Changelog

Below is the technical changelog for our Cross Platform Player powered by JW Player.

Cross Platform Player 6.12 (2015-07-17)

  • The release improves functionality, performance, and UX in a few different ways, with features including:
  • Improved adaptive heuristics for HLS.
  • HLS playback now supported on Chromecast.
  • Updated UX in the Chromecast Receiver application.
  • Key-value pair replacement for Google IMA ad requests.
  • Support for Microsoft HLS Azure Clearkey + Playready AES tokenization.
  • IVA: Improved performance on initial load and between ad completion/video start events.

Chromecast Updates

  • The following HLS v3 streams can now be played on Chromecast –
    • AES Encrypted streams
    • Live and DVR Streams
    • VOD streams
  • Control playback and volume directly from the Google Cast extension.
  • The receiver application will disconnect after 20 minutes in an idle state instead of ?.

General Updates

  • Key value pair variable replacement support in HTML5 and Flash for Google IMA ad requests.
  • The text for advertising cuepoints can now be customized.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a regression with using onReady() to trigger play() in Flash.
  • Fixed an issue for VPAID ad playback that was not sized correctly when using logo position bottom-right.
  • Added support for autostart with a VMAP ad schedule.
  • Fixed the display play button in HTML5 to correctly display hover states.
  • Removed a console error for VPAID ads that was not affecting ad playback.
  • Fixed controlbar fading issue when using SMIL manifests.
  • Fixed an issue with Google IMA tags not refreshing SCOR and COR values between playlist items.
  • Fixed an issue where the player being embedded in a form causes a postback on mobile.
  • Fixed an issue where play() being set onReady() caused infinite buffering on mobile devices.
  • Fixed an issue where some HLS streams would freeze when entering/exiting fullscreen on Windows FireFox.
  • Fixed an issue where IE11 YouTube HTML5 mode would not show any controls.
  • Added support for HLS WebVTT captions with MPEGTS offsets to ensure closed captions appear when they should.
  • Updated the pause behavior during livestreams to be a pause instead of a stop.
  • Fixed a visual stutter in HLS playback due to AAC parsing of multi-audio track streams.
  • Fixed an issue where a failed ad tag was stopping video playback to resume.
  • Fixed an issue where some HLS streams would play in the background while ads were playing.
  • Fixed an issue with players using RTMP as a media source and autostart with prerolls, the RTMP stream did not resume after the ad ended.
  • Fixed an issue with players not rendering correctly when css padding and border were styled inline on the player element.

Cross Platform Player 6.11 (2015-01-07)

The release improves functionality, performance, and UX in a few different ways, with features including:

  • A new model for sending events to Google Analytics with the built in plugin
  • Casting mp4 videos from a Flash Player via our Chromecast integration

HLS Changes

  • Ability to seek within the buffer without having to rebuffer
  • Ability to re-seek while media is buffering
  • DVR sliding control bar appears once the available length is 2 minutes instead of 1 minute.

Chromecast

  • Casting controls are now available when JW Player renders in Flash to play mp4 videos.
  • The Cast icon won’t show when source is not playable on the receiver application.
  • The Cast icons have been updated for design compliance.

General Updates

  • IE9 is now only supported in Flash, HTML5 support has been removed.
  • Poster image will not be loaded when autostart:true, improving player startup speed.
  • webkit-playsinline was added as an attribute of the video tag that JW Player uses when rendered on iOS devices.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed setuperror not firing in certain situations when setting up the player in Flash.
  • Fixed fullscreen button in Internet Explorer.
  • Fixed an issue where failed VPAID were breaking waterfalling to other VAST ads.
  • When an ad is paused in Android Chrome, clicking it no longer opens clickthrough target but resumes playback.
  • Fixed the volume slider for ad playback in Flash.
  • Fixed tag variable replacement item-duration was not getting replaced for mid or post rolls.
  • Fixed using .play() after an ad was watched in Flash.
  • Fixed a crossdomain loading issue with VPAID ads.

Other

  • Our player configuration treats mediaid property of each playlist item as a String value rather than an Integer
  • The trackingobject property has been removed from the Google Analytics configuration as it was unneeded. Ensure websites that utilize Google Analytics are using the latest tracking code.
  • HLS playback has been enabled on Android 4.1+ devices