Release notes

New features and Enhancements

myPlayer.loadAsset(assetId, programId, callback) is deprecated, use myPlayer.startPlayback() or myPlayer.src(). read more here
CurrentTime, Duration and Seek values are based on seconds and are now relative to the beginning of the program and not the beginning of the stream.
Use channelId & programId for live and catchup playback. AssetId should only be used for VoD.
Program related progress bar with seamless switching between programs for a channel.
Playback properties like default playback behaviour, startTime, etc.. were adapted so that they match the mobile client�s playback properties structure. To start use playbackProperties, described in Getting started.

2.0.82

New features

EMP-10978 Upgrade Shaka 2.2.6 -> 2.3.7 https://github.com/google/shaka-player/releases

2.0.83

Bug fixes

EMP-11246 HTML5 2.X - Firefox - Static Catchup - Playback does not start
EMP-11254 HTML5 2.X - IE - Playback doesn't start for VOD and channels
EMP-11198 CC - Live indicator on sender does not always work when casting
EMP-11112 CC Receiver - Memory leak

New features

EMP-11344 Shaka 2.3.6-3: Only add new segment references for SegmentTimeline.

2.0.84

Bug fixes

EMP-11350 Two load request are send to CC receiver when casting.
EMP-11253 HTML5 2.X - Safari - Can't play channels.
EMP-10956 HTML5 2.X - Subs don't work for Live with new streams.
EMP-11254 HTML5 2.X - IE - Playback doesn't start for VOD and channels.
EMP-11246 HTML5 2.X - Firefox - Static Catchup - Playback does not start.
EMP-11212 HTML 2.X - No bitrates reported to analytics for HLS playback in Safari.
EMP-11245 HTML 2.X - Live - When timeshift is disabled rewind/fastforward controls are still displayed until clicked.
EMP-11243 HTML5 2.X - VOD - Can't rewind when offset < 30s
EMP-11083 Change bitrate function for HLS. (Select bitrate only supported with unencrypted and single audio/text.)
EMP-11307 HTML5 2.X - Chrome - Firefox - Turning off subs and then choosing a different language doesn't change the track properly.

New features

EMP-11345 Shaka 2.3.6-4: Calculate liveEdge from last segment starttime for SegmentTimeline.
EMP-11330 Use livedelay from CC receiver.
EMP-10928 Suport HLS Fairplay.
EMP-11012 HTML 2.0 - Parse the m3u8 for bitrates.
EMP-11353 Don't try recover from error by try other tech on receiver.

2.0.85

Bug fixes

EMP-11279 CC Receiver 2.X - Taking back session unmutes playback.
EMP-11386 CC Receiver 2.X - Casting when volum are changed crach player.
EMP-11230 HTML5 CC Sender - Wrong state for CC button, it turns red in the sender after changing network.
EMP-11253 HTML5 2.X - Safari - Can't play Fairplay VOD.
EMP-11380 Player not working in IE11.

New features

EMP-11388 Set initiate volume level and muted when start casting.

2.0.86

Bug fixes

EMP-11474 Problem with videojs data-setup that iFrame player using

New features

EMP-11395 Embedded player / iFrame player for Web
EMP-10519 peer-to-peer plugin for MPEG-DASH (Streamroot)

2.0.87

Bug fixes

New features

EMP-11430 Expose Shaka Download functionality
EMP-10416 Download for HTML5 player

2.0.88

Bug fixes

EMP-11589 EMP-Shaka Override mpd licenseServerUri with DRM Configuration
EMP-11134 Error event is sent on a closed session causes a lot of unnecessary errors
EMP-11383 Device.Info event should always be send when an error occur
EMP-11622 MediaLocator sent in Playback.Started does not include the t params

2.0.89

Bug fixes

EMP-11480 Consol error from HTML5 player

New features

EMP-11616 Upgrade Shaka to 2.4.3 (latest)
EMP-11448 Tracking license requests to Irdeto through analytics trace
EMP-11496 Add cancel download
EMP-11098 Mediainfo control for title/decription/image/logo
Remove Flash and MRR Streams support

2.0.90

Bug fixes

EMP-11674 Shaka memory leak in Chromecast v1
EMP-11686 Analytics send synchronous call's to backend

New features

EMP-11669 HTML5/CC 2.x - Send EE requestID in Playback.Created
EMP-11678 Show mediainfo bar when we switch to next or pre program
EMP-11692 The clients need to handle the http 410 response from backend
EMP-11680 Update Type definitions index.d.ts
EMP-10455 Streamroots peer-to-peer module as an plugin

2.0.91

Bug fixes

EMP-11744 HTML 2.0 - Playback starts as live point for dynamic catchup instead of from start of the program on Safari 10.1.2
EMP-11427 Subtitle show up in the middle for Firefox
EMP-11769 Throttling play request to avoid errors.

New features

2.0.92

Bug fixes

EMP-11426 Subtitle not working for Edge and IE11
EMP-11770 HTML5 - Improve error logging in analytics, several error-sessions without any info about the asset/channel/program
EMP-11222 Unnecessary error-sessions sent to analytics from the web player

New features

EMP-11768 HTML5 and CC should log errors in analytics according to the standard
EMP-11785 Html5 and CC Start playback with only programId.

2.0.93

Bug fixes

EMP-11837 Playback.Aborted should not be sent after Playback.Error + order of the events is not always right
EMP-11791 Player can't play with dvr_window_length.
EMP-11906 Android web - Tech: EmpShaka Can�t load video: error category: 6 code: 6006 message: DRM FAILED_TO_GENERATE_LICENSE_REQUES

New features

EMP-11832 Adapt the timeline in the player for streams with DVR-window in the manifest URL (streams without epg)
EMP-11791 Update to Shaka 2.4.4
EMP-11904 Analytics improvement - Send browser/version in Name and Model

2.0.94

Bug fixes

EMP-11910 The player is doing two license request to Irdeto for PlayReady
EMP-11953 HTML5 player "go to live" control fails (use local machine time)
EMP-12019 No error event from player when stream is not available HLS.js.

New features

EMP-11915 VAST VOD tracking with Yospace SDK on Safari
EMP-11833 new tech for hls.js (hls unencrypted in all browsers)

New version Emp-player 2.1 new tech Dashif and new bundle emp-player-new-bundle.js

2.1.95

Bug fixes

EMP-12167 Dynamic Catchup start from live should start from program start

New features

EMP-12021 DASHIF tech to the html5 player

2.1.96

Bug fixes

EMP-12237 When scrubbing in the HTML5 player, the "scrub control" is not moving with the mouse cursor.
EMP-12202 Video controls dont work on dashif reference CC receiver.
EMP-12167 Dashif Dynamic Catchup
EMP-12300 Event channel - Spam sessions - two accounts/user got into a long loop of short session that can be user created.
EMP-12300 Event channel - Heartbeats when no playback
EMP-12293 Event channel - Double PlayReady in analytics.
EMP-12302 Static catch-up don't start with dashif

New features

EMP-12021 DASHIF tech to the html5 player.

2.1.97

Bug fixes

New features

EMP-12315 Use the new entitlement service V2.

2.1.98

Bug fixes

EMP-12366 Contract restrictions not applied for Entitlement V2
EMP-12058 Captions are not working in Safari

New features

Remove Dashif as supported tech

2.1.99

Bug fixes

EMP-12431 getAbsoluteTime() returns null

2.1.100

Bug fixes

fix Seek Range for CC-Tech
Stop using entitlementType

New features

EMP-11617 Update videojs to 7.4.1 CHANGELOG
Rename licenseServers to keySystems
EMP-12394 Update shaka to 2.5 (Drift is now tolerated in live streams)

2.1.101

Bug fixes

EMP-12503 Static catch-up won't start, stop start at 2.1 sec.

New features

Extended API documentation.
Extended Unit tests.

2.1.102

New features

EMP-12509 Sprites for VoD streams.

Bug fixes

Only use widevine DRM with smartTV

2.1.103

New features

EMP-12569 Program service use new endpoints to fetch next/previous program.
New options epgPollingDisabled
EMP-12627 Handle endless sessions.
EMP-12637 Don't stop playback when network disconnected or io_suppended.

2.1.104

New features

EMP-12556 Smooth Streaming Tech
EMP-12697 Use the new entitlement service V2 for entitle call.

2.1.105

New features

EMP-12507 Picture-in-Picture for (Safari and Chrome 70).
Limitation Chrome 73 Doesn't support closed captions in Picture-in-Picture https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=854935
EMP-12715 Live Events in HTML5 and CC SDK

Bug fixes

EMP-12727 Autoplay and stream stalling
EMP-12707 Asset metadata not always displayed or previous asset metadata is presented

2.1.106

New features

Bug fixes

EMP-12464 HTML5 2.0 - Autplay doesn't work when setting a startOffset for Firefox, Edge and IE.

2.1.107

Bug fixes

Don't shiftToPreviousProgram if ProgramEvent
setSegmentOverlapToleranceTime(2.1) for dashif

2.1.108

New features

EMP-12780 Add a playlist to the player
EMP-12728 Update Shaka to 2.5.1

2.1.109

Bug fixes

EMP-12813 Autoplay does not always work.
EMP-12770 Subtitle menu shows 2 entries for each language.

2.1.110

Bug fixes

EMP-12824 Fix bugs related to LG and Samsung Smart-TV.

2.1.111

New features

VTT thumbnail will auto scale depending of the player width.
VTT thumbnail scale can be set with option.
VTT thumbnail will appear when press FF or RW button.

2.1.119

New features

EMP-13616 Use the latest EMPAnalytics 2.1.119
EMP-13724 Player should support multiple languages for media info bar
EMP-13532 Reinitiate sessions after 24 hours idle.
EMP-13778 Chromecast mini-controller f�r WLA

2.1.220

New features

New empcast option takebacksession, continue play locally or close the playback.

Bug fixes

Sender should disconnect when Chromecast receiver timeout.

2.2.122

New features

EMP-13821 Playlist for Chromecast

Dependent on Chromecast receiver 2.2

Bug fixes

EMP-13892 Extra audio track in Edge when it selected it silences the sound.
EMP-13954 issue with new Edge (Chromium).
Send boolean in autoplay to analytics

2.2.123

New features

EMP-13963 Update Shaka to v2.5.8 Fix problems with Ad's and Multi-period DASH

2.2.124

Bug fixes

EMP-14057 Problem with ended live events.
EMP-14060 Start from bookmark with VOD used old technology.

2.2.125

New features

Use imagescaler for media info images.
Add getMediaInfo method to player.
Handle Gamepad keys.

2.2.126

Bug fixes

fix problem with VTT Thumbnails class
fix events leaks on dispose
EMP-14147 Double call to src method when not setting sessionToken with anonymous login

New features

update hls.js to 0.13.2, EmpHLS-MSE

2.2.127

New features

EMP-14235 Use live delay from play call

Bug fixes

EMP-14065 Poster is not showing with more than one tech.

2.2.128

Bug fixes

EMP-14280 The progress bar grows outside its container.
EMP-14321 Current time and remaining time are wrong when casting.
EMP-13355 Send Player information is from HTML5 player to analytics.

New features

EMP-14130 Add a timeline for moving DVR Window (dvr_window_length).
EMP-14257 Handle Virtual Live Stream.
EMP-14271 Configurable threshold for DVR/Live, minDvrWindow
Configurable threshold for Shaka (2.5.8-2) bandwidthEstimator, minBytes and minTotalBytes.
EMP-14279 Casting unencrypted HLS (Virtual Live Streams)
EMP-14278 Casting streams with dvr_window_length

2.2.129

Bug fixes

EMP-13355 HTML5 player don't Send "Player" information to analytics.
Console error index out of bounds with Safari.

New features

Configurable ignoreSuggestedPresentationDelay for Shaka, If true will cause DASH parser to ignore suggestedPresentationDelay from manifest. Defaults to false if not provided.

2.2.130

Bug fixes

Fix bug with Dashif tech for EMP-14271 Configurable threshold for DVR/Live, minDvrWindow.
EMP-14394 Autoplay doesn't work with Dashif tech.
DisableTimeShift for Dashif lowLatencyMode.
EMP-14403 Low latency stream freezing

New features

default retryParameters timeout 2000ms
Update dashif to 3.1.0

2.2.132

Bug fixes

EMP-14526 Progress bar on the TV are jumping back and forward when seeking in live stream.
EMP-14531 Fix issue with doumentation for HTML5 player.
EMP-14532 You can pause and seek in live stream with small DVD window.
EMP-14328 WL TV. Can't focus subtitlelist.

New features

Don't show Remaining Time if the time is 0.
New Stop button icon.
timeShiftDisabled should hide play/pause and show a stop button.
If stream have a dvr-window less than min-dvr-window, hide play/pause and show a stop button.
timeShiftDisabled should hide controls when live stream don't have EPG.