Brightcove Player v7.7.0

Brightcove Player 7.7.0 is available as a pre-release 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

• Add VHS support for useForcedSubtitles option to access forced subtitles when available.
• Add VHS support for EventStream.

Fixes

• Fix a regression that caused the context_menu option to not work when set to false.
• Fix to remove support for t and captions query params for in-page players.
• Fix for correct fallback when specific language metadata is not found.
• Fix to improve the accuracy of rebuffering_seconds that is sent on video engagements.
• Fix to prevent layout shift on Firefox caused by ad block detection.

Package Updates

• Update to Video.js v8.3.0
• Update to @videojs/http-streaming 3.2.0