Updates

• Added support for triggering the on('meta') and on('metadataCueParsed') methods based on in-band emsg timed metadata.

Updates 

• To the VAST ad client, added support for the jwpseg macro from within VAST tags contained within a wrapper.
• Improved playback resilience and error handling with some bad VPAID ad creatives.

Fixes 

• Fixed an issue in the VAST client preventing some ad creatives from properly timing out.
• Fixed a bug causing captions in some DASH streams to abruptly stop displaying.
• Fixed an issue in the VAST client where the player would not request additional ads after one ad in a pod timed out.

Service release, no new features.

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.