Brightcove Player v7.47.0

Brightcove Player 7.47.0 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

• New mainContent player configuration option marks the player as the main content of its page, raising the loading priority of its poster image.

Marking a player as main content

By default the player's poster image loads lazily at standard priority. Setting mainContent in the player configuration loads it eagerly at high fetch priority instead:

{
  "mainContent": true
}

This is intended for players that are the primary content of their page, such as a hero video, where the poster is often the page's Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) element. Note that the improvement this option can deliver depends on when the poster URL becomes available. If the poster is supplied up front, via a poster attribute in the embed code, the browser can fetch it at high priority as soon as the player initializes, and the LCP benefit is greatest. When the poster is resolved from Brightcove's Playback API, as in a typical Video Cloud embed, the request cannot begin until that response arrives, so this option only removes the lazy-loading delay from that point onward and the benefit is smaller.

Players that do not set this option are unaffected.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on Microsoft Edge for Windows where starting playback of DRM-protected content with hardware acceleration enabled could show a black picture while audio continued playing.
• [SSAI] Fix an issue where the buffered indicator on the progress bar was misplaced during playback with server-side ad insertion.

Package Updates

• video.js bumped to 8.24.0