Fixes

• Fixed bugs preventing Apple Voiceover controloptionspace commands from working with the player.
• Fixed a bug causing accidental interaction with links and buttons beneath the player when it is floating.
• Fixed an issue preventing the email link from working in the sharing menu.

Updates

• Added support for the requestTimeout configuration option with the DAI client.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing a floating player with auto pause configured from pausing when the tab is backgrounded while an ad is loading.
• Fixed an issue in DAI where seeking past a mid-roll doesn't play the ad if the stream did not have a pre-roll.
• Fixed an issue causing audio-only HLS streams to infinitely buffer when the player tries to autostart muted.
• Fixed a bug preventing the buffer wheel from displaying on Tizen.

Updates

• Added an optional configuration option, advertising.omidSupport, to control if and when our OMID verification script is loaded in the VAST client.
• "auto" (default) loads the OMID script when a parsed ad XML contains a verification node.
• "enabled" always loads the OMID script as soon as the VAST plugin is loaded.
• "disabled" prevents the OMID script from ever loading.
• Updated the default behavior of OMID script loading from "enabled" to "auto."

Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing lines of subtitles to display in a very small font in fullscreen when that contained inline voice tags in the VTT file.
• Fixed issues where the player API and internal objects were not being released from memory after a player is removed.
• Fixed a bug causing the getEnvironment().Browser method in Microsoft Edge to return as Chrome.

Updates

• Added support for Google IMA's OMID beta with a configuration option in the advertising object, omidSupport. The default is "disabled", but can be used when set to "enabled".
• Improved the user experience by not automatically fullscreening the video in a floating player when an Android device is rotated.
• Updated JWP to hls.js v1.0.0, which is a major milestone in the open source HLS community.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in Android Chrome causing the player to override the stream's aspect ratio and fill the entire screen with the video rather than incur a small amount of letterboxing.
• Fixed a bug with some ad preloading configurations causing infinite buffering.
• Fixed unintended animated behavior when seeking in a muted player with Safari.
• Fixed an error causing some HLS streams to stall.
• Fixed an issue on mobile devices where floating players didn't display IMA ads properly.
• Fixed an issue causing IMA mid-roll ads to infinitely buffer.

Updates

• Improved stalling when there is significant drift from the edge of live streams.

Fixes

• Fixed issues causing layout shift (CLS) when transitioning to and from the floating player.
• Fixed a bug causing buffering when seeking after any ad in iOS Safari.

Updates

• Added support for OMID ads in the VAST client. No configuration is required; the player automatically handles verification when the XML is returned.
• To the VAST client, added the adVerifications node to the adImpression event response, which returns the parsed content of that element in an object.
• Added a new configuration option to the advertising object, allowedOmidVendors, which accepts an array and is supported in the VAST client. If not set or set as an empty array, all vendors can run. If set, only the resources from the listed vendors can run. All failures to run verification will be noted accordingly to the ad server.

Fixes

• Made CSS changes to reduce layout shifts across the player, most notably one caused by the transition between Google IMA ads and media, but also including the control bar and icons, floating player, and tooltips.
• Fixed a longstanding issue where some VPAIDs would not play when they were the second ad in a pod using the VAST client.
• Fixed an issue causing the play event to fire after the firstFrame in live streams.
• Service related fixes to improve low latency streaming and HLS streaming in general.

Known Issues

• We are tracking a known Chromium bug where touch events erroneously increases a page's CLS score, such as dragging the floating player.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing buffering after DAI ads.
• Fixed a bug where for some streams, the audio-only rendition was shown before upswitching instead of the lowest quality video rendition.

Updates

• Removed support for Flash, which was deprecated by Adobe on December 31, 2020.
• Added out of the box support for low latency HLS streams, including partials, automatic playback rate adjustment, hold back, and part hold back. The player automatically detects low latency streams and goes into that mode with no additional configuration required.
• Added support for low latency in JW Live Channels streams.
• Added support for IMSC1 captions in HLS streams.
• Added markup to discourage Google from displaying player error messages in search result snippets.
• Removed a default value for liveSyncDuration. The player will no longer add a default of 25 to item sources.
• Improved automatic latency defaults by starting HLS live streams with a latency based on the streams TARGET-DURATION or HOLD-BACK, in accordance with the HLS spec. This can still be overridden in browsers other than Safari by configuring liveSyncDuration, which used to default to 25 seconds.
• Added duration, currentTime, seekRange, and metadata.currentTime to the seek event response.
• Added targetLatency to time events. When playing live streams, the player will adjust playbackRate to meet the latency target.
• mproved stream type detection for Yospace streams, which often contain query string parameters after the file extension.
• Reduced fatal player errors caused by user agents represented as Safari that are really Chrome.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the player to buffer indefinitely instead of erroring when all levels in an HLS manifest 404.
• Fixed a bug causing only one ad in a VMAP ad pod to play when the VMAP is passed via playlist.adschedule.

Known Issues

• Changed release cadence of the Biannual channel from updating to the latest version every six months to updating to a six month old version every six months. This allows Biannual channel to run a much older version for longer, and offers greater rollback options, as the other channels often are running similar versions.

Updates 

• Added a new configuration option, horizontalVolumeSlider, that when optionally set to true, makes the volume slider appear horizontally, below the scroll bar, instead of above it. 

Fixes 

• Fixed an accessibility issue where pressing the escape key while in the captions styling menu did not close the settings menu as expected.
• Fixed a bug in audio-only mode where the volume slider couldn’t be used during ad playback.
• Fixed an issue in Chrome where audio tracks were not appearing in the settings menu as expected.
• Fixed an issue where after a mid-roll ad is played, duplicate captions tracks appeared to be available in the captions menu.
• Fixed an issue in Safari where captions on HLS streams did not function properly after ad breaks.
• Fixed a bug preventing the player from automatically advancing to the next item in a playlist when controls: false is defined in the setup configuration.

New Features 

• Added a new configuration option to the advertising block, adTagParameters, an object, which supports custom parameter key value pairs with the DAI ad client.
• Added a new configuration option to the advertising block, ppid, which can be used with the Google IMA client to pass a publisher provided id to the IMA SDK.
• Added fallback support for Norwegian automated player translation. In addition to no, which is already supported, the player will now recognize html tag lang attributes of nn or nb as Norwegian as well. To customize text, please use the no object inside of the internationalization block regardless of which code is used in the page's lang attribute.