Releases: shaka-project/shaka-player
Releases · shaka-project/shaka-player
v1.5.0
1.5.0 (2015-09-17)
Features:
- Added method to set playback start time.
- Added a text-styling API.
- Added support for AdaptationSet groups.
- Added a new configuration API.
- License preprocessing can now modify HTTP method and server URL.
- Added an API to load captions not specified in the manifest.
- Added support for live streams using SegmentList.
- Added support for multiple BaseURL elements for failover.
- Gave IAbrManager implementation the ability to clear the buffer when
switching streams. - Added setNetworkCallback API to DashVideoSource to modify network requests.
- Improved error reporting for unplayable content.
- Added support for multiple DRM schemes per ContentProtection and simplified
DRM scheme configuration. - Improved documentation for license pre- and post-processing.
Bugfixes:
- Restricting all video tracks now fires an error event.
- Changing text tracks now fires an adaptation event.
- Fixed bad interactions between pausing and negative playback rates.
- Fixed support for negative r values in SegmentTimeline.
- Fixed bugs that could cause infinite buffering for certain configurations.
- Fixed exceptions fired during rapid Player destroy().
- Fixed linting with conflicting globally-installed copy of linter library.
- Fixed support for SegmentTimelines with presentationTimeOffset.
- Fixed support for apps/content which specify multiple DRM scheme configs.
Broken Compatibility:
- Removed Player methods deprecated since v1.3.0.
- getCurrentResolution
- getCurrentTime
- getDuration
- getMuted
- getVolume
- play
- pause
- requestFullscreen
- seek
- setMuted
- setVolume
- #118
Deprecated:
- The following methods on Player are deprecated in favor of
configure()/getConfiguration() and will be removed in v1.6.0:- enableAdaptation
- getAdaptationEnabled
- setStreamBufferSize
- getStreamBufferSize
- setLicenseRequestTimeout
- setMpdRequestTimeout
- setRangeRequestTimeout
- setPreferredLanguage
- setRestrictions
- getRestrictions
- #93
- A new two-argument ContentProtectionCallback has been added to
DashVideoSource, and the old style is deprecated and will be removed
in v1.6.0.
v1.4.2
1.4.2 (2015-09-04)
A roll-up of recent bugfixes.
Bugfixes:
- Fix storage of duplicate session IDs for encrypted offline content.
- Specify EME sessionTypes, required in newer EME draft.
- Fix regression in rewind support, once more working outside buffered range.
- Support renamed output protection errors from newer EME draft.
- Fix seeking in custom controls on Android.
- Fix missing final chunk when storing certain videos for offline playback.
- Prevent crashing of module loaders which use 'define' but are not full AMD
loaders.
Test app features:
- Added 'offline' URL param.
v1.4.1
1.4.1 (2015-08-18)
A roll-up of recent bugfixes and small improvements.
Bugfixes:
- An exception is no longer thrown from StreamVideoSource in uncompiled mode
when the stream limits cannot be computed. - Fixed support for multiple encrypted audio tracks.
- Fixed support for manifests that use SegmentList with a single URL.
- Fixed support for audio and video robustness settings in compiled mode.
- The MPD 'main' property is now defined in the correct class.
- The same initialization segment is no longer inserted multiple times into
the SourceBuffer. - Removed a race in Stream that could stop AdaptationEvents from firing.
- Stopped the compiler from renaming PersistentState and DistinctiveIdentifier
enum values. - Removed a race in Player.getStats() that could cause NaN stats.
- Fixed support to recover from failed segment requests.
- Made rewind, pause, play, and fast-forward consistent with normal video
element behavior, the UI, and Player.setPlaybackRate(). - Improved seek handling during stream startup.
- Unnecessary seeking events during stream startup are no longer fired.
- Segment fetches are no longer retried if the Stream has been destroyed.
- Fixed support for offline in compiled mode.
Features:
- The version indicator on the demo page now displays the NPM version (if
available) when the git version is unavailable. - Added support to clear the the audio buffer when switching tracks.
- Added the ability to detect and recover from multiple buffered ranges.
- Improved error messages when persistent licenses are not supported.
Testing:
- Reduced test flakiness overall.
- Certain (unavoidable) decode errors are now suppressed on Chrome Linux.
- Added waitUntilBuffered() function to help reduce test flakiness.
v1.4.0
1.4.0 (2015-07-06)
Code health release. Major refactoring of streaming logic.
Bugfixes:
- Overriding a license server URL in the test app no longer causes a PSSH
from the MPD to be ignored. - Fixed possible event listener leak.
Features:
- Player.destroy() now returns a Promise.
- DrmSchemeInfo now has distinctiveIdentifier, persistentState, and
robustness parameters. - Clarified buffering event policies.
- Added a license pre-processor.
- Added support for the MPD Location element.
- Custom BandwidthEstimators can now allow XHR caching.
- Added support for startNumber of 0, per the recent DASH spec corrigendum.
- Added support for server certificate APIs through DrmSchemeInfo.
- Major refactor of streaming. Switching representations is now faster and
more flexible. Live stream seek ranges are more accurate. - XHR timeout is now runtime-configurable.
- Buffering goals are now runtime-configurable.
- Alternative IAbrManager implementations can now be injected at runtime.
Test app features:
- Added "buffered ahead" and "buffered behind" indicators.
- Converted cycle buttons into checkboxes so cycling can be stopped during
playback. - Test app now jumps to live when the user clicks on the time code in a live
stream. - Added an example of a trick-play UI built on the Player API.
Testing:
- Disabled code coverage stats in unit tests by default.
- Split unit tests and integration tests into separate test runners.
- Added a Karma config file to make automated testing easier.
- Added checks for offline features to the support-testing page.
Documentation:
v1.3.2
v1.3.1
1.3.1 (2015-05-22)
A roll-up of recent bugfixes and small improvements.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed some broken tests.
- Fixed buffering states.
- Fixed fullscreen polyfill installation.
- Fixed handling of live content with minimumUpdatePeriod of 0.
- Fixed selection of live content (type=dynamic).
- Fixed AJAX request timeouts.
- Fixed spec compliance for polyfilled session expiration.
- Fixed buffer time for offline playback.
- Fixed offline API consistency.
Features:
- Refactored and updated support test page.
- Simplified polyfill installation. (shaka.polyfill.installAll)
- New polyfill for CustomEvent.
- Small improvements to browser compatibility.
- (node.childNodes, node.textContent, currentScript, CSS fixes, etc.)
- Documented clock sync and CORS issues with live content.
- Documented JRE requirements.
- Test app now accepts a URL parameter to make ChromeCast testing easier.
- Stopped using deprecated methods in tests and tutorials.
- Added progress events for storing offline content.
- Documented offline APIs.
v1.3.0
1.3.0 (2015-04-16)
Feature release, introducing live streaming and offline playback.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed playback and buffering of streams whose index is inaccurate.
- Fixed EME spec compliance.
- Fixed FakeEventTarget exception handling.
- Fixed aggressive dead code stripping by the compiler.
- Fixed a bug in which subtitles were enabled by default without a subtitle
language match.
Features:
- Added offline playback support.
- Added offline support for encrypted content (on platforms which support
persistent licenses). - Added live stream support.
- Added support for header-based clock synchronization.
- Added support for inheriting Segment{Base,List,Template} across levels in
MPDs. - Add polyfill support for fullscreen events.
- Updated EME usage to the March 12 draft.
- Added Player.getAdaptationEnabled().
- Added support for bandwidth restrictions and restrictions not based on
license responses. - Added support for requireJS and improved support for commonJS.
- Sped up integration tests and improved test robustness.
- Bandwidth estimates can now be persisted across playbacks.
- Custom bandwidth estimator objects can now be injected into the Player.
- Improved EME v0.1b polyfill consistency with native EME in Chrome.
- Improved buffering and underflow mechanisms.
- Improved error reporting if DRM info is missing.
- Improved robustness in the face of HTTP 404 and 410 errors during segment
fetch. - Improved documentation for Role tags and multilingual assets.
Test app features:
- Example player controls in the test app.
Deprecated:
- The following methods on Player are deprecated. They will be removed in
v1.4.0:- getCurrentResolution() (replace with video.videoWidth & video.videoHeight)
- getCurrentTime()/seek() (replace with video.currentTime)
- getDuration() (replace with video.duration)
- getMuted()/setMuted() (replace with video.muted)
- getVolume()/setVolume() (replace with video.volume)
- play() (replace with video.play)
- pause() (replace with video.pause)
- requestFullscreen() (replace with video.requestFullscreen())
Broken compatibility:
- The license postprocessor callback is no longer given a Restrictions
argument. See Player.getRestrictions()/setRestrictions(). - The suppressMultipleEvents flag has been dropped from DrmSchemeInfo, which
changes the constructor signature. This flag interfered with key rotation.
v1.2.4
1.2.4 (2015-04-16)
Bugfixes backported from v1.3.0 to the v1.2.x branch.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed FakeEventTarget exception handling.
- Fixed aggressive dead code stripping by the compiler.
- Fixed a bug in which subtitles were enabled by default without a subtitle
language match.
Features:
- Added support for requireJS and improved support for commonJS.
- Improved documentation for Role tags and multilingual assets.
v1.2.3
1.2.3 (2015-04-07)
A roll-up of recent bugfixes.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed consistency of setPlaybackRate(0).
- Fixed support for mp4a.40.5 audio content.
- Improved rewind accuracy.
- Fixed decode of query parameters in content URLs.
- Fixed FakeEventTarget for Chrome 43+.
- Removed flaky assertion in EME polyfill.
- Made AbrManager less aggressive.
- Fixed EME spec compatibility and encrypted playback in Chrome 43+.
Features:
- Added support for module.exports.
Test app features:
- Added a new 4k test asset.