Fixes

• Parameter values are now passed correctly to the PAL SDK's NonceRequest object
• bcov-ssai-palsdk-nonce-request event now provides the NonceRequest used by the SDK rather than internal parameter values
• All parameters can now be set to a custom value

Fixed

• Include support for nonceLengthLimit option.

Maintenance

• Internal maintenance updates

• Add support for modifying the value of ConsentSettings.allowStorage using Google's Programmatic Access Library (PAL) SDK.

Features

• Adds support for Google's Programmatic Access Library (PAL) SDK.

Features

• Passes SSAI Errors to the player using the video.js contrib-ads error interface.

Fixes

• Fix an uncaught TypeError that prevented SSAI source loading

Fixes

• Fix an issue where vmapURLParams were not correctly applied to the VMAP URL

Fixes

• Address an issue where the linear ad roll was not being updated correctly in Live SSAI.

Fixes

• Address an issue where parameters for the ad_complete beacon were not being populated for post-roll ads.

Fixes

• Address an issue where certain analytics parameters were being populated with incorrect values.

• Fixes an issue where Brightcove analytics would not report the id and size of ad pods for ad insights reporting

• Populates Brightcove analytics ad_ beacons with parameters facilitating ad insights reporting

Bug Fixes

• Fixes an issue where clicking an ad on iOS Safari would open two tabs.

Bug Fixes

• Addresses styling issues introduced in v2.2.1.

Features

When used alongside a version of the player that supports ad insights beacons, an ad_begin beacon will be fired whenever an ad starts, and ad_complete will be fired whenever an ad completes playback or is skipped.

Fixes

Prevents an error identifying a version mismatch with contrib-ads being thrown when there is in fact no mismatch.

The minimum compatible player version for this version of the SSAI plugin is v7.0.0.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes an issue where SSAI plugin versions 2.1.0 thru 2.2.0 would cause player publishes to fail.

The minimum compatible player version for this version of the SSAI plugin is v7.0.0.

Features

• New macro features. For more information see the macros documentation.
  • Allow the replacement of default macros to be skipped.
  • Allow the name of any default macros to be customized.
  • Support for more static macros.

Fixes

• Playback rate is set to 1 while an advert is playing. Users cannot change the playback rate during and advert and playback rate returns to it's previous value after the advert has finished.

Package updates

• Update videojs-contrib-ads to 7.2.0.

The minimum compatible player version for this version of the SSAI plugin is v7.0.0.

Features

• Added a new vmapURLParams option to the SSAI Plugin. This option can be used to pass the plugin an object with values to replace {{url.*}} macros in VMAP content URLs.

The minimum compatible player version for this version of the SSAI plugin is v7.0.0.

Backward Incompatible Changes

• From this version, the build output of this plugin targets modern browsers and drops support for older ones, such as IE 11.

Package Updates

• Internal maintenance updates

Features

• Add VAST AdVerifications node parsing
• Add Open Measurement SDK integration support

Bug Fixes

• Update videojs-contrib-ads dependency to 6.9.0 to alleviate cross-plugin compatibility issue with videojs-ima3 v4.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where the ads-pod-ended event was not triggered after postroll

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where "complete" tracking beacons were not sent after postroll

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where incompatible versions of this plugin would be built into some older players when configured via Studio

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where timeline evaluation happens too early in the case of autoplay

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where an error is thrown when a VMAP contains no ad breaks

Bug Fixes

• Fix Cannot read property 'linearAd' of undefined errors when playing non-SSAI sources with the SSAI plugin in place.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue where midrolls where sometimes incorrectly skippable in Safari