Updates

• Improved compatibility with the AMP framework and quality assurance capabilities of our amp-jwplayer component.
• To supplement documentation we maintain on amp.dev, we created JWP developer documentation on embedding an AMP player and working with AMP analytics.
• Added a configuration option, playlistIndex, which enables a playlist to be loaded and start playback from any item within it, not just the first. The default of this option is a 0 index.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing captions from working on some live streams.
• Fixed a problem with Chromecast where captions were not casting.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong captions track appeared to be selected if both in-manifest and side-loaded captions tracks are present.

Known Issue

• The video-seconds-played trigger listed for configuration in amp-video-analytics does not work properly in this release. This will be fixed in a future release. All other triggers listed should operate as expected.

Updates 

Core Player

• Added a new property, cueType, to the addCues event, which adds a custom CSS class that can be used for additional cue styling in the format of .jw-cue-type-{cueType}.
• Added a new CSS class .jw-cue-type-ads to ad cues so they can be styled separately from other cues, such as chapter markers.
• Added support for 608 caption track names defined in the parent manifest via #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=CLOSED-CAPTIONS tags.

Advertising

• To the VAST client, added support for the VAST 4.1 viewableImpression node, which adds a tracking pixel to the page when the adImpression event fires based on whether the ad is viewable at that time.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed a bug preventing captions from being cast to Chromecast.
• Fixing an issue occurring in some environments where resuming a stopped live stream turns captions off.
• Fixed an issue causing some HLS streams to stall when upshifting quality in Edge.
• Fixed a bug where captions no longer displayed after ads in Safari.

New Features

• New VUDRM cluster based in Bahrain has been released and is serving traffic
• New endpoint for VUDRM CPIX API has been released to work with USP version 1.9.5
• Infrastructure update to ensure the latest security patches are running on all VUDRM clusters.

Service release, no new features.

Service release, no new features.

Service release, no new features.

Updates 

Advertising

• Added Video Player Bidding support for Index Exchange.
• Reduced human error in setting up player bidding on the client side by making the accepted values in advertising.bidders case insensitive.
• Added case insensitivity to directional AdChoices logo positioning values (top, right, left, bottom) coming from ad responses. Before, incorrect casing would always result in a top-left positioned AdChoices logo.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed an issue causing DASH segmented VTT captions (cue times are relative to the segment time rather than total video time) to show up all at once at the beginning.
• Fixed an accessibility bug where Apple Voiceover does not announce the volume slider when focused in Safari.
• Fixed an accessibility issue where keyboard shortcuts stop working in fullscreen mode after interacting with the time slider.

Advertising

• Fixed an issue in IMA where the on('adsManager') event returned a null payload instead of the object.

Fix

Core Player

• Fixed a bug where the player was unable to replay media after it had been completed in some cases.

Updates 

Core Player

• Extended the Javascript API to allow for asynchronous blocking between playlist items. Loading, preloading, ads, and playback of the next playlist item can be blocked until async operation, wrapped in a promise, resolves.
• Exposed metadataCueParsed events in Safari when ID3 tags are parsed.
• Reduced core player library size by 9.4%.
• Added support to load and parse HLS manifest metadata in Safari when an HLS stream contains #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags.
• Added a new boolean configuration option, loadAndParseHlsMetadata, which can be set to false to disable metadata parsing in Safari, which will lower manifest requests.
• Increased the number of seconds before a video completes where the next playlist item’s content begins to load from two to five in order to better accommodate asynchronous operations and reduce rebuffering.

Advertising

• Enabled Prebid.js to power client side auctions and migrated existing JW Video Player Bidding demand partners to use Prebid’s adapters.
• Created a new event, adWarning in the VAST plugin, which fires when a non-fatal ad error occurs that does not prevent fill.
• Created warning 70001 for VAST error code 1002, which occurs when a VMAP does not contain tracking events for the ad break.
• Added a new boolean configuration option, withCredentials to the advertising block, which when set to false will make just one ad call, one without credentials. By default, this option is set to true, which explicitly makes ad requests with credentials.
• Added support to prioritize ad schedules configured within an individual playlist item over any other ad schedule in Google IMA and Freewheel.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed a Javascript exception being thrown in live HLS streams using program-date-time metadata.

Service release, no new features.