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
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
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
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
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: 1. We’ll be switching to a new EU based S3 bucket named eu1-addpipe.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
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)
Product Updates Introducing FullHD, 2k and 4k Video Recording Starting with December 2017 Pipe will correctly record, process & store FullHD, 2k and 4k UHD/DCI videos. Quick resolutions overview: * HD is 1280×720 * FullHD is 1920×1080 * 2k is 2048×1080
Product Updates Introducing Audio Only Recording Audio only recording is the feature request we constantly received since launching the Pipe recording platform. Recently we’ve been hard at work adding the feature and as of today it’s available
Product Updates Our 2nd Generation HTML5 Video Recorder Since releasing our 1st HTML desktop video recorder in December 2016 we’ve never stopped improving it. The work culminated this summer with more than a dozen weeks of hard work & research
Product Updates Chrome 60: Flash No Longer Permitted to Access Microphone and Camera On Insecure Origins July 2018 edit: made it more clear that this change applies to the Flash plugin as HTML5 mic/webcam access was already restricted to https and localhost since Chrome 47. Starting with Chrome
Product Updates Pipe's HTML 5 WebRTC Based Video Recording Client Gets A Major Update After more than a month of further development we’ve just pushed a major update to Pipe which includes several important updates to our HTML 5 WebRTC based video recording client. Proper handling
Product Updates Pipe 0.20 Brings Some Early Christmas Goodies With a final push before the holidays, we managed to improve Pipe even further. New Amazon S3 folder options and regions We’ve added the option to specify a folder name when configuring
Product Updates New HTML 5 WebRTC Based Video Recording Client Is Now In Beta With the advent of browsers starting to slowly push away from Flash, the latest version of Pipe comes with a brand new HTML 5 video recorder. Developed with WebRTC, it uses the latest
Product Updates Newly released Pipe version adds tons of improvements Loads of changes and improvements were implemented during the last 3 months, a list that culminated yesterday with the release in beta of the 1st HTML 5 & WebRTC based Pipe video recording
