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Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.17.3

  • Fixed an issue to work around a bug in the Google IMA SDK affecting Android Chrome 84 only where unplayable linear ad MIME types were being erroneously selected.
Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.17.2

  • Fixed an issue where calling stop() disables sound completely when resuming playback on HLS streams.
  • Fixed a bug where some data was not being exposed in the on('meta') and on('metadataCueParsed') events.
  • Fixed a bug where the mute/unmute button was not properly read by a screen reader.
  • Fixed an issue causing some streams to show an erroneously long duration.


Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.17.1

Service release, no new features.

Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.17.0

Updates

  • Added a method, setFloating(), which starts and stops the player from floating, and getFloating(), which returns the current floating status.
  • Added a new configuration option in the floating object, mode, which defaults to notVisible, which is current behavior for floating when the original container would be out of view. always can be used to start floating and never stop unless updated with the API, and never can be used to not float, unless updated by API.
  • Made some big improvements to the way we do scheduling in the Google IMA client:
    • We now make ad request for each ad break, rather than creating a VMAP for the entire schedule for each playlist item.   
    • The adRequest event has been changed to fire each time we make ad request to IMA SDK.   
    • Added a new adLoaded event, which fires when IMA's LOADED event fires.
  • Deprecated the ability to use the playlistItem event to update an ad schedule. By the time that event fires, the schedule for the playlist item has already been created, so the change does not have an effect. Please use setPlaylistItemCallback to properly update the ad schedule.

Fixes

  • Remediated a browser issue where stream often starts with just audio and no video on IE11 Windows 10 and older versions of Edge.
  • Fixed a bug preventing preloading on Safari desktop and iOS browsers.
  • Fixed a bug causing the wrong audio track to appear selected after the setCurrentAudioTrack is called.
  • Fixed an issue where scrolling to the bottom of a page intermittently triggers the page to jump back to the player.


Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.16.3

Fixes 

  • Fixed an issue causing incorrect emsg messageData to be emitted.
  • Fixed an issue causing some mid-roll emsg cues to be missed.
  • Fixed a bug where the url to a side-loaded thumbnails track was displayed instead of subtitles when casting.
  • Fixed an issue where an audio-only HLS stream with alternate tracks never buffers or plays.
  • Fixed overlapping right-to-left text displayed over ads in the Google IMA client.
  • Fixed a bug causing captions to not be cleared when going to an ad break on iOS Safari.
  • Fixed a bug on IE11 where the volume slider could not be used.
  • Fixed an issue where the player errors or gets stuck in an idle state when loading the last playlist item if it is rejected by the async playlist API callback.
  • Fixed a bug where some captions were displayed incompletely on browsers were HLS streams are not rendered natively. 


Access Control
4 years ago

Studio DRM Standalone

New Features

  • New VUDRM cluster based in Oregon has been released and is serving traffic
  • NGINX VOD Module support added to CPIX API Harmonic support added to CPIX API
  • GEO-based restrictions can now be set in VUDRM token policy


Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.16.0

Updates

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


Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.15.2

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.


Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.15.1

Service release, no new features.

Web Player
4 years ago

Web: 8.15.0

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.