Brightcove Player v6.48.5
The Brightcove Player 6.48.5 is now available. Notable changes since 6.46.4 include:
- Update to Video.js 7.11.5
- Fixes a couple issues where seeking on iOS may not seek to the correct position
- Fix an issue where times in the control bar would be appended instead of replaced on IE11
- Trigger a languagechange event when the langauge is set via
player.language()
- Update to @videojs/http-streaming@2.5.0
- Include preliminary support for 708 captions.
- Don't include really small segments in bandwidth and throughput calculations.
- Better rendition switches around discontinuities.
- Fix an issue with rollover handling for long running live streams.
- Fix an issue with rendition switching and seeking over discontinuities when the stream has large PTS/DTS values.
- Fix an issue where, for streams with more than one playlist, after all playlists failed to load, the player would switch between the available playlists as fast as possible until one returned. Instead, in this case, playlists requests are delayed to prevent excessive playlist downloads.
- Multilingual Metadata related changes
- Update video title and description when the player language changes if Multilingual Metadata is available for the Catalog items.
- Fix a potential non-fatal error condition when a non-Video Cloud playlist was in use and
catalog.getMetadata
was called.
- Fix an issue where DRM content that began with clear segments could not play.
- Fix an issue where rendition switches that occurred immediately following an engagement event would cause engagement tracking to stop.
- Fix issue with EPA DRM source selection in Chromium Edge so Widevine is now preferred by default
- Add support for
allowPlayreadyInChromiumEdge
catalog plugin option to allow defining DRM source selection behavior in Chromium Edge - Fix an issue with the progress bar showing up for non-DVR live streams in Safari.