Release notes

This page provides the release notes for Media Gateway.

2025.5.28

New features

• Low-bitrate high-quality streaming

  Video transcoding now supports low-bitrate high-quality streaming through PVC and Super Resolution features. For configuration details, see PVC and Super Quality configuration.

• Adaptive Bitrate (ABR)

  Stream configuration templates now support ABR functionality. For configuration details, see Enable adaptive bitrate.

• SRT streaming protocol support

  Gateway nodes now support the SRT protocol with the following codec formats:

  • Video: H.264, H.265
  • Audio: AAC, OPUS

  For configuration details, see SRT streaming.

Improvements

• NCS callback configuration by VID

  Configure NCS callback logic by VID. For the live_profile_updated event, you can configure which profile fields are required.

• NCS callback event updates

  This version updates the format of NCS callback events, including:

  • live_stream_connected: Now includes transcoding parameter configuration information for the current stream
  • live_stream_disconnected: Now includes total input and output bytes for the stream, enabling average bitrate calculation when combined with stream start and end times

2024.8.21

This release includes the following updates:

• Adds support for a backup primary domain name and a secondary domain name to ensure service availability.
• Adds the mode field for setting the transcoding mode, and updates width, height, and fps fields to support more transcoding options.

2024.6.21

Agora Media Gateway reaches General Availability status with the following core functions:

• Pushing media streams into Agora SDRTN(R)
• Supporting RTMP and SRT streaming protocols, H.264 and H.265 video codecs, and AAC audio codec
• Customizing transcoding options, including video resolution, frame rate, and bitrate