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New

*Currently available for All In One plans only, coming soon for Multistream plans.

Monitoring and understanding the health charts of your streams give you insights into what could have gone wrong and how to avoid them in the future. You can check the health charts of both real-time and past streams. If your stream is live, you will see the real-time chart. If you want to see the analytics of the previous stream, you can see them in the Stream Session History.

You can read more about it here.

Improvement

*Apply for some plans only. Check Pricing for details

The Team feature lets you invite team members and assign them a role. With the latest addition of Moderator role, you can restrict their permissions to view and manage your streams.

To add moderators, go to your account and navigate to the Teams tab. Click on Invite Member and set the role as moderator and follow the prompts to send invitation. You can also edit the permission for the moderator from the dialog.

You can read more about it here.

Updates for the week 32 - 2022

Improvement

Concurrent viewer chart can now track the viewers watching from your HLS link (not just viewers from our player anymore).

Improvement

Admin in your Team can now manage Billing of the account.

New

Just finish your livestream and want to replay the livestream? You can now schedule the livestream's recorded file to be played from your embed player or any social platforms. Check out how to use it here.

New

*Available for All in One - Premium and above

The Team feature lets you invite your team members and assign them a role. Together, you and other team members can view and manage your streams and videos on Castr. There are three different roles on the team-Owner, Admin and Moderator.

Admins even have access to upgrade packages, meaning in case of someone's absence, the stream will be unaffected as Admin can make the necessary upgrades.

Moderators' accesses can be restricted on which streams they can access and edit.

To add team members to your team, go to your account, and navigate to the Teams tab. Click on Invite Member button and follow the prompts to send invitation. Upon accepting the invitation, your team member can view your streams.

New

*Available in the Livestream 5TB plan and above

By enabling the RTMP Backup Ingest, you can simultaneously stream primary and backup live video feeds. In case your primary stream fails, Castr will immediately switch to your backup stream, so that your live broadcast can continue without interruption.

This is a failsafe solution that makes sure your stream is up and running even when there's a technical malfunction.

Enable this feature by switching the Enable Backup URL toggle in your dashboard. You will find a Primary RTMP URL and a Backup RTMP URL to configure in your encoder.

Learn more in this article

Improvement

We added some new metrics in the Livestream Analytics. With these intuitive updates, you can measure the performance and evaluate the effectiveness of your streams.

New metrics:

• Visitor Overview

• Real-time Visitor Count

• Real-time Map

• Visitors per Country

• Visitors per City

New capabilities:

• Time selection: choose the time range you want to view

• Export data into multiple formats: CSV, XML, HTML, TSV, JSON, and RSS

• Export data as images

Improvement

We made some new enhancements to the Castr HTML5 player:

• Thumbnails on seeking: Hover over the seek bar (or progress bar) to see the preview of the video at seeked time. A must-have for easy video navigation.

• Visual timeline: A filmstrip-inspired navigation bar at the bottom of the video shows you the thumbnails of different frames of your video.

• Playback memory: If you close the video and come back later, it will continue where you left off.

These improvements reflect on all videos in VOD Buckets and Live to VOD converted files. You may access these features in the Livestream plans.

New

If you’re a current user of the Livestream plan, you can now enjoy our VOD Bucket feature. This feature enables you to:

• Upload videos as VOD (video on demand) files

• Embed them to any website with the embed URL or iFrame snippet

To access, go to your dashboard and click on the VOD Bucket tab in the top navigation bar.

New

*Available in Livestream plans as for now.

We replaced the old Recording tab with Live to VOD and added some cool new functions:

• Auto-record: Castr will automatically record your videos as soon as they go live. You don’t have to turn the recording mode on and off.

• Turn a recorded file into a VOD (video on demand) file, with an embeddable HTML5 player link and iFrame snippet.

• Save videos to your local computer as .mp4 files.

Read more:

• Guide: How to use the Live to VOD tab

• Blog: Live to VOD is now available