Brightcove Player v7.9.0

Brightcove Player 7.9.0 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

• Added a new viewability configuration to allow the player to automatically pause when it is moved into a background tab and resume when the tab becomes active again.

  To enable this feature in your player's JSON configuration, you'll want to add the "pause_in_background_tab": true property to your viewability object (create one if you don't have it already).

  "viewability": {
    "pause_in_background_tab": true
  }
  

  Note that this is distinct from the pause_when_not_viewable configuration!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed occasional MEDIA_ERR_DECODE errors for low latency streams
• Fixed a case of incorrect start time calculations when using the IMA3 plugin
• Fixed an issue where the video download button would download via HTTP instead of HTTPS

Package Updates

• Upgraded Video.js to 8.4.0
• Upgraded Video.js HTTP Streaming to 3.4.0