Player iOS / tvOS Releases

• HTTP response status code to SourceErrorEvent.data for failed DRM requests

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1
• Playback gets stuck when playing a Progressive Ad results in an AdError
• Loading a new Source from a PlayerError or a SourceErrorEvent does not work
• Loading a new Source from a PlaybackFinishedEvent sometimes does not start playback automatically when isAutoPlayEnabled is set to true
• Unexpected TimeChanged event is emitted between the Play and PlayingEvent when a Source or a Playlist is replayed
• When our default Bitmoivn Player Web UI is used it could happen that the label of an AudioTrack keeps the value of the previous source
• Loading a SourceConfig via Player.load(sourceConfig:) leads to a crash when exiting casting (use Player.load(source:) instead)

• isAirPlayEnabled property in RemoteControlConfig to enable or disable the AirPlay functionality

• Incorrect value of isPlaying and isPaused inside the Bitmovin Player Web UI when the PlaybackFinishedEvent is received

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1
• Playback gets stuck when playing a Progressive Ad results in an AdError
• Loading a new Source from a PlayerError or a SourceErrorEvent does not work
• Loading a new Source from a PlaybackFinishedEvent sometimes does not start playback automatically when isAutoPlayEnabled is set to true
• Unexpected TimeChanged event is emitted between the Play and PlayingEvent when a Source or a Playlist is replayed
• When our default Bitmoivn Player Web UI is used it could happen that the label of an AudioTrack keeps the value of the previous source
• Loading a SourceConfig via Player.load(sourceConfig:) leads to a crash when exiting casting (use Player.load(source:) instead)

• A StallStartedEvent will now be emitted after a SeekedEvent and TimeShiftedEvent if the seek or timeShift results in stalling

• Crash when destroying player during ad playback
• No stalling indicator visible when stalling is in progress when transitioning from one Source to another happens
• Incorrect Source.loadingState when the following event listeners were called: SourceLoad / SourceLoaded / SourceUnload / SourceLoaded
• Additional SourceLoaded events when a Source already finished preloading during playback of the previous Source
• Player is returning data from the previous source inside the PlaylistTransitionEvent (e.g. Player.availableAudio, Player.availableSubtitles)

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1
• Playback gets stuck when playing a Progressive Ad results in an AdError
• Loading a new Source from a PlayerError or a SourceErrorEvent does not work
• Loading a new Source from a PlaybackFinishedEvent sometimes does not start playback automatically when isAutoPlayEnabled is set to true
• Unexpected TimeChanged event is emitted between the Play and PlayingEvent when a Source or a Playlist is replayed
• When our default Bitmoivn Player Web UI is used it could happen that the label of an AudioTrack keeps the value of the previous source

V3 of the iOS Player SDK marks a new direction where the player itself and the sources it plays back become more decoupled. Check out the V2 -> V3 Migration Guide for a detailed description and migration steps.

• Native support for running the SDK on iOS/tvOS simulators on Apple Silicon
• Player protocol, which replaces the BitmovinPlayer as the main player type
• PlayerFactory to create Player instances
• Source protocol as top-level type
• SourceFactory to create Source instances
• LoadingState indicating the current state of a Source
• Player.source that returns the currently active source
• Player.load(source:) to load a single Source
• PlaylistConfig to configure playback of multiple sources
• PlaylistOptions to customize additional playlist behaviour
• Player.playlist namespace to control playback of multiple sources
• Player.load(playlistConfig:) to load multiple Sources
• Player.registerPlayerLayer for custom native UI support using an AVPlayerLayer
• Player.registerPlayerViewController for custom native UI support using an AVPlayerViewController
• Player.registerAdContainer for custom native UI support to register the container view which should be used for Ad rendering
• TweaksConfiguration.seekToEndThreshold to configure the threshold when seeking to the end in seconds
• The sender to the each PlayerListener method to distinguish which Player emitted an event
• Events
  • PlaybackTransitionEvent to indicate a transition from one Source to another
  • PlayerActiveEvent to indicate the player got a source to load
  • PlayerInactiveEvent to indicate when a player does not have any source anymore

• The BitmovinPlayer framework is now shipped as XCFramework
• All Configurations were renamed to Config
• DurationChangedEvent is no longer fired initially
• Renamed SourceItem to SourceConfig
• Renamed SourceItem.itemTitle to SourceConfig.title
• Renamed SourceItem.itemDescription to SourceConfig.sourceDescription
• Removed SourceConfig.drmConfigs and introduced SourceConfig.drmConfig to only handle a single DrmConfig
• Removed SourceConfig.progressiveSources and introduce SourceConfig.progressiveSource to only handle a single ProgressiveSource
• SourceConfig.options is no longer an optional type
• Renamed BitmovinPlayerView to PlayerView
• Moved Player.sourceMetadata to Source.metadata
• Removed BMP prefix from all public types used from Swift
• Increased minimum required Google Cast SDK version to 4.4.1+
• Renamed MediaSourceType to SourceType
• Rewrote all abbreviations and acronyms to follow CamelCase style
• Renamed RemoteControlAPI to RemoteControlApi
• Renamed UserInterfaceAPI to UserInterfaceApi
• CAF is now used as the default cast receiver
• Bitmovin Player Web UI v3.25.0 is now used as the default UI

• Player.setup - Pass the PlayerConfig to the PlayerFactory instead
• PlayerConfig.sourceConfig - Loading a source from the PlayerConfig is no longer supported
• ConfigurationUpdatedEvent
• PlayerView - The BitmovinPlayerView from v2 became the new PlayerView
• PlaybackType
• SourceConfig.drmConfigs
• SourceConfig.add(drmConfig:)
• Player.streamType - Use SourceConfig.type instead
• Jsonable implementation
• All non is* boolean properties on the API when used from ObjC
• Player.preload
• iOS/tvOS 10 Support
• iOS/tvOS 11 Support
• Support for non CAF Cast Receivers
• Support for Bitmoivn Player Web UI v2

• AdaptationConfig and NetworkConfig not extending Config
• CloseButton of the SettingsPanel sliding out of Safe Area in Bitmovin Player Web UI v3
• Subtitles are rendered very close to the bottom Safe Area in Bitmovin Player Web UI v3

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1
• No StallStartedEvent is emitted when subsequent Sources are not loaded yet when the playback of the previous source ends
• Subtitles and Audio Tracks from previous Sources are present in the availableSubtilteTracks / availableAudioTracks in subsequent sources
• Potential crash when the player gets unloaded during an Ad
• Playback gets stuck when playing a Progressive Ad results in an AdError
• Loading a new Source from a PlayerError or a SourceErrorEvent does not work
• Loading a new Source from a PlaybackFinishedEvent sometimes does not start playback automatically when isAutoPlayEnabled is set to true
• Unexpected TimeChanged event is emitted between the Play and PlayingEvent when a Source or a Playlist is replayed
• Subtitles are not selectable when playing offline content

• MediaSource, AdaptiveSource, HlsSource, ProgressiveSource and DashSource. SourceConfig should instead be constructed using an url and the according SourceType

• OfflineManager returned data for the wrong SourceItem when there are multiple SourceItems with similar URLs.

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1
• Already partially downloaded data for offline playback will be lost and has to be re-downloaded after updating to this version

• Incorrect value of isPlaying and isPaused inside the Bitmovin Player Web UI when the PlaybackFinishedEvent is received

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1

• Support for side-loaded SubtitleTracks when casting to a v3 (CAF) receiver
• UserInterfaceAPI.scalingMode to dynamically get or set BitmovinPlayerView's ScalingMode
• ScalingModeChangedEvent to be emitted when BitmovinPlayerView.scalingMode changed
• SystemUserInterfaceConfiguration.hideFirstFrame to prevent rendering of the first video frame before playback starts when the system UI is used

• Unexpected TimeChangedEvent is emitted between PlayEvent and PlayingEvent

• Picture in Picture mode is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1

• TweaksConfiguration.playbackStartBehaviour to configure the player behaviour when Player.play is called
• TweaksConfiguration.unstallingBehaviour to configure the player behaviour when stalling should be exited

• Local playback starts in addition to remote playback when joining an existing Google Cast session with PlaybackConfiguration.isAutoplayEnabled set to true

• Picture in Picture mode (on System UI) is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1

• Properties sendManifestRequestsWithCredentials, sendSegmentRequestsWithCredentials and sendDrmLicenseRequestsWithCredentials to the RemoteControlConfiguration to control cookies and credentials on requests made on Chromecast CAF (v3) receivers

• Type of AdSurvey.uri from URL to String (see the ### Fixed section for more details)

• Crash if an AdSurvey URL in VAST ad tag contains invalid characters.

• Picture in Picture mode (on System UI) is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1

• Missing seekbar when joining an existing Google Cast session
• Live stream starting at wrong playback position when casting
• Current time is not updating when joining a cast session while remote playback is paused
• Seek bar is jumping when seeking on the sender device while casting
• Incorrect values on CastTimeUpdatedEvent when casting to a V2 receiver
• isMuted returning wrong value when calling mute before load
• Ad playback does not respect muted state of the player when changed before load (untracked)

• Picture in Picture mode (on System UI) is not working on iOS 14.0 and iOS 14.1