Ooyala is excited to present the October 2020 release of Ooyala Flex Media Platform, 2020.10.0.
This release of Ooyala Flex Media Platform provides the new features, quality and security enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes listed below.
Flex 2020.10 is an interim release track, allowing customers to make use of the latest functionality and bug fixes in Flex before the next LTS (Long Term Supported) release track becomes available.
As an interim release track, it should be noted that this release:
The order of items in collections is now deterministic, with new items always added to the end. The order can be manually curated by dragging-and-dropping items into the desired sequence.
Added support for associating variants and metadata to Collections. This means you can create a variant for “Collection” object type in Metadata Designer, and in the Flex Media Platform, in the Create Collection page, you can select the configured Variant to associate with your collection. The default Metadata configured for the Variant will be associated with the Collection. The tab for Metadata will be displayed where you can view/edit metadata of the Collection.
Prerequisite: You must configure A default variant and default metadata definition.
Known Issues:
Additional support for MXF MediaAsset with Text and/or Data stream has been added across Flex Enterprise and Plugins in this release: IMP Import, Extract Technical Metadata and Flex Enterprise REST & API. IMP Import plugin captures both Composition sequence of Text (subtitle tracks) as well the CPL segment data markers. The latter is stored as Media Asset Dynamic Technical Metadata (ArangoDB) and available as json response using the MediaAsset (MXF) REST and API.
The Event Handler Service is now a standard product component and provides microservice-based equivalents to all existing Event Handler plugins. The legacy Enterprise-based event handlers will be marked as deprecated in the next release and are scheduled for removal from the product in the 2020.12.0 LTS release.
At present the new plugins have a “V2” suffix to their name, but this will be removed when the legacy plugins are no longer provided.
JWPlayer Publish plugin supports now a more secure configuration option to store in Flex the JWPlayer apiKey and apiPassword parameters. Using Flex Enterprise a Flex Secret can be created using the new Enterprise REST and API methods at workflow or plugin configuration time. This Flex Secret can be used in JWPlayer Publish to resolve dynamically at run-time JWPlayer credentials
Geo-restriction information can be configured from Flex JWPlayer Publish plugin. The following options are available: 1) list of countries to allow playback, 2) countries to deny playback, 3) JWPlayer Geo-blocking rule name.
When trying to edit account variant from Flex Enterprise, it opens the Metadata Designer Application screen without showing the selected account variant (FLEX-58473).
Please contact your Dalet Ooyala representative for the full upgrade notes, further information about this release, and the complete list of resolved issues.