When upgrading to 5.10, the new and improved transcode system is automatically used. The old transcode system can still be used in 5.10, but it will be deprecated in later releases.
If you are a consultant, please see DC 5.10 Formats - Migration for more information on how the migration to the new transcode system is handled and things to be aware of in relation to this migration.
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After updating to 5.10, at most 200 new old additional media formats in the old transcode system can be created. If a format in the new transcode can not be used to cover your use case and you need to create an old media format after upgrading to 5.10, please reach out to R&D to share your use case. Ideally, the new transcode system should be able to accommodate your use case.
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Handling of unavailable renditions.
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New thumbnail formats.
Source formats
Handling of unavailable renditions
Previously, asset streamer URLs would never be returned for renditions that weren’t generated yet. However, with the new transcode system, asset streamer URLs are returned for renditions that can be generated but are not necessarily ready yet.
This is relevant for the URLs returned in the following cases:
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Note that most modern browsers limit the maximum number of simultaneous HTTP connections. Thus, if you show a lot of images renditions simultaneously (e.g. thumbnails in an asset list), strongly consider using the mode argument to limit the number of simultaneous HTTP connections. Please be careful that you do not cache the fallback image as the requested image.
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Since the file type of the thumbnails has been changed, the asset streamer returns the response header Content-Type: image/webp instead of the correct response header Content-Type: image/jpeg for existing thumbnails. Most browsers should be able to display the thumbnails despite of this. If it becomes an issue, the existing thumbnails can either be re-generated as described above, or the thumbnail formats can be modified to be of the type jpeg.
Source
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formats
The new transcode system now supports a special SourceFormat that can be used to refer to and get the source files of assets. A special “Original” format of this type is now defined out-of-the-box. If you have previously hard-coded the “Original” format in a list of available download qualities, this can lead to two “Original” formats being shown. It should no longer be necessary to have any special-case handling for getting source formats.
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