Updates

Core Player

• Improved media notifications on Android by including poster images and publisher domain names.

Ads

• Added a new ad error code (900 / 60007) that gets raised when there’s an attempt to load ads on Android 2.3, which is not supported.
• Added creativeID from the VAST XML response to the VAST admanager’s adImpression/adError events.
• For Video Player Bidding, segmented bidresponsetime by now also reporting the script loading time and the time between adBidRequest and adBidResponse.
• Improved “Ad loading” messaging for the VAST admanager to only show when an actual ad is being loaded.
• Improved reporting of Video Player Bidding impression tracking when the DFP mediation layer is used.
• Added breakstart and breakend events to Google DAI.
• Removed ad countdown and pod count messaging in Google DAI “live” scenarios to prevent incorrect messaging.

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed a bug preventing poster images from displaying during playback of audio-only streams with the audio/mp4 MIME type.
• Fixed an accessibility issue in Firefox that allowed the video tag itself to be focusable.
• Fixed an issue where setting up the player twice resulted in duplicate analytics pings being fired for certain events (eg. completes).

Ads

• For FreeWheel, modified the default admanager URL (which loads when a publisher hasn’t specified their own) to load successfully over both HTTP and HTTPS.
• Fixed an issue with the VAST admanager where certain preroll VPAID ads would incorrectly show the skip button when the vpaidcontrols config option was set.
• Fixed an issue with SpotX Video Player Bidding where the startdelay parameter was being passed incorrectly for midrolls.
• Fixed an issue where calling load() while the player is in the “Loading ad” state could cause infinite buffering in very low-bandwidth situations.
• Fixed an issue with the VAST admanager where setting the offset for two ads where one is set to be pre and the other 0 would prevent the second ad from playing.
• Fixed an issue with Google DAI on Safari where seeking past multiple unplayed midrolls could cause the player’s timeslider to stall or jump back and forth.