With release 5.10, a new transcode system is introduced.

The new transcode system has been written from scratch and is much easier to configure than the old transcode system. The main capabilities of the new transcode system are described here.

When upgrading existing environments to 5.10, the new transcode system is automatically used as much as possible. The old transcode system can still be used in 5.10 but will be deprecated in later releases. Thus, it is highly advised to fully use the new transcode system instead of the old transcode system as soon as possible.

This page describes the main things to be aware of when migrating to the new transcode system.

Automatic migration

When upgrading to 5.10, as many old media formats as possible are automatically migrated to new formats. In particular, a new format with the same name as the old format is created, and then the old format is mapped to the new format.

An overview of all formats can be seen in the system administration page in the Media Manager. If a format is mapped to an old media format, this can be seen in the “Mapped media formats” parameter when viewing the details of a format.

When an old media format is mapped to a new format, please be aware of the following:

• Existing renditions are not re-generated. Thus, the existing renditions will be used when requesting renditions of existing assets in the new format. This is also the case if the new format leads to different renditions than the mapped media format. The new format will always be used

• The old

New thumbnail formats

Thumbnails and automatic migration

Things to be aware of

• After updating to 5.10, at most 200 new old media formats can be created. If you need to create an old media format after upgrading to 5.10, please reach out to RnD to share your use case. Ideally, the new transcode system should be able to accommodate your use case.