What are the changes to the Publishing Report?

Owned by JK Phenix
Mar 09, 2022
2 min read

Phenix has released an updated version of the publishing report with a number of changes to make the report easier to use and to provide additional information on stream publishing. 

These changes include:

  • New data

  • Updated column headings

  • New column order

To use this newly-updated report, add ?version=2021-10-20 to the API call. 

The legacy version of this report will remain the default through April 2022, and will be the version returned by the Phenix Customer Portal. When the new version of the report is made to be the default, you can continue to use the legacy version of this report by adding ?version=2021-09-07 to API calls until further notice.

New Data

New information available in the Publishing report includes:

Column Name

Column Contents

ContributionMethod

Indicates the incoming method of publishing:

  • URI 

  • RTMP

  • ITP-WebRTC

IngestSource

Indicates the source of the published stream. Values include:

  • iOS SDK

  • Android SDK

  • Web SDK

  • Phenix Encoder

  • RTMP encoder (any third-party encoder)

  • REST API (Remote Stream URI)

MultiBitrateTranscoding

TRUE when the system does multi-bitrate transcoding work which will incur transcoding charges; FALSE otherwise.

Repackaging

TRUE when the system does repackaging work (e.g., HLS or DASH encapsulation); FALSE otherwise.

Composition

TRUE when the system does composition work which will incur composition charges; FALSE otherwise.

Updated Column Headings

The following table summarizes the changes to heading names to better match the publishing capabilities.

Old Name

New Name

Corresponding Capability

Live

streaming

streaming

VOD

on_demand

on-demand

RTMP

rtmp

rtmp

LiveLite

streaming_lite

streaming-lite

VODLite

on_demand_lite

on-demand-lite

MBR

multi_bitrate

multi-bitrate

MBRContribution

multi_bitrate_contribution

multi-bitrate-contribution

EncodingProfile

encoding_profile

encoding-profile

New Column Order

The order of the existing columns has been changed to better group similar items. For example, the capabilities column has been moved ahead of the columns containing output details (e.g., rtmp). 

The mapping of legacy columns to new columns is shown below. New columns are shown in bold, while the new names of renamed columns are shown in italics.

Example Files

The sample files below show both the current and new reports.

 

 

 

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