Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue causing players to fail to set up on websites using zone.js.

Updates

Advertising

• Expanded the on(‘adsManager’) event, which fires when the ad manager is loaded, to IMA. This event can be used to integrate with third-party vendors.

Fixes

Advertising

• Fixed an issue on iOS where tapping on an IMA ad was treated as a right click.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where closed captions were cut off in Android Chrome browsers for portrait and full-screen playback.

Updates

Core Player

• Added a new recommendations interface, the shelf widget, which will place a recommendations shelf directly below the player, outside of the player’s container by setting related.displayMode to shelfWidget.
• Added a new startTime configuration setting for playlist items that will instruct the player to begin playback of the media at the time specified.
• Added multiple channel support for EIA-608 Captions (CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4).

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where a duration property with an empty string was being passed to the getPlaylist API getter.
• Fixed a bug where some casting icons would inherit the page’s button styles.
• Fixed an intermittent issue causing 'Cannot Load M3U8: 400' errors in HLS live streams.

Ads

• In IMA, fixed an issue with SpotX not loading when requireJS is used to instantiate a player.

Fixes

Ads

• Resolved a bug in the VAST ad plugin that arose in 8.4.3 where calling playAd() in on(‘beforePlay’) would cause the ad and content to play simultaneously.

Updates

Ads

• Updated ad preloading functionality in the VAST ad plugin to include preloading the preroll of subsequent playlist items.
• Added the configuration property ‘bidOnBreaks’ for Video Player Bidding to the VAST ad plugin.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where incorrectly registering a plugin results in a setup error.
• Fixed an issue in iOS Safari where the captions would not be scaled correctly when in fullscreen.
• Fixed an issue In HLS streams where AAC segments with a timestamp of zero were considered to have no timestamp at all.

Ads

• Fixed an issue with custom ad countdown macros where xx would be incorrectly replaced with the countdown in cases where the macro is part of a word like ‘Hexx’.
• Fixed an issue with Video Player Bidding with DFP mediation where multiple key-value pairs could get added erroneously.
• Fixed an issue where the VAST ad plugin was not using the element of the VAST XML when provided to determine the skipoffset.
• Fixed an issue with the VAST ad plugin on iOS Safari where toggling the mute state when using vpaidcontrols:true sometimes had no effect.

Updates

Ads

• For FreeWheel ad plugin, added ‘PVRN’, ‘VPRN’ values to the ad request for forecasting purposes.
• For FreeWheel ad plugin, started passing ‘afid’, and ‘sfid’ values to the ad request for fallback purposes if the primary Asset ID and Site Section ID fail.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue with players embedded through an iframe where the controls did not fade out when the user moused away from the video via the bottom of the player.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the playlist overlay to sometimes not resize correctly when the player size changes.
• Fixed an issue where custom playback rates were being rounded to the nearest .25 increment, rather than to the nearest hundredth digit.
• Fixed an issue where if the player was set up multiple times, it would reload javascript for a plugin that was already registered. We now ensure that individual plugins are only loaded and registered once. We now remove registered plugins that fail to load or instantiate (allowing new player setups to retry).

Ads

• Fixed an issue with the IMA ad plugin where the pause and fullscreen buttons may be inactive for prerolls following the first playlist item.
• Fixed an issue with the VAST ad plugin where certain VPAID ads might result in two new tabs being opened instead of a single tab when the user clicks the ad.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with IMA and poor connections where ‘play’ might be called before the playlistItem event fires, which resulted in an error.
• Fixed a bug where sharing a video through the player caused the shared links to 404 if the url did not already contain a parameter.

Updates

Core Player

• New player error coding and classification system documented in new Error Reference doc.
• Error codes now appear in the developer console with deep links to the Error Reference page.
• Error code assignments map to new non-technical, viewer-friendly error messages displayed in the player.
• Improved player error display to be responsive to screen width and message length.
• Changed structure of error events. Refer to Error Reference.
• Added support for entering or exiting full screen on Android devices when a user rotates their device.
• Added JW Player custom parameters to links that are shared via the sharing menu, which makes it possible to track plays that result from sharing a video.

Accessibility

• Documented our screen reader support in our Accessibility Reference.
• Improved menu navigation to conform with accessibility standards; up and down arrows navigate items in a submenu, while tabbing selects different menus.
• Added the ability to focus on the time slider (progress bar).
• Added screen reader support to read out the current position when focused on the time slider or when seeking.
• Added screen reader support to read out the volume when changed.

Ads

• Created a new configuration property for VAST and IMA, preloadAds, which enables ad preloading for prerolls, midrolls, postrolls in the first playlist item.
• Added a viewableImpression event to VAST and IMA based on the IAB definition of viewability, which states that a video must be 50% viewable for at least 2 seconds.
• Re-added the fullscreen icon during ad playback at all breakpoints. This was previously removed to conserve controlbar space.
• Now passing autoplay/mute status to DFP with VAST.
• Improved behavior of the FreeWheel ad plugin with ad blockers by proceeding directly to content rather than waiting for a timeout.
• Re-added the fullscreen icon to the ads controlbar for all breakpoints.
• Added a new configuration property for IMA bidOnBreaks for Video Player Bidding which allows for bidding on only the first X of the scheduled breaks to reduce latency.
• Released full support for Google DAI.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where the cursor would disappear if you set controls to false via setControls().

Accessibility

• Fixed a bug causing the space and enter keys to not work with JAWS in IE 11.
• Fixed an issue that allowed JAWS to focus on hidden elements in IE 11.
• Fixed an issue preventing menus from closing by hitting the ESC key.

Ads

• Fixed an issue with IMA where a blank ad schedule would erroneously throw a 21009 error.
• Fixed an issue with certain VPAID creatives where the mute state of the creative (muted) didn’t match the mute state of the player controls (not muted), and required multiple taps of the mute button to get the mute state in sync.
• Fixed an issue with VAST and the vpaidcontrols configuration property where the mute button had no effect for certain VPAIDs.
• Fixed an issue where the skip button would be visible even though the ad was too short to ever be able to use the skip button.

Known Ads Issue

• When enabling ad preloading with IMA for click to play or autostart:viewable players, some VPAIDs incorrectly autostart without a user gesture on Firefox, IE 11, and Edge.

Fixes

Ads

• Resolved an issue with Google IMA and Facebook Audience Network (FAN) VPAIDs on iOS where, in certain situations, the ad might incorrectly error out instead of generating an impression.
• Resolved an issue with Google IMA on iOS where certain ads might throw an ad error with click to play players depending on viewability.