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 devices. Chrome 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
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 using the
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 Dropbox app,
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 for the recording client.
Product Updates A Proper Sign In With Google Implementation I believe we're at the 3rd iteration of our Sign In With Google mechanism. I think this time, we finally got it right. It started as a privacy related task. We wanted to
Product Updates A 5x Increase In Our Platform Limits We've substantially increased some of the limits on the Pipe Platform. 5x Daily Recording Limits The daily recording limits have been introduced during the early months of the 2020 Pandemic for new accounts.
Product Updates Inline HTML5 Desktop Recorder on Safari on iOS Pipe’s HTML5 desktop recorder can now be used inline on Safari on iOS/iPadOS 14.3+. The move is part of our effort to provide desktop-like inline recorders on mobile devices. Almost
Product Updates Beta Support for Safari on macOS Safari took us on a wild ride this past year. After Flash support was removed in Safari 14, we were left with no way record video in Safari. The MediaStream Recording API (needed
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 the
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 our
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 on
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
