

Note that for visual clarity, small players will display a pause icon in the center of the screen while exhibiting the new “stop” behavior. The player appears paused on the last frame watched. Instead of the pause icon, which used to pause the stream and resume behind the live edge, the player now features a new stop icon, which resumes from the live edge when playback resumes. Improved the experience of watching live streams that do not have a DVR window.Improved the “Auto” quality label in the settings menu to also show the quality being played when “Auto” is selected.To set the highest quality as an initial estimate, reference the highest bitrate from your manifest. Added a new configuration option, defaultBandwidthEstimate, which sets an initial bandwidth estimate in bits for all viewers.Improved the playback experience by preserving the viewer’s bandwidth estimation and using it to select an initial quality level when playback starts.The player starts subsequent videos in an embed with the quality that most closely matches the previous item based on bandwidth comparisons. Improved the playback experience by maintaining quality between videos in a playlist.Fixed an issue with Google DAI on Safari where seeking past multiple unplayed midrolls could cause the player’s timeslider to stall or jump back and forth.Fixed an issue with the VAST admanager where setting the offset for two ads where one is set to be pre and the other 0 would prevent the second ad from playing.Fixed an issue where calling load() while the player is in the “Loading ad” state could cause infinite buffering in very low-bandwidth situations.Fixed an issue with SpotX Video Player Bidding where the startdelay parameter was being passed incorrectly for midrolls.Fixed an issue with the VAST admanager where certain preroll VPAID ads would incorrectly show the skip button when the vpaidcontrols config option was set.

For FreeWheel, modified the default admanager URL (which loads when a publisher hasn’t specified their own) to load successfully over both HTTP and HTTPS.

Fixed an issue where setting up the player twice resulted in duplicate analytics pings being fired for certain events (eg.Fixed an accessibility issue in Firefox that allowed the video tag itself to be focusable.Fixed a bug preventing poster images from displaying during playback of audio-only streams with the audio/mp4 MIME type.Removed ad countdown and pod count messaging in Google DAI “live” scenarios to prevent incorrect messaging.Added breakstart and breakend events to Google DAI.Improved reporting of Video Player Bidding impression tracking when the DFP mediation layer is used.Improved “Ad loading” messaging for the VAST admanager to only show when an actual ad is being loaded.For Video Player Bidding, segmented bidresponsetime by now also reporting the script loading time and the time between adBidRequest and adBidResponse.Added creativeID from the VAST XML response to the VAST admanager’s adImpression/ adError events.
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