Updates 

Core Player

• Improved float-on-scroll responsiveness with more precise player visibility detection.

Updates 

Core Player

• Added a next up notification to small players.

Advertising

• In the VAST plugin, filtered out 3gpp creatives due to lack of codec support in some environments.
• Fixed an issue in the IMA plugin where programmatically calling skipAd before an ad becomes skippable would not skip the ad, but cause the media to start playing in the background.
• Updated the following Ad Error codes to better reflect the root causes of the error:
  • 60004 is now 10402 (Creative timeout)
  • 60001 is now 10303 (No ads response)
  • 50004 is now 51901 (VPAID general error)
  • 234003 is now 10405 (Request for MP4 creative returns a 404)
  • 242404 is now 10403 (Request for HLS creative returns a 404)

Updates 

Core Player

• Fixed an issue causing the player to infinitely buffer when resuming after a stopping a live stream with separate audio tracks.
• Fixed a bug where the captions menu was removed when casting with Chrome unless captions were enabled prior to casting for manifests with sideloaded VTT captions.
• Fixed an issue making captions unavailable when casting if chapter tracks are also present in the feed.
• Fixed a Javascript exception when a Chromecast session errors.
• Fixed style bleeding on some menus that may appear on sites with global ul styles.

Updates

Core Player

• Made security improvements to input handling.
• Added a tooltip over the play and pause icons to improve accessibility.

Advertising

• Added inner error details to Google IMA 901 "General VPAID Error” errors.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where stalled live HLS streams were not entering the buffer state or emitting buffer events.
• Fixed an issue where players in iframes configured to float would minimize in the iframe instead of the containing page. Floating is not supported in players set up in iframes.
• Fixed an issue causing a floating player to not always be the topmost item on the page.
• Removed logging of the {{Negative cursor position -1}} error in HLS streams.
• Fixed incorrect styling of the Chromecast button.
• Fixed a bug causing the right click menu to be too large.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue causing the floating player to go back to its original location on complete of each playlist item. Skipping to the next video by clicking a thumbnail or the next up button was unaffected.

Updates

Core Player

• Added a new object, floating, which keeps the player visible when the original player location is scrolled out of view by minimizing it to the bottom right corner of the screen (and the top of the page in portrait mode on small screens). Viewers cannot hide the floating player and send it back to its original location when floating.dismissible is set to false. Learn more about floating in our documentation.
• Removed a previously undocumented configuration option, floatOnScroll, which was available for a beta version of the floating player. Please use the new floating block above.
• Added the ability for the viewer to drag and reposition the floating player anywhere on the screen. Dragging is disabled during ad playback.
• Added a new object, autoPause, which automatically pauses the video when less than 50% in view, including when the player is no longer in the active tab. Learn more about autopause in our documentation.
• Added support for CMAF format streams across all browsers.
• Improved handling of relative protocol urls so that JW Player hosted protocol-relative playlist urls can play when accessing a webview that has js embed with file:// protocol. Only jwplatform playlist urls starting with "//" are changed to be loaded over https. URLs for other domains or for ad tags must be fully resolved in the setup configuration.
• Improved the user experience by retaining the paused state after a viewer seeks while paused. Developers who have worked around this in the past by calling pause() on seek no longer need to use the API, but anyone who wishes to resume playback automatically after a seek event now must call play().
• Improved clarity by hiding the settings menu gear icon in the control bar if the only submenu option is also a shortcut icon in the control bar, which applies to sharing and captions.
• Added a volume slider to control bar only players, which is used to play audio. Setting a player’s height to 42px automatically puts the player into control bar only mode.
• Added a reference dialog for keyboard shortcuts within the player, which can be accessed via the right click menu or evoked by pressing SHIFT+?.
• Added support for all playlists to use our recommendations user interfaces by setting related.displayMode to shelf or shelfWidget. Read more about this option in the configuration reference. The default interface for playlists that are not generated through our recommendations product remains as overlay.
• Removed the localization option, playlist, which localized the tooltip text, overlay heading, and aria-label HTML attribute of a playlist overlay. To customize this text, please use related.heading within the intlblock.
• Added a shortcut to sharing in the right click menu.
• Added automatic localization support for six new languages: Russian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Finnish. Check our support article for a full list of the 21 supported languages and to submit a request for additional languages.

Advertising

• Deprecated the on(‘adManager’) event for Google IMA and Freewheel, which fires when the ad manager is loaded. on(‘adsManager’), with an “s”, should be used instead.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed a typo in the French translation of the word share.

Advertising

• Fixed an issue causing audio to play in background.

Fixes 

Player

• Fixed an issue with HLS live streams where in-manifest VTT captions were not displaying consistently throughout the video.

Fixes 

Player

• Fixed an issue with HLS live streams where in-manifest VTT captions were not displaying consistently throughout the video.

Updates

Core Player

• Improved the casting experience by starting a casted DVR stream at the live edge instead of at the beginning of the stream.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where custom right click text was not appearing when the player was automatically localized.
• Fixed a bug that caused a javascript exception when exiting fullscreen by pressing the escape key.
• Fixed an issue causing the play icon on small click-to-play players to spin when clicked.
• Fixed a Flash issue preventing seeking in DVR streams in IE 11 on Windows 7.
• Fixed an issue in Safari where clicking on the rewind button during a live stream with DVR would seek back inconsistently, instead of ten seconds.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where screen readers did not read the mute button correctly.
• Fixed an issue in Safari when using the left and right arrow hotkeys to seek where screen readers did not announce the seek if there were multiple players on the page.
• Improved ads accessibility by not fading controls when using the keyboard to navigate and ensuring the skip button is in the correct tab order from left to right. Note that due to third-party limitations, ads rendered in iframes and through the Google IMA plugin may not be accessible.

Updates

Core Player

• Added a new error code, 102007 (ERROR_XHR_FILE_PROTOCOL), which fires when a player fails to set up on a page that is using the file:// protocol.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where HLS DVR content did not start playback at the live edge.
• Fixed a bug where the settings menu would be displayed in the idle state if it was opened via a load API call.
• Fixed an issue where timeline thumbnails and chapter cue points did not display on touch devices when dragging to seek.
• Fixed an issue where sharing.on('open') erroneously fires multiple times after calling load.

Advertising

• Fixed an issue where the opacity of the ad video element was 0 for some VPAID Google IMA ads, which increased the hidden ad rate recorded by ad verification vendors.