Updates 

Core Player

• Extended all of the playlist user interface configuration options in the related block to work for all playlists (not just those of the JWP Recommendations product).
• Added a displayMode option, “none,” which removes a playlist interface during playback. This option is ideal if you’ve created your own playlist widget or interface outside of the player, since having a duplicate inside the player container is redundant. The next video button remains, and the playlist overlay that appears in between videos is configured separately, via related.oncomplete.
• Added a new option to related.complete, none, which automatically advances the video to the next item in the playlist without showing an overlay in between. This is also now the default value and was already the behavior for all manual playlists.
• Improved responsiveness of player so that it is resized whenever its parent container is resized.
• Increased the size of the user interface when a player is larger than 1280px wide (breakpoint 7).
• Decreased the number of icons in the user interface when a player is smaller than 320px wide and added a new breakpoint (-1) to support it.
• Added support for Program-Date-Time metadata in Safari, making this the preferred method for SSAI and live streaming implementations across all browsers.

Advertising

• Added support to pass a GDPR macro in an ad tag using either the VAST or IMA plugin.
• Added support for ad pods in an ad schedule using our VAST plugin. When an ad schedule is configured with an array of breaks that all contain the same offset, the player will automatically create a pod and play the ads in succession before returning to the content. Each ad in the pod may have a separate ad tag, and events such as errors will fire separately for each ad.

Fixes 

Core Player

• Fixed an issue with the autoPause feature where a player also configured to autostart with volume muted will not automatically resume playing when brought back into view if the video has already been umuted by the viewer.
• Fixed a bug where the horizontal volume knob appeared when dragging the seek slider.
• Fixed an issue where the next up display did not appear on Recommendations playlist feeds.
• Fixed a bug that prevented social media sharing in the player.

Advertising

• Improved user experience by fixing an issue where the ads mode UI would appear briefly before content playback when only a mid-roll ad was scheduled.