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JW Player moves CMAF VOD into the dashboard, adds AV1, and opens Broadcast Live to audio-only feeds.

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◆Current state
JW Player shipped three JWX releases on October 26: CMAF VOD uploads and transcoding from the dashboard, AV1 renditions for CMAF VOD, and audio-only Broadcast Live streams delivered over HLS and DASH. They follow the October 20 DRM monitoring section and October's account-level ad operations and unified live/VOD clipping.
◆Where it's heading
CMAF VOD is moving from an API-first pipeline to the default workflow: re-uploads, captions, dashboard transcoding and now AV1 have arrived one by one since late September. In parallel the JWX dashboard keeps absorbing operations work, and live delivery is widening to formats beyond video.
◆Prediction
Expect remaining CMAF parity gaps to close and the dashboard upload flow to make CMAF the default; the entries don't show whether Traditional VOD will be retired.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Audio-only streams for Broadcast Live

    Broadcast Live can now ingest and publish audio-only streams over HLS and DASH, so radio or podcast-style live feeds no longer need a dummy video track. It widens live delivery while the rest of October's work stayed on VOD and operations.

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  2. 2d ago

    AV1 support for CMAF VOD

    CMAF VOD now produces or accepts AV1 renditions, giving publishers a royalty-free codec with lower bitrates at the same quality. It is the first CMAF item that goes beyond Traditional VOD parity rather than catching up to it.

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  3. 2d ago

    CMAF VOD transcoding in the JWX dashboard

    Uploading through the JWX dashboard can now route media through the CMAF VOD transcoding workflow, which until now needed the API. It removes the main friction keeping non-developer teams on Traditional VOD.

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  4. 9d ago

    DRM monitoring dashboard

    DRM license request health now shows up in a Monitoring section under JWX Analytics. It extends the same consolidation seen in the ad and editing releases: another operational task moves into the dashboard publishers already use.

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  5. 16d ago

    Manage JWX Ad Server across properties

    JWX Ad Server now runs ad operations at the account level across multiple properties, with an Operations role and property targeting. It extends September's ad-analytics work and the SSAI beta from per-property monetization toward a central ad-ops desk for multi-site publishers.

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  6. 17d ago

    Unified trimming and clipping for live and VOD media

    Live and VOD media now share one trimming and clipping tool, timeline and workflow in the JWX dashboard. It is the same consolidation logic as the CMAF parity releases, applied to editing: one workflow instead of two.

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