Brightcove Player v6.59.1

The Brightcove Player 6.59.1 is available. Notable changes since 6.57.2 include:

Features

• Exclude the Flash tech if "flash": false is set in the Player configuration.
• Add Sapphire skin to reflect updated Brightcove branding colors.
  • This is an opt-in only change for now and can be configured by setting "skin": "sapphire" in the player's JSON configuration.
  • This skin will become the default in v7.0.0.
• When the new Kollective eCDN plugin is included, the player will no longer automatically load media based on detected IDs (e.g. data-video-id attribute) and will, instead, allow this plugin to manage loading media.

Fixes

• Let controls autohide on desktop devices with touchscreens.
• Chromecast Receiver's Big Play Button will now use the selected custom colors.
• Prevent being able to click on opened menus on mobile devices when the controls are hidden.
• Stop triggering robustness warnings when testing for EME support
• When the player is embedded on pages with malformed query parameters, it will no longer throw an error. Instead, it will behave as if the query string were empty.

Maintenance

• Normalize autoplay-related configuration for playsinline and normalizeAutoplay options.

Package Updates

• Updated to Video.js 7.15.0
  • Prevent being able to click on opened menus on mobile devices when the controls are hidden.
  • Manually opened menus (such as, via a user click) were hiding when the mouse was not focused on the player.
  • Properly return promises from requestFullscreen and exitFullscreen
• Update to VHS 2.10.0
  • Some streams with bad audio data caused playback to fail
  • Fix an issue where switching renditions caused playback to fail