A new video-tutorial explaining how to encode a video with DRM protection using Axinom Encoding and Axinom DRM.

New release (R110) of Axinom Mosaic is available!

It's a maintenance release fixing some issues and adding more consistency.

We recommend upgrading the libraries @axinom/mosaic-ui and @axinom/mosaic-service-common.

How do you create your video tutorials? Here is an example where we used for Axinom Mosaic one of the modern text-to-speech tools: (kudos to Nipuni Madanayake).

How does it sound for you? For me it's still a bit "robotic", but it's a native speaker pronunciation (which is not an obvious thing for a non-UK non-US company). And what is even more interesting for me with my passion for continuous delivery - it allows to create a script, store it in git, and GENERATE the audio during build time - same as what you do with any other software build artifacts.

Now you can make modifications to the original script - they are all nicely trackable through git, and new builds can be produced anytime. Compare with an effort you have to make to record such a screencast yourself.

There is still a part with clicking and screen-recording - remains manual, but we are working on it!

We’re excited to announce that Axinom Portal now offers enhanced self-management features designed specifically for organizations with multiple users. Here’s what you can do:

• Manage Environments: Configure, add, start, and stop services with ease. Learn more.
• User Access Management: Directly add or remove users from your tenant, assign roles, and skip the need for support requests. See details.
• Set Up SSO: Enforce your organization’s preferred identity provider (IDP), such as Microsoft or Google, for secure single sign-on.
• Role-Based Access Control: Choose from four user roles—Business, Billing, Admin, and Technical—to fine-tune each user’s access to specific Portal features. Explore roles.

Quick Edit is a productivity-boosting feature inside Axinom Mosaic management system that allows individuals to streamline workflows by allowing quick, in-place editing without the need to navigate away from the main Explorer Station. This is achieved by adding a panel on the right side of the Explorer Station that displays a Quick Edit form for the selected entity. The user can edit the entity in the Quick Edit form and save the changes without leaving the Explorer Station, making the editing process faster and requiring fewer clicks. We’re excited to announce that Axinom Portal now offers enhanced self-management features designed specifically for organizations with multiple users. Here’s what you can do:

Read our new article how to implement Quick Edit in your projects with Axinom Mosaic.

Cabin Secure Media-Independent Messaging (CSMIM) protocol - an evolving ARINC standard - is transforming the aviation industry.

In this deep-dive, Axinom’s Chief Developer Advocate Grigory Grin and product lead Vladislav Kuzmin discuss CSMIM and how this standard empowers airlines to securely manage and deploy in-flight services efficiently, streamlining communication and enhancing the passenger experience.

https://www.axinom.com/video/csmim-explained

Since Google revoked CDMs for older browsers on October 31, 2024, we observe an elevated level of Widevine DRM license rejected errors. We recommend our customers to observe the client error messages, and if "revoked" errors are encountered, to update users' browsers. With the latest revocation, it requires a Chrome version 117+ to deliver a Widevine license successfully.

New release (R108) of Axinom Mosaic is available!

In this iteration of authentication improvements for the Management System, we added support to configure Custom Branding for the Identity Providers that are used by the Management System. This means you will be able to control the Display Name, Display Icon as well as the display order for the external Identity Providers. As part of the same initiative, we've now improved the User Experience of the Admin Portal to find all Identity Provider related configuration under a single station.

New release 1.21.0 of Axinom DRM Key Service is available!

Changes:

• Added optional "keySeedId" parameter to /Harmonic V2 endpoint. When set, chooses a specific Key Seed to use for key generation, instead of the default key seed.

Did you know that with Axinom DRM you can also protect pure audio files?

People usually think, DRM (like Widevine/PlayReady/FairPlay) is about video protection. It is correct, but it is NOT ONLY about video. If you have an audio file (say, MP3), you can feed it to Axinom Encoding, which will convert it to MPEG DASH format and encrypt the audio track according to DRM standards. If you provide no video input, there will be no video track in the output DASH manifest.

You can now use all regular video players to play this asset. In UI it makes sense not to display the video area, as there is no video. But the audio track will play. All the same approaches for an entitlement message ("token") acquisition and sending it to a DRM License Service apply.

Try it out yourself.