Brightcove Player Pre-releases v6.49.0
The Brightcove Player v6.49.0 is available for early access and testing. Notable changes since v6.48.5 include:
- Update to @videojs/http-streaming@2.6.1](https://github.com/videojs/http-streaming/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#261-2021-02-19)
- When preload=none is set, we will no longer download any data from the stream until playback is requested by the user or via autoplay.
- Handle HLS streams with ProgramDateTime properly.
- Improve an issue with Live DASH playback.
- Escape HTML in Video Name when creating the info modal.
- Improve playlist loading times on IE11.
- Add crossorigin if text tracks are being used and we're playing back on Safari.
- Do a case-insensitive check for multilingual metadata comparisons.
- Make sure that the final video_engagment event gets triggered in more cases