Brightcove Player v7.45.0

Brightcove Player 7.45.0 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] New videopreview-start and videopreview-end player events report video preview activity, so page code can forward preview engagement to its own analytics.

Video preview events

Players using animated thumbnail previews now emit two lifecycle events on the player:

• videopreview-start fires once a preview actually begins playing (a blocked autoplay or a hover that ends before the configured delay emits nothing). The payload includes videoId, playMode, loop and previewDuration.
• videopreview-end fires exactly once per preview session. The payload includes secondsViewed and a reason: complete, hover-out, click-through, main-play, error or teardown.

player.on('videopreview-start', (event, data) => { /* ... */ });
player.on('videopreview-end', (event, data) => { /* ... */ });

Fixes

• [Animated Thumbnails] Fix an issue where a non-looping hover preview would freeze on its final frame after playing through, instead of ending the preview.