Brightcove Player v7.42.0

Brightcove Player 7.42.0 is available for manual update.

No existing players have been auto-updated to this version. Customers eager for a feature or fix that is only available in this version may manually update via the Studio Players JSON Editor or the Player Management API.

Features

• [Animated Thumbnails]

  • Add preveiwDuration option. This option accepts an integer value of 1 - 10 inclusive and controls the duration of the preview video. Default value is 10.
  • Add initialBandwidth option. Allow users to override the initial bandwidth calculation for Media Source Extensions (non-native streaming) playback. Default is 3Mbps which corresponds to ~720p for a standard Brightcove ingest profile. Setting the value to 0 will enable default ABR behaviour and the playback engine will typically select the lowest quality available rendition.
  • These options can be set by modifying the JSON configuration in the Players module of Videocloud Studio:

  {
    ...
    "plugins": [
      {
        "name": "videoPoster",
        "is_packaged": true,
        "options": {
          "preveiwDuration": 10,
          "initialBandwidth": 1000000
        }
      }
    ]
  }