Brightcove Player v7.49.0

Brightcove Player 7.49.0 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

• One "AD" button on the control bar now gives viewers every audio description format a video carries. Its menu lists text descriptions and described audio tracks in separate sections, each with its own Off. Described audio tracks were previously only reachable through the audio track selector; they remain there as well.
• The AD button's accessible name and tooltip read "AD Audio Descriptions" on both the default skin and Prism UI, so screen reader users hear the same label they see.

Customising the AD button

The new button replaces the descriptions button in the same control bar position. No player configuration change is needed: a controlBar.children list that names descriptionsButton is applied to the new button automatically, and descriptionsButton: false continues to hide it.

The button's CSS class is now vjs-described-video-menu-button. For compatibility it also carries the previous vjs-descriptions-button class, so existing CSS keeps working. The previous class is deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

Fixes

• [Prism UI] Fix an issue where the control bar faded out as it slid off the bottom of the player, hiding anything attached to it, such as a logo overlay, while the player was idle. The bar now stays fully visible until it has left the frame.
• [Prism UI] Fix an issue where the Audio Descriptions menu opened centred under its button and could be clipped by the right edge of the player.
• The Player Information dialog (right-click the player) now lists all of the plugins built into the player that are active, including Interactivity and Prism UI. Previously several were missing from the list.