Changelog

• New HTMl 5 WebRTC based Pipe video recording client (beta)
• Ability to select pre-recorded videos on Android devices
• Upgraded to jQuery 1.12.4
• Optimizations to the cloud infrastructure in what regards the video processing
• Newly recorded videos are prioritized over older ones that failed to convert and are now in the retry queue
• The default dimension and resolution in the Pipe account area is now 300p (400x300) to avoid Chrome pausing the small 320x240 Pipe recorder
• (S)FTP logs now contain the port used and protocol
• PPAPI Flash detection is now used to prevent PPAPI on Chrome on macOS from showing more than 1 audio source
• Removed SWFObject from Pipe embeds in light of the changes regarding Flash content in Safari 10 and Chrome 56
• Updated the documentation regarding the possible (S)FTP upload statuses
• Updated docs for custom audio-video profile and language files, regarding the HTML 5 client
• Testing webhooks with querystrings and/or port numbers does not result in an error
• Webhook URLs can now have up to 200 characters
• Preventing forward slashes in payload JSON data from being escaped with backslashes
• Documented the correct way to send JSON payload data
• Payload string sanitizing for mobile recordings
• Clearer explanations for payload in the documentation with correct use of the “property”, “object” and “name/value” pairs terms
• Better language detection on Safari/Chrome on iOS and on Internet/Chrome on Android
• Updates to Pipe’s account UI (improved video list, loading animations, tabbed menu, etc)
• Image preview for Android devices in Pipe account’s embed area
• Audio only and not stored videos are now properly represented with a different icon in the list of videos
• More detailed status info for recorded videos with 4 states: queued, transcoding, trasncoded, failed transcode
• Correct link for updating your payment details on new paid Pipe accounts
• Fixed issue with videos recorded from mobile devices not being assigned to the correct environment

• Environments now available in Pipe
• Webhook logs now display the Request Headers
• Updated webhook info panel with data about Content-Type and IP

• Multiple Webhooks per account
• New ACL option for S3 push service
• New JS function onRecorderReady
• Better looking videos list tab
• Added response time to the webhook calls, which are displayed in the logs
• Added description of pause() JS call which is used to pause video playback
• Clarified onSaveOK documentation and when to use webhooks instead
• Fixed issue with httpReferer not being sent for retried conversions

• Mobile videos can now be cut to length
• Disabling of autosaving videos
• Mobile client is now translated
• New payment history table in the Billings page
• Added HTTP Referer to all webhooks
• Added thumbnail link attribute to /videos and /video REST API endpoint
• Better onSaveOk documentation
• Added usage examples for JS Events API
• Added timezone to the account creation time info from the Settings page
• Removed Romanian translation because it is not detected by Pipe when running in Chrome
• On mobile devices the upload button is disabled until a recording is made/selected
• Compressing of files that are being delivered by our servers
• Improvements to the email we send when a payment fails
• Better information in the Billing page
• Improved description for the [Cancel Subscription] action in the Settings page
• Improved notification for the account that have had their payment fail
• Updated the documentation regarding the language mechanism
• The subscription payment failed email is now sent only on the 2nd and 3rd fail. Also the message of the email has been improved
• Fixed issue with update payment link being broken in the email that was sent
• Fixed issue with no image showing up in the videos list while the video was still converting

• Implemented four new webhook events: videorecorded, videocopiedftp, videocopieds3, videocopied_dbox
• Editable port numbers for (S)FTP
• Updated REST API /video endpoint. New extra information returned: Pipe S3 video link, adjusted datetime and timezone
• Improved billing section
• Better explanation for the [Do Not Store] option
• [Select all] option for the videos tab
• Updated documentation for onCamAccess, onFlashReady and record()
• FTP testing will now also test the file upload
• Updated (S)FTP help panel
• Fixed issue [Powered by Pipe] link going over the recording time when the menu was hidden
• Fixed small issue with a JavaScript call order
• Fixed issue with device names not being encoded correctly with UTF-8

Pipe Launch Version

• Updated the Watermark page to show the configured or not status at the top together with the watermark itself and the selected position.
• Videos longer than 1 hour will have their duration displayed correctly.
• Adjusted the width of the Status and Video Details columns in the Videos page.
• Updated the documentation in regards to how to obtain the custom payload data from the webhook.
• Updated the REST API documentation.
• Pipe now checks if the recorded stream contains video and only then applies a watermark (if one is configured). This prevents an issue that caused streams to not get converted if they contained only audio.
• Fixed issue with video email notification being sent multiple times if certain conditions were met.

• Email notification each time a new video is recorded.
• Added new pre-recording screen to the Pipe interface.
• Implemented REST API with GET, PUT and DELETE requests.
• The moov atom is now placed at the beginning of videos to ensure a faster start of the video playback in browers.
• Further improvements to the video list: grouped storage option status, thumbnail that keeps the aspect ratio, new Action column that contains all the possible actions: embed, download and upload to YouTube

• Videos can now be uploaded to YouTube from your Pipe account area > Videos page.
• Implemented Watermarking for videos, with the option to choose the watermark and the corner where it will be positioned.
• Added the option to resend the webhooks that failed to be sent at the time of the recording. A button will be shown for the failed webhooks, in the new column of the video list table. This works retroactively with failed webhooks prior to the implementation of the feature.

• Implemented Dropbox integration along with Dropbox logs for the status of the uploaded videos.
• Implemented new [Do Not Store Video] account setting.
• Documentation updates for newly added Dropbox integration.
• Improved the Pipe servers workflow by separating the conversion mechanism from the storage mechanism.

• The webhooks payload data now contains 2 new fields: dateTime and timeZone. Updated documentation to reflect the change.
• Videos that have been recorded without audio are now marked in the videos list, with possible explanations of why the video has no audio track.
• Made some adjustments and updates to our conversion mechanism to fix a reported issue with playback of .mp4 files in Internet Explorer.
• Added documentation on how multilanguage works in Pipe and how to load your own external language files.
• Added documentation about supported browsers.
• Old videos that were still stored on our VPS were moved to S3 and links are now being redirected. As a result our whole storage is now on Amazon S3.
• Added account hash information in the account area.
• Updated account area help panel.
• Updated webhook tab help panel.

• All recorded videos are now stored on our Amazon S3 instances
• Multilanguage support and automatic language detection. Possibility to override auto detection and force a certain language.
• Added information about recording device names in video list
• Added device orientation information for mobile recordings
• The video list now contains larger and clickable thumbnails
• Better grouping of information on video list
• Help text panel in the account management tab
• Minor updates to the documentation

• Implemented new design and interface functionality along with quality monitoring features
• Implemented new design options in the account area
• Added SSL support for Webhooks
• Added pagination for the videos page in the account area
• Implemented timezone setting per account
• Separated documentation for API’s and other small updates to the documentation regarding SFTP/FTP and S3 uploading

Pipe Blog Launch

• Implemented webhook authentication for additional security
• Implemented styling options for Pipe in the account area. Menu color, background color and corner radius can now be customized
• Implemented SFTP upload. Recordings can now be stored either via SFTP or FTP
• Implemented mobile JS Event API and added specific documentation on how to access it
• Major documentation update. We reorganzied the structure and added all new documentation for the new implemented features
• Updated look for SFTP/FTP, S3 and Webhook logs
• Fixed issue with snapshots from Android devices taken in a 90 degree angle
• Fixed issue with response for test webhook not being correctly formatted

• Implemented a new variable ‘payload’ that can be added to the embed code and will be sent back via webhook
• Maximum recording time can now be configured from the Pipe account area. It can also be changed directly in the embed code via the new setting ‘mrt’
• Added ability to remove recorded videos from your Pipe account area
• Video will show mirrored while recording and during playback in the Pipe recorder (final videos will not be mirrored)
• Removed blinking REC icon and live frames per second value
• Fixed issue with video snapshots not being created in some instances
• Fixed issue with videos not being created if the first recording made was from a mobile device.
• Updated documentation in regards to Amazon S3 setup
• Updated documentation in regards to creating a custom quality profile
• Updated documentation in regards to the new ‘payload’ variable

• Better load balanced process that handles conversion/ftp push/s3 push/webhooks
• Faster mobile uploads (conversion process is not linked to the upload process anymore)
• Implemented Amazon S3 bucket regions for better compatibility with S3
• Fixed issue with JS Control API not working because of cross site scripting
• Fixed issue with snapshots not showing up until at least 1 video had been recorded from the desktop
• Fixed issue with confirm page for new Pipe accounts
• Fixed issue with webhook logs not registering correctly for some accounts
• Corrected & improoved documentation
• Correct default test sample data for webhooks
• Minor UI improovements to the Pipe account area
• Faster loading video recorder on desktop

Initial release on addpipe.com after 2 releases as “HDFVR Cloud” available from the nusofthq.com HDFVR client/trial account area.