktop browsers, a feat that has been implemented on mobile devices from the
Product Updates New S3 Bucket & More Entropy in File Names On the 1st of February 2018 we’ll be making 2 changes to our platform: We’ll be switching to a new EU based S3 bucket named eu1-addpipe.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com located
Product Updates The Pipe Recorder Is Now Available Through The Amazon CDN We’ve been experimenting with delivering our video and audio recording client through a CDN for a few months now. Today we’re opening up the feature to all our clients. We’re
Product Updates The Amazon CloudFront CDN Shaved Off Up To 50% of Our Recorder Client Loading Time When user numbers start to grow, one can expect that they will start accessing your service from different geographical regions. Relying on servers located in just one particular region (Europe in our case)
