THEOplayer Universal Video Player Solution Changelog

 

2.64.0 (17/09/2019)

General

Features

• Add support for alternative audio renditions without URI attribute in HLS.

Improvements

• Do not create audio and video tracks for variant streams with unsupported codecs in HLS.

Issues

• Fix an issue where track switches would not always work for multi-period DASH streams.
• Fix an issue where ad-related UI elements would reappear in later ads.
• Fix an issue where multi-audio HLS streams would sometimes fail to play.
• Fix an issue where the UI would sometimes not show the buffered ranges correctly in the progress bar.

Web

Features

• Add content-protection type and sub-types in Network API's request object.

Known Limitations

• Setting IMA mid-roll using percentage does not work.

Android

Features

• Add a new strategy CastStrategy.AUTO which enable automatically casting a new source when the device is connected to Chromecast.

Issues

• Fix an issue where a new player instance couldn't connect to an existing Chromecast session.

Known Limitations

• Setting IMA mid-roll using percentage does not work.

iOS

Features

• Add support for versioning in the THEOplayer.version API.

Improvements

• Removed default user-agent from SpotX integration to be compatible with iOS 13. If your implementation relies on this default behaviour, please follow our workaround guide

Issues

• Fix an issue where seek did not work after the video has ended.
• Fix an issue where IMA ad didn't play on iOS.

Known Limitations

• Setting IMA mid-roll does not work.

2.63.0 (22/08/2019)

General

Issues

• Fix an issue where the player wouldn't throw an error when the status of a media session key would be output-restricted or internal-error.
• Fix an issue in the THEO ad system where Tracking Events in the wrapper wouldn't fire for linear VAST ads.
• Fix an issue where live DASH streams with unsupported representations would crash after a manifest update.
• Fix an issue where playback would not be resumed at the correct position after seeking over an ad.
• Fix consistency issues with UI tooltips.

Web

Features

• Add distinction between main and descriptions kind for HLS audio tracks.
• Upgrade Yospace integration from 1.2.x to 1.7.9.
• Add support for DASH with EMSG for the Yospace integration.
• Add an ABR strategy which optimizes playback of low latency chunked streams. This can be enabled by adding lowLatency in TypedSource.

Improvements

• Improved behaviour when placing focus on the volume bar to improve keyboard accessibility.

Issues

• Fix an issue where content would not play fullscreen after playing a pre-roll ad in fullscreen on iOS Safari.

Deprecations

• Removed pre-integration for MediaMelon QBR.

Android

Features

• Add support for #EXT-X-DATERANGE tags in HLS through the player.textTracks API.

Issues

• Fix an issue where replay did not work while connected to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue where seek paused the video while connected to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue where the duration of the stream was not correct while connected to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue where the application would crash when changing the Chromecast session.
• Fix an issue on Edge and Internet Explorer where seeking to the end of a DASH stream or replaying it would not work correctly.

Known Limitations

• Replay while connected to Chromecast does not work. See workaround

iOS

Features

• Add distinction between main and descriptions kind for HLS audio tracks.
• Add support for native UIGestureRecognizer through THEOplayer API.
• Add support for aspect ratio in the THEOplayer.fullscreen API.

Issues

• Fix an issue where replay did not work while connected to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue where seek paused the video while connected to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue when selecting one audio track would disable all audio tracks.
• Fix an issue where THEOplayer would deactivate AVAudioSession when the application goes to background.

Known Limitations

• Replay while connected to Chromecast does not work. See workaround
• Leaving a Chromecast session while playing a DASH stream causes an unrecoverable error. See workaround

2.61.0 (21/06/2019)

Web

Features

• Add support for WebVTT subtitles embedded in ISOBMFF segments.
• Add support for #EXT-X-DATERANGE tags in HLS through the player.textTracks API.

Improvements

• Improve Agama integration by upgrading support to EMP Client version 3.7.
• Improve Agama integration by suspending reporting on the sender side while the content is being cast.

Issues

• Fix an issue where the ABR of the player would not always correctly switch when using response interceptors.
• Fix an issue where the ABR of the player would not always correctly switch on streams with small segments.

Android

Features

• Add support for Agama analytics.
• Add support for WebVTT subtitles embedded in ISOBMFF segments.

Issues

• Fix an issue where requesting video width/height sometimes caused an exception.

iOS

Features

• Add support for Agama Analytics.
• Add support for sideloaded WebVTT subtitles when using Airplay.

Issues

• Fix an issue where device volume was not reported properly.
• Fix an issue where advertisement volume was not reported properly.
• Fix an issue where the ProgressEvent was not reported.

tvOS

Features

• Add support for sideloaded WebVTT subtitles.

Chromecast

Features

• Add support for Agama analytics on Chromecast.

2.60.0 (17/05/2019)

General

Features

• Add distinction between captions and subtitles kind of text tracks for DASH manifests.
• Add distinction between captions and subtitles kind of text tracks for HLS manifests with #EXT-X-MEDIA tags.

Improvements

• Improve buffer segment selection and fetching for DASH streams.

Issues

• There are known major issues with the Chromecast feature in this release. These are planned to be fixed in 2.61.1.
• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes hang on a discontinuity edge on Safari.
• Fix an issue where the player would not dispatch an adend event when ending a non-linear ad.
• Fix an issue where Conviva analytics would not work correctly if ads were configured in the source description.
• Fix an issue where sometimes a TTML text track was created even when the stream does not contain TTML data.
• Fix an issue where it was not possible to pause or play by clicking on the video area while casting to Chromecast.
• Fix an issue where the direction indicator did not update when looking around in a VR video.
• Fix an issue where the player sometimes leaked DRM key sessions after playing multiple DRM-protected streams.

Web

Features

• Add support for inspecting ads and ad breaks from Google IMA through the ads API. This also adds the following events to the ads API: addad, updatead, addadbreak, removeadbreak.
• Add systemCode to player.error and contentprotectionerror event for key system specific error codes.

Improvements

• Improve the startup time of the player when playing an IMA pre-roll advertisement.

Issues

• Fix an issue where the fullscreen button tooltip did not change to 'Exit fullscreen' when in fullscreen mode.

Android

Features

• Add flag to THEOplayerGlobal to force use customWebView for minapi16
• Add the ability to join a Chromecast session
• Add support for offline Uplynk DRM
• Add support for multi key session streams
• Add support for manifest-only PSSH streams
• Add support for offline multi key session streams

Issues

• Fix an issue where Google IMA Ad events were not dispatched correctly.

iOS

Features

• Update iOS SDK to Swift 5.0
• Add the ability to join a Chromecast session
• Recognise TextTrack accessibility kind values

Issues

• Fix an issue where leaving a Chromecast session, the channel was not cleared properly.
• Fix an issue where Google IMA Ad events were not dispatched correctly.

Deprecations

• Objective-C is no longer supported. Please update to the Swift API. If you have questions, please contact our support team.

tvOS

Features

• Update tvOS SDK to Swift 5.0

Chromecast

Issues

• Fix an issue where it was not possible to set the target quality while casting.

2.59.0 (07/05/2019)

General

Features

• Add support for rendering of sideloaded WebVTT text tracks in native fullscreen on iOS Safari.

Improvements

• Improve scrubbing while casting to Chromecast.

Issues

• Fix an issue where AES-128 encrypted HLS streams failed to play.
• Fix an issue where certain HLS streams failed to play in some browsers when using player.src.
• Fix an issue where certain HLS streams stalled near the end of the video.
• Fix an issue where seeking after a stream ends restarts the media at the beginning.
• Fix an issue where Chromecast sender had incorrect property values after media ended.
• Fix an issue where Chromecast sender could not replay or seek after media ended.
• Fix an issue where Chromecast sender could not manually switch audio or video.
• Fix an issue where Chromecast receiver volume was set to sender volume.
• Fix an issue with UI controls after starting a Chromecast session.
• Fix a issue with HLS playback where incomplete audio frames are not always correctly silenced.
• Fix an issue where adbreakbegin event would sometimes dispatch too often in the THEO ad system.
• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes give double ended events after a Google IMA post-roll.
• Fix an issue where the played property would sometimes return incorrect values for HLS streams.
• Fix an issue where a clipped video would briefly show its unclipped duration in the controls.

Web

Issues

• Fix an issue where images with parentheses in the URL did not render correctly.
• Fix an issue where the AirPlay target selection menu would not show again after closing it previously.
• Fix an issue where calling destroy on the player would not remove the global beforeunload event handler
• Fix an issue where errors appeared in the browser console while playing an audio-only HLS stream.

Android

Issues

• Fix an issue that caused crash when MOAT analytics was enabled but the ad did not support MOAT tracking
• Fix an issue where inBandMetadataTrackDispatchType was missing when ADDTRACK event occurs

iOS

Deprecations

• Objective-C support is deprecated, and is scheduled to be removed in the next version (2.60.0). Please update to the Swift API. If you have questions, please contact our support team.

Issues

• Fix an issue with playing VR/360 source.
• Fix an issue where isDestroyed property was not correctly set.
• Fix a Google IMA issue where "Learn More" (top right corner) and content countdown (bottom left corner) are partially hidden on iPhoneX(+).
• Fix an issue where the UI sometimes showed an incorrect selected audio track.
• Fix an issue that shows indefinite spinner when seeking while using Airplay.
• Fix an issue when subtitle font size increased during scrubbing/seeking.
• Fix an issue when player state was not properly synced with AirPlay state.

Chromecast

Issues

• Fix an issue that prevented volumeChanged event from being triggered
• Fix missing pause icon

2.58.0 (25/03/2019)

General

Improvements

• Improve internal asynchronous handling of synchronous API methods (setting source / reset / destroy)

Web

Features

• Add integration for Uplynk Fairplay DRM

Issues

• Fix an issue where the player would show an incorrect buffering spinner when using Conviva analytics

iOS

Features

• Add integration for Uplynk Fairplay DRM

tvOS

Features

• Add integration for Uplynk Fairplay DRM

2.57.0 (11/03/2019)

Web

Features

• Add integration for Azure Widevine DRM
• Add integration for Verimatrix Fairplay DRM

Issues

• Fix an issue where the UI sometimes did not display the available video qualities of a multi-audio HLS stream.
• Fix an issue where HLS streams on Internet Explorer on Windows 7 would not play.
• Fix an issue where up-next would keep redirecting on single-page web apps.
• Fix an issue where up-next would appear during linear advertisements.

iOS

Features

• Added support for Verimatrix MultiRights FairPlay DRM.

Issues

• Fixed an issue where ad related events were not reported correctly.
• Fixed an issue where setting the current time for Chromecast did not work.

2.56.0 (25/02/2019)

Web

Issues

• Fix an issue where the wrong content type was sent to the chromecast

Android

Features

• Added support for Axinom Widevine DRM.
• Implement track switching for experimental rendering pipeline.

Improvements

• Improve minapi16 variant to use the packaged WebView replacement in case an older WebView Chrome version is detected on the device.
• Various improvements to experimental rendering pipeline.

Issues

• Various fixes to experimental rendering pipeline.

Android TV

Features

• Added support for Axinom Widevine DRM.
• Implement track switching for experimental rendering pipeline.

Improvements

• Various improvements to experimental rendering pipeline.

Issues

• Various fixes to experimental rendering pipeline.

iOS

Features

• Improved native playback logic.
• Added support for Axinom FairPlay DRM.
• Added support for offline Xstream FairPlay DRM.
• Extend the ABR API with two new properties: preferredPeakBitRate and preferredMaximumResolution

Issues

• Fixed an issue where Chromecast device selection was not visible.
• Fixed an issue where device and statusbar orientation were not correct when caching was enabled.
• Fixed an issue where a caching task did not transition to the error state
• Fixed an issue where caching a DRMToday protected stream did not work
• Removed SpotX Advertising Identifier for non-SpotX customers.

Chromecast

Issues

• Fix an issue where the chromecast ended up in the pause state for mp4

2.55.0 (11/02/2019)

Web

Issues

• Fix an issue where sometimes HLS subtitle renditions with DEFAULT=YES were not automatically selected.
• Fix an issue where TTML subtitles would sometimes get stuck.
• Fix an issue where scheduling an ad would resume playback on a paused player.
• Fix an issue where SpotX ads would not always be able to play.
• Fix an issue where Picture-in-picture would not behave correctly in Safari.
• Fix an issue where thumbnails would not behave correctly.

2.54.0 (28/01/2019)

Web

Features

• Added integration with Axinom DRM

Issues

• Fix an issue where Google IMA would not always correctly switch between two ads.
• Fix an issue with seeking before the player is fully initialized.

iOS

Features

• Added license renewal for offline DRM streams.

Issues

• Fixed an issue with Fairplay DRM protected streams.
• Fixed issue when playing multiple DRM protected streams simultaneously.
• Fixed an issue where Chromecast couldn't register a channel.
• Fix an issue with scrubbing when DRM protected stream was played.

2.53.0 (15/01/2019)

Web

Features

• Added support for Vimond FairPlay DRM.
• Added support for CMAF segments in HLS.

Issues

• Fix an issue where DASH livestreams would report seekable.start as zero incorrectly.
• Fix an issue where streams using SIDX would not play.

iOS

Features

• Added support for Vimond FairPlay DRM.

2.52.0 (02/01/2019)

Web

Features

• Added the possibility to configure title attribute in the Now Playing section of the Control Center
• Allow vmap/adrule to be scheduled dynamically (via player.ads.schedule) by addition of the adSource API.
• Add PlayReady playback support for Tizen 3.0.

Issues

• Fix an issue where a clip would sometimes play beyond its end time.
• Fix an issue where some IMA ads using a custom timeOffset wouldn't play
• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes accidentally seek back to the start of the stream

Android

Features

• Added license renewal for offline DRM streams.

Improvements

• Improved concurrent offline license caching behaviour.

Android TV

Features

• Added license renewal for offline DRM streams.

Improvements

• Improved concurrent offline license caching behaviour.

iOS

Features

• Added the possibility to configure title attribute in the Now Playing section of the Control Center
• Extended caching API with the ability to pause and resume a caching task.
• Extended caching API with the ability to select desired quality.
• Extended caching API with the ability to see the total bytes cached.

Issues

• Fixed an issue with caching DRM protected streams

2.51.0 (17/12/2018)

Web

Issues

• Fix an issue where some HLS streams using #EXT-X-BYTERANGE stall indefinitely.
• Fix an issue where Conviva would not be notified that the manifest is unavailable if it was detected before session creation.
• Fix an issue where subtitles UI cannot toggle when the manifestMetadataTrack property is set to true on iOS devices.
• Fix an issue where Firefox on Android sometimes crashes when loading a HLS stream containing MP3 audio.

Android

Features

• Added playback of Xstream Widevine DRM streams.

Android TV

Features

• Added playback of Xstream Widevine DRM streams.

iOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue with Airplay DRM protected streams
• Fixed an issue when leaving fullscreen mode the orienation behaviour was incorrect

2.50.0 (04/12/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Improve the interoperability of a player with a poster and a source with a poster.
• Improved start-up time for MPEG-DASH streams using SegmentBase@indexRange.

Issues

• Fix an issue with live HLS streams with manifest metadata tracks
• Fix an issue where playback would sometimes not start at the live point in a HLS livestream with DVR.
• Fix an issue where adend/adbreakend were not dispatched when the source changed while IMA was playing an ad.
• Fix an issue where resuming a paused task would result in an incorrect size estimation.
• Fix an issue where not all impression beacons would be tracked in the THEO ad system.
• Fix an issue where audio track selection was unavailable when no audio stream was marked as default.

iOS

Improvements

• Extended Yospace API with access to the Yospace session

2.49.0 (20/11/2018)

Web

Features

• Fix an issue where the seekable range of HLS streams with tag #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:EVENT would not start at zero.

Issues

• Fix an issue where CEA608 Captions would not always render.
• Fix an issue where Google IMA would not always switch back to content on very slow internet connections.
• Fix an issue in THEO ad system where ads would not start playing after an empty VAST had been scheduled.
• Fix a regression where HLS streams sometimes fail to start on IE11 and Android.

Android

Features

• Extended the caching API with pause and resume functionality.
• Extended the caching API with quality selection functionality.
• Extended the caching API with task size estimation and actual task size.

iOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue with DRM protected streams

tvOS

Features

• TvOS UI Integrated for TVML applications.

2.48.0 (06/11/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes stall indefinitely on period switches in DASH streams.

Issues

• Fix an issue with certain content security policy (CSP) directives.

Android

Features

• Extended the player with the metrics API

Android TV

Features

• Extended the player with the metrics API

iOS

Features

• Extended the player with the metrics API

2.47.0 (23/10/2018)

Web

Features

• Added support for UTCTiming elements in MediaPresentationDescriptions as defined in DASH IF IOP v4.2, section 4.7.3.
• Added Xstream DRM pre-integration for Widevine and Playready.
• Added support for AirPlay with FairPlay protected streams.

Improvements

• Improved handling of DRM-protected content.
• Added log level to Agama configuration

Issues

• Fix an issue where Google DAI's and Google IMA's clickthrough were not clickable.
• Fix an issue where text tracks were visible on the local player when casting.
• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes stall indefinitely when some tracks had differing start times.
• Fix an issue where the clickthrough for an ad was not clickable.

iOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue where the layout was incorrect when embedding a player in a UIScrollView with content inset adjustment turned off.

2.46.0 (08/10/2018)

Web

Features

• Added QoS droppedVideoFrames metrics
• Added support for availabilityTimeOffset in SegmentTemplate-based DASH streams.
• Added QoS corruptedVideoFrames metrics
• Added agama integration

Improvements

• Improved setting autoplay parameters for Google IMA Ad requests.
• Improved error handling when worker files are unavailable due to CORS configuration.

Issues

• Fix an issue where the player was not able to play a source which consisted solely of advertisements.
• Fix an issue where the player fails to buffer when DASH segments are slightly misaligned.
• Fix an issue where the StreamOne integration attempted to track an end of stream event, even if the integration was not enabled.
• Fix an issue where SegmentList initialization segment urls were not always correctly resolved.
• Fix an issue in the THEOplayer ad integration where specific ads would only play in the lowest quality on Safari.
• Fix an issue where destroying a player instance caused the Chromecast session of another instance to end.

iOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue where multiple player instances contend for full-screen mode, causing glitchy behavior.

2.45.0 (10/09/2018)

Web

Features

• Added retainPresentationModeOnSourceChange flag on the picture-in-picture configuration.
• Added basic support for chunked CMAF in MPEG-DASH streams.

Issues

• Fix an issue where playback would sometimes stop near a discontinuity for some HLS streams.
• Fix an issue with DASH streams using SegmentBase.
• Fix an issue where the Referer header was no longer set on HTTP requests.
• Fix an issue where subtitles were automatically turned off after switching away from the main content - e.g. for advertisement or casting.
• Fix an issue where the player sometimes stutters after appending a segment in DASH streams with a large timescale.
• Fix an issue where segments were sometimes shifted by a frame, causing the player to stall.

Android

Features

• Integrated YoSpace Ad Management Android SDK

iOS

Features

• Integrated YoSpace Ad Management Android SDK

2.44.0 (27/08/2018)

Web

Features

• Added support for legacy EME implementations.
• Added support for in-stream DASH thumbnail tracks as defined in DASH IF IOP v4.2, section 6.2.6.

Improvements

• Improved dynamic sizing for thumbnails, e.g. in fullscreen mode.

Issues

• Fix an issue where native fullscreen was not possible when using muted autoplay on iOS Safari.
• Fix an issue where the player would seek indefinitely.
• Fix an issue where the bitrate option in player.abr.strategy.metadata was incorrectly interpreted as bytes per second (instead of bits per second).

iOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue when playback was not started.
• Fixed an issue when FairPlay stream was not started.
• Fixed an issue where the player did not go to fullscreen.
• Fixed an issue where some events were sending Infinity as currentTime

tvOS

Issues

• Fixed an issue when playback was not started.
• Fixed an issue when FairPlay stream was not started.
• Fixed an issue where the player did not go to fullscreen.
• Fixed an issue where some events were sending Infinity as currentTime

2.43.0 (10/08/2018)

Web

Features

• Added active quality label to UI.
• Added FreeWheel integration.
• Added upcoming ad notification feature

Issues

• Fix an issue where the player would stall indefinitely on some DASH live streams from Microsoft Azure.
• Fixed an issue where ABR bandwith calculation was affected by network interceptors
• Fix an issue where the player would not start playback on some DASH live streams.
• Fix an issue where the Xstream ticket acquisition URL could not be specified through the API
• Fix an issue where ended state could not always be reached for MPEG-DASH playback

Chromecast

Issues

• Fix stuttering issue on Chromecast

2.42.0 (25/07/2018)

Web

Features

• Add Xstream DRM pre-integration for FairPlay

Issues

• Fix an issue where the duration of a DASH stream was not correctly calculated for SegmentBase-based timelines.
• Fix an issue where playback rate does not update for DASH streams.

iOS

Features

• Add Xstream DRM pre-integration

Issues

• Fixed an issue where subtitle track is being played/displayed several times

tvOS

Features

• Add Xstream DRM pre-integration

2.41.0 (17/07/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Improved detection of invalid libraryLocation configuration.
• Improved handling of missing segments: when a segment is missing in one quality, the player will now also attempt downloading in other qualities.

Issues

• Fix an issue where certain segments would not be downloaded in Firefox.
• Improved robustness of player concerning dealing with failing to update a live DASH manifest
• Fixed an issue with setting the targetQuality of a track to automatic.
• Fixed an issue where manual quality switches in FireFox caused a glitch.

iOS

Features

• Added adaptive bitrate API.

tvOS

Features

• Added adaptive bitrate API.

2.40.0 (02/07/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Improved performance for DASH streams with a large number of Periods.
• Added support for Titanium PlayReady version 3.
• Added qualities property to targetqualitychanged event.

Issues

• Fix an issue where preload of a live-stream would result in playback at the start of live window
• Fix an issue where the error message is not properly cleared after changing the source.
• Fix an issue where IMA ads unset picture-in-picture mode.
• Fix an issue where DASH manifests without initialisation segment specifications were not handled correctly.
• Fix an issue where some domains can't be whitelisted.
• Fix an issue where the poster image was overlaying when setting it, now poster-images are reset when you set the source afterwards.

Android

Features

• Extended adaptive bitrate API with strategies

Issues

• Fix a minor issue for certain DASH streams

Android TV

Features

• Extended adaptive bitrate API with strategies

iOS

Improvements

• Improve performance when multiple FairPlay keys are requested in parallel.

tvOS

Improvements

• Improve performance when multiple FairPlay keys are requested in parallel.

2.39.1 (20/06/2018)

Chromecast

Features

• Pre-integration with Adobe Heartbeat Analytics for Chromecast.

2.39.0 (18/06/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Improved DASH buffering logic to handle manifest inaccuracies better.

Issues

• Fix an issue where DASH streams would not play back on IE11.
• Fix bad performance when playing DASH streams with multiple Widevine DRM keys on Firefox.
• Fix program date time when segments vary in duration.
• Fix an issue in Edge where live streams using large timestamps would freeze.
• Fix a small FairPlay bug on iOS 9.

Android

Issues

• Fix an issue for issue for Android 4.1 devices

Features

• Added caching
• Added offline license DRMtoday playback

iOS

Issues

• Fix an issue with iOS 9

tvOS

Issues

• Fix an issue when destroying a player.

2.38.0 (04/06/2018)

Web

Features

• Add clipping support
• Add looping support
• Support extra query parameters in SpotX Ads

Issues

• Fix an issue where the player would sometimes get stuck at the start of a live stream
• Fix an issue where we do not dispatch a playing event after an Google IMA ad has already started
• Fix an issue where the player would crash on a native Edge bug
• Fixed an issue with rendering SMPTE-TT text tracks.

Android

Issues

• Fix an issue for devices with Android 4.4 or older

Features

• Support extra query parameters for SpotX Ads

iOS

Features

• Allow automatically entering picture-in-picture mode when the player goes out of view.
• Support for downloading and offline playback of FairPlay-protected content.
• Support extra query parameters in SpotX Ads

Issues

• Fixed an error where the timeupdate event was always sending Infinity when playing FairPlay streams
• Support for SMPTE-TT subtitles.
• Fixed some issues with FairPlay playback in chromeless mode.
• Fix an issue with Irdeto FairPlay DRM integration.
• Fixed a small full-screen orientation coupling bug.

tvOS

Issues

• Fixed an error where the timeupdate event was always sending Infinity when playing FairPlay streams
• Fixed some issues with FairPlay playback in chromeless mode.

2.37.0 (22/05/2018)

Web

Features

• Added support for the Titanium DRM token-based authentication flow for Widevine and Fairplay.

Issues

• Fix an issue where the viewport would jump down when a poster image larger than the viewport was set.
• Fix an issue where IE11/W7 playback stalls after a discontinuity.
• Fix an issue where WebVTT font size was too big in portrait fullscreen mode
• Fix an issue where sometimes the wrong active quality is reported for HLS streams.
• Fix an issue where player couldn't handle a non-linear ad set as a pre-roll
• Fix an issue where the last scheduled advertisement was not being requested by IMA
• Improved handling of different formats for timeOffset/skipOffset for all ad systems

Android

Features

• Expose the target buffer API.

iOS

Features

• Caching API: Offline playback of non-DRM protected streams.

Improvements

• Various performance improvements.

Issues

• Fixed a bug where certain VR streams could not load because of CORS issues.

tvOS

Features

• Support for SMPTE-TT subtitles.
• Playback of FairPlay protected streams with DRMtoday and VUDRM.

2.36.0 (07/05/2018)

Web

Features

• Added firstFrame property to quality
• Added update event to Quality objects, dispatched when any property changes
• Added support for SMPTE-TT subtitles embedded in ID3 metadata.
• Provide ability to set target buffer duration.

Issues

• Fix an issue where a failed segment download during caching logged a warning in the browser console.
• Fix an issue where the player was not able to seek to the start of a stream due to a bug in Edge.
• Fix an issue where the player would hang when playing CEA608 subtitles.
• Fix an issue with multiple concurrent caching tasks.
• Fix an issue where rounding errors in DASH segments would sometimes confuse the player's download logic.
• Fix an issue in Chrome where content hangs after changing qualities.

Android

Features

• Added CastLabs DRMToday pre-integration.

iOS

Improvements

• Marked the THEOplayer class as open, so that it can be extended by integrators.

Issues

• Fixed a bug where FairPlay videos would not render.

tvOS

Improvements

• Marked the THEOplayer class as open, so that it can be extended by integrators.

Issues

• Fixed a bug where FairPlay videos would not render.

2.35.0 (23/04/2018)

Web

Features

• Added possibility to configure the time between the live point and the end of the manifest.
• Added exposing Conviva client and session ID
• Added Azure Media Services pre-integration for FairPlay DRM.

Issues

• Fix an issue where seeking in an MPEG-DASH stream sometimes seeks to the wrong time.
• Fix an issue with setting preload and then changing source to an MPEG-DASH stream.
• Fix an issue where FairPlay-protected streams would fail to start.
• Fix an issue where HLS streams would fail to start with an empty contentProtection configuration.
• Fix an issue where side-loaded WebVTT text tracks with a UTF-8 BOM were not correctly recognized.
• Fix an issue where seeking to the end of a DASH stream did not always load the last segment.
• Fix an issue where caching tasks are incorrectly removed when offline
• Fix an issue with the currentTime of DASH livestreams when chromecasting.

Android

Features

• Smaller library file size.

iOS

Features

• Added DRMToday and Vudrm pre-integrations for FairPlay DRM.

Improvements

• Improved UI and UX for VR stereo mode.

2.34.0 (09/04/2018)

Web

Features

• Added CastLabs DRMToday pre-integration.
• Added MediaMelon SmartSight analytics pre-integration.

Improvements

• Related Content API: added show and hide events.
• Google IMA integration: pause advertisement while visiting click through website.
• Dispatch destroy event when player.destroy() is called.
• Fall back to alternative sources in SourceDescription when DRM of initial source is not supported.

Issues

• Fix an issue where an internal polyfill for Array.prototype.includes accidentally leaked to the global scope.
• Fix an issue where sometimes Chrome would freeze on certain MPEG-DASH streams.
• Fix an issue where an extraneous seeking event occurs before an HLS stream starts playing.
• Fix an issue where player-level and source-level analytics configurations were not correctly combined.
• Fix an issue where an empty captions text track is added on iOS for streams that don't contain captions.
• Fix an issue with the ExpressPlay integration for Fairplay-protected streams.
• Fix an issue where a mute toggle is displayed on environments that don't support programmatic muting.
• Fix an issue with preload for HLS streams.
• Fix an issue with seeking to live when the manifest reports starts of fragments that are slightly off.
• Fix an issue where the player would detect too many audio tracks in some HLS streams on iOS.

2.33.0 (26/03/2018)

Web

Features

• Added Chromecast global session sharing.

Improvements

• Network API: added subtype property to identify initialization segment requests.
• ABR API: added bandwidth strategy.

Issues

• Fix an issue where the VR display is sized incorrectly on iPhone X.
• Fix an issue with switching audio tracks in DRM-protected MPEG-DASH streams on Firefox.
• Fix an issue where sometimes the wrong subtitles stay on the screen after seeking.
• Fix an issue with StreamOne analytics.
• Fix an issue with unsupported adaptation sets in MPEG-DASH streams.
• Fix an issue with setting vr.direction before starting playback.
• Fix an issue with HLS segments with missing audio frames.
• Fix an issue with VR on Chrome 65 and higher.

2.32.0 (12/03/2018)

Web

Features

• Added StreamOne analytics pre-integration.
• Added ExpressPlay FairPlay DRM pre-integration.

Issues

• Fix an issue where some ad error events were not reported for Google IMA.
• Fix an issue where malformed MPEG-TS packets may crash the player.
• Fix an issue where some streams repeatedly stall after every segment in IE11.
• Fix an issue where segments starting with a B-frame sometimes cause stalls in Safari and Edge.
• Fix an issue where FairPlay-protected streams would fail to start.

2.31.0 (26/02/2018)

Web

Improvements

• Improve recovery when a segment in a HLS variant stream cannot be fetched.

Issues

• Fix an issue where player sometimes crashes when rapidly switching between DRM-protected streams.
• Fix an issue when seeking in a multi-period DASH live stream.
• Fix an issue when combining VR content with Google IMA ads.
• Fix an issue where credentials were not sent when requesting certain DASH segments.
• Fix an issue where a pinch gesture activates native fullscreen on iOS.
• Fix various issues with casting to Chromecast.

2.30.1 (14/02/2018)

Web

Features

• Added Chromecast Receiver SDK.
• Added adaptive bitrate (ABR) API.
• Added Castlabs DRMToday pre-integration.
• Added optimal media file selection for linear advertisements.

Improvements

• Improve advertisement error messages.
• Improve automatic picture-in-picture to only activate when playback was previously started.

Issues

• Fix an issue with 360 degrees videos sometimes glitching on iOS around quality switches.
• Fix an issue with muted autoplay and Google IMA pre-rolls ads on mobile.
• Fix an issue with Widevine DRM on Firefox 52 ESR.
• Fix an issue with Irdeto FairPlay DRM.
• Fix an issue with replaying an ended video on Internet Explorer 11.
• Fix an issue with some video-only streams not starting.
• Fix an issue with HLS streams containing MP3 audio not starting.
• Fix an issue where scrubber sometimes goes outside of seekbar on some live streams.
• Fix an issue where subtitles are sometimes displayed twice on iOS.
• Fix an issue where subtitles are displayed too small.
• Fix an issue with WebVTT subtitles embedded in MPEG-DASH stream.
• Fix an issue where CEA-608 captions sometimes stop showing after switching to a different stream.
• Fix various issues with advertisements.

2.29.0 (15/01/2018)

Web

Features

• Allow moving the seek bar inside the control bar using the theo-seekbar-inside-controls CSS class.

Issues

• Fix an issue preventing some HLS livestreams from starting playback.
• Fix an issue with pre-roll advertisements on iOS 9.
• Fix an issue with ID3 metadata on iOS.
• Fix an issue causing the Chromecast button to sometimes disappear when using multiple players.

2.28.0 (03/01/2018)

Web

Features

• Added support for loading THEOplayer from a cached Google page
• Added THEOplayer.features property
• Added CEA-608 text track styling

Improvements

• Improve DASH gap handling

Issues

• Fix an issue where ads did not play correctly when using muted autoplay and Google IMA
• Make sure the ended event is dispatched with empty VAST postroll in Google IMA pre-integration

2.27.0 (15/12/2017)

Web

Features

• Moat analytics pre-integration
• Support async loading of THEOplayer library

Improvements

• Improve CEA608 handling across quality switches
• Internet explorer: use responseUrl from http response
• Improve ABR for HLS streams on mobile
• Improve handling of missing keyframes
• MPEG-DASH stream dispatch only one error event on a load error

Issues

• Fix an issue with ID3 on iOS not correctly activating
• Fix issue with HLS packager
• Solved an issue where last segment was not always packaged in HLS stream

2.26.0 (4/12/2017)

Web

Features

• Set custom labels on qualities
• Allow quality grouping with custom labels
• Destroy method on player
• Network API

Improvements

• Youbora Analytics also track advertisements
• Improve error messages

Issues

• Solved an issue with chromeless player and poster image

2.25.0 (20/11/2017)

Web

Features

• Easy UI skinning.

Improvements

• Irdeto integration: minor update.
• Prefill for SpotX device data.
• Support for HLS current program date time on iOS.
• Android SDK:
• Google IMA: pass in custom IMA settings when scheduling an ad.
• General UI improvements.

Issues

• Solved an issue related to rendering of subtitles.
• Solved an issue where iOS SDK would sometimes crash.
• Solved an issue where video content started playing in the background when a video ad is playing on Safari.
• Solved an issue where mute and unmute with video ad didn't work.

2.24.0 (15/11/2017)

Web

Features

• Configure Google IMA ads UI language using UIConfiguration.language
• Enable configuration of ad preload type

Improvements

• Remove border around player on focus
• Improve Google IMA ad playback on Safari 11

2.23.0 (07/11/2017)

Web

Features

• Google IMA:

Improvements

• Improved handling of text tracks

2.22.0 (23/10/2017)

Web

Features

• Added MediaMelon pre-integration
• Added allowMixedContent player configuration parameter
• Added Youbora analytics pre-integration

Improvements

• Improved muted autoplay
• Styling improvements for web and mobile

Issues

• Google IMA: Improvements for non-linear ads and VPAID ads

2.21.0 (28/09/2017)

Web

Features

• Added the Network API
• Added allowNativeFullscreen to the player configuration. This allows using fullscreen on the video element directly instead of on the whole player.
• Added support for Conax FairPlay
• Added a generic metadata property to SourceDescription to allow for more descriptive sources.
• Added the adskip event to the Advertisement API to indicate ads that are being skipped
• Added support for more timeOffset formats for GoogleIMAAdDescriptions (scheduling ads without VMAP): timestamps, "start", "end" and percentages (for VOD)

Improvements

• Improved the UI for the Up Next feature
• Improved the handling of ID3 metadata on iOS
• Improved the adskip button to feature the poster image

Issues

• Solved an issue where muted autoplay on iOS could not be unmuted
• Solved an issue where the ended event was not always dispatched when IMA ads were used
• Solved an issue where tooltip for currentTime was not updating correctly on mobile web when switching to picture-in-picture

2.20.0 (12/09/2017)

Web

Features

• Allow THEOplayer to be used as an Audio Node within the Web Audio API

Improvements

• Improved the player's big play button
• Improved the UI of Picture-in-Picture on the web
• Improved the UI of the up-next panel
• Various improvements to the player's internals
• Improved the UI of the top control bar
• Improved the player to play content as smoothly as possible

Issues

• Solved an issue where a wrong play/pause icon would show on mobile platforms after returning from tab inactivity
• Solved an issue where the player sometimes stalls when the PTS/DTS offset changes on a discontinuity edge
• Solved a memory leak issue
• Solved a freezing issue on Chrome/Opera
• Solved an issue where sideloaded text tracks appear twice in the subtitle menu
• Solved an issue where the player would not be correctly resized for 4:3 videos
• Solved an issue with mouse behaviour when using 360/VR

2.19.0 (28/08/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for KeyOS Fairplay

Improvements

• Improved the player's download prioritization
• Improved handling of offline DASH manifests
• Improved playback of multiple sequential advertisements
• Various updates and improvements to the player's codebase

Issues

• Solved an issue where playing certain DASH manifests could trigger a memory leak
• Solved an issue where the player would stall playback on certain HLS live streams
• Solved an issue where including the Google IMA script would cause the player to pause after a single tap on mobile devices
• Solved an issue where the language selection menu was not always correctly updated
• Solved an issue where the player's manifest downloads would not be correctly cleared after setting a new source
• Solved an issue where the 'Up Next' UI did not always show at the end of a video

2.18.0 (18/08/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for DASH SegmentTemplate parameter prefix padding
• Added support for setting a list of qualities as target qualities (documentation)
• Added a right-click menu to the player's UI
• Added support for Irdeto Registered User Flows (documentation)

Improvements

• Improved handling of unsupported DASH tracks
• Various improvements to the player's internals
• Improved handling of streams with empty or missing segments

Issues

• Solved an issue where the player did not correctly recover from an unavailable Google IMA ad
• Solved various minor issues with advertisement playback
• Solved an issue where the useCredentials flag was not taken into account correctly
• Solved an issue where ID3 cuechange events where not correctly fired on iOS
• Solved an issue where multiple players on the same page would not share a Chromecast session correctly
• Solved an issue where the player's bandwidth algorithm estimation gave bad results
• Solved an issue where DASH emsg events were not correctly exposed

API Updates

• Removed all support for the previously deprecated drmController API

2.17.0 (28/07/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for Irdeto DRM (documentation)
• Added support for a countdown timer to the Up Next feature (documentation)
• Added player visibility detection API (documentation)
• Added localization support (documentation, code example)

Improvements

• Improved Conviva integration
• Added support for a close button to skippable non-linear ads
• Support passing Widevine certificate in SourceDescription (documentation)
• Postponed call to ad servers happen until a video play indication

Issues

• Solved an issue where closing social sharing and recommended menus don't restore the previous playback state

2.16.0 (17/07/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for muted autoplay on specific mobile devices

Improvements

• Improved the player's ABR on mobile devices
• Improved the player's mobile UI
• Various improvements to the player's internal buffering architecture
• Improved support for advertisement scheduling in live streams

Issues

• Solved an issue where the last segment of certain VOD HLS streams was never fetched
• Solved an issue where cues for embedded text tracks where not updated correctly
• Solved an issue where calling player.stop() caused an error in Edge

2.15.0 (05/07/2017)

Web

Features

• Added up-next API (documentation)
• Added support for Titanium FairPlay
• Added Yospace API (documentation)
• Added related content API (documentation)
• Added social sharing API (documentation)
• Added Conviva analytics pre-integration (documentation)

Improvements

• Various improvements to the player's internal playback architecture

2.14.0 (09/06/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where track lists did not dispatch change events
• Solved an issue where an error was thrown when calling stop()
• Solved various minor issues with advertisements

2.13.0 (26/05/2017)

Web

Features

• Added pre-integration for SpotX advertisements (documentation)

Improvements

• Various improvements to the player's internal playback architecture

Issues

• Solved an issue where hovering the player in VR mode would sometimes trigger an error
• Solved an issue where the player blocked playback on older versions of Chrome (<52)
• Solved an issue where an edge case would stall HLS playback
• Solved an issue where sideloaded text tracks where not displayed in fullscreen mode on iPad

2.12.1 (22/05/2017)

Web

Features

• Added the trackType, track and quality properties to the segmentnotfound event (documentation)

2.12.0 (11/05/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for 360° and VR videos (documentation)
• Added canvas API (documentation)
• Added pre-integration support for server-side ad insertion with Yospace (documentation)

Improvements

• Side-loaded text tracks are now lazy-loaded
• Chromecast: various minor improvements

Issues

• Solved an issue with autoplay and Fairplay content in Safari on macOS
• Solved various minor issues

2.11.0 (27/04/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for chapters on the seek bar
• Added support for preview thumbnails on the seek bar
• Added pre-integration support for KeyOS DRM (documentation)

Improvements

• UI: the mouse cursor is now hidden while the mouse is resting still above the player
• UI: the control bar is now hidden immediately when the mouse moves outside of the player

Issues

• Solved an issue where picture-in-picture mode would not re-activate automatically in some scenarios
• Solved an issue where subtitles would not appear in some edge cases
• Solved an issue with Internet Explorer 10 support
• Solved various minor issues with DRM protected playback on Internet Explorer and Edge
• Solved various minor issues with advertisements

2.10.0 (12/04/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where changing the audio track on a DASH source would sometimes freeze the player on Edge
• Solved an issue where Airplay was sometimes marked as available when it really wasn't
• Solved an issue with preloading while in fullscreen mode on iOS
• Solved an issue where querying the played property lead to an error when no source was set
• Solved various minor issues with advertisements

2.9.11 (07/04/2017)

Web

Improvements

• Improved player behavior for redirected manifests
• Improved the player's playback behavior on Windows 7

Issues

• Solved an issue where the Airplay overlay was not hidden correctly

2.9.10 (05/04/2017)

Web

Improvements

• Added support for SKD protocol for Fairplay license URLs
• Improved the player to detect broken AAC frames and replace them with silent audio

Issues

• Solved an issue where a DASH live stream with inconsistent segments timelines for audio and video would not start playing

Features

• Added support for Airplay playback on Mac OS and iOS

2.9.9 (03/04/2017)

Web

Improvements

• Improved advertisement viewing experience
• Improved Segment packaging for HLS streams

Issues

• Solved some issues with the Player UI's menus
• Solved an issue with setting the player's currentTime before ads were completely loaded
• Solved an issue with cues not being updated correctly for sideloaded text tracks
• Solved an issue with handling different Fairplay formats

2.9.8 (28/03/2017)

Web

Improvements

• Improved the player's behavior when there is a 404 error on segments.

2.9.7 (27/03/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved some issues with the Player UI's menus

2.9.6 (27/03/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue that made the player pause when seeking.
• Solved an issue with multiple identical content protection systems.

2.9.5 (23/03/2017)

Web

Features

• Fallback to track.label as title for audio tracks with no specific language.
• Improved scrubbing behaviour.

Issues

• Solved an issue with subtitle selection on Chromecast
• Solved an issue with quality selection on Chromecast

2.9.4 (17/03/2017)

Web

Features

• Added compatibility with Chromecast Default Media Receiver.
• Added support for setting the default selected sideloaded text track.

Issues

• Solved an issue where text track labels were not shown.

2.9.3 (13/03/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where an empty DRM description prevented DASH streams from being played correctly.
• Solved an issue with text track cues that were not being dispatched correctly.

2.9.2 (10/03/2017)

Web

Improvements

• Improved outline behavior in the THEOplayer UI quality selection menu.

2.9.1 (09/03/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for the poster property on Chromeless as well as UI players.
• Added an optional poster property to SourceDescriptions.

Issues

• Solved an issue where setting the preload property was not always correctly handled.
• Solved an issue with the currentTime and duration displays in the THEOplayer UI.
• Solved an issue where the fullscreen button was permanently hidden after casting to Chromecast.

2.9.0 (07/03/2017)

Web

Features

• Added a crossOrigin property to the player
• Added support for Picture-in-Picture (PIP)
• Added support for ad-block detection

Improvements

• Improved detection and handling of gaps in MPEG-DASH streams

Issues

• Solved an issue where the loadedmetadata event was not always correctly dispatched
• Solved multiple issues with the ready- and playback state of the player
• Solved an issue where it was no longer possible to specify global DRM configurations in a SourceDescription

2.8.6 (02/03/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the player would often have to resync when it had to rebuffer
• Solved an issue with Chromecast text tracks

Improvements

• Improved track synchronization behavior

2.8.5 (24/02/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where content with persistent Playready licenses did not start playback correctly

2.8.4 (24/02/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the first cue of an SRT file was not parsed correctly

2.8.3 (24/02/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where activequalitychanged event wasn't dispatched for HLS tracks
• Solved an issue which prevented the progress bar UI from resetting
• Solved an issue related to post-rolls
• Solved an issue with the spinner icon on source change
• Solved an issue with playback of periods that are no longer part of a stream

Improvements

• Improved id3 support
• Improved THEOplayer events
• Improved buffering approach

2.8.2 (14/02/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the player would sometimes miscalculate the end time of stream
• Solved an issue on IE/Edge where DRM protected content did not always start playback
• Solved an issue where the player kept waiting for a seeking event that would never occur

Features

• Improved mobile UI
• Improved menu UI

2.8.1 (08/02/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue with the seekbar when using Google IMA
• Solved an issue which didn't correctly dispatch events when using ads
• Solved an issue with VuDRM

Features

• Updated menu UI

Improvements

• Improved error message for missing ContentProtection tag

2.8.0 (31/01/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the readystate was not always updated correctly when using ads

Features

• Updated advertisement UI

2.7.2 (25/01/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where DRM protected content did not start playback on Edge
• Solved an issue where errors from native playback were not dispatched correctly
• Solved an issue where embedded text track segments were not being downloaded in a live stream

Features

• Added support for decryption of Clearkey-encrypted content through EME

2.7.1 (16/01/2017)

Web

Features

• Added support for playback of advertisements via Google-IMA

2.7.0 (16/01/2017)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the UI was not reset correctly when changing a source
• Solved an issue where the player stayed in an indefinite seeking state
• Solved an issue where casting to a Chromecast device occasionally failed on startup

Features

• Added support for playback of non-DASH media sources (e.g. regular MP4-files)
• Updated the API to allow for per-source DRM configuration
• Added support for playback of advertisements without requiring a main source
• Added a ‘targetqualitychanged’ event to Audio and VideoTrack objects that is triggered when the target Quality of that track is set
• Added an ‘activequalitychanged’ event to Audio and VideoTrack objects that is triggered when the active quality of that track changes

2.6.1 (16/01/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where text tracks where not switched correctly when changing the playback context e.g. to ChromeCast
• Solved an issue where license errors were not handled correctly and lead to a nonsense trace in console

2.6.0 (26/12/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where ‘segmentnotfound’ events and errors were thrown multiple times for the same segment
• Solved an issue where framerate was not exposed correctly

Features

• Added support for EventStream events
• Added support for DVB Subs text tracks
• Added support for casting via ChromeCast
• Added support for scheduling and playback of VAST and VMAP advertisement files
• Added support for scheduling and playback of custom advertisements

2.5.10 (22/12/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the player stopped playback at the end of the shortest track instead of playing all available content
• Solved an issue where a timeline gap at the end of a stream caused the player to not finish playback of a Period
• Solved an issue where ‘addtrack’ and ‘removetrack’ events were dispatched twice

Improvements

• Improved the player to be able to handle broken segments more robustly
• Various improvements to player’s internal architecture

2.5.9 (20/12/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where dispatching a seeking event too soon caused the player to remain in an eternal seeking state

2.5.8 (19/12/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where default PSSH information was not parsed from manifests correctly
• Solved an issue where the player did not start playback when detecting a gap in a stream
• Solved an issue where resetting the player would not always clean up the player’s playing state completely
• Solved an issue where the player would detect a gap in a stream that wasn’t actually there
• Solved an issue where seeking the player ahead one frame at a time was not working

Improvements

• Various improvements to the internal seeking behavior of the player

2.5.7 (09/12/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for Advanced DRM Integration

Issues

• Solved an issue where the last segment in a stream kept being downloaded endlessly
• Solved an issue where ‘seeked’ events where being dispatched too early
• Solved an issue where the duration, start and end times were being miscalculated for segments of SegmentTemplates with no explicit SegmentTimeline
• Solved an issue where a SourceBuffer was not initialized with the right codecs

Improvements

• Various minor improvements to the player codebase
• Various improvements to the player’s UI stylesheets
• Various improvements to the player’s API via SourceDescriptions (Section 4)

2.5.6 (01/12/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for the new Latens Titanium v2.5 error response format
• Added a ‘source’ property to the player API which allows users to get and set the current SourceDescription. This deprecates the older player.setSource() method.

Issues

• Solved an issue where segment timestamps in a multi-period manifest were not always calculated correctly

Improvements

• Improved the player to handle some errors caused by invalid manifests more gracefully
• Improved the estimate strategy in timeline searching algorithms
• Various improvements to the internal DRM structure

2.5.5 (21/11/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where a bug in the transition from dynamic to static behavior caused an endless loop. This is turn caused webpages that contained a malfunctioning player to freeze

2.5.4 (18/11/2016)

Web

Issues

• Solved an issue where the complexity of algorithms that handle manifest updates put a drain on resources in Chrome, which caused the browser to drop video frames. This in turn caused stuttering playback

Improvements

• Various improvements to the computational complexity of algorithms in the player
• Improved player behavior for disabling and re-enabling audio and video tracks

2.5.3 (07/11/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Solved an issue where a segment timeline for dynamic manifests without explicit timeline information was not constructed correctly

2.5.2 (04/11/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Solved an issue where the player would not reach the playing state after entering a waiting state twice, but leaving it only once
• Solved an issue where the player would crash when setting its currentTime before the manifest finished loading
• Solved an issue where manually switching an audio or video quality would sometimes leak an error to the console
• Solved an issue where the activeQuality property of an audio or video track would always be undefined
• Solved an issue where a gap at the start of a stream would sometimes prevent the player from reaching the ‘playing’ state

Improvements

• Improved the player’s track switching algorithm
• Improved the player’s manual quality switching algorithm

2.5.1 (26/10/2016)

Web

Improvements

• Improved the player to optimally handle 64-bit precision timestamps in manifests

2.5.0 (24/10/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for inband (‘emsg’) events

2.4.5 (21/10/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Solved an issue where the player would stall indefinitely when a large gap would occur in audio or video data

Improvements

• Improved the player’s ability to detect and handle data gaps in audio or video tracks
• Improved the player’s synchronization algorithm

2.4.4 (06/10/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Solved an issue where resetting the player would cause IE11 on Windows 8.1 to crash
• Solved an issue where an MPD error would cause an unhandled error to leak to the console

2.4.3 (28/09/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Solved an issue where a video Quality’s framerate was not exposed correctly

Improvements

• Improved the player to detect and handle overlapping segments in a dynamic stream

2.4.2 (22/09/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Solved an issue with indexes for SegmentList-based VOD content that prevented the content from being played
• Solved an issue where the enabled state of an audio track was not correctly visualized initially
• Solved an issue where text tracks that ended before audio or video tracks would prevent seeking beyond the end of that text track
• Solved an issue where protected content would keep the player from reaching the ‘loadedmetadata’ state on Edge
• Solved an issue where the player would leak an error to the console when a DRM problem occurred and ongoing license requests were not cancelled
• Solved an issue where the player’s duration was not reset to NaN after resetting the source

Improvements

• Improved the player to detect and handle missing frames in audio and video data

2.4.1 (16/09/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Solved an issue where the initialization of persistent DRM failed because two initialization requests were ran in parallel
• Solved an issue where the active video track would be unnecessarily synced when switching the active audio track

2.4.0 (08/09/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for playback of multi-period manifests
• Added support for the WebVTT text track format
• Added support for side-loaded text tracks
• Added support for video tracks
• Added support for manual quality or rendition switching and inspection of audio and video tracks

Resolved issues

• Solved an issue with buffering of embedded text tracks that prevented subtitles from being rendered
• Fixed some typing errors throughout the API documentation
• Solved an issue where a BaseURL pointing to ‘./’ was not being resolved correctly
• Solved an issue where multiple occurrences of the same parameter in an URL template were not being resolved

2.3.4 (02/09/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where a call to stop, followed by a call to play, would cause an unrecoverable DRM error

Improvements

• Various improvements to the player’s UI
• Various improvements to the player’s internal structure

2.3.3 (31/08/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where the player was not able to switch content-protected audio tracks
• Resolved an issue with the player’s volume
• Resolved an issue where the player did not use the updated time at which a MPDs was last fetched
• Resolved an issue where the player stuttered due to decoding delay of DRM streams
• Resolved an issue where event listeners for external events were not always attached correctly

Improvements

• Improved the player to ignore unplayable tracks instead of throwing an error
• Improved various aspects of the player’s internal code
• Improved the player’s synchronization algorithm
• Improved the player to handle transit between internal and external events

2.3.2 (17/08/2016)

Web

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where track lists did not dispatch ‘removetrack’ events when resetting the player
• Resolved an issue where new segments’ numbers were wrongfully assigned when updating the manifest
• Resolved an issue where the player’s error property was not set when dispatching an error event
• Resolved an issue where the player allowed a user to seek outside of its seekable range
• Resolved an issue where a period’s duration was not correctly detected

Improvements

• Improved the player to detect between which codecs can be switched during Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
• Improved the player to signal representation changes when they occur visually instead of when they start downloading
• Improved the player to detect unsupported platforms to prevent bad User Experience on those platforms
• Improved the player to retry downloading failed manifests on multiple locations- when possible
• Improved the player’s error handling and made license errors more descriptive

2.3.1 (02/08/2016)

Web

Improvements

• Added support to detect and filter representations that can’t be played by the MediaSource environment
• Improved the player’s behavior when switching between two tracks
• Improved the player’s setCurrentTime functionality
• Improved the player’s use of the presentationTimeOffset attribute

2.3.0 (20/07/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for the publishTime attribute in media presentation descriptions
• Added support for playback on Chrome 52 on Android
• Added support for saving and restoring state of volume and muted properties over multiple sessions
• Added support for location elements in manifests
• Added the currentProgramDateTime property to the player to indicate the player’s date time relative to a manifest’s publish time

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where the player stalled indefinitely upon switching representations
• Resolved an issue causing the player to go in a waiting state when its ready state is higher than HAVE_CURRENT_DATA
• Resolved an issue with asynchronous creation of audio tracks
• Resolved an issue where the player stalled indefinitely after playing 3 segments
• Resolved an issue for SegmentTimeline segments with a repeat count equal to -1
• Resolved an issue where the player did not dispatch a waiting event when starting playback of a stream
• Resolved an issue with BaseURL elements that point to root

Improvements

• Improved the internal architecture for track-based playback
• Improved support for default attributes in multiple levels of a manifest’s segment info hierarchy
• Various small improvements in the player’s seeking behaviour

2.2.1 (16/06/2016)

Web

Features

• Added support for the MPEG-DASH BaseURL element to the player
• Reworked the players play() and pause() flow

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue with UI display order on Firefox
• Resolved an issue with UI handling durationchange events and displaying an incorrect duration
• Resolved an issue with UI not displaying all buffered ranges correctly
• Resolved an issue where the internal duration was not correctly reset after stopping the player
• Resolved an issue in correctly resetting of media elements when a new data source is loaded
• Resolved an issue with playbackRate of the player being reset to 1 when loading a new source
• Resolved an issue with the player occasionally dispatching a timeupdate event despite being in a waiting state
• Resolved an issue with the player dispatching a playing event before having a data source loaded
• Resolved an issue with the player attempting to seek before having a data source loaded
• Resolved an issue with the player getting in an eternal waiting state while buffering data

Improvements

• Changed the readyState of the player and all internal components waiting for readyState to being dependent on DRM being complete
• Further optimized the build pipeline of the player
• Improved event flow related to subtitle tracks
• Improved the players support for the MPEG-DASH SegmentTemplate element
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.2.0 (30/05/2016)

Web

Features

• The player now supports loading, parsing and rendering of TTML (Timed Text Markup Language) subtitles. More specifically it supports the Core Presentation Profile of the TTML specification
• The player now has integration with a UI component

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue that caused the player to repeatedly redownload a manifest file
• Resolved an issue in correctly calculating the segment numbers in some manifest files

Improvements

• Optimized the build pipeline of the player
• Added a build target with build in user interface
• Further optimized the calculation of time related ranges
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.5 (17/05/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue in correctly determining the end of stream and end of buffer
• Resolved an issue in sometimes determining the duration of Period elements

Improvements

• Optimized the build pipeline of the player
• Added the videoWidth, videoHeight and error properties to the player
• Improved the calculation of buffered, played, seekable properties
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.4 (02/05/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue in correctly determining that the end time of a media element had changed
• Resolved an edge case that caused the player to repeatedly download the same segment
• Resolved detecting that the player no longer was in sync with the available data in the manifest

Improvements

• Improved buffer handling of the player
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.3 (16/04/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue that caused the player to not play when changing the source of the player while autoplay is enabled
• Resolved an issue in correctly detecting the end of stream of the player
• Resolved an issue in calculating the correct duration of some streams
• Optimized the parsing of MPEG-DASH documents and removed blocking code

Improvements

• Improved the memory usage of the MPEG-DASH document parser
• Added missing documentation about the date attribute of some events that the player dispatches
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.2 (29/03/2016)

Web

Features

• A new buffering algorithm has been added to the player
• Added the ‘played’ TimeRanges attribute to the player to indicate the played range

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue where individual tracks started playback before all tracks are DRM decrypted
• Resolved an issue in determining the content type of a representation for some manifests
• Resolved an issue in correctly calculating the duration of time ranges
• Resolved an issue where the player could go in a stalling state

Improvements

• Improved the synchronization of the individual tracks
• Ensured that the player never goes in a playing state before the ‘canplay’ event has been thrown by the player
• Improved the memory handling of the player
• Added more detailed documentation about the various events that the player dispatches
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.1 (14/03/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved a reference error in relation to MSMediaKeys.isTypeSupported on Microsoft Edge
• Resolved a reference error that occurred when reporting Titanium Widevine error messages

Improvements

• Removed unnecessary debug messages being outputted to console in release versions
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.1.0 (04/03/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved DRM errors not being thrown while the player is in some specific states
• Resolved an error in ABR calculations while the player is in a waiting state

Improvements

• Optimized the error handling of specific errors that previously leaked their error message to console
• Improved the error event being thrown twice for the some errors
• Improved the MPEG-DASH manifest parser to detect more defects in the manifests
• Improved the segmentnotfound event to provide information on the number of retries
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.0.2 (26/02/2016)

Web

Features

• Content Protection error and success reporting and messages have been improved
  • contentprotectionerror – event thrown when an error occurs during content protection
  • contentprotectionsuccess – event thrown after content protection steps have been finalized and playback should start
  • mediaencryptionlicenseobtained – event has been removed from the player

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue in calculating the edges of the seekable range in closed, static content
• Throw a durationchange event when the duration of a media asset changes during playback

Improvements

• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.0.1 (12/02/2016)

Web

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an inaccuracy in the seekable ranges of the player
• The end time of the seekable range during playback of an open (type = ‘dynamic’) asset is now three target durations away from the loadable range/end of the data in the stream
• Ensure that when the currentTime of the player is modified, the new value falls inside of the seekable range
• Resolved an issue in open (type = ‘dynamic’) assets that caused the manifest to no longer to be reloaded

Improvements

• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player
• Updated the DRM error messages to more clearly represent the cause of the error

2.0.0 (05/02/2016)

Web

Features

• Support for the Latens Titanium DRM system has been added for the IE11 and Edge browsers for the Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 platforms

Resolved Issues

• Resolved a TypeError related to the code obfuscation occurring specifically on Edge causing the player not to start playback
• Resolved an issue in cleaning up assets while unloading the player or changing source

Improvements

• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player

2.0.0-BETA.0 (03/12/2015)

Web

Features

• Added versioning support in THEOplayer.version
• Support for the Latens Titanium DRM system has been added for the Chrome web browser
• Updating the src attribute of the player now unloads the old and loads the new value of the attribute
• Calling the stop method on the player now stops playback and destroys the player
• Support for dynamic streams with a continually growing DVR window
• Support for dynamic streams that transition to a static stream has been added to the player

Resolved Issues

• When a 404 error occurs during the download of a media segment, the player will now try again after a short delay
• Resolved a time and rounding issue that caused the player not to start playback of the specified asset
• The player now recovers from situations where its playback buffer is not overlapping with the timeline of a dynamic stream
• Resolved an issue on IE11 where media keys got attached to the media element while the media element was in an invalid readyState 0, HAVE_NOTHING
• Clean up old media keys when stopping the player or when setting a new source on the player

Improvements

• When present, PSSH headers now get read from the manifest in order to kick start the DRM flow
• Support for the presentationTimeOffset MPEG-DASH MPD attribute has been added to the player
• Various small improvements in the flow and stability of the player