HTML5 Adaptive Player: Release notes

Version 7

v7.1.3 – 2017-05-11

Bug fixes:

• HLS URLs with query parameters didn’t work properly anymore
• Issue with audio track changing in live streams

v7.1.2 – 2017-05-10

Bug fixes:

• Always trigger ON_READY in Safari
• Consider presentationTimeOffset correctly for SegmentTimeline MPDs
• Correctly decode ID3 data on ON_METADATA
• Fixed getSupportedDRM for latest Safari
• Relative HLS variant playlists paths were not resolved correctly

v7.1.1 – 2017-04-27

Bug fixes:

• Minor issue with skip ads functionality
• Some SegmentTimeline DASH streams failed to start

v7.1.0 – 2017-04-24

Features:

• Mobile optimized UI
• Support for Apple AirPlay in Safari
• Support for Apple’s picture-in-picture feature in Safari on macOS Sierra
• Support for HTTP redirects (except in Internet Explorer)
• Switch to the ChromeCast default media control protocol for full compatibility with other remotes
• Support for providing CSS file for skinning to the ChromeCast app
• ChromeCast device name is exposed in the ON_CAST_WAITING_FOR_DEVICE and ON_CAST_STARTED events
• Slide synchronization in HLS via #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags, including for native HLS in Safari (needs to be enabled in the player configuration)
• Caption position information are provided in ON_CUE_ENTER and ON_CUE_EXIT events for CEA-608 captions
• Playback start time can be set in source objects
• Seek API can now be used before starting the playback
• Segments have unique ID in the ON_SEGMENT_PLAYBACK and ON_SEGMENT_REQUEST_FINISHED events
• Vertical start position can be specified for VR/360 streams
• Startup bitrate can be specified with unit identifier
• DASH multi period improvements
• VR/360 improvements
• CDN switching for MPEG-DASH streams
• Segments which can not be loaded will be skipped after trying different CDNs and qualities
• Added ON_CUE_UPDATE event that is triggered, if start or end time of a cue change
• Mid-roll ads can be configured to be skipped when seeking
• Improved memory usage and resource disposal
• Video bandwidth is limited to 10 mbps now on mobile devices as they can’t handle more
• Seek API can be used for live streams instead of timeShift (needs to be enabled, either seek or timeShift should be used, but not mixed) – experimental

Bug fixes:

• Playback start required two touches instead of only one
• getMaxTimeShift returned a value which led to times before the MPD@availabilityStartTime for recently started live streams
• Incorrect values were returned for progressive mp4 assets (dimensions, bitrate)
• getManifest API returned inconsistent results for HLS and DASH streams
• Player had issues loading some HLS assets with Flash
• Problems with HLS playback in IE10
• Issue with handling corrupt progressive sources
• Some live streams did not start anymore or stopped playback unexpectedly
• ON_DOWNLOAD_FINISHED event reported a size of 0 for HLS segments
• Native HLS in Safari kept requesting m3u8 playlist after destroy() API was called
• Issue with the destroy API call and IMA ads
• ON_TIME_CHANGED events were sometimes triggered after unloading the player
• ON_TIME_CHANGED was never called when a pre-roll ad was scheduled
• isLive API returned true for VOD HLS assets on older Android versions
• Autoplay configuration led to unintended behavior in the progress bar of the UI
• getAvailableAudio returned wrong results for HLS
• Poster image was not correctly handled in the load API call
• addSubtitle also sets the the new subtitle track as active
• Non-skippable ads could be skipped under some circumstances
• Issue with multiple audio qualities in HLS
• Improvements in handling the sliding window for HLS live streams
• Retrying some failed requests, such as DRM license requests, did not properly work
• getSubtitle would always return “off” in Safari for HLS content even though closed captions were enabled
• Replay did not work properly anymore for HLS assets
• Player was sometimes in stalled state when trying to switch period
• Problem when HLS discontinuity was removed from a live playlist due to the sliding window
• Log level was persistent even after player was destroyed
• IMA ads did not use the same volume as the main player
• TTML subtitle styling was broken
• Improvements for handling HLS discontinuities
• Handling edge case in buffer management correctly
• Improvements for multi period handling in DASH streams
• Fixed in-buffer seeking
• Improved handling of the end of HLS live streams
• Seeking sometimes resulted in non-visible CEA captions and subtitles
• Google IMA and VPAID ads were paused at the beginning
• Play VAST ads with missing protocol in URL
• Trigger ON_SUBTITLE_ADDED event on progressive source
• Fixed ON_DOWNLOAD_VIDEO_QUALITY_CHANGE, ON_DOWNLOAD_VIDEO_QUALITY_CHANGED, ON_DOWNLOAD_AUDIO_QUALITY_CHANGE and ON_DOWNLOAD_AUDIO_QUALITY_CHANGED events to comply with the specification
• Fixed subtitle object on Safari to comply with the specification
• ON_SEGMENT_PLAYBACK event got fired for init segements
• Safari did not report FairPlay as supported DRM system via the API

v7.0.12 – 2017-04-03

Bug fixes:

• DRM-related changes for Chrome 58
• Workaround for Chrome changes regarding quality switching in VR/360

v7.0.11 – 2017-02-14

Bug fixes:

• Some live streams resulted in unhandled exceptions

v7.0.10 – 2017-02-14

Bug fixes:

• ON_TIME_CHANGED event was fired before ON_READY under some circumstances

v7.0.9 – 2017-02-10

Bug fixes:

• Externally added subtitles were set active for native HLS and progressive instead of just adding them
• Improved error handling for native HLS and progressive
• Issue with small time shift window for live streams
• Audio track switching did not work for some HLS streams
• Poster image was not displayed for progressive streams
• Problems switching some HLS assets in Flash fallback

v7.0.8 – 2017-02-03

Bug fixes:

• Issue with load API call
• Changing audio language resulted in the content being loaded from the beginning after a mid roll ads
• Externally added subtitles did not show up anymore after ads
• For some assets no ON_PLAYBACK_FINISHED event was fired in Chrome

v7.0.7 – 2017-01-27

Bug fixes:

• Increased number of allowed ad wrappers for Google IMA
• Encrypted HLS did not work on some platforms

v7.0.6 – 2017-01-25

Bug fixes:

• Destroy API call resulted in an error
• Styling fix for Flash fallback

v7.0.5 – 2017-01-23

Feature:

• Added new onAdManifestLoaded callback

Bug fixes:

• Too many reporting calls were sent
• Setting the log level was broken
• Audio track change did not fire event with native HLS and progressive streams
• Audio-only tracks were sometimes selected for HLS stremas

v7.0.4 – 2017-01-17

Bug fixes:

• Screen orientation change issue in iframe with VR
• HLS discontinuities issue
• Time in UI only shows hh:mm:ss format if content is longer than one hour
• Issue in ChromeCast UI

v7.0.3 – 2017-01-13

Bug fixes:

• Security issue in iframe with VR

v7.0.2 – 2017-01-12

Bug fixes:

• Device orientation change was not detected for VR if player was used in an iframe
• Safari on iOS didn’t show a video for VR sources if player covered the full web page
• Playback started from beginning again during playback under some circumstances
• Multiple player instances on the same page with different sources all played the same video

v7.0.1 – 2017-01-10

Bug fixes:

• Content playback was not continued after Goolge IMA error
• Fix for multi period streams
• Issue were live streams sometimes did not start
• HLS segment duration mismatch could lead to stream stopping
• Issue with some HLS streams led to an error
• Ad playback was not always paused on ad click
• Use default font for player UI
• Playback time was not updated anymore in UI after seeking via the API

v7.0.0 – 2017-01-05

Features:

• New UI, which is available as open source project: https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui
• HLS VR, including on iOS
• Support for Server-side Ad Insertion
• Performance improvements
• Reduced file size of the player
• Support for video recommendations
• LA URL for FairPlay is parsed from HLS manifest
• Support for audio-only and video-only HLS streams with wrong or no CODECS attribute
• Improved error handling for unavailable segments
• Improved support for in-progress recording (IPR) streams
• Availability of CEA-608/708 closed captions is read from manifest for DASH and HLS
• Improved stability of multi period and discontinuities
• Improved robustness against errors in external event handlers

Bug fixes:

• Improved error handling for multi period and discontinuities
• Fixed getCurrentTime for multi period and discontinuities
• Google IMA ads and seeking lead to the main content being played in background after first ad
• Mouse cursor is hidden over the video

Version 6

v6.1.21 – 2017-05-04

Bug fixes:

• Fixed getSupportedDRM for latest Safari

v6.1.20 – 2017-04-25

Bug fixes:

• Fixed getDownloadedVideoData and getPlaybackVideoData for HLS content in Safari

v6.1.19 – 2017-04-19

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue with pre-roll Ads

v6.1.18 – 2017-04-13

Bug fixes:

• Improved Flash player gap handling
• Fixed getDownloadedVideoData and getPlaybackVideoData for progressive content on Safari
• Fixed Subtitle issue after seek
• Keep poster until playback really started

v6.1.17 – 2017-03-21

Bug fixes:

• Subtitle-related issue
• SegmentTimeline with short timeline caused edge case in adaptation logic

v6.1.16 – 2017-03-20

Bug fixes:

• Ads could be skipped with keyboard controls

v6.1.15 – 2017-03-17

Bug fixes:

• Externally added subtitles did not work as expected for native HLS & progressive streams and were immediately activated
• Switching quality of progressive sources in Internet Explorer resulted in the video to start again instead of continuing
• Improved adaptation logic
• Two subtitles tracks were active at the same time under some circumstances

v6.1.14 – 2017-03-03

Bug fixes:

• Added required changes for DRM playback in Chrome 58+
• Fixed limitToPlayerSize adaptation parameter
• Fixed high CPU usage for encrypted HLS in Chrome on insecure origins

v6.1.13 – 2017-02-10

Bug fixes:

• onAudioAdaptation and VideoAdaptation events were triggered too often
• HLS assets did not work in the Flash player if only a single CODECS attribute was present in the playlist with multiple variant streams
• Issue with live streams with a very small time shift window
• Issue in the adaptation logic
• Issue with multi audio HLS

v6.1.12 – 2017-01-31

Bug fixes:

• isReady() returned false after the onReady event if the player was set up without source

v6.1.11 – 2017-01-27

Bug fixes:

• setAudio caused a reload of old audio segments after mid-roll ads
• Playback issue when seeking close to the end of a video
• HLS streams sometimes resulted in manifest timeout error although playback worked

v6.1.10 – 2017-03-03

Bug fixes:

• Switching off full-screen mode for 2nd asset did not work
• Improved handling of unsupported progressive files

v6.1.9 – 2017-01-17

Bug fixes:

• Increased threshold for allowed ad wrappers
• Issue on ChromeCast with circular reference in JSON
• Live streams sometimes did not start playback

v6.1.8 – 2016-12-29

Feature:

• ON_PLAY and ON_PAUSE event parameter now have an additional ‘issue’ field to specify if play/pause was triggered via API or controls

Bug fixes:

• ID3 tag related fixes
• Issue with mid-roll ads when loading a new source
• ON_PLAYER_RESIZE event was fired constantly if an explicit size was given
• Player controls received events twice under some circumstances

v6.1.7 – 2016-12-15

Bug fixes:

• Line breaks in VTT subtitles in Safari were ignored
• Full screen styling issue in IE11
• Issue with XML parsing in IE under some circumstances
• Multiple onCueEnter events were fired in Safari with HLS and VTT subtitles

v6.1.6 – 2016-12-13

Bug fixes:

• Styling issue with poster images

v6.1.5 – 2016-12-13

Bug fixes:

• ON_SHOW_CONTROLS and ON_HIDE_CONTROLS events were not fired
• Workaround for XML parsing issues in IE11 in some environments

v6.1.4 – 2016-12-12

Bug fixes:

• Fix for fMP4 HLS with relative URLs
• Ad config is re-parsed on source switch

v6.1.3 – 2016-12-08

Bug fixes:

• Too many VAST ads being played when switching sources

v6.1.2 – 2016-12-07

Bug fixes:

• Startup performance improvement
• Ad was not paused after clicking the ad

v6.1.1 – 2016-12-06

Features:

• DASH ClearKey support
• Google IMA (VAST) support
• HLS Discontinuity and MPEG-DASH Multi Period support
• Custom naming for subtitles/captions, qualities and audio tracks
• Support for different cardboard configurations
• DASH CEA-608/708 closed captions
• CEA-608/708 multi channel closed caption support for DASH and HLS
• TimeShift/DVR support in Safari using the native HLS capabilities
• Improved Audio track switching
• Enabled preloading content via player API (player.preload())
• Manual quality selection for progressive streams
• Event for start of every played segment (ON_SEGMENT_PLAYBACK)
• Support for #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tags (using the dateTime attribute in the new ON_SEGMENT_PLAYBACK event)
• Improved error handling – player keeps being usable and maintains size when an error occurs
• Support for iOS inline playback
• Indicator if user is watching live vs. DVR
• getBufferedRanges API call to retrieve all currently buffered ranges
• NAME attribute in HLS manifests is used for audio, video and subtitle tracks per default

Bug fixes:

• Improved error handling in context of encrypted content
• Last few frames of a stream were not played
• Fixed progressive streams in Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7
• Very short videos sometimes not played
• onHideControls/onShowControls events were not fired
• Improved error handling in legacy browsers
• Content did not always continue playback if ad playback had an error
• Improved handling of unsupported codecs in representations and adaptation sets
• Issue with multiple players on one site
• Content video was sometimes played for a short time before an ad started
• Fixed DRM issue in context of ads
• Bug in adaptation logic
• PlayReady DRM HTTP headers related issue in some environments
• getSnapshot API call was broken
• Issue with segmented subtitles
• Some subtitle tracks could not be set to active
• Issue where playback of main content did not work after ad under some circumstances
• Fixed sending metadata to the ChromeCast receiver app
• Fixed onMetadata event parameter object structure
• Corrected buffer length calculation for progressive mp4
• Handling of non-synced #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE numbers in HLS
• Issue with skippable ads on iOS
• Issue with order of ad events
• Issue related to fade out of controls
• Improved VR performance
• Bug regarding mouse controls when switching between VR and non-VR sources
• UI issue with ads but no other source
• Bug with parsing encrypted segments with IV_size 16
• Ad click tracker were not called
• Issue with line breaks in some TTML subtitle files and fragments without body tag
• Issue with TTML subtitles specified in manifest with DRM protected content
• Improved error handling if ad manifest could not be loaded
• Space triggered last clicked icon instead of toggling play/pause
• Issue in Internet Explorer 11
• Improvements related to DASH ClearKey and HLS AES-128 encryption

v6.0.5 – 2016-11-08

Bug fixes:

• Autoplay not working for HLS streams under some circumstances

v6.0.4 – 2016-11-03

Bug fixes:

• Fullscreen on iPad was not working anymore

v6.0.3 – 2016-10-28

Bug fixes:

• PlayReady issue in regards to customData in license requests
• Issue in handling HLS backup streams
• TTML inline styles were ignored

v6.0.2 – 2016-10-25

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a few styling issues
• First scheduled ad was not removed even after switching source
• VR playback on iOS was broken
• Some PlayReady streams were not working anymore

v6.0.1 – 2016-10-19

Bug fixes:

• Ads were not recognized under some circumstances
• Disconnecting from ChromeCast showed an error message

v6.0.0 – 2016-10-19

Features:

• Support for VPAID 2.0 ads
• Various performance improvements
• VR/360 in Safari on OS X
• Selecting audio and subtitle tracks in Safari with native HLS
• Enhanced player analytics
• Improved handling of streams/qualities with unsupported codecs
• Improved VR/360 support detection and error handling
• New VR/360 icon in default skin to easily toggle stereo view
• Adaptation logic can be limited to resolutions
• Retrieve HLS (master) playlist via getManifest API call
• Skip ad button can be disabled
• Support for 180 degrees and side-by-side 3D content
• Added onSegmentRequestFinished event to get notified on every segment download
• Remodelled onWarning/onError events
• Added onAdScheduled event and isAd API call
• Additional information for ad events
• Chromecast support for Flash based player
• DASH metadata (emsg box, similar to ID3 tags in HLS) support for the Flash based player
• Added support for #EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS HLS tag
• Setup player without source [beta]
• Improved live stream startup
• Performance improvements for encrypted HLS streams
• Improvements and fixes in transmuxing
• Improvements in adaptation logic
• Improved workaround for streams with gaps
• Improved analytics

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug in DRM handling
• Poster image was stretched / not centered if it had another aspect ratio than the player
• Yaw and roll were swapped in VR/360 on some devices
• Some events were fired incorrectly
• Fixed bug in adaptation logic
• Context menu occupied space below the player
• Improvements for VR on Windows Phone 10
• onMetadata event for some ID3 tags was not fired
• Playback quality metrics were not correct for some DASH streams
• Improved startup of live streams
• Fixed URL creation for some HLS streams
• Fixed issue with wrong URL creation for subtitle files and some HLS streams
• CEA-608/708 captions were not immediately shown after enabling them
• onMetadata event for some ID3 tags was not fired
• Download time of finished requests was wrong
• Order of ads with the same offset was not guaranteed
• Quality of Flash was limited to 720p due to potential performance issues

Known Issues:

• Issues with some streams in Safari HTML5/HLS (native HLS is not affected)

Version 5

v5.2.21 – 2017-04-04

Bug fixes:

• getSupportedDRM did not return FairPlay as supported DRM system anymore on latest Safari

v5.2.20 – 2017-03-03

Bug fixes:

• Added required changes for DRM playback in Chrome 58+
• Fixed limitToPlayerSize adaptation parameter

v5.2.19 – 2016-12-21

Bug fixes:

• Bug in ID3 tag parsing for some streams

v5.2.18 – 2016-12-15

Bug fixes:

• Fixed separating of description and value in TXXX ID3 tag frames

v5.2.17 – 2016-12-15

Bug fixes:

• Subtitles were out of sync if seek was triggered immediately after starting playback
• Line breaks in WebVTT subtitle files were ignored
• Object format was wrong for TXXX and PRIV ID3 tag frames

v5.2.16 – 2016-12-12

Bug fixes:

• Buffer level indicator of controls was not updated during pause
• Loading a VR/360 content prevented scrolling the website even when loading a non-VR/360 source
• Seeking back to beginning after seeking on playback start did not work for HLS streams

v5.2.15 – 2016-10-20

Bug fixes:

• Improvements in HLS stream handling
• Fixed issue with HLS backup streams
• Improved handling of CEA-608/708 captions

v5.2.14 – 2016-10-19

Bug fixes:

• Some subtitle/captions cues have not been successfully removed, leading to duplicate subtitle lines

v5.2.13 – 2016-10-18

Bug fixes:

• Fixed insufficient resource issue in analytics
• Improvements in the adaptation logic
• Improvements in Analytics
• Fixed issue with some HLS URLs

v5.2.12 – 2016-10-17

Features:

• Added support for the EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENT tag in HLS playlists

Bug fixes:

• Fixed timeout error for native HLS and progressive sources when switching sources
• Subtitles were not displayed anymore after seeking
• Fixed issue with switching quality levels in some HLS streams if segments don’t start with key frames
• Several improvements in the adaptation logic

v5.2.11 – 2016-10-15

Bug fixes:

• Fixed handling of muxed HLS content which led to buffering under some circumstances

v5.2.10 – 2016-10-13

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issues which caused unnecessary warnings in browser console

v5.2.9 – 2016-10-13

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issues with timestamps in some HLS streams

v5.2.8 – 2016-10-12

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue when loading a new HLS source for some streams

v5.2.7 – 2016-10-09

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue with wrong URL creation for some subtitle files

v5.2.6 – 2016-09-07

Bug fixes:

• Improved workaround for streams with gaps
• Fixed bug in settings menu UI
• CEA-608/708 captions were not immediately shown after enabling them
• onMetadata event for some ID3 tags was not fired
• Improved live stream startup
• Issues with CEA-608/708 closed captions in some HLS streams using the Flash fallback

v5.2.5 – 2016-10-05

Bug fixes:

• Performance improvements for encrypted HLS streams
• Fixed issues with closed captions
• Improved handling of HLS URLs

v5.2.4 – 2016-10-04

Bug fixes:

• Improvements for encrypted HLS streams

v5.2.3 – 2016-09-22

Bug fixes:

• Fix bug in adaptation logic
• Fixed issue with quickly switching DRM sources

v5.2.2 – 2016-09-14

Bug fixes:

• Fixed IE/Edge issue with multiple “moof” boxes in segments
• Fixed handling of absolute URLs in DASH SegmentTemplate attributes [flash]

v5.2.1 – 2016-09-02

Features:

• Audio-only HLS streams

Bug fixes:

• Handle binary FairPlay license responses correctly

v5.2.0 – 2016-08-30

Features:

• Casting HLS streams
• VR & 360° video playback on iOS devices
• Support for DRM init data (PSSH) in the manifest file
• setPosterImage available using the Flash fallback
• Improved handling of HLS streams where segments don’t start with key frames
• Configuration parameter for setting configuration options of the DRM key system, such as persistentState
• New isCastAvailable API call
• Improved HLS performance, including enhanced playback on TVs
• Improved startup performance for HLS live streams
• Added onAdManifestLoaded event
• Improvements for startup quality detection

Bug fixes:

• Fixed handling of multiple CEA-608/708 captions in one stream
• Fixed Playready/Widevine related issues
• Fixed adaptation configuration for startup quality
• Fixed subtitle loading problem using the Flash fallback
• Handle empty VAST manifests correctly
• Fixed seeking issue in HLS
• Handle HLS streams which contain frames with negative DTS
• Fix for HLS streams, that did not start with the first segment on replay

Known issues:

• Stability issue for some casted HLS live streams

v5.1.0 – 2016-07-25

Features:

• New adaptation logic for faster startup and optimised bandwidth utilisation
• Support for fragmented MP4 based HLS streams
• HTML5 skinning/controls technology also for Flash based player
• Improved handling of retries if resources are not available
• Enhanced HLS support
• New design for SDK and additional demos
• Additional events and configuration options for advertising

Bug fixes:

• Fixed thumbnail seeking issue
• Fixed failed playback of some PlayReady streams in IE11
• Fix for “No URL for segment found” error
• Fix for broken subtitles in live streams
• Fix for loading the player using requireJS/AMD

Known issues:

• Un-smooth playback of HLS segments which do not start with key frame

v5.0.2 – 2016-06-22

Bug fixes:

• Fixed broken CC in HTML5 based HLS
• Fixed issue with disabled localStorage
• Fixed broken AES-128 support in HTML5 based HLS

v5.0.1 – 2016-06-09

Bug fixes:

• Fixed “No URL for segment found” error

v5.0.0 – 2016-05-20

Features:

• HLS support in HTML5 is enabled and preferred to Flash per default
• Support for AES-128 encrypted streams in HTML5/HLS
• CEA-608/708 closed captions support in HTML5/HLS
• Updated default skin
• Support for end of MPEG-DASH live streams (‘MPD@AvailabilityEndTime’)
• Cast status text can be changed on custom receiver apps using conf.cast.statusText on the receiver app
• Increasing TimeShift/DVR windows are supported (‘MPD@timeShiftBufferDepth=”Infinity”‘)
• HTTP headers can be set for all requests via the API using setHeader(headerName, value) (HTML5 only)
• Added onTimeShift and onTimeShifted events
• Error reporting to improve the player and get feedback about issues much earlier (enabled per default)

Bug fixes:

• Fixes, stability and stream support improvements for HTML5/HLS
• Some HLS streams could not been loaded (Flash/HLS)
• New Widevine version listed every license acquisition request as being sent from a new device which could result in ‘Device Limit Reached’ errors (HTML5/DASH)
• Setting the subtitle language within the configuration was not working anymore
• Timeout for progressive streams happened after switching to another source
• Fixed TimeShift/DVR window handling on ChromeCast
• Fixed sizing issues
• Fixed issues in IE9
• Fixed issue with Adobe Access/PrimeTime protected playback (Flash/DASH)
• Removing subtitles specified in the manifest did not work
• Autoplay caused video to loop
• Autoplay was not working on mobile devices after new source had been loaded
• A rectangle was shown during page load where the player would be placed

Known issues:

• Playback of Widevine protected streams in Chrome’s incognito mode does not work (normal browsing mode is not affected)

Version 4

v4.4.1 – 2016-05-19

Bug fixes:

• CEA-608/708 closed captions in HLS were not parsed correctly for streams with ‘DTVCC’ packets

v4.4.0 – 2016-04-13

Features:

• Support for CEA-608/708 closed captions in HLS
• Added the possibility to send additional data to ChromeCast receiver app
• ID3 Tag support for HLS in HTML5/JS
• Support for fragmented WebVTT subtitles in HLS
• Update behaviour for on-click advertising popups to outsmart pop-up blockers

Bug fixes:

• Fixed time-shift issue in Flash/HLS
• Fixed issue with CCs for live HLS assets on Safari and Edge
• Fixed Ad related issue for iOS devices and IE9
• Issues with playback of DRM protected ‘SegmentBase’ content and autoplay
• Fixed inconsistent parameters for seek event

Known issues:

• onCueExit event not raised for active cues on seek in the Flash based player

v4.3.1 – 2016-03-11

Features:

• HLS/JS based HLS playback
• Set poster image API call
• Persistent poster images for e.g., audio only streams
• Added support for time-shift on Chromecast
• ‘In-time’ VAST tag requests to save resources
• VAST conform error messages
• Improvements for FairPlay protected streams
• Detect end-of-stream with in stream messaging
• Enable time-shift with UNIX timestamps
• Disable play/pause with mouse for VR and 360° video per default
• Enhancements in context of parity across different playout technologies
• Improved error handling on audio codec error

Bug fixes:

• Fixed fullscreen scaling issues in Flash
• Fixed incorrect subtitle timing
• Fixed Ad playback issues in combination with progressive streams
• Fixed Playback issues on Android using cellular network
• Corrected rendering issue for TTML subtitles
• Corrected positioning of context menu

Known issues:

• If VR mode is changed via the API call, the settings menu entry is not updated
• Issues with playback of DRM protected ‘SegmentBase’ content and autoplay

v4.2.0 – 2016-02-25

Features:

• Support for Adobe PrimeTime DRM
• Support for DASH with MPEG-2 TS streams
• Added API call to change the VR mode – ‘setVRMode’
• Added support for timeshift on Chromecast
• Support for MPEG-DASH timed metadata (EMSG), similar to ID3 tags in HLS
• Added ‘onSeeked’ event to determine when seeking is finished
• Added API call to dynamically add ads to the schedule – ‘scheduleAd’
• Added clickthrough URL to ‘onAdStarted’ event parameter
• Added ‘getManifest’ API call
• Added an exchangeable context menu
• Added API call to add custom data to the license call – ‘setAuthentication’ – for the usage with 3rd party licensing backends.
• Support for external subtitles in progressive video and native HLS
• Added ‘onSourceLoaded’ and ‘onSourceUnloaded’ events
• Improved error messages
• Improved adaptation logic for HLS
• Improved recovering mechanisms in context of stalls

Bug fixes:

• Stabilized Mid-roll ads
• API calls are now working during ad playback
• Fixed memory leak, which prevented long-term playback on low-performance devices
• ‘onError’ event is thrown for manifest errors again
• Return numbers as Numbers instead of Strings in API calls
• Fixed progressive videos ‘onPlay’ and ‘onPause’ events
• ‘Label’ attribute from MPD can be used for stream naming again
• Fixed issues with DRM playback on Chromecast
• Fixed issues with (external) subtitles
• Fixed support for multiple QueryParameters

Known issues:

• Mid-roll ads are not played correctly in Flash HLS live streams under some circumstances
• If VR mode is changed via the API call, the settings menu entry is not updated
• Issues with playback of PlayReady protected content in IE under some circumstances

v4.1.2 – 2016-02-09

Bug fixes:

• User preferred setting to use HTML5/DASH in Safari on Mac OS X did not work
• Video scaling issues at quality switches
• Some subtitles were overlapping each other

v4.1.1 – 2016-02-02

Bug fixes:

• The UX setting in the player configuration did not disable all UI elements
• Some PlayReady streams did not work anymore
• Enhanced casting of DRM protected streams
• Under some circumstances, an error occured if external subtitles were added in the Flash player
• Muting the player using the configuration did not work anymore in the Flash player

v4.1.0 – 2016-01-27

Features:

• Adobe Access DRM for MPEG-DASH
• Apple Fairplay DRM for HLS
• Virtual Reality (VR) and 360° videos
• Ad support: VAST 3.0
• Subtitles in Firefox 42+ in HTML5
• Manually selectable player technology
• Custom HTTP headers for Widevine and PlayReady license requests
• Added prepareLicense callback for Widevine licenses
• Parameters can be added to all requests via config or API calls
• Return the server response for DRM license request errors in onError event
• Improved ChromeCast receiver app
• Enhanced end of stream detection in Firefox 42+
• Improved unloading API call
• Using HLS per default in Safari on Mac OS X

Bug fixes:

• Some PlayReady streams did not work if customData was needed in license requests
• Video only and audio only streams did not work anymore
• The prepareMessage callback for Widevine license requests did not work anymore
• Several seeking issues on iOS devices
• Loading animation was shown although loading was already finished
• Request retries did not always work as expected
• Switching DRM protected streams did not always work as expected
• Seeking did not work under some circumstances
• List of valid domains are not shown anymore for unsuccessful license requests
• Destroy call did not clean up all items
• Disabling error messages did not work anymore

v4.0.3 – 2015-12-22

Bug fixes:

• DRM-related issues in Edge 25
• Issue with changing DRM-protected sources
• Seeking issues on iOS devices

v4.0.2 – 2015-12-15

Bug fix:

• Destroying and re-creating player could result in an unrecoverable error state under some circumstances

v4.0.1 – 2015-12-09

Bug fixes:

• PrepareMessage callback was broken
• Error messages could not be disabled using the _ux_ shortcut

v4.0.0 – 2015-12-03

Features:

• Switched from free/pro/enterprise to a single, fully featured impression-based player
• Thumbnail preview seeking
• The API calls setup, load, and setSkin return Promises
• Removed deprecated API calls and events
• Added onDownloadFinished event
• Enhanced recovery after lost internet connection or other network errors

Bug fixes:

• Several timeShift / DVR related issues
• Several UI related issues
• A white background was used under some circumstances for the Flash fallback
• Prevent a MediaSource-related error in MS Edge
• Attribute names of some event parameters were different in the HTML5 and Flash player
• onPlaybackFinished did not always work for progressive playback and for native HLS
• Fullscreen styling issue in IE11
• Some errors have been displayed more than once

Version 3

v3.3.0 – 2015-11-19

Features:

• Added onVideoAdaptation and onAudioAdaptation events for custom adaptation logics
• Added onShowControls and onHideControls events
• Added settings for number of retries and delay between retries for DRM license requests
• Added support for setting explicit types of progressive videos to enable progressive files without file extension
• Seeking can be disabled
• Enhanced WebVTT subtitle support and parsing performance
• DRM config has been moved from conf.drm to conf.source.drm to enable different DRM settings for each source
• Added support for sending cookies and credentials along with cross origin requests for MPD and/or segment requests
• Progress bar / Scrubber is hidden for live streams with timeShift disabled per config
• Improved error handling
• Improved time shift / DVR
• Old media data is deleted if buffer gets full
• Enhanced PlayReady DRM handling
• Custom paths of JS, CSS, and SWF files can be specified
• Error screen can be disabled
• Improved ID3 Tag support in HLS: added support for ID3v2.4 tags, added support for GEOB frames
• Improved end of stream handling
• Improved MPD handling
• Improved audio only and video only streams
• Added setPlaybackSpeed and getPlaybackSpeed to enable trick modes fast forward and slow motion (HTML5 only)
• Enabled custom HTML for watermarks (HTML5 only)

Bug fixes:

• Startup problems using DASH in Safari on Mac OS X for some streams
• Switching of audio tracks did not always work as expected
• Buffering overlay on iOS did not vanish
• Displaying audio qualities in settings window with wrong information
• Play button overlay was shown for a short time although autoplay was enabled
• Live streams did not start under some circumstances
• Player controls did not always fade out on iPad
• Streams with only one segment did not play
• Retrying license requests used GET instead of POST
• Playback data returned wrong values for some streams
• Time section in control bar was styled wrongly under some circumstances
• Autoplay for live streams did not work as expected in some cases
• Error in Samsung Stock Browser
• Avoid duplicated audio tracks
• In some cases the first and last segment number were incorrect
• 64 bit timestamps were wrong
• Negative composition time offsets in video data caused problems
• Seeking did not always work as expected for some MPD variants
• Handle HLS fragment and packet parsing errors
• Prevent freeze frames after seeking in HLS streams
• Avoid video freeze at 60fps in Flash

v3.2.0 – 2015-10-19

Features:

• Support for timed metadata in HLS (ID3 tags)
• Enhanced configuration possibilities, like changing Flash’s wmode, hardware-supported decoding, etc.
• Improved time shift / DVR: Enhanced MPD support, option to disable time shift / DVR
• Support for SegmentBase MPDs using byte range requests
• Network error reporting
• Support for absolute URLs in media and init attributes in MPDs
• API call to retrieve a snapshot of the current frame (HTML5 player only)
• API call to get a list of supported player technologies and streaming types
• API calls to get information about the currently used player technology and streaming type
• Improved error handling, e.g. player is usable after trying to load an erroneous stream
• Small styling improvements
• Workaround for gaps in (live) streams (HTML5 only)

Bug fixes:

• Problems when used with Require.js / AMD / etc.
• Poster image was only shown the first time
• Several API calls after unload resulted in errors
• Playing two streams using load did not work on iOS devices
• Error if localStorage exists but is disabled
• Several context menu related bugs
• Fixed quality started changing again after MPD update
• If only one subtitle track was present, it could not be selected
• Several styling related issues
• Several API event related issues
• Several TimeShift/DVR related bugs
• Several subtitle related bugs
• Several native HLS and progressive related issues
• Audio only and video only did not work for HLS streams
• Seeking in VoD reset time to 0 for a very short time
• Several subtitle and audio track selection related bugs

v3.1.0 – 2015-09-07

Features:

• TimeShift / DVR support
• Fully featured ChromeCast support, e.g. support for live streams, playback of DRM protected content, etc.
• Support for external subtitles
• Subtitle support for live streams
• Enhanced HLS support
• Custom context menu entries can be added
• Improved adaptation logic
• Updated default skin
• Hover over timeline shows target seek time
• Enhanced UI and UX, especially on touch devices
• Enhanced MPD support
• Enhanced sync logic and seeking
• Enhanced subtitle support, e.g. EBU-TT-D subtitles
• Introduced new API calls, e.g. getSubtitle, getAudio, setAudio, … which work with objects and IDs instead of language strings
• Introduced new events, e.g. onCueEnter and onCueExit to get subtitle/caption cues
• Subtitles/captions can be hidden, i.e. they are not displayed but the new onCueEnter/onCueExit events are still fired
• Provided possibility to fully disable all UI elements as well as UX like keyboard shortcuts
• Save & Restore of user settings like volume or language can be disabled now
• DRM license requests can be sent with credentials

 Bug fixes:

• Manifest URLs with GET parameters where truncated under some circumstances
• Several subtitle/caption related issues
• Several UI bugs
• Seeking immediately after play did not work as expected

v3.0.3 – 2015-08-05

Features:

• Enhanced EME support for Firefox
• Several bug fixes for Microsoft Edge and IE11

v3.0.2 – 2015-07-15

Features:

• Enhanced TTML support
• Removed obsolete warnings
• Enhanced HLS playback

Bug fixes:

• HLS related bugs
• API and events using HLS
• Progressive download was not used in some cases

v3.0.1 – 2015-07-09

Features:

• Domain lock now ignores sub domains
• Enhanced end-of-stream detection
• Enhanced sync logic

Bug fixes:

• API for HLS did not work under some circumstances
• Fixed skinning of the control bar (HTML5)
• Fixed seeking immediately after play has been triggered
• Fixed keyboard commands with uppercase letters
• Auto-Hiding control bar works again
• Fix for onPlaybackFinished event in IE11 on Windows 8.1

v3.0.0 – 2015-07-01

Features:

• HLS Support [flash]
• Added keyboard commands: [Keyboard Commands Overview](http://developer.dash-player.com/keyboard-shortcuts)
• Added support for “`label“` attribute. It can be used to define names for audio and subtitle/captions languages (on “`AdaptationSet“` level), and audio and video representations (on “`Representation“` level)
• Added “`onTimeChanged“` API event
• Removed event registration API calls (e.g. “`onPlay(callback), onPause(callback)“`)
• Added “`addEventHandler(eventType, callback)“` to register event handler
• Added “`removeEventHandler(eventType, callback)“` to remove already registered event handler
• Enhanced error handling
• Enhanced logic to decide which player should be used
• Enhanced seeking
• Refactored CSS

Bug fixes:

• Dropdown menus in settings window was unusable under some circumstances
• Prevent error when trying to set a Representation which does not exist using the API
• Problems with progressive download fallback
• Seeking before playback or during pause did not work as expected
• Seeking in VOD content which was taken out of a live stream had some problems
• Several ChromeCast bugs
• Unnecessary DRM-related error messages have been removed

Version 2

v2.3.1 – 2015-06-12

Features:

• Enhanced TTML subtitle support
• Enhanced BaseURL resolving
• Enhanced error messages
• Reload live streams on video errors

Bug fixes:

• Playback of PlayReady protected content
• QuotaExceededError in some browsers
• MPD reloads
• AdaptationSet selection
• Video only or audio live streams
• Relative BaseURLs for subtitles
• API calls return numbers as string
• API call isReady sometimes returned wrong value
• Return values of API calls getAvailableVideoQualities and getAvailableAudioQualities
• Setting fixed quality before playback

v2.3.0 – 2015-06-08

Features:

• Enhanced subtitle support: basic support for TTML and TTML in ISO BMFF (mp4) segments
• Support for PresentationTimeOffset, which enables VoD content out of live streams by only generating a correct MPD
• Enhanced DRM support, e.g. by updating to current Chrome implementation
• Enhanced DRM-related error handling
• Compatibility for new Elemental Delta DASH streams
• Performance improvements
• Enhanced audio/video synchronization logic
• Enhanced end-of-stream detection
• Support for multiple players on a single page
• User feedback if player is loaded using the unsupported “file” protocol

Bug fixes:

• Subtitles
• API events
• Audio language switching in live streams
• Absolute URLs without protocol
• Number-based SegmentTimeline
• BaseURLs with attributes
• Seeking 4k content

v2.2.3 – 2015-05-11

Features:

• Enhanced live edge calculation with SegmentTimeline

Bug fixes:

• a workaround for a Chrome bug with live streams

v2.2.2 – 2015-04-29

Bug fixes:

• Subtitle WebVTT parsing

v2.2.1 – 2015-04-24

Features:

• Limit upper and/or lower bandwidth, for desktop and mobile
• onReady event if native HLS is used

Several bug fixes

v2.2.0 – 2015-04-21

Features:

• Browsers with bugs affecting the bitdash HTML5 player can be handled
• Added support for loading bitdash using CommonJS/Node.js and AMD
• Enhanced Wowza support: added support for MPD Location to enable session handling
• Enhanced settings window’s content, regarding audio and video qualities
• Enhanced seeking
• Enhanced subtitles styling in HTML5
• Save user settings like volume, muted state, subtitle language, and audio language selection and restore them on reload
• Added config parameter to set one (as string) or more (as array of strings) default audio languages: playback.audioLanguage. The languages should be given in the same format as in MPD’s @lang attribute, preferably using ISO 639-1.
• Added config parameter to set one (as string) or more (as array of strings) default subtitle languages: playback.subtitleLanguage. The languages should be given in the same format as in MPD’s @lang attribute, preferably using ISO 639-1.
• Initial audio language is chosen more intelligently, using a previously chosen audio language, config parameters, and browser language
• Initial subtitle language is chosen more intelligently, using a previously chosen subtitle language, config parameters, or will default to off

Bug fixes:

• Bugs regarding end-of-stream
• width and/or height has not been set correctly
• MPD URLs are not unescaped anymore but used “as is”
• BaseURLs are updated on MPD reloads
• Fixed problems with mp4 segments with boxes (atoms) in unusual order
• Fixed problems with live streams
• Fixed bugs in API calls, e.g. setSubtitlesLanguage, setAudioLanguage, getCurrentSubtitleLanguage, getAvailableAudioQualities, and getAvailableVideoQualities
• Setting audio language in ready state started player
• Fixed a few CSS issues
• Fixed seeking on touch devices
• Controls faded out during seeking sometimes, e.g. on touch devices
• Calling pause in onPlay event caused an infinite loop
• Change volume icon if mute()/unmute() API calls are used
• Fixed several issues if the mime type is in Representation instead of the AdaptationSet elements
• Fixed wrong playback time in some live streams
• Fixed issues where API calls (e.g. setVolume) did not update controls in the UI
• Fixed bugs if controls are not visible
• Fixed bugs in unload/load
• Prevent duplicate onPlay or onPause events

v2.1.3 – 2015-03-19

Features:

• Enhanced skin
• Workaround for Chrome bugs (468364 and 467942)

v2.1.2 – 2015-03-18

Features:

• Enhanced audio representation switching
• Enhanced skin
• Enhanced subtitle handling and parsing

Some small bug fixes

v2.1.1 – 2015-03-13

Features:

• Enhanced ChromeCast support
• Enhanced user Feedback during casting
• Enhanced default skin

Bug fixes:

• An error occured under some circumstances when the control bar started fading out [flash]
• Some video-only live streams had playback problems
• API call getAvailableVideoQualities returned an empty array in video-only streams
• Settings window did not show up in video-only streams
• When permanently hiding controls using the config an error occurred sometimes

v2.1.0 – 2015-03-12

Features:

• Added skinning support (PRO and ENTERPRISE version only)
• Added ChromeCast support (PRO and ENTERPRISE version only)
• Added an animation as user feedback during buffering
• Enhanced API: load expects its parameter to be either a MPD URL (string) or a source object to enable also switching HLS streams
• Enhanced default skin

Bug fixes:

• Setting height and aspect ratio in the configuration object did not work as expected
• getPlaybackVideoData and getPlaybackAudioData API calls did not return the first representation in live streams
• isFullscreen, enterFullscreen, and exitFullscreen API calls did not work as expected. However, enterFullscreen needs to be triggered by user input (e.g. a button click) due to browser’s security policies. In the Flash fallback, enterFullscreen therefore does not work at all at the moment.
• unload API call often caused an error.

v2.0.4 – 2015-03-06

Features:

• Enable bitdash player facebook integration
• Retrying MPD downloads a few times in case of an error, also if an empty response was returned

Bug fixes:

• A segment has sometimes been skipped
• Wrong number of padding zeros in SegmentTemplate if %d is used
• Show overlay play button during pause [flash]

v2.0.3 – 2015-02-24

Bug fixes:

• Bug fix in SegmentTimeline during live streaming

v2.0.2 – 2015-02-17

Features:

• Enabled 4k playback in Chrome
• Enhanced Audio/Video sync in Live Streams
• Enhanced error messages
• URL is decoded before it is used
• Enabled sending custom XML data to PlayReady server
• Enabled creating user-defined function to format license request according to Widevine server vendor’s (e.g. Vualto) needs
• Enhanced end-of-video handling (seeking to last segment resulted in segment not played at all)
• Handle relative/absolute BaseURL(s) in Period element
• Enhanced handling 64 uint numbers

Bug fixes:

• SegmentTimeline
• MPD updates (missing init segment for a representation if mpd update happens in the wrong moment)
• API: onReady was sent too early
• API: play() didn’t always work

v2.0.1 – 2015-02-09

• Enhanced user feedback (e.g. differentiate between invalid key and invalid domain)
• Use MPD’s @mediaPresentationDuration as playback time and stop after that time
• Enhance seeking

Bug fixes:

• seeking to the end of a video

v2.0.0 – 2015-02-06

Features:

• Enhanced DRM support
• Enabled seeking in content with variable segment length
• Added new API functions (load, unload, getDownloadedVideoData, getDownloadedAudioData)
• Removed deprecated API functions (see www.dash-player.com/support/javascript-api/#deprecated)
• Refactored config object
• Showing user feedback for configuration errors
• Enhanced feedback for no supported technology
• Enable multiple source video for progressive fallback, e.g. .mp4 and .webm
• Refactored code structure
• Enabled MPD switching
• Changed overlay play button to bitdash logo
• Added context menu
• Control bar is hidden before start (during poster image)
• Showing the content of the custom MPD attribute “streamName” () in the settings window

Bug fixes:

• Settings windows is refreshed when another adaption set is chosen
• Player ended before everything in the buffer was played under certain conditions
• OnPlaybackFinished often wasn’t triggered / was triggered after download instead of after playback
• Player crashed if poster image did not exist or was not accessible
• Mouse-up event not catched which kept mouse in seeking mode under certain conditions
• Show play button overlay on Android as newer Chrome versions also hide the default when standard controls are not displayed
• Checking for capabilities before accessing them in preparation for Firefox
• Disable controls in config didn’t work
• Showing the correct icon in controls if player is muted using the config
• Do not fade controlbar out if settings window is open
• Delay fade out of controlbar on mobile devices to make it more usable

Version 1

v1.2.9 – 2014-12-02

Features:

• Force Safari 8 on OS X Yosemite to use HLS for now
• Added DRM support using W3C’s Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)

v1.2.8 – 2014-12-02

Features:

• Prefer HLS playout for Samsung stock browsers
• Passing config object to html5 player
• Small bug fixes
• Enhanced security checks

Bug fixes:

• SegmentList related issues
• Switching audio language

v1.2.7 – 2014-11-07

Features:

• Minimum flash version is different for Windows and Linux

v1.2.6 – 2014-11-06

Features:

• Enhance checks for browser’s capabilities
• Changed minimum flash version checks to prevent errors during playback
• Display user feedback if flash version is too old
• Some bug fixes
• CSS bug fixes

v1.2.5 – 2014-11-05

Features:

• Enhance checks for browser’s capabilities

Small bug fixes

v1.2.4 – 2014-11-04

Features:

• Enhanced MPD handling (e.g. merging templates from several hierarchies)
• Enhanced API functions
• Live edge detection disabled per default to enable fast startup
• Refactored code

Bug fixes:

• Live edge calculation
• API functions
• SegmentList related issues
• Subtitles related issues

v1.2.3 – 2014-10-17

Features:

• Enhanced internal metrics
• Added live edge calculation [html5]
• Decode MPD URL if necessary
• Implemented isLive and hasEneded API functions
• Disables autoplay on Android as it causes problems
• Do not report MPD download retries as api errors
• Enhanced error messages
• Report stack trace to api when available (only if flash debug player is installed and used)
• Accept all mpds, regardless of the file extension
• Bug fixes:
• Several API functions
• SegmentTimeline related issues
• Reporting playback video width and height

v1.2.2 – 2014-10-15

Bug fixes:

• Regarding video only or correctly displaying times longer than 59:59

v1.2.1 – 2014-10-10

Features:

• Enhanced error messages
• Reporting MPD download errors to the API
• Reporting security errors while live edge detection to API
• Refactored code

Some bug fixes

v1.2.0 – 2014-10-10

Features:

• Stabilized API
• Added progressive download fallback

Bug fixes:

• Autoplay related issues

v1.1.1 – 2014-10-06

Features:

• Added API events
• Enhanced reporting
• Refactored code
• Improved error handling

v1.1.0 – 2014-10-02

Features:

• Added NGINX support
• Added wowza streaming server support
• Added support for non-bitcodin live streams
• Added support for updating MPDs (using @minimumUpdatePeriod)
• Added support for SegmentTimeline and SegmentList
• Added support for wowza streaming server
• Added support for SegmentList
• Added HLS fallback support
• Added event handling
• Added API events and functions
• Merged onSetupError and onError to onError in the API
• Enhanced support for SegmentTemplate
• Enhanced custom controls
• Enhanced error handling
• Refactored code

Several bug fixes

v1.0.2 – 2014-09-19

Features:

• Added play button
• Refactored code

Several bug fixes

v1.0.1 – 2014-09-16

Small bug fixes

v1.0.0 – 2014-09-12

First public version

• Added API functions
• Custom controls including e.g. settings dialog
• Added subtitles/captions support
• Added watermark/branding support
• Domain locking
• Dynamically dis-/enable hardware decoding and limiting representations as it seems to affect pepperflash plugins only
• Added audio language switching support
• Renamed API call to select audio language
• Simple reporting [flash]
• Detection of quality changes in playback [flash]
• Reporting capabilities [flash]
• Live edge detection [flash]