Improved Time to Ready for VOD Assets

With this update, builders and viewers can expect 95 - 99% faster time-to-ready for VOD assets, so that videos are playable as soon as file upload completes. This is particularly important for recordings of live events (where it's important to make the recording available as soon as possible) and for social applications (where fast uploads improve posting experience).

Builders do not need to take any action to access these improvements. Under the hood, source video is made playable as soon as upload completes. In the background video processing (including transcoding) continues as usual, and transcoded renditions are made available when ready.

For rapid processing of assets that will also be archived on IPFS or Arweave, we strongly encourage either (1) uploading to Livepeer with the IPFS storage option enabled, or (2) uploading the raw file to Livepeer via or the API prior to archiving on dStorage, rather than passing the IPFS / Arweave gateway URL. The gateway URL will work, but may incur longer-than-usual processing time.