Brightcove Player v7.43.6

Brightcove Player 7.43.6 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

• [Video Poster] A new lockRendition option pins the video preview to a single rendition for its full duration, so the preview plays at a consistent quality instead of adapting up and down as network conditions change.

Locking the video preview rendition

Set lockRendition: true alongside initialBandwidth to hold the preview on the rendition chosen by initialBandwidth and disable adaptive bitrate switching for the preview. If no rendition fits within initialBandwidth, the preview uses the lowest available rendition. The option defaults to false (adaptive selection, seeded by initialBandwidth) and has no effect unless initialBandwidth is set.

{
  "plugins": [{
    "name": "videoPoster",
    "options": {
      "lockRendition": true,
      "initialBandwidth": 3000000
    }
  }]
}

Fixes

• [Interactivity] Fix an issue where interactive overlays could fail to initialize on iOS 26 when the page referrer was empty.
• [Analytics] Fix an issue where, on pages with more than one player, disposing a player could affect analytics tracking on the others.