With release the 5.10 release, a new transcode system is introduced.

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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. This is only done for old media formats that can be mapped to a supported format type in the new transcode system. Please contact RnD if you have a use case for a format type that is not supported in the new transcode system.

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.

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

• All changes to the old media format are ignored.

• 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 generating the rendition with the new format leads definition would lead to a different renditions than the mapped media format. The new format will always be used

• The old

New thumbnail formats

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• rendition than the existing rendition.

• For new assets, the new transcode system and the new format is used to generate renditions. This is also the case if a rendition of the old media format is requested.

• Renditions of the format can still be requested with the id of the old media format. This is mainly relevant for backward-compatibility reasons.

New thumbnail formats

With the 5.10 release, the thumbnail and preview formats that are defined out of the box have been reworked. By default, this is handled automatically and no manual actions are required.

The main difference between the old and the new thumbnail formats is that they are now webp files with transparency. The old thumbnails were jpeg files without transparency.

As described above

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.

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