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Releases Notes
Bertrand Berthelot edited this page Jan 24, 2017
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Version 1.8.0 has been released (on master branch).
- Implements license persistence at application layer (protection model 21Jan2015) according to player configuration (by default no license persistence)
- [MSS] Add support for MSS static streams starting at t > 0 (live delinearization use case)
- [HLS] Add support for HLSv5 streams (multiple audio/subtitle tracks/streams)
- [HLS] Add support for VTT subtitles
- [HLS] Add support for DVR mode
- Provide absolute program date/time (if available) for DVR window range (see MediaPlayer.getDVRWindowRange())
- Bugs fixing:
- [MSS] Correct 'IsLive' parameter parsing in case
- [MSS] Fix use case where 'FourCC' field is an empty string
- [HLS] Fix regression on MPEGTS packets demultiplexing
- [HLS] Correct H.264 SPS parsing to retrieve video's width and height values
- Add support for TTML origin defined with field 'c'
- Bugs fixing:
- Fix compatibility issue with Smooth streaming Streams in CENC/PIFF1.3 format
- Fix subtitles being displayed by Firefox when using external display mode
- Fix issue on image subtitles display
- Fix namespace resolution for subtitles XML files
- Remove subtitles external size setting (to be set by webapp)
- Workaround for missing 'cueExit' event not sent by Firefox when seeking
- Fix issue on track selection among tracks with identical language
- Correct FragmentInfo requests scheduling in Smooth Streaming DVR mode
- Stops Smooth Streaming DVR FragmentInfo requests in case of session reloading
- Fix TTML origin management if set on main div
- Correct TTML showbackground management to keep text alignment value
- Handle Firefox's MSE and timestamping based on CTS/PTS (and not DTS like on other browsers)
- Add 'subType' information for tracks (MediaPlayer.getTracks()) to differentiate HoH subtitles
- Add configuration parameter 'liveDelay' (that enables to get around 412 precondition failed errors raised by some MSS streaming servers)
- Add support for subtitles as images
- Add possibility to attach an HTML div element to be used to render rich TTML subtitles
- Enhance TTML subtitles parsing and display (showBackground, opacity, font style, size and resolution, etc)
- Add AES128 decryption support for HLS streams
- Bugs fixing:
- Fix regression on segments processing errors catching
- Fix issue on buffer gaps on Edge in case of discording timestamps between the manifest and the segments
- Fix KEY_ERR_OUTPUT ('output-restricted') error not raised when restarting (stop then play) a stream
- Fix HLS sessions reloading when some segment download failed
- Fix potential incorrect seeking to another previously buffered range
- Fix 'ended' event not raised when playing was started at time > 0
- Fix ABR resetting when trick mode was previously enabled
- Raise "MEDIA_KEYERR_OUTPUT" error when output display is restricted by a Widevine license
- Enhance TTML to WebVTT transcoding for subtitles on multiple lines and empty subtitles
- Optimized track switching mechanism to avoid playback error on Firefox
- Automatic building, deployment and functional testing (based on Travis and BrowserStack)
- DVR: disable seeking within buffering window before live edge
- Add 'startTime' parameter in input stream to enable playback start at given time
- Bugs fixing:
- Fix stop playing when buffer reached on IE11 and Edge
- Fix DVR window range update when paused
- Fix regression on 'ended' event firing
- Fast zapping error (consolidate load and reset process)
- Correct ABR rules in case of aborted or abandoned requests
- Patch for Safari which faces an issue with MSE buffer removing
- Correct display of subtitles on multiple lines
- Correct display of subtitles with no layout and style
- External TTML subtitles file management
- TTML style parsing
- Correct regression on abandon request rule
- Correct 'ended' event detection when trick mode is enabled
- Correct PlayReady CDM data to disable proactive (pre-delivery) license acquisition
- Add support for subtitles in external xml file
- Bugs fixing:
- Regression on IE11 (player on failure)
- Correct issue for multi-lines subtitles
- No error raised when empty challenge received from CDM
- MANIFEST_ERR_NO_VIDEO/AUDIO raised even if video/audio track in manifest
- Regression on stream reset process that locks the player
- Missing HTTP status code when raising DOWNLOAD_ERR_CONTENT
- 'ended' event may not be raised on element when reaching end of stream
- Byte-range requests for DASH
- Refactored and enriched MediaPlayer API
- Add MediaPlayer plugins framework
- Add new ABR rule considering dropped frames
- DVR mode enhancement for MSS with FrgmentInfo requests to keep DVR window up to date
- Corrected VOD streams management (no manifest refresh while switching tracks, ...)
- Build: use gulp framework (instead of grunt)
- Add new errors for HLS demultiplexing errors ('HLS_DEMUX_ERROR')
- Bugs fixing:
- Mute state reset when load a new stream
- Crash in HLS demultiplexing when no audio packet in stream
- MANIFEST_ERR_PARSE (instead of DOWNLOAD_ERR_MANIFEST) when failed to download HLS variant stream playlist
- Byte-range requests for DASH contents
- Support for unknown MP4 boxes
- Bugs fixing:
- HLS support on Firefox
- Correct seeking and live start time management (BufferController's working time handling, seek to removed buffer ranges, etc)
- TTML parsing and VTT cues buffering management
- Correct manifest download error in case of automatic session reloading
- Add DVR support
- Add trick mode support (fast forward and rewind)
- Add retry for HLS variants streams playlists requests
- Add session type parameter in input protection data
- Add INTERNAL_ERROR for initialization and media segments processing exceptions
- EME support updated from dash.js
- Add MediaKeySession persistance within MediaPlayer instance (useful for chrome that do not support persistance natively)
- Enhance playback startup time (zapping time)
- Robust resetting process
- Optimize MSS to DASH manifest transcoding
- Add segment dowloading abandonment functionality in case of drop bandwidth
- Refactor tracks language switching
- Refactor error events and add warning events
- Report HTTP status code when manifest/segment/license downloading fails
- Report error code contained in licenser server response body
- Segment download error robustness (automatic session reload when buffer becomes underflow)
- Switch off/on text track downloading when subtitles are disabled/enabled
- And many bugs fixing
- Enable keeping ABR bandwidth conditions when loading new stream
- Optimized ABR rules according to buffering state of the video player
- Add support for default audio/text language to be selected at startup
- Autoplay management accross all platforms (mainly for Android devices)
- Bugs fixing (seek, MSS segments processing, Edge support...)
- HLS support
- EME support refactoring with multiple versions support (taken from dash.js project)
- PlayReady to Widevine content protection conversion (requires coordination between PlayReady and Widevine licensers)
- Configuration mechanism for streaming and ABR controllers
- Enhanced errors handling
- Fallback mechanism for segment download failure
- Optimized ABR rules
- Enhanced TTML subtitles support
- Configurable build process (protocol(s), EME support)
- And many bug corrections
- Based on dash.js v1.2.0 (see dash.js release notes)
- Simplified BufferController with sequential segments downloading
- Optimized and simplified live edge searching
- TTML subtitles support
- Quality filtering functionnality
- Sample application (samples/DemoPlayer) with dynamic bandwidth chart
- Based on dash.js v1.1.0 (see dash.js release notes)
- Smooth Streaming support (live and VOD)
- Automatic protocol detection (DASH vs MSS)
- PlayReady support with CustomData and licenser back URL
- Multi-languages audio support