> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gcore.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What's new in Video Streaming

> New capabilities and important changes to Gcore Video Streaming.

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  <p className="whats-new-month">September 2026</p>

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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Drop or silence audio on a restream</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">A restream request accepts <code>no\_audio</code> and <code>no\_audio\_mode</code> to drop the audio track or replace it with silence. YouTube rejects a stream with no audio track, so a restream to YouTube uses silence.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/live-streaming/create-and-configure-a-restream-to-social-media">Restreaming</a></p>
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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Play VOD and live examples in demo players</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">Sample players cover VOD and live streams for HLS MPEG-TS, HLS CMAF, MPEG-DASH CMAF, LL-HLS, and LL-DASH. Each example includes a player link and a manifest link.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/getting-started/demo">Demo</a></p>
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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Filter Streaming statistics by content type</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">Aggregation endpoints accept <code>type</code> so results can be limited to live streams, VOD, or playlists.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/statistics/view-statistics-of-live-streams-videos-and-billing">View statistics</a></p>
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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-fixed">Fixed</span><span className="whats-new-title">Correct request and response schemas in the Streaming API</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">Schemas for videos, broadcasts, players, restreams, and playlists match the Streaming API.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/api-reference/streaming">Streaming API</a></p>
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  <p className="whats-new-month">August 2026</p>

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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Use a path-based RTMP ingest URL for legacy cameras</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">A legacy RTMP camera that cannot send a query string can place the push token in the path. The same form is accepted on the backup ingest URL.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/live-streaming/primary-backup#push-link-formats">Push link formats</a></p>
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  <p className="whats-new-month">June 2026</p>

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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-improved">Improved</span><span className="whats-new-title">Identify the active ingest region through the API</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body"><code>active\_ingest\_region\_primary</code> and <code>active\_ingest\_region\_backup</code> show which region is receiving the primary ingest and which is receiving the backup. Each field returns that region code, or null when the ingest is inactive.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/live-streaming/primary-backup">Push, pull, backup</a></p>
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  <p className="whats-new-month">May 2026</p>

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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Send restreams to SRT endpoints</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">A restream can push to an SRT endpoint in caller mode.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/live-streaming/create-and-configure-a-restream-to-social-media#srt-target-url-parameters">SRT parameters</a></p>
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    <p className="whats-new-meta"><span className="whats-new-badge whats-new-badge-new">New</span><span className="whats-new-title">Protect SRT ingest with a passphrase</span></p>
    <p className="whats-new-body">An SRT PUSH stream can require <code>srt\_passphrase</code>. The encoder sends the same value, and SRT encrypts the MPEG-TS ingest between the sender and Gcore. This does not encrypt playback URLs.</p>
    <p className="whats-new-more"><a href="/streaming/live-streaming/protocols/srt#protect-srt-ingest-with-a-passphrase">SRT passphrase</a></p>
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