Version history

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Latest version: 5.1.6
5.1.*: 5.1.5, 5.1.4, 5.1.3, 5.1.2, 5.1.1, 5.1.0
5.0.*: 5.0.14, 5.0.13, 5.0.12, 5.0.11, 5.0.10, 5.0.9, 5.0.8, 5.0.7, 5.0.6, 5.0.5, 5.0.4, 5.0.3, 5.0.2, 5.0.1, 5.0.0

• 5.1.6 - March 9, 2019

  • Fixes an issue where playlist/related content was not switching correctly for progressive download

• 5.1.5 - February 22, 2019

  • Adds Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for Desktop and iPad Safari
  • Sets Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode out of BETA
  • Adds AV1 video codec support (progressive download) ^BETA
  • Fixes an uncaught warning for vtt.js captions when parsing error is detected
  • For DVR make sure there is a re-sync to live point when exiting casting (Google Cast)
  • Updates to mux.js 5.1.0

• 5.1.4 - February 20, 2019

  • Fixes an issue with sizing of captions through vtt.js when going fullscreen and seeking
  • alltexttracksloaded event now fires for hls.js, Shaka player and native VTT captions
  • getCaptionsData method now works for hls.js, Shaka player and native VTT captions

• 5.1.3 - February 8, 2019

  • Fixes an issue for changing bitrates with MP4/WebM progressive download either through UI module or setBitrate API method
  • Updates to Shaka player 2.4.6

• 5.1.2 - January 18, 2019

  • Adds autoplayCount setting and related resetAutoplayCount API method
  • Replaces hlsJSLiveSyncDuration with hlsJSLiveSyncDurationCount setting
  • Adds support for reading the width of thumbnails for the preview thumbnails feature in VTT file

• 5.1.1 - January 14, 2019

  • setSrc API method can now be used in conjunction to the fallback streaming URL feature
  • Allows setSrc API method to work for 360 video over 360 video content
  • Fixes a layout captions module issue when swapping from CEA to VTT captions when using hls.js and setSrc API method

• 5.1.0 - January 10, 2019

  • Updates to Babel 7 for player production builds which lightens player footprint
  • rmp-vast is now available as a specific player build

• 5.0.14 - January 8, 2019

  • Fixes a bug where content would not automatically resume after ad on next related/playlist item in some instances
  • Fixes an issue where error layout would not show on 102 fatal error (error loading or parsing input related)

• 5.0.13 - December 27, 2018

  • Updates to hls.js 0.12.2
  • Disables Picture-in-Picture mode for 360 video

• 5.0.12 - December 17, 2018

  • Adds Picture-in-Picture support (through Picture-in-Picture Web API) for Chrome on Desktop as a new player module ^BETA
  • Updates to hls.js 0.12.1
  • Adds hlsJSInitialLiveManifestSize and hlsJSLiveBackBufferLength player settings
  • Updates to mux.js 5.0.1

• 5.0.11 - December 12, 2018

  • Fixes a "Unable to preventDefault inside passive event listener invocation." non-breaking console error upon touchmove seeking in latest Chrome versions for Android
  • Fixes a potential UI issue with touchmove and seeking in layout with horizontal overflow for iOS and Android

• 5.0.10 - December 4, 2018

  • Added detectAutoplayTimeout setting and improved autoplay support detection
  • Added adCookiesEnabled setting

• 5.0.9 - November 26, 2018

  • adVpaidControls set to true now insures player controls are visible for the whole period of the VPAID creative
  • Fixes a UI issue with s3 skin when used with quickRewind setting (regression from 5.0.4 release)

• 5.0.8 - November 16, 2018

  • When DVR stream is in live mode and player is paused, make sure player exits live mode when content resumes
  • adskipped event now fires with rmp-past adSkipButton setting

• 5.0.7 - October 19, 2018

  • Fixes iOS 12 iPad fullscreen support
  • setLogo API method can now be used to unset logo

• 5.0.6 - September 19, 2018

  • Mux Data support
    • Adds support for Mux Data in Radiant Media Player
  • DVR
    • getCurrentTime API method now reports relative time to window start for DVR streams
    • Fixes an issue where the getDuration API method would return -1000 instead of -1 when value was not available for DVR streams
  • API
    • Adds srcchanging API event for notifying of source change start
    • Adds getPreload API method

• 5.0.5 - September 12, 2018

  • Advertising
    • Adds support for Google HTML5 IMA DAI SDK and related player settings, API events and methods
    • Adds 202 error code: IMA DAI backup stream not provided - cannot recover
    • Adds getAdWrapperCreativeIds API method
  • Bug fix
    • Fixes getBitrates and getCurrentBitrateIndex API methods that would throw an error with progressive download since 5.0.0

• 5.0.4 - September 6, 2018

  • Advertising
    • Adds support for ad media preloading for the Google IMA SDK through the adEnablePreloading setting
    • Made skip button enabled through the adSkipButton setting more accessible
    • Early VAST 4 support through Google IMA SDK
    • Updates to rmp-vast 2.1.2
    • Fixes an issue that could prevent some video ads to play in fullscreen on iPad
  • Autoplay
    • Autoplay capabilities detection is now based on can-autoplay which improves probing for autoplay support
  • Analytics
    • Adds gaNonInteractionEvents setting which enables sending Google Analytics video-related events as non-interaction events
  • Streaming
    • Updates to hls.js 0.11
    • Updates to Shaka player 2.4.4
  • CSS
    • Player CSS now complies with the "no-descending-specificity" CSS rule
    • Minor CSS improvements for link/visited/focus/hover/active states
  • Device support
    • Validated preliminary support for iOS 12 ^BETA

• 5.0.3 - August 1, 2018

  • Fixes getPlayerVersion API method that would not return correct player version since 5.0.0 release

• 5.0.2 - July 31, 2018

  • Service release - no new features

• 5.0.1^{PRODUCTION RELEASE} - July 26, 2018

  This is the first production-ready release for Radiant Media Player 5 - we hope you find it enjoyable and even better than version 4!

  • Externalises vtt.js dependency and adds vtt.js based player builds
  • Fixes broken vtt.js support in macOS Safari with 5.0.0 release
  • Fixes an issue that could prevents ID3 tags from working with vtt.js
  • Improves ID3 tags demo
  • Prevents wheel events in 360 video to scroll page
  • Fixes broken emulated fullscreen mode (full-window mode) with 360 video in iOS with 5.0.0 release

• 5.0.0^PREVIEW - July 25, 2018

  • Offline
    • Adds support for offline download, storage and playback support
    • Adds event-driven offline API
    • Adds docs and demo
  • 360 video
    • Updated 360 video rendering engine for better perceived quality and smoother animation
    • Improves 360 capabilities detection
    • Adds support for DASH with 360 video on macOS Safari
    • Switches to hardware rendering on iOS and macOS - this restricts supports to iOS Safari 11.3+ and macOS Safari 11+
    • Adds support for fullscreen mode on iOS 11+ (emulated fullscreen mode - e.g. full window mode)
    • Adds wheel events support
    • Sets video360FocalLength default to 65, video360MaxFocalLength default to 115, video360MinFocalLength default to 25, video360InitialLon default to 0
    • Fully hide 360 UI when a player module is open
    • Updates to three.js r94
  • Player builds

    Radiant Media Player 5 offers a new way to optimise player loading and start-up by providing optimised builds that pre-pack common features. It is recommended to start using those pre-pack builds when possible. No matter what build you use, if you request a specific feature that is not available in the selected build by default, the player will attempt to load the required dependency when needed - so if you are not sure what to use, simply include the generic rmp.min.js build. See our docs for a list of available builds.

  • Player development
    • Now uses babel-preset-env. This should provide better cross-device support. See here for an equivalent of the .babelrc we use in production
    • Now uses ESLint with various performance and ES2015 compliance code optimisations
    • Insures all touchstart, touchmove and wheel events use passiveEventListeners when appropriate
    • vtt.js and rmp-vast dependencies are now build into core player library
  • Autoplay
    • New autoplay detection algorithm which now detects Chrome 66+
    • Adds support for muted autoplay in Samsung Internet 7+
    • Unifies autoplay settings under detectAutoplayCapabilities setting
    • Insures autoplayfailure event fires when autoplay is detected as not available before trying to play content
  • Ads
    • Adds outstream ads support with rmp-vast
    • Updates to rmp-vast 2.1.0 for better creative selection and various performance optimisations in line with version 5 release
    • Make sure VPAID ads resize correctly when player is started in fullscreen with rmp-vast
  • API
    • Protects destroy API method from concurrent running
    • Adds getModuleOverlayVisible|setModuleOverlayVisible API methods
    • setPlayerSize now resolves to a resize event
    • setPlayerSize has now no effect if player is in fullscreen mode
    • Fixes an issue where calling setPoster method upon ready event would cause poster to not update
    • Refactors setSrc for easier maintenance
    • Changing source on player (playlist/related included) when player has not been interacted with does not automatically start player - it just updates source information now
  • Error management
    • Error message DOM is now part of .rmp-content element
    • Clears buffer on fatal error
    • When an error event fires make sure the setSrc API method can still be called to update player with a new source
    • Fixes an issue that could prevent in-stream network fatal error to fire an error event for Shaka player
    • Replaces
  • Live streaming
    • Adds liveRetries setting
    • When a live stream stops mid-way, fixes an issue where the central overlay play button could be shown on top of the error message
  • Playlist/related
    • Player will not attempt auto-recovery with playlist/related when an item fails to load and display an error message - instead viewer may select another item through UI
    • Fixes an issue in iOS/macOS Safari where selecting a playlist item before a user interaction would cause playlist to not update correctly
  • Electron apps
    • Sets support for Electron apps out of BETA
    • Adds DASH and HLS support through Shaka player for Electron apps
    • Specifies that player should be included through a script tag rather than require in Electron apps
  • ABR logic
    • Sets default shakaCapLevelToPlayerSize to true
    • shakaCapLevelToPlayerSize now takes into account player height
    • Fixes an issue with shakaCapLevelToPlayerSize settin where first fragment could have a width/height mismatch when shakaStartLevel was set to -1
    • Adds support for preload setting set to 'auto' with DASH in macOS Safari
    • Updates to Shaka player 2.4.2
    • Updates to mux.js 4.5
  • Fallback streaming URIs
    • backupSrc now accepts an Array of Object of backup streaming sources (previously only one Object could be passed)
  • Preview thumbnails
    • Adds support for multiple sprites (mosaic image) within same VTT file
    • Improves async appending for preview thumbnails and logo
    • Adds preview thumbnails support for playlist/related
    • adds getThumbnails and setThumbnails API methods
    • Adds 1008 warning event: failed to load VTT thumbnail file at URI
  • CSS
    • Adjusts .rmp-fullscreen-on CSS to avoid edge-case issues on Android
    • Adds line-clamp-ellipsis LESS mixin and apply it to playlist description
    • Adds CSS for .rmp-error class
    • Uses addEventListener instead of onload method for verifying async loading of player CSS
  • Deprecated
    • Using bitrates setting - use src from now on - bitrates setting is still available for backward compatibility
    • Using backupBitrates setting - use backupSrc from now on - backupBitrates setting is still available for backward compatibility
    • Passing backupSrc as an Object - use Array of Object now - still available for backward compatibility
    • Using video360FallbackBitrates setting - use video360FallbackSrc from now on - video360FallbackBitrates setting is still available for backward compatibility
    • getAutoplayRequested in favour of autoplay API events - still available for backward compatibility
  • Breaking changes
    • Removes video360ArrowMoveFactor and video360MoveSpeedFactor settings - now auto detected based on player size
    • Removes mutedAutoplayOnMobile and mutedAutoplayOnMacosSafari11Plus settings in favour of detectAutoplayCapabilities setting
    • Removes deprecated rmp-lightbox player extension
    • Radiant Media Player latest always-up-to-date build is no longer provided for version 5. Version 4 latest can still be reached at https://cdn.radiantmediatechs.com/rmp/v4/latest/js/rmp.min.js and has been frozen to version 4.10.5.
    • Subresource Integrity hash is no longer provided for cloud-hosted rmp.min.js due to the new building process
    • Removes error code 103 in favour of warning code 1007: URI of backupSrc is unavailable - trying next
    • Replaces destroyerror with warning code 1004
    • Removes deprecated useRmpVastOnImaLoadError setting
    • Removes hlsJSLight setting in favour of rmp-hlsjslight.min.js build
    • Removes shakaMuxJSHls setting in favour of rmp-shaka-mux.min.js build