On-the-fly transcoding or creative repackaging
Some third-party ads (creatives) might be available only as a progressive download MP4 video, in which case they cannot be stitched into the HLS content stream. Primetime Ad Insertion and the Android PSDK provide an option called third-party creative repackaging, which addresses this situation.
On the fly ad transcoding is supported through Adobe Ad Serving. The Adobe Ad Server account must be configured for creative repackaging on the Ad Server and then repackaging is seamlessly handled through the PSDK.
Support for 708 and WebVTT captions
These closed-caption types are automatically supported with no changes required in your application.
Full-event replay (FER)
Full-event replay (FER) is a VOD asset that acts, in terms of ad insertion, as a live/DVR asset. Your application can now ensure that ads are placed correctly by selecting the ad-signaling mode.
Support for DVR replay with ad insertion
This includes the addition of a new player state, INITIALIZED, and some changed behavior related to that state.
Use of MediaCodec
MediaCodec decoder replaces the Open MAX AL decoder for Android version 4.x and above. This improves performance and reliability and allows implementation of additional playback features.
302 redirect optimization
When a request is redirected due to load balancing, the PSDK continues to use the redirected domain for future requests.
New events
ID3 support
You can now extract information from the audio and video stream nested in ID3 tags.