Improved LL-HLS playlist synchronization on live streams when discontinuities are present.
Support seeking to a program date time in LL-HLS using player.currentProgramDateTime.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where seeking back would result downloading the same segments for a while using the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed a crash in the LL-HLS pipeline when a partial segment does not contain an SPS or PPS NAL.
Fixed an issue where #EXT-X-PRELOAD-HINT tags with BYTERANGE-START and without BYTERANGE-LENGTH were parsed incorrectly in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Increased timeout on LL-HLS playlist blocking requests to 3*targetDuration.
Fixed an issue where LL-HLS playlists would not be synced correctly.
Web (3.7.0)
✨ Features
Enabled LCEVC enhancements when playing LCEVC content using the LL-HLS and DASH pipelines. This can be activated by adding lcevc: true to the source description and including the LCEVC SDK on your web page.
Exposed streamTimeForContentTime and contentTimeForStreamTime for Google DAI.
Added a flag in the Google DAI API to enable and disable snapback behaviour.
⚡ Improvements
Improved handling of the tracking events for the MediaTailor integration.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would stall indefinitely for a live stream using the LL-HLS pipeline once it got outside of the DVR window.
Fixed an issue where embedded vtt subtitles were not rendered during native playback.
Fixed an issue where changing between two text tracks would result in not removing the cue of the disabled text track.
Fixed an issue where the player using the LL-HLS pipeline could fetch more data from a stream than needed which caused an error.
Fixed an issue where FairPlay streams would inadvertently use the LL-HLS pipeline instead of native playback on Safari.
Fixed an issue where pre-rolls would be skipped when setting a new source and using the default THEO ads integration.
Android (3.7.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where audio of a Google IMA ad would still play in a secondary activity after it was destroyed.
Unified Android (3.7.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where DASH streams would sometimes stall when starting playback.
iOS (3.7.0)
✨ Features
Added the possibility for DRM configurations to hold both a Widevine and a FairPlay KeySystemConfiguration using the new MultiplatformDRMConfiguration and KeySystemConfigurationCollection.
Added support for changing VerizonMedia skipOffsets while playing a video.
Exposed traffickingParameters for Google IMA.
Added MediaTailor integration support by introducing a new TypedSource: MediaTailorSource.
👎 Deprecations
The classes FairPlayDRMConfiguration, WidevineDRMConfiguration and their corresponding ObjC equivalents are deprecated in favor of the new MultiplatformDRMConfiguration.
Deprecated the initializers for pre-integartion DRM configurations with the FairPlay specific licenseAcquisitionURL: in favor of the new initializer with the keySystemConfigurations: parameter.
tvOS (3.7.0)
✨ Features
Added MediaTailor integration support by introducing a new TypedSource: MediaTailorSource.
🚀 2022.3.0 (2022/07/12)
Web (3.6.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would stall indefinitely for a live stream using the LL-HLS pipeline once it got outside of the DVR window.
Fixed an issue where embedded vtt subtitles were not rendered during native playback.
Fixed an issue where changing between two text tracks would result in not removing the cue of the disabled text track.
Android (3.6.1)
👎 Deprecations
Deprecated fullscreen.AspectRatio in favor of player.AspectRatio.
Unified Android (3.6.1)
✨ Features
Introduced the MPEG TS content playback for native Android pipeline
Added support for setAspectRatio(AspectRatio).
Added support for progressive MP4/MP3 playback.
🐛 Issues
Adjust subtitles size when going in/out of fullscreen.
🚀 2022.3.0 (2022/07/05)
General
✨ Features
Added support for player.preload in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for player.abr.targetBuffer and .bufferLookbackWindow in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for player.abr.strategy in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for setting preferredKeySystems for DRM HESP streams.
⚡ Improvements
Improved ABR algorithm to take screen size into account for HESP streams.
AudioTrack.label now uses the NAME attribute of the associated #EXT-X-MEDIA tag for alternative audio renditions in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Improved parsing of the license downloaded from licenseUrl.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where HESP playback doesn't start when a response interceptor is added to the Network API.
Fixed an issue where the player could sometimes stall indefinitely when seeking backwards over a discontinuity in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where the player would crash with an "Invalid media buffer" error when switching qualities on certain streams in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where MPEG-TS segments containing H.264 NALs with certain NAL types where not accepted by the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where seekable doesn't update when the stream has combined audio and video.
Fixed an issue where sometimes switching a WEBVTT text track without cues would cause an error.
Fixed an issue where the player could stall on a discontinuity switch when using the LL-HLS pipeline.
Web (3.6.0)
✨ Features
Added ability to configure Google IMA OmidAccessModeRules.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where abr selection didn't happen on smart TV's when using the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where VerizonMedia contentNotification set to true was broken.
Fixed an issue where player.currentProgramDateTime sometimes didn't update correctly if the stream has combined audio and video.
Fixed an issue with Google-IMA where the player would become unresponsive when pausing during a mid-roll ad.
Fixed an issue where setting playAdsAfterTime on the player source would cause VMAP ads using the Google IMA integration to be completely ignored.
Fixed an issue where MOAT pixels were only sent for the first ad in an adbreak.
Android (3.6.0)
✨ Features
Added support for MediaTailor sources.
Added setSkipOffset(offset) for Verizon Media adbreaks, to set the time after which an adbreak can be skipped.
Unified Android (3.6.0)
✨ Features
Added support to register custom DRM integrations.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where a play() would have no effect if called in quick succession of setSource().
Fixed an issue where the player would not pause when the app goes to the background.
iOS (3.6.0)
✨ Features
Added VerizonMediaSource.prefix to change the prefix for Verizon Media (Edgecast) Preplay and Asset Info API requests.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where CastStrategy.auto was not taken into account while using Chromecast.
Fixed an issue where text track AddCueEvents were sometimes missing.
🚀 2022.2.2 (2022/06/02)
General
✨ Features
Added support for ID3 metadata in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for CEA-608 closed captions in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for Fairplay DRM HESP streams.
⚡ Improvements
Improve ABR algorithm for HESP streams.
Changed goLive to take the latency configuration into account to determine the time to seek to.
Improve the types of the text track API events.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where WebVTT cue settings were not respected for HLS subtitle renditions.
Fixed an issue where the X-TIMESTAMP-MAP metadata header was not respected when parsing WebVTT subtitles in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where #EXT-X-BYTERANGE tags without an offset were not recognized in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where a DASH manifest containing a subsegmentStartsWithSAP attribute set to a non-numeric would crash the player.
Web (3.5.0)
✨ Features
Added player.latency API for managing low-latency live playback.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would get stuck fetching the same segment of DASH live streams.
Fixed an issue where the player could sometimes get into an infinite loop when trying to jump a gap on certain HLS streams in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where for an MPEG-TS stream using the LL-HLS pipeline it could stall on a discontinuity.
Fixed an issue where sometimes the AirPlay button was shown when AirPlay is not supported.
Fixed an issue where an incorrect timescale rescaling would break playback on Tizen 2 devices.
Android (3.5.0)
✨ Features
Added FullScreenManager.setAspectRatio(AspectRatio aspectRatio), to configure what the aspect ratio of the content is.
Added VerizonMediaSource.Builder#prefix(String) to change the prefix for Verizon Media (Edgecast) Preplay and Asset Info API requests.
Added support for static access to player version APIs via THEOplayerGlobal.getVersion() and THEOplayerGlobal.getPlayerSuiteVersion()
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where play-out of a DRM protected stream would fail after switching sources multiple times.
Unified Android (3.5.0)
✨ Features
Allow querying the source of a side-loaded text track and whether it is a forced text track or not.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player sometimes crashes if multiple players are configured in parallel.
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes crash on play-out of an HLS stream with text tracks.
Fixed an issue where the Cast module crashed when GooglePlayServices was missing from the device.
Fixed an issue where DRM playback would fail when using multiple players on Huawei devices.
iOS (3.5.0)
✨ Features
Added support for canStartPictureInPictureAutomaticallyFromInline in Native Picture-in-Picture.
Exposed the src property on the iOS TextTrack API
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where start-up time was too long for certain LL-HLS streams
Fixed a bug that would crash the containing app when playing a video with a sideloaded text track in combination with an ad.
Fixed an API documentation error for the AspectRatio property where the descriptions for fill and aspectFill were mixed up.
🚀 2022.2.1 (2022/05/05)
General
✨ Features
Added support for missing keyframes at the start of a segment for LL-HLS.
Added support for sideloaded text tracks in the LL-HLS pipeline.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the LL-HLS pipeline would show a duplicate audio track for variant streams without a CODECS attribute.
Fixed an issue where a forced TextTrack would not be correctly enabled/disabled after a track switch.
Web (3.4.0)
✨ Features
Added MediaTailor integration with progression tracking functionality.
Added support for packed audio segments (.aac files) in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added VerizonMediaSource.prefix to change the prefix for Verizon Media (Edgecast) Preplay and Asset Info API requests.
Added support for <font color> tags in SubRip (SRT) subtitles.
Added the ability to skip scheduled ads by setting SourceDescription.playAdsAfterTime.
Added support for line setting in WebVTT subtitles.
Added support for the following MediaTailor tracking events: 'pause', 'resume', 'mute', 'unmute', 'fullscreen', 'exitFullscreen' and 'engagedView'.
Enabled MPEG-TS support by default for the LL-HLS pipeline.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue that caused the player to ignore the sub second part of IMA ad time offsets.
Fixed an issue where the player would not give a clear error when setting an invalid Yospace source.
Fixed an issue on Tizen 2.4 where the player would occassionally throw an InvalidStateError for certain HTTP requests.
Fixed an issue on Tizen 2.4 where the LL-HLS pipeline would crash on certain MPEG-TS segments containing large media timestamps.
Fixed a bug where Google IMA ads would stop being scheduled after receiving an empty ad break.
Fixed a bug where player.ads.scheduledAdBreaks would contain ads that have already played.
Fixed an issue where Google IMA ads would sometimes not be scheduled correctly when using a percentage string as the timestampOffset.
Fixed an issue where the LL-HLS pipeline failed to parse certain MPEG-TS segments containing ID3 tags spanning multiple MPEG-TS packets.
Fixed an issue where the player would falsely think it has ended after playing an IMA mid-roll ad.
Fixed an issue where the DAI adTagParameters configuration would not be passed to the DAI StreamRequest.
Fixed an issue where the player sometimes crashes on the first segment of a livestream if audio starts slightly before video when using the LL-HLS pipeline on Samsung Tizen 2.4.
Unified Android (3.4.0)
✨ Features
Added support for Google Cast integration.
Added synchronous APIs on the Player class.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where on some AndroidTV devices play-out of Widevine protected streams would fail.
👎 Deprecations
The Player#requestBuffered(RequestCallback<TimeRanges> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getBuffered().
The Player#requestCurrentTime(RequestCallback<Double> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getCurrentTime().
The Player#requestPlayed(RequestCallback<TimeRanges> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getPlayed().
The Player#requestSeekable(RequestCallback<TimeRanges> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getSeekable().
The Player#requestCurrentProgramDateTime(RequestCallback<Date> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getCurrentProgramDateTime().
The Player#requestVideoHeight(RequestCallback<Integer> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getVideoHeight().
The Player#requestVideoWidth(RequestCallback<Integer> callback) is deprecated in favor of Player#getVideoWidth().
The Ads#requestPlaying(RequestCallback<Boolean> callback) is deprecated in favor of Ads#isPlaying().
The Ads#requestCurrentAds(RequestCallback<List<Ad>> callback) is deprecated in favor of Ads#getCurrentAds().
The Ads#requestCurrentAdBreak(RequestCallback<AdBreak> callback) is deprecated in favor of Ads#getCurrentAdBreak().
The Ads#requestScheduledAds(RequestCallback<List<Ad>> callback) is deprecated in favor of Ads#getScheduledAds().
iOS (3.4.0)
✨ Features
Added new formats to specify time offsets for ads. You can now also specify them in a number of seconds and using a timecode.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue that caused time offsets in IMA ads to be calculated not accurately.
Fixed an issue where ContentProtection headers were not handled correctly.
🚀 2022.2.0 (2022/04/12)
General
✨ Features
Add support for forced-subtitle DASH role scheme value.
🐛 Issues
Fixed a bug where switching tracks using the player API when chromecasting would not disable the previously active track.
Fixed an issue where we would keep fetching the playlists of a previous LL-HLS live stream after we switched to a new source.
Web (3.3.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Changed the averageBandwidth property on qualities to the average bandwidth instead of the bandwidth for HLS and HESP streams.
✨ Features
Added basic support for MPEG-TS segments in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for converting a v1 PSSH box into a v0 PSSH box on EOS stbs.
⚡ Improvements
Improved overall performance by internally using native JavaScript Promises when supported.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where no ads would be returned by THEOAds if a single ad in an adpod returns a VAST error.
Fixed an issue where ABR could not reach qualities higher than 1080p on a Tizen device.
Fixed an issue where sometimes seeking back while the player is paused will cause an indefinite stall for HLS streams.
Fixed an issue where thumbnails would not be displayed correctly for a stream that contains a track with tiled thumbnails.
Android (3.3.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would crash in apps targeting Android 12 (API level 31) when entering PiP mode using the PipManager.
Fixed and issue where play-out in PiP mode would not work.
🚀 2022.1.2 (2022/04/05)
Android (3.2.3)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where some events related to advertisements would not be triggered for Verizon Media sources.
🚀 2022.1.2 (2022/04/05)
iOS (3.2.2)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where removeEventListener would not work as intended.
🚀 2022.1.2 (2022/03/25)
iOS (3.2.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue when setting a source while Airplaying caused an infinite play/pause loop.
🚀 2022.1.2 (2022/03/11)
General
✨ Features
Support switching between variant streams containing both audio and video and alternative audio renditions when using LL-HLS.
Added support for switching between DASH representations with incompatible codecs.
⚡ Improvements
Improve latency calculation for HESP streams.
Added several stability improvements for LL-HLS.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would incorrectly choose an AC-3 variant stream when using LL-HLS, even when the platform does not support this codec.
Fixed an issue where the currentLatency value would be wrong during start of playback of an HESP stream.
Fixed an issue where audio and video were out of sync for some LL-HLS streams.
Fixed an issue where the player sometimes tried to download a parent segment which does not yet have all of its partial segments in LL-HLS.
Fixed an issue where the player would throw an error when trying to parse an incorrect language in the mdhd box.
Web (3.2.0)
⚡ Improvements
Improve startup time when autoplay is enabled.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where play-out of an HLS stream would sometimes stall indefinitely before starting a short discontinuity.
Android (3.2.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where theoplayer sources could not be used for testing purposes without providing a license key.
Fixed an issue where the IMA advertisements would still play after stop() was called on the player.
Fixed an issue where the player would crash on starting play-out of an HLS stream.
Unified Android (3.2.0)
✨ Features
Added documentation for GoogleImaAdEventType.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would crash when creating multiple instances.
iOS (3.2.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player would not fill the available space when using native VR.
Fixed an issue that caused unwanted volume changes after playing an ad using the Google IMA iOS SDK.
tvOS (3.2.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the license check would throw an error after instantiating a new THEOplayer from a tvOS application
🚀 2022.1.1 (2022/02/21)
Android (3.1.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where CastStrategy.MANUAL was ignored and the player automatically connected to Cast.
🚀 2022.1.1 (2022/02/14)
General
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where old avc1 codecs would error for the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fixed an issue where both captions and subtitles could be enabled at the same time.
Fixed selected values not being translated in the subtitle options menu.
Web (3.1.0)
✨ Features
Added logic to set a prioritised list of preferred audio/video codecs for initial quality selection. Works for DASH and LL-HLS streams.
Added the ability to override ec-3 audio codec filtering for Tizen and WebOS by setting ec-3 as a preferred codec in SourceDescription.abr or PlayerConfiguration.abr.
Added support for forced narrative subtitles on DASH.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue with decoding HESP streams on Edge 92 on some Windows 10 devices.
Android (3.1.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where adding Chromecast dependencies was required even if it was not in use.
Unified Android (3.1.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Starting from Unified Android SDK v3.0.0 the minimum Java version required is 8.
✨ Features
Add support for Google IMA integration.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would show a black screen when changing orientation in paused state.
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes stall when switching periods in a multi-period DASH stream.
Fix an issue where adding Chromecast dependencies was required even if it was not in use.
Fixed a bug where loaded data and loaded metadata events would not dispatch.
Improved memory management.
Fixed an issue where in some cases requestPlayed would return inaccurate data.
🚀 2022.1.0 (2022/01/17)
Officially announcing THEOplayer 3.0
Introducing a major version bump to THEOplayer 3.0. This version officially releases all the improvements and developments THEOplayer has achieved in the last months. This latest version is now stable, backward compatible, and recommended for general use.
Unified Android
A single SDK for all Android devices, including mobile, Smart TVs, and STBs.
Supports clear and encrypted playback through (LL-)DASH, (LL-)HLS, and HESP.
Support Widevine level 1 DRM encryption.
Modular connectors allow the integration of preferred functionalities.
Features:
Closed captions/subtitle: TTML, WebVTT, CEA-608 and CEA-608 over CEA-708.
Fixed an issue where calling requestFullScreen before the player is done initializing caused the player to ignore it.
Fixed an issue where Audiotrack switching on Chromecast was broken on the UI.
Fixed an issue where updating app to targetSdkVersion 31 (Android 12) and using cast framework v20.1.0 triggered a crash whenever a casting session is started.
👎 Deprecations
Deprecate THEOplayer Android MinApi16 SDK.
Last major version of the THEOplayer Android SDK to support Android 4.x (API level 16). The next minimum version is Android 5.0 (API level 21)
Unified Android (3.0.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would potentially crash when the hosting application would go to the background.
Fixed an issue where play-out of DRM-protected streams would sometimes fail on mobile Samsung devices.
iOS (3.0.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where fullscreen device orientation was broken when using fullscreenOrientationCoupling.
🚀 2021.4.2 (2021/12/17)
General
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would freeze after a quality switch when using the LL-HLS pipeline.
Web (2.92.0)
✨ Features
Exposed creativeId, adSystem, title and wrapper properties in the API for Google DAI ads.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where HESP ABR would drop to lowest quality due to an underestimated bandwidth estimate on certain streams.
Fixed an issue where the player would not automatically prune based on the bufferLookbackWindow in the ABRConfiguration.
Fixed an issue with the Verizon ad integration sometimes not dispatching adend and adbreakend events on post-roll ads.
Fixed an issue with filtering of unsupported DASH representations.
Fixed an issue where MPEG-DASH live streams with very large media timestamps failed to play on Tizen 3.
Android (2.92.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where setting the target quality of an audio/video track would not work when playing HLS.
Android TV (2.92.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where Verizon ad events would not be dispatched.
Unified Android (2.92.0)
✨ Features
Added support for rendering CEA608 subtitles.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where play-out of some DRM protected streams would fail.
tvOS (2.92.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where requestCurrentProgramDateTime would return nil in tvOS
🚀 2021.4.1 (2021/11/29)
Web (2.91.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would not automatically prune based on the bufferLookbackWindow in the ABRConfiguration.
Android (2.91.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where setting the target quality of an audio/video track would not work when playing HLS.
🚀 2021.4.1 (2021/11/18)
General
✨ Features
Added fallback logic for failing rendition playlist fetches in the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added fallback logic for failing segment/part/map/preload hint fetches in the LL-HLS pipeline.
🐛 Issues
Fixed a UI issue when receiving empty ad breaks from the Verizon ad integration.
Fixed an issue causing indefinite buffering on Firefox when playing HLS streams.
Web (2.91.0)
✨ Features
Added support for the Label tag in AdaptationSets for DASH streams.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where replaying or seeking after a DASH stream has ended could result in glitches or stuttering on Tizen 4 or lower and webOS 4 or lower.
Fixed an issue where ads could not be scheduled after the last ad had finished playing.
Fixed an issue where the notification about an upcoming ad was not removed after the ad finished playing.
Fixed an issue where the live UI would not show when playing a LL-HLS live stream.
Fixed an issue where a black screen showed up on a quality change for HESP streams on iOS Safari.
Fixed an issue where a stream with ISOBMFF segments that contain multiple tracks would only retain the first track.
Fixed an issue where Verizon Ad events were being dispatched before playback started.
Unified Android (2.91.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where enabling or disabling audio and video tracks in the callback of an addtrack event would not work.
Fixed an issue where a multi-period DASH stream would stall during start of playback and when transitioning between periods.
Fixed an issue where an expired DRM license would not be renewed during play-out.
Fixed an issue where WebVTT subtitles containing markup tags would not be properly displayed.
iOS (2.91.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player would be in a paused state after seeking or during audio interruptions.
Fix an issue where the muted state would not be reflected correctly in the API.
Fix an issue where player would crash after trying to re-cache a previously cached source.
Fix an issue where a caching task that hadn't started downloading yet would be removed when going to background.
🚀 2021.4.0 (2021/10/29)
iOS (2.90.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where initializing a non-chromeless player failed
🚀 2021.4.0 (2021/10/21)
General
⚡ Improvements
Added mediaType and subType to segment requests from the Network API when playing a DASH or HLS stream.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where HESP playback would not start in recent Safari versions.
Web (2.90.0)
✨ Features
Added ChromecastConnectionCallback to dynamically update the source while connecting/disconnecting from Chromecast.
Fixed a DASH multi-period playback issue on Tizen 2.4 where the periods have different timescales.
⚡ Improvements
Added support for switching between audio or video tracks with supported (but not cross-compatible) codecs in MPEG-DASH, e.g. from AAC-LC to Opus, or from AAC-LC to Dolby Digital (if supported).
The player now tries to hide any native on-screen navigation UI buttons when in fullscreen on mobile devices. This can be overridden with PlayerConfiguration.ui.fullscreenOptions.
Improved HESP playback on Safari macOS and Safari iPadOS.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where chapter markers would not be shown in the UI.
Fixed an issue where the font size of subtitles would be too large when entering fullscreen portrait mode.
Fixed an issue where subtitles were not displayed when enabled programmatically. The subtitles only started to show after several minutes.
👎 Deprecations
The Chromecast.source is deprecated in favor of Chromecast.chromecastConnectionCallback.
Android (2.90.0)
✨ Features
Added ChromecastConnectionCallback to dynamically update the source while connecting/disconnecting from Chromecast.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issues where using Native IMA with preloading could cause stalls.
Fixed an issue where setting the target quality of an audio/video track would not work.
👎 Deprecations
The Chromecast#setSource(SourceDescription source) is deprecated in favor of Chromecast#setChromecastConnectionCallback(ChromecastConnectionCallback callback).
Unified Android (2.90.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where DRM protected segments of a DASH stream could sometimes not be decrypted.
iOS (2.90.0)
✨ Features
Add support for native VR360.
Added ChromecastConnectionDelegate to dynamically update the source while connecting/disconnecting from Chromecast.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where going native fullscreen on iOS during an adbreak would show the content instead of the ad.
👎 Deprecations
The Chromecast.source is deprecated in favor of Chromecast.setChromecastConnectionDelegate.
tvOS (2.90.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where switching content protected assets would not work.
🚀 2021.3.2 (2021/09/28)
Web (2.89.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed playback of Fairplay HLS on MacOS when using Safari 15.
Fixed an issue where sometimes not all text tracks are removed after a source change when using native playback.
🚀 2021.3.2 (2021/09/23)
General
✨ Features
Added support for both webvtt and ttml renditions in the same subtitle rendition group for the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for DEFAULT and AUTOSELECT rendition tags for LLHLS.
Add discontinuity support for LLHLS.
Added support for mediaTimeOffset property in manifest for HESP streams.
⚡ Improvements
Added retry logic for failing master playlist fetches in the LL-HLS pipeline.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the HESP ABR mechanism sometimes would switch to a lower quality immediately after switching to a higher quality.
Fixed an issue where player.network.estimator.bandwidth would be null for a short period after loading a HLS source.
Fixed an issue where DASH streams containing WebM representations with an @indexRange attribute could crash the player.
Web (2.89.1)
✨ Features
Added support for Vast Errors 303, 403, and 900 in case of wrapper ads.
Exposed adSystem and creativeId for THEO ads.
⚡ Improvements
Added support for triggering all error URIs of wrapper VAST ads.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would stall after replaying certain multi-period DASH streams with non-seamless period transitions.
Fixed an issue where the player would incorrectly try to seamlessly switch between different audio codecs when not supported by the browser.
Fixed an issue where captions were not available in the API or UI with a HLS stream using native playback on Safari.
Fixed an issue where no captions were available when changing from native playback to non native and back to native playback.
Fixed an issue where the player would periodically stall on older chromecast devices.
🚀 2021.3.1 (2021/08/31)
General
✨ Features
Expose a unique identifier for texttrack related cues.
Added a CEA608 subtitle fallback to DASH streams containing the CEA708 accessibility tag.
Added support for multiple CEA608 channels/tracks in DASH streams.
Added preservation of text track selection across periods.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the start and end times of CEA608 cues would sometimes be wrong for multi-period DASH streams.
Web (2.88.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Experimental method HespApi.goLive() no longer returns a Promise. Successful completion of the live seek is still signalled by the golive event.
✨ Features
Added seamless period switching support for MPEG-DASH streams containing clear periods, as well as DRM protected periods in the past.
⚡ Improvements
Support seamless period switching for MPEG-DASH streams containing periods with different DRM systems on desktop browsers.
Improved HESP ABR algorithm and network estimation.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where calculated HESP latency could become smaller than the remaining buffer.
Fixed a fatal buffering error on WebOS 5.1.
Fixed an issue where multiple audio tracks could be enabled at the same time.
Fix an issue where quality menu in the UI shows the lowest quality from the array of qualities set by targetQuality
Fixed an issue where Tizen and webOS devices versions 4.x and below would repeat frames during start of playback.
Fixed an issue where on Tizen 2.4 and Tizen 3 the player would sometimes stall at the end of a period in a multi-period DASH stream.
Fixed an issue where the ABR mechanism would never go to a higher bitrate on HESP streams.
Fix an issue where cue with start time 0 was displayed before playback began.
⚠ Known Limitations
Filtered out ec-3 audio on Tizen and WebOS by default as most devices failed playout and the codec support check was not useable.
Android (2.88.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player tried to initialize Chromecast even if the device does not support it.
⚠ Known Limitations
Native Google-IMA Ads preloading does not work as expected in some cases. Please explicitly specify AdPreloadType.NONE on the AdsConfiguration.Builder when configuring THEOplayer.
iOS (2.88.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where setting a DRM protected VerizonMedia source on player.cast.chromecast.source did not play while casting.
🚀 2021.3.0 (2021/07/30)
General
💥 Breaking Changes
Changed type of Quality.id, MediaTrack.id and TextTrack.id from number to string. It now is the id found in the DASH manifest instead of an auto-generated id.
✨ Features
Enabled Thumbnail text tracks by default.
Thumbnail text tracks now contain cues for multiple periods.
Exposed EXT-X-DATERANGE metadata through the API for LL-HLS.
Added support for WebVTT subtitle renditions to the LL-HLS pipeline.
Added support for all emsg text tracks being accessible during each period.
⚡ Improvements
Made the parsing of MPEG TS segments more robust by ignoring unusable data instead of terminating playback.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where setting sources with autoplay enabled on some Tizen devices could cause the player to freeze.
Fixed an issue where the seekable for a VOD would not include the last few segments for the LL-HLS pipeline.
Fix LLHLS pipeline making HTTP range request to infinity.
Fixed an issue where duplicate text track cues would be displayed twice.
Fix an issue where sideloaded SRT subtitles did not have cues.
Resolved an issue for DASH where the essential property to indicate tiled thumbnails was not picked up correctly.
Fixed an issue where the player would not end when seeking to the duration or beyond for some DASH streams.
Fixed an issue where enabling date ranges in the player configuration did not work.
Web (2.87.0)
⚡ Improvements
Disable Airplay button for HESP streams.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player was unable to change the styling of the texttracks.
Fixed autoplay detection for WebOS.
Fix an issue where ttml texttracks would be rendered incorrectly when using the tts:origin attribute.
Fixed an issue where response headers were missing in the Network API and Content Protection Integration API on Tizen 3.0.
Fixed an issue where HESP playback doesn't recover after a network drop on iOS Safari.
Fix an issue where the VAST tracking URL for completion would be triggered when skipping a THEO-advertisement.
Fixed an issue for HESP live playback where latency control would break after some time.
Fixed an issue where HESP ABR used to over-estimate available bandwidth by a very high margin on native android.
Fixed an issue where CEA-608 text tracks would not be rendered for HLS streams.
Fixed an issue where some VOD DASH streams would fail to start.
Fix an issue where Yospace reporting would be delayed for DASH sources.
Android (2.87.0)
✨ Features
Add possibility to set language on Native IMA via the UIConfiguration object
🐛 Issues
Seek problems with boxes and TVs due to handling decoder flush in other way + DRM starting issue
Fix an issue where setting a new source while casting the video will play on the sender.
Fixed an issue where DRM license requests were sometimes failing.
Fix an issue where caching could not be resumed after being paused.
Fixing uid brdging and Android 10 DRM playback
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes stall when switching periods in a multi-period DASH stream.
iOS (2.87.0)
✨ Features
Add possibility to set language on Native IMA via the UIConfiguration object
⚠ Known Limitations
In the lifetime of an application session you can set UIConfiguration.language only once for Native IMA. Setting this property after the first player is initialized will be ignored.
tvOS (2.87.0)
✨ Features
Add possibility to set language on Native IMA via the UIConfiguration object
🚀 2021.2.2 (2021/07/12)
Web (2.86.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed playback of Titanium DRM streams on WebOS.
Fixed an issue where the VAST tracking URL for completion would be triggered when skipping a THEO-advertisement.
iOS (2.86.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue that caused THEOplayer to fail playing a cached stream that has redirection in its source on iOS 12.
Fixed an issue where DRM protected streams did not play on Airplay in certain scenarios.
🚀 2021.2.2 (2021/07/05)
General
✨ Features
Add support for CBCS encryption in MPEG-DASH streams in supporting browsers.
Construct HESP content request URLs by applying relative resolution.
Add support for EMSG v1 boxes.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where in rare cases a sideloaded text track stops updating after a DASH period switch.
Improved LLHLS bandwidth estimation. Support parsing ENVC and ENCA sample entry MP4 boxes.
Fixed incorrect LLHLS timeline when switching between renditions.
Fixed an issue where CBCS encrypted streams would fail to play on Firefox.
Improved the LLHLS download pipeline to download segments from the live edge if all the parts for that segment are already available.
Fixed some issues when parsing LLHLS playlist.
Improved LLHLS ABR behaviour.
Fix seeking to time 0 in an HLS live stream before the playlist is loaded.
Fixed an issue where seeking to live would not get into the buffer causing an indefinite stall.
Fixed an issue where WebVTT subtitle renditions were not loaded correctly when the HLS stream contains discontinuities.
Web (2.86.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where HESP latency was too high for certain iOS and Android devices.
Fix an issue where the big play button is still visible when autoplaying an HESP stream on iOS Safari.
Fix an issue where a play event is dispatched after a playing event for HESP streams on iOS Safari.
Fix an issue where sometimes the player is pulsing on iOS Safari when playing HESP streams.
Fix an edge case where the player could fail to start playing after preloading an HLS stream while the tab was in the background.
Fixed an issue where for some HLS streams audio would become out of sync with video.
Fix unintentional warnings logged in the browser console when loading an HLS stream.
⚠ Known Limitations
No HESP playback supported on iOS Chrome/Firefox for iOS versions lower than 14.
Android (2.86.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the current time would not be shown on the progress bar.
Fixed an issue where a loadstart event was not dispatched for HESP streams.
Fix an issue where the play/pause icon is not in sync with the playback state when in Picture in Picture.
Fix an issue where Picture in Picture window could not be resized on Android 11.
Fix an issue where destroying THEOplayerView while in fullscreen throw an Exception.
iOS (2.86.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Removed support for iOS 9 & 10. The minimum supported iOS version is now 11.0.
✨ Features
Optimize FairPlay system to improve offline playback.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player was not able to select an initial audio track when no DEFAULT=YES or AUTOSELECT=YES option was specified.
Fix an issue where the current time would not be shown on the progress bar.
Fix issue where texttracks were not rendered correctly for picture in picture.
Fix an issue where pip button was not disabled for native pip while Google IMA and THEO ads were playing.
Fix a bug that prevents the advertisement from auto-starting when using NativeIma = false
⚠ Known Limitations
In iOS 12 an offline asset only plays once: after closing the asset, you cannot play it again. To achieve that it needs to be re-cached.
tvOS (2.86.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Removed support for tvOS 10. The minimum supported tvOS version is now 11.0.
✨ Features
Optimize FairPlay system to improve offline playback.
🚀 2021.2.1 (2021/06/18)
iOS (2.85.3)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where THEOplayer would crash if native Picture in Picture is enabled.
🚀 2021.2.1 (2021/06/10)
General
🐛 Issues
Improved LLHLS bandwidth estimation. Support parsing ENVC and ENCA sample entry MP4 boxes.
Fix an issue where the player could stall and enter an infinite buffering loop due to rounding errors.
🚀 2021.2.1 (2021/06/07)
General
💥 Breaking Changes
The estimator property of the NetworkEstimator API is no longer writable, it is superseded by setEstimator.
✨ Features
Implement LLHLS global timeline.
⚡ Improvements
When playing a multi-period DASH stream containing EventStream metadata, the player will now create a single text track (rather than a text track per period) to contain the event metadata cues.
Improved ABR behaviour for the HESP pipeline.
Prune more aggressively on DASH streams with long segments.
Added timeout to segment requests to deal with segment network requests that never complete.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where some TTML tracks did not render.
Fix a rare crash when the player performs a seamless period switch at the same time that the currently playing period is removed from the MPD.
Web (2.85.1)
💥 Breaking Changes
Remove Blob and Document request/response types from Network API.
Remove HespAbrConfiguration and former HESP ABR mechanism.
✨ Features
Add initial version of the new HESP ABR mechanism.
Implement currentProgramDateTime for HESP streams.
Add support UniversalAdId in the THEO ad system.
Added support for Widevine DRM for HESP streams.
Add currentServerLiveTime and currentLatency to the HESP API.
⚡ Improvements
Support seamless period switching for MPEG-DASH streams containing both clear periods and DRM protected periods.
Support seamless period switching for MPEG-DASH streams on Tizen version 2.4 and above, and webOS version 3 and above.
🐛 Issues
Filter on supported codecs before initial variant stream selection.
Fix an issue where the player would stall indefinitely instead of ending playback at the end of some DASH streams containing sidx sub-segments.
Fixed an issue where playing HESP content on iOS Safari was not possible if the player was starting muted.
Fix an issue where the currentAds and currentAdbreak API would be empty for non-linear ads.
Fix an issue where MPEG-DASH live streams with very large media timestamps failed to play on Tizen 2.4.
Fix an issue where measurers from an externally configured estimator on the (experimental) Network Estimator API could not measure certain requests.
Fixed an issue where playing an HESP stream on iOS Safari fails with a 'disable casting' error on screen.
Fix an issue where ended event comes before the adbreakend event on a post roll ad in THEO ad system
Fix an issue where the post-roll ad was not preloaded on the THEO ad system
Android (2.85.1)
✨ Features
Add support for Picture in Picture mode.
🐛 Issues
Fix issue where player would resize after orientation changes when using Google IMA.
Fix an issue where the player was unable to persist the license for offline playback.
iOS (2.85.1)
💥 Breaking Changes
Starting from this version the iOS/tvOS SDKs are built with Xcode 12 (Swift 5.3 compatibility).
✨ Features
Add support for native Picture in Picture.
Upgrades Google Cast SDK to 4.6.0 which contains iOS 14 specific changes from Google.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the chromless player could not start casting on Airplay.
🚀 2021.2.0 (2021/05/14)
General
🐛 Issues
Fixed a regression where some MPEG-DASH livestreams failed to play when the last segment's S@d attribute changes between two MPD updates.
🚀 2021.2.0 (2021/05/07)
General
✨ Features
Add support for hexadecimal and octal format suffixes in DASH SegmentTemplate URLs.
⚡ Improvements
Improved the ABR logic to also consider qualities with higher dimensions than the player's dimesions, if there is no exact match.
Optimized handling of DASH MPDs with long SegmentTimelines.
Improved the performance of the player on DASH streams.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes stall indefinitely when calling play immediately after setting a DASH source.
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes error on some HLS streams with Fairplay protected audio and video.
Fixed a rare edge case where the player would throw an "Invalid duration" error when changing between DASH sources.
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes stall indefinitely on some DASH streams when changing the source.
Fixed an issue where an HLS stream on chrome on a slower network would only play audio while video freezes.
Fixed an issue where the player tried to parse a WebM segment as an MP4.
Fixed an issue where the order of the Verizon Media preplay parameters is not maintained.
Web (2.84.0)
✨ Features
Change experimental ChromelessPlayer.hesp API to be available before setting a HESP source.
Add API and UI support for track and quality selection for HESP streams.
Expose universalAdIds for Google IMA.
Make the HESP latency property configurable before setting a source and preserved across source changes.
Change HESP source type to 'application/vnd.theo.hesp+json'.
Add support for latest HESP manifest version v1.0.0 and drop support for v0 HESP streams.
Add support for streaming advertisements and ads preloading in the THEO ad system.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the player would stall indefinitely on some HLS streams with nonaligned discontinuities on Firefox.
Fixed an issue where a faulty postroll would restart the content for THEO ads.
Resolve sequence of incorrect currentProgramDateTime values observed while seeking on iPhone
Fixed an issue where the player would error on HLS streams with CMAF segments that don't contain a MOOF box.
Fixed an issue where the player would retry to fetch a segment with a constant delay instead of using exponential backoff.
Fixed an issue where fullscreen mode was not working for HESP playback on iOS Safari.
Fixed an issue where the service worker used for HESP playback on iOS Safari could require additional page refreshes to become functional.
⚠ Known Limitations
Streaming advertisements downloads the highest quality instead of using the ABR-logic on Tizen.
Seeking during an ad results in content becoming visible on Tizen.
Android (2.84.0)
✨ Features
Expose universalAdIds for Google IMA.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where Chromecast.isCasting() and Chromecast.getState() did not reflect the same state.
Fixed an issue where using native IMA pausing an advertising is not possible.
Fixed an issue where for some HLS streams the ABR mechanism did not switch to a higher profile on Android.
Android TV (2.84.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where on FireTV the player would sometimes fail to configure the video codec when switching to a new period.
iOS (2.84.0)
✨ Features
Expose universalAdIds for Google IMA.
Added Support for GoogleInteractiveMediaAds framework to 3.14.1.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where WebVTT subtitles are not rendering with together with thumbnails.
Fixed an issue where AudioSession interruption did not trigger a PauseEvent
Fixed an issue where WebVTT subtitles would duplicate.
⚠ Known Limitations
Text track captions are temporarily unavailable.
tvOS (2.84.0)
✨ Features
Added Support for GoogleInteractiveMediaAds framework to 4.4.1
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where bitmap ID3 subtitles would unintentionally scale up.
⚠ Known Limitations
The tvOS SDK API presents some issues, which will be fixed on 2.84.1.
Text track captions are temporarily unavailable.
🚀 2021.1.3 (2021/04/19)
General
🐛 Issues
Resolved a problem where disabling/enabling text tracks could make them go unrendered.
🚀 2021.1.3 (2021/04/13)
General
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where sometimes the player would get stuck when setting a new source
Fix an issue where the duration of the player is set to Infinity when the source of a VOD DASH stream is set.
Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes throw on DRM protected LL-HLS streams.
Fixed an issue where the player src property would be equal to the Chromecast source while not casting.
Fix an issue where playing Google DAI stream the source parameter was not passed completely
Fix an issue where the player fails to jump over an unplayable segment at the start of a DASH VOD stream.
The THEOplayer iOS SDK will now be also shipped in the xcframework format alongside the framework format. For more info on XCframework, refer to the Apple documentation on: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/11.4/#/dev6f6ac218b
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where setting a metadata title including apostrophe would fail.
Fix an issue where changing audio tracks freezes THEOplayer.
The THEOplayer tvOS SDK will now be also shipped in the xcframework format alongside the framework format. For more info on XCframework, refer to the Apple documentation on: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/11.4/#/dev6f6ac218b
🐛 Issues
Fixes a bug that caused THEOplayerSDK on tvOS to have wrong entries for UIDeviceFamily.
🚀 2021.1.1 (2021/02/24)
General
🐛 Issues
Reduced the memory usage for long running viewing sessions where some memory would be kept until the stream ends.
🚀 2021.1.1 (2021/02/12)
General
✨ Features
Implement basic ABR for new LL HLS pipeline.
⚡ Improvements
Added support for EventStream@presentationTimeOffset in MPEG-DASH streams.
Improved the interval for fetching manifest updates for DASH streams to be closer to the minimumUpdatePeriod.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player would sometimes seek to the start of the DVR window when play was called.
Fix an infinite stall when seeking to the end of a DASH VOD stream on Safari.
Fix an issue where creativeAdId was exposed through imaAd.creativeId (instead of creativeId)
Fix an issue where our Google IMA-integration would incorrectly dispatch a playing event when ad is immediately paused
Fix an issue where the player would hang when loading certain DASH livestreams that only contain segments that are already available.
Fix an issue where after a seek beyond the end of the seekable range will result in seeking too close to livepoint and starting to stall.
Web (2.81.0)
✨ Features
Upgrade Youbora adapter version to 6.7.7.
🐛 Issues
Fix audio only LL-HLS playback.
Fix an issue where subsequently skipping forward or backward in a DASH stream sometimes incorrectly marks a gap in the buffer.
Fix an issue where the player would freeze when clicking replay after playing a clipped HLS stream on iOS Safari.
Fix an issue where repeatedly starting an HLS stream on Safari sometimes results in playback with frame skips.
Improved gap jumping for less powerful devices such as smart tv's.
Fix an issue where the player would get stuck near the end of a DASH stream that uses indexed addressing.
Fixed playing across periods for WebOS 3.x and lower.
Fix LL HLS pipeline reset logic not working after the player has already played.
Fix an issue where the player would sometimes stall near a DASH period boundary on Samsung Tizen smart TVs.
Fixed Moat integration for multiple adblocks use-case
Android (2.81.0)
✨ Features
Upgrade Youbora plugin version to 6.7.7.
Android TV (2.81.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed seeking across periods for Android TV.
Fix an issue where Google IMA ads were not playing on Android TV.
Fix an issue where custom DRM integrations would not work on Android TV.
iOS (2.81.0)
⚡ Improvements
Update Youbora integration to version 6.7.7.
🐛 Issues
Fix the API of CertificateRequestCallback and LicenseRequestCallback.
Fix an issue where fullscreen would not render in the bounds of the application in splitview
Fixed an issue where the content protection error code was missing.
Fix an issue where extra WAITING event was thrown.
tvOS (2.81.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix the API of CertificateRequestCallback and LicenseRequestCallback.
Fixed an issue where the content protection error code was missing.
🚀 2021.1.0 (2021/01/13)
General
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the tts:origin attribute was not correctly processed when positioning subtitles.
Web (2.80.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where MOAT events are only send for the first ad in an adbreak
Fix seeking to live for DASH streams
iOS (2.80.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where paused caching tasks could not resume.
Fixed an issue where the PiP window's position is incorrect when rotating the device.
🚀 2020.4.2 (2021/01/06)
Web (2.79.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where a DASH stream on chrome on a slower network would only play audio while video freezes.
🚀 2020.4.2 (2020/12/18)
General
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where parsing certain malformed WebVTT files could crash the player.
Fix an issue where sometimes a fetched license is not stored in the cache.
Web (2.79.0)
⚡ Improvements
Use seamless period transitions in DASH where possible. This requires the browser to support codec switching through SourceBuffer.changeType(), or the stream to use similar codecs across periods.
🐛 Issues
Fix several issues related to play/pause during IMA linear ad playback.
Fix an issue where the player would play data from a previous track after a switch to another track had occurred on WebOs.
Fix an issue where MOAT events are only send for the first ad in an adbreak
Fix an issue where the player would sometimes crash when seeking right after the start of a DASH stream.
Android (2.79.0)
✨ Features
Add basic support for multi-period DASH streams in the experimental rendering pipeline. (Note that the default pipeline already has multi-period support.)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where using ChromecastMetadataImage made casting impossible.
Fix an issue where the muted value would not be correctly updated on Android
iOS (2.79.0)
✨ Features
Added ContentProtectionError error type.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where content protection errors were not sent.
tvOS (2.79.0)
✨ Features
Added ContentProtectionError error type.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where content protection errors were not sent.
🚀 2020.4.1 (2020/12/09)
Web (2.78.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where non-WebVTT sideloaded subtitles were not rendered correctly on iOS in Safari
🚀 2020.4.1 (2020/11/24)
General
✨ Features
Addition of a new bufferLookbackWindow configuration property to control how much data should be maintained in the decode buffer.
Synchronize MPEG-DASH MPD updates with availability window changes in order to avoid stale MPDs.
Add support for configuring the license via the playerconfiguration
⚡ Improvements
Added support for retrieving PlayReady PSSH from <mspr:pro> element.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where some HLS streams would not end properly.
Resolve issue where in stream subtitles are all loaded at once
Fix an issue where a replay would sometimes fail on short HLS streams.
Fixed a bug where streams did not send exit events for Id3 cues, when useNativePlayback or contentProtected was set to true in the player source setup
Web (2.78.0)
✨ Features
Add Network Estimator API for experimental LL-HLS pipeline.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where Widevine protected streams would not play on Hisense VIDAA U3 platforms.
Improve the ABR algorithm to switch to a higher quality faster on startup of HLS streams.
Fix an issue where the player would error on HLS streams with empty segments.
Fix an issue where configuring the JoinStrategy to disabled would crash the chromecast UI.
Android (2.78.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where setting a null source would crash the application.
Fix an issue where the app would sometimes crash on calling requestCurrentAdBreak.
Add cause for ErrorEvents when applicable.
iOS (2.78.0)
✨ Features
Add support for external license either by license or licenseUrl in the PlayerConfiguration or in the info.plist.
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where requesting the currentAdBreak would crash
tvOS (2.78.0)
✨ Features
Add support for external license either by license or licenseUrl in the PlayerConfiguration or in the info.plist.
Add Support for verizonMedia on tvOS.
🚀 2020.4.0 (2020/11/17)
Android (2.77.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where Chromecast did not auto-connect when CastStrategy is AUTO.
iOS (2.77.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed a bug where switching audio tracks would fail after updating the label.
Fixes a bug that prevented a nativeIMA ad from playing when reinstantiating a THEOplayer instance.
tvOS (2.77.1)
🐛 Issues
Fixed a bug where switching audio tracks would fail after updating the label.
🚀 2020.4.0 (2020/10/26)
General
✨ Features
Support parallel download while caching.
🐛 Issues
Add jumping over segments which return a 4XX HTTP response code for DASH streams.
Fix an issue where the player autoplays IMA ads when preload is set
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams audio drifts away from video, resulting in visible lip sync issues.
Fix an issue where the player would sometimes stall indefinitely when seeking into a discontinuity on HLS streams.
Fix an issue where seeking to segment edges sometimes stalls the video for HLS streams.
Fix an issue where the timing of WebVTT subtitles on live DASH streams was incorrect.
Fixed an issue where the player could sometimes stall indefinitely in Chrome at the end of a DASH VOD stream.
Ignore DRM initialisation data other than 'cenc'
Fixed having only one audio frame in a segment can sometimes break duration calculation.
Web (2.77.0)
🐛 Issues
Fixed an issue where the fairplaySkdUrl was always undefined in LicenseRequest for FairPlay protected streams.
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams the ABR mechanism did not switch to a higher profile.
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams the ABR mechanism does not switch to higher profiles in case the variant streams in the master playlist do not have a value for the CODECS attribute.
Fix an issue where THEOplayer.players[0].source returns undefined for every stream in chromeless player.
Android (2.77.0)
✨ Features
Add THEOplayerException to ErrorEvent
Introduce ContentProtectionException and update ContentProtectionErrorEvent.
Added ContentProtectionIntegration API.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where VerizonMediaResponseDrm returned null for license URLs
👎 Deprecations
The constructor of THEOplayerConfig is deprecated in favor of THEOplayerConfig.Builder.
iOS (2.77.0)
✨ Features
Add ContentProtectionIntegration API.
⚡ Improvements
Align TheoError with other SDKs
🐛 Issues
Fixes an issue where a caching task is not properly removed when its file is deleted.
Fixes a bug that caused player.source to return nil immediately after setting the source.
👎 Deprecations
Some of the constructors of the THEOplayerConfiguration has been deprecated.
tvOS (2.77.0)
✨ Features
Add ContentProtectionIntegration API.
⚡ Improvements
Align TheoError with other SDKs
🐛 Issues
Fixes a bug that caused player.source to return nil immediately after setting the source.
Chromecast (2.77.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where sometimes playback pauses after setting a new source.
Fix issue where receiver would stop playing upon destroying the player.
🚀 2020.3.3 (2020/10/01)
General
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams audio drifts away from video, resulting in visible lip sync issues.
Web (2.76.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams the ABR mechanism did not switch to a higher profile.
Fix an issue where for some HLS streams the ABR mechanism does not switch to higher profiles in case the variant streams in the master playlist do not have a value for the CODECS attribute.
Fix an issue where switching from a single quality to automatic quality selection did not work for HLS streams.
🚀 2020.3.3 (2020/09/28)
General
⚡ Improvements
Improve gap marking and jumping for DASH streams
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where an aderror event was not dispatched correctly if an ad failed to load and blockContentIfAdError = false.
Resolved issue where currentProgramDateTime was being offset by suggestedPresentationDelay.
Fixed an issue where the player would not use a custom ContentProtectionIntegrationFactory if registered with the same integrationId as an existing content protection pre-integration.
Web (2.76.0)
✨ Features
Added the ability to configure customData when using PlayReady DRM.
Add reporting of total bytes loaded, current bandwidth estimate and number of currently buffered segments for DASH streams to the player metrics API .
Update Conax Classic configuration properties to be optional.
Added bitrate property to GoogleImaAd.
Add error codes to all fatal player errors through ErrorEvent.errorObject.code.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where license request and response handlers were called instead of certificate request and response handlers for Widevine Certificate requests for DASH streams.
⚠ Known Limitations
PlayReady streams are currently not supported on WebOS.
4k/8k stream playback is currently unavailable for Tizen.
Multi-period streams are not supported on WebOS and Tizen
Android (2.76.0)
✨ Features
Add reporting of total bytes loaded, current bandwidth estimate and number of currently buffered segments for DASH streams to the player metrics API.
Added bitrate property to GoogleImaAd.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the ENDED event would not be triggered when seeking using the Native Pipeline.
Fix an issue where the percentage cached was not reported correctly.
Fix an issue where segments were not cleaned on player destroy
Fix an issue where deallocating native rendering player were not handled correctly.
iOS (2.76.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Renamed and changed type of THEOErrorCode enum cases.
Removed unused THEOError.parameters property.
✨ Features
Added bitrate property to GoogleImaAd.
🐛 Issues
Fixed a bug that cause MainThread to freeze for while when dispatching a durationChange event.
Fix an issue where dragging out PictureInPicture window would fail to enter fullscreen mode.
tvOS (2.76.0)
💥 Breaking Changes
Renamed and changed type of THEOErrorCode enum cases.
Removed unused THEOError.parameters property.
🐛 Issues
Fixes a bug where Siri remote loses focus when playing ads.
🚀 2020.3.2 (2020/09/18)
General
⚡ Improvements
Do not clear the buffer on a manual quality switch.
🚀 2020.3.2 (2020/09/03)
Web (2.75.1)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where adbreakend event was not dispatched when the last linear ad was an empty vast ad.
Fix THEOplayer.registerContentProtectionIntegration() not working.
🚀 2020.3.2 (2020/08/31)
General
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where some HLS streams with CMAF segments containing implicit HE-AAC audio failed to play.
Fix an issue where switching from a single quality to automatic quality selection would cause an unnecessary rebuffer for DASH streams.
Web (2.75.0)
✨ Features
Add ContentProtectionIntegration API.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where sometimes the current time was not displayed correctly at the end of a stream.
Fix an issue where the player would report being paused, while it was playing a HLS FairPlay stream using AirPlay.
Fix an issue where the player would snap to the beginning of the current segment instead of the current playback position when stopping an AirPlay session for HLS FairPlay streams.
Fix an issue where the active quality is not yet set when a playing event is triggered.
Android (2.75.0)
✨ Features
Switch to a different representation when a DRM key restriction occurs for native rendering.
Add certificate to KeySystemConfiguration
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue regarding the order of events when using Native Rendering.
Expose CachingTask id property
iOS (2.75.0)
✨ Features
Fix a bug that caused THEOplayer to show a black screen after playing a SpotX ad.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where Picture-in-Picture window is misplaced after rotating the screen.
Expose CachingTask id property
tvOS (2.75.0)
✨ Features
Add Support for Native IMA.
Add support for SpotX ads.
🚀 2020.3.1 (2020/08/04)
General
✨ Features
Add currentProgramDateTime to TimeUpdateEvent.
Add support for DASH streams with a SegmentTemplate tag with an endnumber and a fixed segment duration.
⚡ Improvements
Use estimated segment availability for DASH streams where the actual segment availability is unrealistic.
Add retry functionality for initialization segments of DASH streams.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where seeking backwards in a HLS DVR stream would sometimes jump forwards again.
Fix an issue where suggestedPresentationDelay was not taken into account for the calculation of currentProgramDateTime for DASH streams.
Fix an issue where the ratio passed to the VisibilityObserverCallback did not match the ratio on the visibility API.
Fix an issue where some TTML subtitles with tts:extent on the Root Container Region were not rendered properly.
Fixed an issue where the player would get stuck buffering for HLS streams with key frames more than 30 seconds apart.
Fix an issue where the value of the totalAds property of the Google IMA API would sometimes be too low.
Web (2.74.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the learn more button is appearing at the bottom of the player when playing a google dai ad.
Android (2.74.0)
✨ Features
Add ContentProtectionIntegration API.
Add Axinom content protection pre-integration for android with nativeRendering enabled.
Extend TimeUpdateEvent to include programDateTime.
Embed Exoplayer into THEOplayer SDK
⚡ Improvements
Ignore in-stream PSSHs if all the key IDs are contained in the active DRM session.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where PLAYING event was not dispatched after a SEEKED event
Fix an issue where incorrect buffer size triggered a WAITING event.
Fix an issue where offline caching would not work for DASH content.
iOS (2.74.0)
✨ Features
Add the possibility to prevent THEOplayer from managing the AVAudioSession.
Extend timeUpdate event to include programDateTime.
Add margin parameter to PictureInPicture configure API.
🐛 Issues
Fix issue where setting targetBuffer did not work.
Fix an issue where seeking immediately after setting source would not work.
tvOS (2.74.0)
✨ Features
Add the possibility to prevent THEOplayer from managing the AVAudioSession.
🐛 Issues
THEOplayer no longer handles PLAY/PAUSE events from the SiriRemote when chromeless is true
Fix an issue where seeking immediately after setting source would not work.
🚀 2020.3.0 (2020/07/07)
General
⚡ Improvements
Remove THEOplayer support in error messages in favor of "your service provider".
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where the player would sometimes throw an error event, even though it had already automatically recovered from it.
Fix an issue on HLS where an error would occur on a discontinuity when the stream has either no video or no audio.
Fix an issue where the player would fetch the wrong segment url for some DASH streams with SegmentTemplate tags.
Web (2.73.0)
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where an ad that is adblocked does not result in the content being blocked although the blockContentIfAdError is set.
Fix an issue where the skip button for verizon media ads had no lateral padding.
Fix an issue where some Google DAI DASH streams wouldn't resume after a midroll ad.
Android (2.73.0)
✨ Features
Add Support for Native IMA
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where THEOplayer crashed between Activity lifecycle transitions
Fixed an issue where using native rendering the quality change caused the player to lag
Fix an issue where the player sometimes stutters on ABR quality switches when playing H265 streams using native rendering.
Fix an issue where fullscreen would go into landscape even when FullScreenOrientationCouple is set to false
iOS (2.73.0)
✨ Features
Add Support for Native IMA
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue on iOS where returning from fullscreen mode would break the UI
🚀 2020.2.1 (2020/06/10)
General
🐛 Issues
Resolved issue where text track cues could remain active after a silent fast seek by the media pipeline
Fix an issue where playback would sometimes fail to start for DASH streams with subsegments whose timestamps are not aligned with their parent segment.
Fixed issue where MPEG-DASH streams with dynamic manifests where the last period's duration increases every update does not correctly update its duration.
Fix an issue where sometimes the player would seek to the wrong time for DASH streams.
Web (2.72.0)
✨ Features
Add playerSuiteVersion API.
⚡ Improvements
Fix an issue where the player reported buffer length in seconds instead of milliseconds for Conviva analytics.
🐛 Issues
Fix an edge case for some HLS streams where the player would sometimes download segments multiple times for specific target buffer values.
Android (2.72.0)
✨ Features
Add a THEOplayerView.getPlayerSuiteVersion() api.
Add timeServer flag for SourceDescription and TypedSource
Add lowLatency flag to SourceDescription
⚡ Improvements
Add support for playback of HEVC representations of a DASH stream when nativeRendering is enabled.
🐛 Issues
Fix an issue where Google DAI DASH streams would not play
Fix an issue where using Native Rendering the ended event was missing
iOS (2.72.0)
✨ Features
Add a THEOplayer.playerSuiteVersion api.
Add support for Comcast MPX Fairplay DRM
THEOplayer does not require anymore to be attached to a ViewController to switch to Picture-in-Picture mode
🐛 Issues
Fix bug where accessing audioTracks/videoTracks on track change event would return false states