Adds mutedAutoplayOnMacosSafari11Plus setting to deal with macOS Safari 11 new feature that now blocks autoplay of media content with audio by default
Adjusts central UI icons size for s3 skin at rmp-extrasmall player size
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4.4.18 - September 21, 2017
setPlayerSize API method only resizes based on input values and does not call resize API method immediately after anymore
Tighten type checking for input streaming data
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4.4.17 - September 21, 2017
Fixes a video content sizing issue when in fullscreen mode with macOS Safari 11.0 public release
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4.4.16 - September 21, 2017
Properly makes available CEA-embedded captions with HLS and player captions UI if no text track is found within the first segments but become available with next segments
Properly disables click/touch interaction on central UI elements when not visible to avoid potential interference with other player interactions
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4.4.15 - September 20, 2017
Enhanced player touch-based interaction, notably with larger tap zone for buttons, for player sizes below 480px (.rmp-extrasmall and .rmp-small CSS sizing classes)
Adds fade-in/fade-out effects for player central UI elements
Content title UI (e.g. set with contentTitle setting) is now moved at the top left corner of the player
Validated support for public iOS 11.0 Safari release (no change made)
Enhanced in-article outstream ads layout for mobile rendering
Adds hideCentralBuffering setting
Fixed a potential sizing issue on iOS when leaving fullscreen after an orientation change happened while in fullscreen
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4.4.14 - September 19, 2017
Fixes a bug introduced with 4.4.12 in feature detection that would cause iOS Safari to be recognised as an iOS WebView and that would force default ad rendering engine to rmp-vast for iOS Safari
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4.4.13 - September 15, 2017
Where muted autoplay is not possible on mobile devices and muted setting is set to false - do not mute player when player starts after user interaction is detected
Validated support for Chrome for Android 8.0 public release (no change made)
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4.4.12 - September 15, 2017
Minor optimisations for WebView support
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4.4.11 - September 14, 2017
Adds Google Cast and AirPlay support for audio-only player
Updates to hls.js 0.8.2
Adds Flash fallback option for audio-only player
Fixes a bug where some older versions of Firefox (Firefox 50 and below) would not start hls.js to HTML5 video streaming (since player version 4.3.10)
Fixes full autoplay support in Android WebView where possible (previously only muted autoplay was available)
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4.4.10 - September 13, 2017
Adds legacy support for audio-only player
When player is in outstream ads mode disables AirPlay icon
Fixes destroycompleted event that would not fire for hls.js-based streaming
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4.4.9 - September 13, 2017
Fixes a non-blocking path issue on cloud-player for loading beacon files required for autoplay support detection
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4.4.8 - September 13, 2017
Rewrites getCurrentBitrateIndex API method
setBitrate and getBitrates API methods now work with progressive download
getStreamType API method now returns 'outstream' for outstream ads
Fixes outstream ads support that would not work as expected in some browsers since 4.4.7
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4.4.7 - September 12, 2017
Adds in-player built-in AirPlay support
Adds offsetStartPosition setting
Improves error management for iOS and Internet Explorer/MS Edge for progressive download and native HLS
Adds support for live content with playlist/related layout
Adds isPlaylist, getPlaylistData, isRelated, getRelatedData API methods
Updates to three.js r87
Updates to Shaka Player 2.2.1
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4.4.6 - September 1, 2017
Rewrites and simplifies autoplay support for increase performance and accuracy especially in slow-network conditions and on older devices - removes featureDetectAutoplay and autoplayDetectionTimeout settings which are now auto-guess by player
Updates player resizing to support use-cases where player container parent width cannot be computed when init is called
Lightens internal resizing process when init is called and added documentation on player responsiveness
Sets player container ARIA role to application (previously figure) to comply with Google Lighthouse accessibility requirements
Prevents setPlayerSize API method to have any effect when autoHeightMode or iframeMode sizing settings are used
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4.4.4 - August 4, 2017
Sets adLoadMediaTimeout defaul to 10000 (from 8000)
Sets adLoadVastTimeout default to 8000 (from 5000)
Sets internal ajax timeout (VTT files, JSON playlist, related ...) to 10s (from 8s)
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4.4.3 - July 31, 2017
Improves and simplifies ad-scheduler but removes support for consecutive pre-roll and post-roll ads - for such advanced use-cases VMAP should be used
Makes IMA-based ad-loading process faster
Set adVpaidMode setting default to insecure (replaces friendlyiframe value to be consistent with IMA documentation - friendlyiframe value is now deprecated but still available for the time being)
Adds adVpaidControls setting
Adds adDisableCustomPlaybackForIOS10Plus setting
Re-adds documentation for mutedAutoplayOnMobile setting
Removes some rarely-used player settings for IMA ads to further improve loading IMA ads: adPlayAdsAfterTime, adsResponse, adUseStyledLinearAds, adUseWatermarkCountdownAndMessage, adPpid, adCompanionBackfill
Removes adAutoplayOnlyPreroll setting to further reduce overhead for loading IMA ads - this kind of behaviour if wanted must now be implemented through player API
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4.4.2 - July 31, 2017
Renames Google Analytics event playbackstarted to playerstart and modifies it to be consitent with PLATFORM Edition logging
Renames Google Analytics event playbackended to ended to be consitent with player API
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4.4.1 - July 30, 2017
Adds adAjaxWithCredentials setting for ad being loaded with rmp-vast
Adds support for multi-source (e.g. HLS, DASH, MP4 ...) for a playlist/related item. All items in the JSON list must have the same source configuration
Adds auto-detection for labels.bitrates.renditions and improves default naming support
Improves Google Analytics plugin to better support legacy and Flash fallback (deprecated) reporting
Throttles seeking events in Google Analytics plugin to avoid multi-sending on iOS for the same event
Fixes "nosupport" log for Google Analytics plugin
Removes playbackstartedafterhavingended event and readytime value from Google Analytics plugin
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4.4.0 - July 29, 2017
Mobile Apps
Set support for web-based mobile apps (Cordova/WebView) out of BETA
Adds dedicated guides for using Radiant Media Player with Cordova and PhoneGap
Adds appName setting to uniquely identified an app in our back-end
Adds getAppName player API method
HLS with hls.js
Replaces hlsJSEnableCEACaptions setting with hlsJSEnableCaptions setting
Adds hlsJSAbrBandWidthFactor and hlsJSAbrBandWidthUpFactor settings
Sets default of hlsJSAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate to 500000 and removes auto-detection to avoid overhead at start-up
Improves error recovery process
HLS & DASH with Shaka Player
Adds support for fMP4 HLS through Shaka Player
Adds hlsEngine setting to distinguish hls.js and Shaka Player HLS engines
Adds shakaCustomConfig setting
Adds shakaBandwidthDowngradeTarget and shakaBandwidthUpgradeTarget settings
Adds shakaJumpLargeGaps and shakaSmallGapLimit settings
Replaces player settings dashAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate, dashStreamingBufferBehind, dashStreamingBufferingGoal, dashStreamingRebufferingGoal, dashStreamingIgnoreTextStreamFailures, dashPreferredAudioLanguage, dashRetryParameters, dashRestrictions,
dashRequestConfiguration (those settings are now deprecated but still available for the time being) - with respectively: shakaAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate, shakaStreamingBufferBehind, shakaStreamingBufferingGoal, shakaStreamingRebufferingGoal,
shakaStreamingIgnoreTextStreamFailures, shakaPreferredAudioLanguage, shakaRetryParameters, shakaRestrictions, shakaRequestConfiguration
Replaces API events: dashinstancecreated, dashtrackschanged, dashlevelswitching, dashabradaptationchange, dashaudiotrackswitching, dasherror, dashwarning (those events are now deprecated but still available for the time being) - with
respectively: shakainstancecreated, shakatrackschanged, shakalevelswitching, shakaabradaptationchange, shakaaudiotrackswitching, shakaerror, shakawarning
Removes dashManifestConfiguration setting
Removes dashAbrEnabled setting - ABR is always enabled now
Removes dashDrmUseAesHlsFallback setting - now auto detect
Sets default of shakaAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate to 500000 and removes auto-detection to avoid overhead at start-up
DRM
Adds support for fMP4 HLS DRM (Widevine, PlayReady or Clear Key) through Shaka Player
Player skins
Adds support for s2 skin for audio-only and playlist layout
Optimised deferred CSS loading process
Audio-only player
Enforces Google IMA engine for audio-only ads
Player API
Optimises destroy API method
When destroy API method is called make sure buffer is fully emptied when destroycompleted event fires
Adds id property to return values from getAudioTracks and getBitrates API methods
Improves setSrc API to better deal with error while loading new content
Fixes an issue for ad resizing with the setPlayerSize API method
Analytics
getStartUpTime analytics API method is now more accurate in regards to real user-perceived startup time
getTimeViewed analytics API method precision is now 400 ms (previously 1000 ms)
Adds srcchanged event to Google Analytics
Adds Google Analytics support for playlist & related
Fixes a race condition that would cause Google Analytics ready event to not fire in some configuration
Removes start-up time related information from Google Analytics
Video ads
Fixes support for skippable ads on iPhone iOS 10+
loadAds API method now works to load VMAP tags after srcchanged event
Flash fallback (deprecated)
Fixes API ready event that would not fire
Fixes a duplicated settings issue when multiple player instances were used
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4.3.10 - July 21, 2017
Adds support for setSrc & getDuration methods with DVR content
Adds dvrSeekTo and dvrJumpToLive methods to player API
setSrc method can now take an Object as input
Fine tunes 360 support detection
Removes playsInline setting - this is now automatically set by the player
Adds error event to Google analytics plugin
Adds html5-mp4Hevc data to Google analytics plugin
Removes adloaded event from Google analytics plugin
Makes sure API error event just fires when a fatal error is encountered
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4.3.9 - July 19, 2017
Updates to rmp-vast 1.0.0 (out of BETA)
Updates to hls.js 0.7.11
Updates to Shaka player 2.1.5
Fine tunes muted autoplay support on mobile devices
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Adds support for all player skins for related content
Removes rmp-extralarge sizing class to reduce CSS sizing complexity
Simplifies CSS for rmp-mobile class
Removes adDisableFlashAds setting as Flash VPAID ads are no loner supported with the IMA SDK
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4.3.7 - July 11, 2017
Adds adlog event to video ads API for non-fatal errors
Minor CSS adjustments to s3 skin
Reverts to custom playback for Google IMA ads on iOS 9
Updates to three.js r86
Properly displays no-support message with 360 video when no fallback is available
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4.3.6 - July 6, 2017
Fixes a content recovery issue on iOS 9 with VMAP pre-rolls
Fixes a localStorage DOM exception on iOS 9 when in private browsing
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4.3.5 - July 5, 2017
This updates focuses on updating support for video ads on iOS 10+ following the several changes made to the Google IMA SDK over the past few weeks
Adds support for post-roll video ads with iOS 10+
Adds support for skippable video ads on iPhone/iPod with iOS 10+
Fixes a bug on iPhone with VMAP mid-roll ads that would cause content to restart from 0 after ad completion
Improves fullscreen management of video ads for iOS 10+
Removes adDisableCustomPlaybackForIOS10Plus setting - this is managed internally now based on iOS version
Polishes design of s3 skin
Adds support for Google Cast from Vivaldi browser
Updates skins for better rendering of central icons at smaller player sizes
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4.3.4 - July 4, 2017
Releases updated rmp-font for better rendering of player icons
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4.3.3 - July 4, 2017
Redesigns s3 skin
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4.3.2 - June 29, 2017
Fixes an issue with iframeMode and the 4.3.0 resizing logic
At rmp-extrasmall player size make sure related icons does not overlap with cast icon when both are available
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4.3.1 - June 29, 2017
Updates files for new Google Cast custom receiver application
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4.3.0 - June 29, 2017
Google Cast
New custom receiver application with support for Widevine and ClearKey DRM
Adds player settings for Google Cast:
googleCastLicenseUrl
googleCastLicenseCustomData
googleCastProtectionSystem
googleCastInitialBandwidth
googleCastMetadataType
googleCastContentTitle
googleCastReleaseDate
Makes Google Cast support detection lighter
New buffer API
Adds bufferstalled and buffernotstalledanymore events
Adds buffer API demo page
Updated default buffer settings for HLS and DASH based on A/B testing results
hlsJSAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate and dashAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate defaults are now auto-guess based on device capabilities
Removes generic HTML5 video events abort, suspend and stalled from player API
DASH
Updates to shaka player 2.1.4
Re-enabled dashPreferredAudioLanguage setting
Makes sure the ABR-selected initial bitrate is properly highlighted within the quality selector menu when player starts
HLS
Allows passing of custom config to hls.js with hlsJSCustomConfig setting
Removes hlsFragLoadingMaxRetry, hlsManifestLoadingMaxRetry, hlsLevelLoadingMaxRetry settings which should now be passed with the hlsJSCustomConfig setting
Player
Updates resizing logic for faster execution
Updates player internal framework for faster execution
Fixes an exception that would throw when an error would happen on loading the playlist/related JSON (since 4.2.6)
Ads
Removes adLinearHideControls setting. The logic for displaying controls when linear ads are displayed is as follows:
VPAID linear ads: should not have controls and should not pause on click. The VPAID ad should provide the UI to navigate its content.
All other linear ads should have player controls. Controls can be tuned or hidden with CSS using the ads API (getAdOnStage and getAdLinear methods) though this should only be done to support specific use-cases.
When autoplay is set with outstream ads makes sure the player UI is reset when an ad-blocker is detected
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4.2.7 - June 27, 2017
Sets default for adVpaidMode setting to 'enabled' while investigating a potential
issue with IMA SDK for VPAID handling with 'friendlyiframe'
Bumps to hls.js 0.7.10
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4.2.6 - June 19, 2017
Adds bitrates.mp4Hevc option to support both MP4 with AVC/AAC and MP4 with HEVC/AAC while allowing the player to select which is best based on device capabilities
Adds mp4Hevc to getStreamType API method
Prefers native HLS on Samsung Internet on Android mobile devices when possible
Adds Samsung Internet on 2017 Tizen TV (DASH only)
Adds error recovery mechanism for playlist/related layouts. When an item is found in error the next item in playlist/related is automatically loaded
Adds getCurrentPlaylistItemIndex and setPlaylistItem API methods
Adds getCurrentRelatedItemIndex and setRelatedItem API methods
Updates guides for FFmpeg and
MP4Box for HEVC encoding and DASHing
Properly updates UI for modules after a successful error recovery in DASH
Fixes a source sourceMappingURL non-blocking error log in MS Edge
4.2.3 - June 10, 2017
Updates to Shaka player 2.1.3 (DASH decoder)
Improves DASH error management and error recovery process - adds dasherror and dashwarning events
Adds getAudioTracks and setAudioTrack API methods for DASH
dashtrackschanged event now fires properly when a new period starts
Removes dashStreamingUseRelativeCueTimestamps setting - all segmented WebVTT cue timestamps are now segment-relative
Removes dashPreferredAudioLanguage and dashPreferredTextLanguage settings - those are guessed from the DASH manifest now
Implements error recovery process for MP4/WebM progressive download when multiple renditions are provided and one causes network errors (automatic fallback to another rendition)
getBitrates API method now returns active track information as a property (this deprecates the getCurrentBitrateIndex API method)
getAudioTracks API method now returns the active audio track as a property
4.2.2 - June 6, 2017
Adds audio track API for HLS with getAudioTracks and setAudioTrack metods
Adds adinteraction API event (VPAID AdInteraction event - IMA SDK)
Adds adPauseOnClick, adCountDown and labels.ads.controlBarCustomMessage support for rmp-vast
Fixes a bug with stopAds/loadAds methods with rmp-vast that would cause player to not restore content UI properly
4.1.1 - May 2, 2017
Updated to rmp-vast 0.1.5
Added support for adAjaxTimeout, adMaxNumRedirects, labels.ads.skipMessage, labels.ads.skipWaitingMessage and labels.ads.textForClickUIOnMobile settings for rmp-vast in Radiant Media Player
Integrated rmp-vast into Radiant Media PlayerPREVIEW
Removed adDelayBeforeSkip & adSkipButton player settings - skippable ads are now only available with VAST 3 compliant skippable ads
Implements HTMLMediaElement.play()
returns
a Promise where supported
Performance improvement due to faster internal player framework
4.0.28 - April 17, 2017
Fix for a non-fatal error message produced by the Google Cast framework in Chrome when multiple player instances are used (Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'registerElement' on 'Document')
4.0.27 - April 14, 2017
Added example for HLS server-side ad insertion and ad UI display
Server-side ad insertion: when ad UI is on prevent seek keyboard navigation
For in-article outstream ads layout do not auto-hide controls
Insure that custom playback is used on iOS 10+ for displaying ads through the IMA SDK
4.0.26 - April 12, 2017
Added support for dedicated thumbnail files in playlist and related layouts
Added playlistEndedLoop and relatedEndedLoop settings
Minor CSS and JavaScript improvements for playlist and related
Updated loading indicator UI for better accuracy when player is fetching external resources
4.0.25 - April 12, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.24 - April 08, 2017
Updated CSS for in-article outstream ads layout for uniformed rendering across devices
For in-article outstream ads layout only detect hover states for desktop devices (hover states do not apply on mobile devices)
Updated destroy API to best support adOutStreamInArticle, adTagReloadOnEnded settings
Updated beacon media files for featureDetectAutoplay setting
4.0.23 - April 07, 2017
Added in-article outstream ad layout with adOutStreamInArticle, adOutStreamInArticleMutedAutoplayWithHoverApi settings and implementation example
Re-added hlsJSStopDownloadWhilePaused setting (previously available with v3 and now ported to v4)
Re-added adTagReloadOnEnded setting (previously available with v3 and now ported to v4)
For autoplay feature detection use WebM beacon first over MP4 beacon for better and faster results on Chrome for Android
Added hover API examples
4.0.22 - April 06, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.21 - April 05, 2017
Added hlsStopLoad and hlsStartLoad API methods
Added hlsmanifestparsed API event
Added getHlsFragmentBeingPlayedData API method
Added hlsfragmentbeingplayedchanged API event
Added getAdUI and setAdUI API methods
WebM detection for featureDetectAutoplay now relies on an external beacon.webm file for better accuracy
Fixed an issue with path resolution of required media files for featureDetectAutoplay when player is used in self-hosted version with pathToRmpFiles default value
4.0.20 - April 03, 2017
Added featureDetectAutoplay setting and reworked feature-detection for autoplay support to account for use-cases where the player is dynamically appended to the page
Set autoplayDetectionTimeout default to 3000
Ad scheduler: when no pre-roll is present previously an aderror event would fire which was not actually representing an ad-related error with the player
In HLS when a manifest documents a rendition with a bitrate lower than 10 kbps do not show the bitrate value in the quality module - the main reason for this to happen is when wrong bitrate information are present in an HLS manifest
Specified IMA-related logs with a starting "RMP-ads-ima" string when player is in debug mode
4.0.19 - March 31, 2017
Added muted autoplay support for video ads on mobile devices
Updated feature-based autoplay detection support on mobile devices for better accuracy
Added autoplayDetectionTimeout setting
4.0.18 - March 30, 2017
Added contentID player setting, getContentID & setContentID API methods
Added getLogo & setLogo API methods
Added domain whitelisting support for PLATFORM Edition
Bump to Shaka Player (internal DASH-decoder) version 2.0.7 - previously version 2.0.5
4.0.17 - March 27, 2017
Added full support for DASH multi-period
Added dashtrackschanged event to player API
Added server-side ad insertion documentation
Fixed an issue where the label for quality module would not show as expected in some instances
4.0.16 - March 24, 2017
Added support for video ads with 360 video
Added support for HLS DVR streaming with audio-only content
Google Cast: when content ends on cast device keep the current session active, unless explicitly disconnected by the viewer - in the event a new play is requested the receiving device can display content again faster
4.0.15 - March 23, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.14 - March 22, 2017
Added Streamroot support
Added iframeAllowed setting
Fixed an issue with the loadAds API method that would cause content recovery issues on iOS when called repeatedly
Fixed a reference issue with the debug player that would cause DASH decoder to not load in some instances
4.0.12 - March 20, 2017
Google Analytics plugin now sends adimpression event instead of adstarted event
Fixed a typo for sharingNetworks setting that was previously incorrectly named sharingNetowrks
4.0.11 - March 17, 2017
Added Apple FairPlay Streaming support
4.0.10 - March 16, 2017
Added getAdPodInfo API method
Added getAdvertiserName API method
Added getAdCreativeAdId, getAdCreativeId & getAdDealId API methods
Added getAdMediaUrl API method
Added getAdSurveyUrl API method
Added getAdUniversalAdIdRegistry & getUniversalAdIdValue API methods
Added adsResponse player setting
Added adPlayAdsAfterTime player setting
Added adContentDuration, adContentKeywords & adContentTitle player settings
Added adForceNonLinearFullSlot player setting
Added adDisableFlashAds player setting
Added adPpid player setting
Added adCompanionBackfill player setting
Pre-detect Google Cast support before loading cast_sender.js which can cause unwanted side-effect on MS Edge at playback start
4.0.9 - March 15, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.8 - March 14, 2017
PLATFORM Edition release
4.0.7 - March 10, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.6 - March 7, 2017
Now using the default receiver application from Google for Google Cast - this notably fixes issues related to aspect ratio on the receiver device. The custom receiver application that was used previously is still available for legacy support
purposes
Fix an issue where the poster frame would take some extra time to be removed at player start-up with progressive download
Fix a deprecation notice warning in browser console (related to "-internal-media-controls-overlay-cast-button") in latest Chrome Canary
Adjustment to CSS for colors of the DVR bumper
4.0.5 - March 3, 2017
Added sharingNetowrks setting which add customisation to the sharing module including support for: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Reddit & email
Minor optimisation to the feature detection logic
For audio-only streaming disable DVR layout as not supported (use live instead)
Fixed a potential error when using the destroy method with 360 video
Added destroy API example
Added getFramework method to player API
4.0.4 - March 2, 2017
Internal release - no new feature
4.0.3 - March 1, 2017
Correctly display data in Up Next menu in related content when last item is played
setSrc API method now correctly works when content has not been initialised
Added setSrc API examples to docs
Replaced admanagerloaded event with adtagloaded event for better understanding of the ad loading process (admanagerloaded event still available for legacy support)
Added adtagloaded & adloaded to Google Analytics reporting
4.0.2 - February 28, 2017
Fixed JSON-based related/playlist that would not work with MP4 or WebM progressive download.
Added getEnvironment to player API
4.0.1 - February 24, 2017
Re-added resize method to the player API that went missing with 4.0.0 release
Disabling muted autoplay of video ads on iOS. A recent update of the Google IMA SDK caused an inconsistent behaviour on iOS - so the mutedAutoplayOnMobile is now disabled when using video ads on iOS. This feature will be re-enabled as soon
as possible. The mutedAutoplayOnMobile continues to work as expected on mobile devices when not used with ads.
Minor adjustments to CSS shadows
When dodgy values for bitrate/height data are found in a HLS or DASH manifest do not show them in HD module - instead show default values
Improved DASH on Android support - removed dashAndroid setting - this is now accurately auto-guessed by player
360 video
Official release for 360 video support in Radiant Media Player
Added support for macOS Safari
Added support for progressive download with 360 video
Player
Added playsInline settings
Playback rate values from the nav setting now ranges from x0.25 to x4
Rewrote fullscreen management for faster entering/exiting fullscreen
Backup streaming URL (backupBitrates setting) is now supported for progressive download
Added webmCodecs setting for easier targeting of specific WebM codecs combination
Logo for logo setting can now be provided as JPEG, PNG or GIF
In HLS or DASH when bitrate changes in ABR auto mode the bitrate selector module now indicates which bitrate is currently playing
Added vtt.js support for macOS Safari (external WebVTT captions)
Default buffer length for HLS & DASH is now unified at 60 seconds
Minimum buffer length value for HLS & DASH is now set to 10 seconds
Removed displayStreams setting
Updated noSupportInstallChrome player label default
Preload setting now only has effect for progressive download & native HLS
Enabled proper iframe policy as per terms of service
Audio-only
Added support for M4A & MP3 progressive download
Updated layout for audio-only player
Removed audio-only with poster layout - this would need to be built on top of the audio-only player now
Ads
Updated ad-loading mechanism allowing for faster rendering
Improved chain ad-loading
Improved outstream ad coverage on older device/browsers
Added adAutoplayOnlyPreroll setting
Set default of adVpaidMode to 'friendlyiframe'
Set default of adUseWatermarkCountdownAndMessage to true
Removed adRemainingTimeColor setting - this is now set based on CSS accent color
Flash
Deprecated Flash fallback support - Flash support is now limited to essential functionalities for legacy browsers and will be progressively phased out of Radiant Media Player
HLS
Added hlsJSAbrDefaultBandwidthEstimate setting
Added hlsJSBWFactor setting
Added hlsJSAppleAppStoreCompliance setting
Added player API methods & events for HLS streaming: getHlsManifestData, getHlsLevelData, getHlsFragmentData methods & hlsmanifestloaded, hlslevelloaded, hlsfragmentloaded, hlsabradaptationchange events
Added support for #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME through getHlsEpochProgramDateTime & getHlsRawProgramDateTime API methods
Added full support for #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY & #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE
Removed hlsJSStopDownloadWhilePaused setting
Removed useNativeHlsOverHlsJS setting
Renamed hlsjserror event to hlserror & hlsjswarning event to hlswarning
Renamed hlsjsinstancecreated event to hlsinstancecreated
Bump to hls.js 0.6.21
Player API
Completely reworked setSrc API with support for update in video/audio tracks - it also supports DASH and live content now
Added getReady method
Simplified retuned values for getStreamType method
New player build process to generate production/debug player builds
Production player is faster and lighter
Added debugLevel setting
Analytics
Added gaNamedTracker setting for Google Analytics
Removed getPercentHeatMap method which was redundant with getRawHeatMap method
Renamed trackingId setting to gaTrackingId
3.10.16 - March 17, 2017
Pre-detect Google Cast support before loading cast_sender.js which can cause unwanted side-effect on MS Edge at playback start
3.10.15 - March 2, 2017
Disabling muted autoplay of video ads on iOS. A recent update of the Google IMA SDK caused an inconsistent behaviour on iOS - so the mutedAutoplayOnMobile is now disabled when using video ads on iOS. This feature will be re-enabled as soon
as possible. The mutedAutoplayOnMobile continues to work as expected on mobile devices when not used with ads.
Bump to hls.js 0.6.21
3.10.14 - January 30, 2017
Disabled asset preloading for VMAP adTags in HTML5 video as it could cause content recovery issues with some pod configurations containing several ads - if you are using VMAP this is a recommended update
Bump to hls.js 0.6.19
3.5.0 - August 19, 2016
Device support
Added Xbox One MS Edge support.
Pre-test for iOS 10 release.
Improvements
Completely rebuilt Google Analytics plugin.
Added black background for chained TV-like video ads.
Added counter for ad pods in VMAP (HTML5-video ads only).
Set dashAndroid setting default to true.
Added preload = 'none' support for MPEG-DASH and Flash.
getStreamType API method now also returns hlsflash and mp4flash.
Added adMaxNumRedirects setting.
Added useNativeHlsOverHlsJS setting.
Added hlsWithH264Mp3Support setting.
Re-enabled file:// protocol support but without support for specific file:// enabled environment.
Removed some extra processing for feature detection of playback rate.
Added dashXhrWithCredentials setting
MPEG-DASH bitrate switching is now faster
Added MPEG-DASH events:
manifestloaded
periodswitchstarted
periodswitchcompleted
qualitychangestarted
qualitychangecompleted
streaminitialized
Bug fixes
Using the player API for multiple instance of Flash players could cause collision of some methods
HLS-MSE now correctly fires the error event and display an error message on network error
Fixed a bug that was preventing fullscreen events to fire after a video ad has been played in flash
3.0.0 30th April 2016
Refactor
Code base is now ES2015 JavaScript and compiled to ES5 with Babel
Added
HLS to HTML5 video on Desktop and mobile support (MSE-based)
TV like video ads experience
getBitrates getCurrentBitrateIndex getPlaybackRate getHlsId3TagSamples getFullscreen showCaptions hideCaptions API methods
hlslevelswitch hlsid3tagparsingcompleted destroycompleted API events
destroy API methods with update player examples
Customisable player labels
Fallback streaming URLs
Outstream video ads
initialVolume setting
Player hints for module (sharing, quality, speed ...)
dashCapLevelToStage setting
In-manifest CEA 608, WebVTT, TTML or EBU-TT-D captions for MPEG-DASH
backgroundColor setting
For MPEG-DASH download of chunks is now paused when player is in pause
Flash VPAID in HTML5 player
Changed
Set friendlyiframe as default for VPAID HTML5
adSchedule items must be passed as array
Bitrates information are now simplified as string (dash, hls) or simple array (mp4, webm)
Bitrates MPEG-DASH information are now bitrates.dash instead of bitrates.dash264
hlsToFlash setting is now enabled by default and cannot be disabled
Renamed defaultFlashAudioLabel to flashDefaultAudioLabel setting
getCurrentTime getDuration getVolume getTimeViewed getPercentViewed getTimeReady methods now returns -1 when not available
Setting ad-block detected custom message is now done with adBlockMessage setting
Playlist layout now based on destroy + update player API methods
Improved/bug fixes
Skin UI
Flash VPAID in Flash player
Error layout
Preloading behaviour for MPEG-DASH (only metadata are now loaded)
defaultDashAudioTrack setting - now auto-guess from Manifest
2.0.0 18th August 2015
Added Windows 10 support
New more flexible trial edition
Introduced Radiant Media Player R1, R2 and R3 editions
New Flash fallback with added features: new layout, multiple audio tracks support, SRT closed captions
Improved Apple HLS support: manual or auto bitrate switching, multiple audio tracks support
Added debug mode to the player
Added legacy mobile platforms support
New playback modifier module
New video loading and buffering module
New CSS skinning model with 5 pre-built skins
Improved HTML5 video ads module: ad waterfalling, ad scheduling (VMAP 1.0.1), universal skip button, better mobile support
New MPEG-DASH DASH264 decoder
Updated unified JavaScript API for HTML5 + Flash
Unified keyboard control HTML5 + Flash
Unified Google Analytics module HTML5 + Flash
Added prototype for file:// support BETA
Various minor bug fixes
In an effort to make our player better we have had to remove some features: WebM Dash support (this has been back with 2.2), design lab, RTMP support for Flash