shaka-player - npm Package Versions

2.0.3 (2017-01-09)

New features:

• Treat HTTP 202 status codes as failures
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/645

Bugfixes:

• Fix race condition in StreamingEngine
• Fix race in load/unload in Player
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/613
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/612
• Update workarounds for Edge EME bugs
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/634
• Add missing events and methods to cast proxy
• Fix exclusion of standard features in custom builds
• Be more permissive of text failures
  • Permit text parsing errors as well as streaming errors with the ignoreTextStreamFailures config option.
  • Do not fail StreamingEngine startup because of text streams, regardless of config.
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/635
• Fix selectTrack() call with no text tracks
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/640
• Fix buffering state for live streams (stop at live edge)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/636

2.0.2 (2016-12-15)

New features:

• Add support for Toshiba dTV
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/605
• TTML subtitles: Support for <br> inside a paragraph
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/572
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/584
• Parse TTML textAlign settings into align property of a VTTCue
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/573
• Improved test stability and coverage reports

Bugfixes:

• Fix DASH content type parsing
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/631
• Tolerate larger gaps at the start
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/579
• Fixes for TTML alignment, positioning and cue externs
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/588
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/594
• Keep ewma sampling from failing on 0 duration segments
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/582
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/583
• Allow text parsers to change during playback - https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/571
• Fix playback when IE11 modifies the XML DOM
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/608
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/611
• Update MediaSource polyfills for Safari 10
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/615
• Throw explicit error on empty manifests
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/618

Docs:

• Link to error docs from the demo app

2.0.1 (2016-10-26)

New features:

• Faster ABR decisions
• Add config option for using segment relative timestamps for VTT
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/480
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/542
• Log and ignore non-standard WebVTT settings instead of failing
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/509
• Make key IDs from the manifest available through DrmInfo
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/529
• Provide framerate and codecs information on video tracks
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/516
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/533
• Dispatch more useful network error when HEAD request fails

Bugfixes:

• Fix ABR quality issues when switching tracks (stutters, glitches, etc.)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/520
• Keep user selected text track when switching audio
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/514
• Fix vtt with one digit hour
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/522
• Fix build scripts for Windows
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/526
• Fix buffering event delay
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/511
• Workaround bug in Edge buffered ranges
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/530
• Fix handling of internal-error key status
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/539
• Ignore trick mode tracks
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/538
• Fix AdaptationSetSwitching support
• Fix buffering logic when switching periods
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/537
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/545
• Use data URI content-type for manifest type detection
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/550
• Fix audio language changes on Chromecast
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/544
• Fix Chromecast receiver idle behavior when looping or replaying
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/558
• Fix exception-causing race when TextEngine is destroyed

Demo app improvements:

• Hide volume & mute buttons on mobile-sized screens
• Probe both MP4 and WebM support in DrmEngine
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/540
• Update Axinom test assets to v7
• Fix accessibility issues in the demo app
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/552

Docs:

• Rewrote the debugging tutorial
• Misc docs cleanup
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/536

2.0.0 (2016-09-07)

The first full release of v2!

New features:

• Improved Chromecast support
  • Cast from the built-in Chrome dialog as well as the video controls
  • Use the built-in Chrome dialog to disconnect
• Support for in-progress recordings (IPR)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/477
• Can be configured to tolerate text stream failures
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/474
• Ignore small gaps in the timeline
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/472
• Added EMSG box support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/259
• Reduced test flakiness and improved test speed
• Improved VTT parsing
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/469
• Improved EME error reporting
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/468
• Improved demo app UI for touch screens
• Smaller demo app UI (video element above the fold on Nexus 5X)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed text-related issues in IE11
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/501
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/502
• Fixed a few live edge corner cases
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/490
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/504
• Fixed TTML parsing exceptions
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/473
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/506
• Fixed text encoding issues with subs
• Fixed issues with multi-period eviction
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/483
• Defined order of AdaptationSet preference (prefer high quality, low bw)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/476
• Fixed support for manifests with multiple text formats
• Fixed support for DASH Representations with multiple Roles
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/500
• Fixed CSP compliance for Chrome apps
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/487

Planned features we cut:

• Cache-detecting bandwidth estimation
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/324

2.0.0-beta3 (2016-07-29)

Restored Features from v1 Missing in v2.0.0-beta2:

• Offline storage and playback
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/343
• Clearkey license server support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/403

New features:

• Built-in Chromecast support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/261
• TTML text support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/111
• TTML in MP4
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/278
• VTT in MP4
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/277
• Handle QuotaExceededError, automatically reduce buffering goals
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/258
• Faster template processing in DASH
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/405
• Bitrate upgrades take effect faster
• Add a specific error for missing license server URI
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/371
• Add adaptation events for language changes
• Don't treat network errors as fatal in StreamingEngine
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/390
• Provide the application access to DrmInfo structure
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/272
• Restructure test/ folder to mimic lib/ folder structure
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/434
• Upgrade closure compiler
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/421
• New logo!

Bugfixes:

• Revert ABR changes that caused bandwidth samples to be ignored
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/367
• Fix buffering of multi-period text
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/411
• Fix various ABR issues
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/435
• Fix stuck playback on seek
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/366
• Stop refreshing live manifests when unloaded
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/369
• Don't adapt between incompatible codecs (mp4a & ec-3)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/391
• Fix race in player WRT external text tracks
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/418
• Fix Edge EME workarounds on IE11
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/393
• Work around Safari MSE bugs
• Fix relative paths in UTCTiming
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/376
• Fix source map paths on windows
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/413
• Improve demo app CSS on mobile
• Fix buffering state on unload
• Fix load/unload/destroy race conditions
• Reduce test flake (async tests still flakey on Safari)
• Fix context menu display in demo app
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/422
• Fix key status, session expiration, and DRM error dispatch
• Fix demo app play controls on Android
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/432
• Fix corner cases when seeking to the live edge

Docs:

• Add a license-wrapping tutorial
• Add track restriction docs
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/387
• Update track and adaptation docs
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/447

Broken Compatibility compared to v2.0.0-beta2:

• The asynchronous Player.support() has been replaced with the synchronous Player.isBrowserSupported() call
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/388
• AbrManager implementations must now handle a partial StreamSet map in chooseStreams()
• The wrong keys error has been dropped due to false positives

2.0.0-beta2 (2016-05-04)

Restored Features from v1 Missing in v2.0.0-beta:

• Track restrictions API
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/326
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/327
• Custom controls demo for live
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/322
• Trick play demo
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/328

New features:

• Reduced startup latency
• Added player.resetConfiguration()
• Added response text to HTTP errors
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/319
• Demo controls redesigned with material design icons
• Emit an error if the wrong keys are retrieved
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/301
• Human-readable errors shown in demo app
• Cache-friendly bandwidth estimation
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/324
• Improved trick play and playbackRate support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/344
• Allow apps to reset ABR manager estimates
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/355
• Support non-zero start times for VOD
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/341
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/348
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/357

Bugfixes:

• Fix playback of DASH with unaligned Representations
• Fixed race conditions on seek
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/334
• Improved drift handling
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/330
• Fixed stack overflow in StringUtils
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/335
• Improved live support
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/331
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/339
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/340
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/351
• Fixed player.addTextTrack
• Handle CDMs which don't support the same types MSE does
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/342
• Fix audio-only encrypted playback
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/360
• Fix renaming of event properties
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/361
• Warn about missing clock sync elements in live manfiests
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/290
• Add option for default clock sync URI
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/290
• Fix crash in TextEngine when subs are turned off

Docs:

• Shaka v2 upgrade guide
  • http://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/docs/api/tutorial-upgrade.html
• Added enum values (not just names) to generated docs
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/337

Broken Compatibility compared to v2.0.0-beta:

• None!

1.6.5 (2016-04-08)

Bugfixes:

• Always build the same input files to a stable output
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/299
• Properly extern the 'xhr' property of HTTP errors
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/319

2.0.0-beta (2016-04-07)

New Features:

• DASH support for:
  • Multi-Period content
    • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/186
  • Location elements
    • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/298
  • UTCTiming elements (for clock synchronization)
    • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/241
• Better browser compatibility
  • Testing on Safari 9, IE 11, Edge, Firefox 45+, Opera, Chrome
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/101
• New plugin and build system to extend Shaka
  • Networking plugins
    • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/228
    • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/198
• Cache-friendly networking
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/76
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/191
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/235
• Limit memory usage by clearing old data from buffer
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/247
• Simpler, more mobile-friendly demo app
• New test assets
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/224
• Made play()/pause() independent of buffering
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/233
• Numerical error code system
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/201
• Distinguish between subtitle and caption tracks
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/206
• Separate audio & text language preferences
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/207
• Update timeShiftBufferDepth when updating the manifest
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/295
• Simplified clearkey setup using configure()
• Initial bandwidth is now configurable:
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/268

Bugfixes:

• Stopped using Date headers for clock sync
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/205
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/241

Docs:

• New tutorials!

Missing Features from v1 (to be added later):

• Custom controls demo for live streams
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/322
• Chromecast demo
• Trick play demo
• Track restrictions based on key status
• Offline support

Broken Compatibility:

• Almost everything! (v2 upgrade guide coming soon)

1.6.4 (2016-03-03)

Bugfixes:

• Updated Promise polyfill with fixes backported from v2
• Fixed Edge EME compatibility & InvalidStateErrors
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/282
• Fixed HttpVideoSource use with clear content (Thanks, Sanborn!)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/292
• Fixed uncompiled-mode performance regression introduced in v1.6.3
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/288

1.6.3 (2016-02-08)

Features:

• Added opt_clearBufferOffset for audio (Thanks, Itay)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/254
• Fetch segments from new location after manifest redirect (Thanks, Rob)
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/pull/266

Bugfixes:

• Several IE11 stability issues and race conditions fixed
  • Fixed incompatibilities when clearing the SourceBuffer
  • Ignore spurious 'updateend' events
  • Added stack-based messages to all assertions
  • Fixed some unit test compatibility issues
  • Fixed race conditions caused by Promise polyfill
  • https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-player/issues/251

Docs:

• Update browser support docs with regard to IE & Firefox

Test app fixes:

• Fixed slider controls for IE11
• Turned off seek bar tooltips for IE11