Player Web Release 8.55.0
Stable
3/2/2021
8.55.0
Added
- Support plain text fragmented VTT subtitles with DASH streams
Removed
- Native flash player for native HLS playback when flash is supported
- Flash renderer for Html5 and HLS playback when flash is supported
HWDECODING
tweak to enable or disable hardware decoding for flash playback
Fixed
- UI freeze and slow startup with HLS streams that have long playlists
- Tizen playback freeze with
SegmentBase
asset - WebVTT HTML5 styling isn't respected in Safari
- HLS codec detection only being applied to the selected variant playlist
- Wrong WebVTT cue position alignment