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Changelog JW Player Advanced 16 August 2024

^ Upgrade to JW Player 8.34.5

+ JW 8.34.0 Player v8.34.5 introduces two new UI/UX features and addresses a player behavior bug, In this release, several FreeWheel and Google PPS fixes have been released, In this release, a new property has been added to the beforePlay event.
+ JW 8.33.0 With JW 8.33.2, we're upgraded the OM SDK, JW 8.33.4 updates the ad loading screen for videos without thumbnails, migrates from the unload event, and fixes several player issues.
+ New Feature

New methods for converting color names and creating DOM elements have been implemented, which improve player performance.
The player now supports localization for the following language: Chinese (Taiwan) (code: zh-tw).
Several FreeWheel and Google PPS fixes have been released.
The beforePlay event now contains the state property that indicates the play state.
The display of the ad loading screen has been updated for videos without thumbnails.
The system has migrated from using the unload event.
OM SDK has been upgraded to version 1.4.12

# Bug Fix

Autopause and pause behaviors are now respected when the player is not viewable.
The FreeWheel Plugin correctly sets the mode to ad request when the stream is live.
Mute and unmute behavior in FreeWheel ad pods is now reflected correctly.
Google Publisher Provided Signals (PPS) values are sent and encoded properly.
skipAdBreak works for VPAID ads in the VAST client.
The window border now displays correctly for Tizen captions.
DASH subtitles with multiple rows in a single cue display correctly.
The DASH audio track menu will correctly play the selected track.

• RSS feeds with Media extensions (example).
• JSON feeds, formatted the same way as our embedded playlists.(JW 7+)
• Basic SMIL feeds
• Youtube Link and Playlist ( FAQ), Add thumbnail automatically for youtube video.(JW8 is not compatible with Youtube)
  
• YouTube content will automatically select the optimal quality setting for your player embed. (JW8 is not compatible with Youtube)

• DASH Playlist in MPD, (*JW7 and 8 Only, Broad Encoder Support, Live and DVR Streams)
• HLS Playlist in M3U8, (Support for HLS Protocol, Multiple audio track renditions, Subtitles in HTTP Live Streaming using WebVTT), (ID Tag support.)

• Video Formats: MP4 (H.264/AAC), FLV (VP6/MP3), WebM (VP8/Vorbis) (Added support for CMAF format streams across all browsers.)
• Audio Formats: AAC, MP3, Vorbis. ID Tag & ID3 timed metadata support.
  
• Youtube: JW Player supports YouTube HTML5 chromeless player! This allows HTML5 YouTube videos to played in the JW Player on mobile and desktop! (JW8 is not compatible with Youtube)

HLS (Apple and Microsoft Azure ) - With HTML5 Devices like iOS and Android (version >4.0)

HLS (Apple and Microsoft Azure ) - With Flash Desktop Browser (*JW7 starting from Starter License, *JW8 for all versions)

Removed support for Flash, which was deprecated by Adobe on December 31, 2020.

HLS DVR Live Streaming - (*JW7 starting from Enterprise License, *JW8 starting from Enterprise License), Adaptive bitrate switching for Live, DVR and VOD streams

DASH Streaming - (*JW7 starting from Enterprise License, *JW8 for all version), (Broad Encoder Support)

DASH DVR Live Streaming - (*JW7 starting from Enterprise License, *JW8 starting from Enterprise License), (Live and DVR Streams)

MPEG-DASH DRM - (Protect your content with Widevine ,Playready and Fairplay DRM. Available in Enterprise Edition only.), support DVR and Multiple audio tracks

RTMP - Flash Only, Ability to extract ID3 metadata from RTMP streams. (JW8 is not compatible with RTMP)

Removed support for Flash, which was deprecated by Adobe on December 31, 2020.

Playlist Editor - 1 to 50 items for the Playlist Editor, including settings for each one. :

• Captions (closed captions on top of the video for each items).Now support Label (Set a name for the Language files selection) and default Language.
• Tracks -Thumbnails : Ssupports the loading of preview thumbnails for individual shots or scenes in a video. These thumbnails are displayed in a tooltip when a viewer hovers the controlbar. This allows for quick scanning and navigating of longer-form content.
• Tracks - Chapters : Supports the rendering of chapter markers within the timeslider. These work particularly well for long form video when you want your video to be segmented into discreet sections. A viewer can quickly hover over the cue point and can see the title of the chapter or section. Clicking on the cue point navigates you directly to that point of the video.
• HD for each items. Now support Label (Set a name 720p, 1080p... for the files selection) and default quality.
• Title (Title of the video, shown in the display or playlist.)
• Image (location of a preview image; shown in display and playlist.)
• Description (Text description of the file.)
• Type (This is determines what type of mediafile this item is, and thus which model the player should use for playback. By default, the type is detected by the player based upon the file extension. If there's no suiteable extension or the player detects the type wrong, it can be manually set.)

Auto Generate Playlist - Scan files (Sort any Media Extension as long it's support by the Player) in a directory and generate a playlist (Please Read the FAQ for more explanation) :

• Sort by date, alphabetical, random.
• Assign automaticaly thumbnail file (jpg, png, gif) with audio/video file (mp3, ogg, mp4, webm, aac...) associate (same name).
• Assign automaticaly an alternative (smaller) thumbnail that is loaded into the visible playlist.
• Assign defaut thumbnail (or not) with file with no thumbnail associate.
• Assign Tracks -Thumbnails, JW Player supports the loading of preview thumbnails for individual shots or scenes in a video. These thumbnails are displayed in a tooltip when a viewer hovers the controlbar. This allows for quick scanning and navigating of longer-form content.
• AssignTracks - Chapters : Supports the rendering of chapter markers within the timeslider. These work particularly well for long form video when you want your video to be segmented into discreet sections. A viewer can quickly hover over the cue point and can see the title of the chapter or section. Clicking on the cue point navigates you directly to that point of the video.
• Occurence filters for analyse name file for generate track number, title and description.
• Automatic Captions (caption file must have same name of the stream file).
• Automatic multiple qualities sources (hd file must have same name of the stream file + source.file in the name).

RSS Link - (RSS - Media, SMIL)

• Appears with a dropdown List under the player.
• Playlist Titles for Dropdown List choice (adress of the link, clean name of the file, or title of the rss link using curl library).
• Length Max of Playlist title for Dropdown List.
• Dropdown Style choice (defaut or using css class).

Click to watch the player in a Pop-Up
Select a Playlist Playlist hd2 Big buck bunny

JSON PLAYLIST - This is a very specific mode, reserved for advanced users!!.

You can set directly the JSON playlist in a field or load a JSON playlist file (.txt,.json) as well.

• JSON Playlist : JW use the levels configuration block with a more flexible sources block. It is part of every playlist item. Use sources to provide multiple media formats, multiple quality levels or multiple formats with multiple qualities.
• Javascript events: Added a new method, setAllowFullscreen, which through updating the boolean, disables or re-enables the above fullscreen behavior.

JW Platform (Formely Bits Of The Run),
Streaming video platform based on JWPlatform server :

• JWPlatform web interface, upload (web or ftp), manage and publish single videos.
• JWPlatform web interface, create, manage and publish channels (playlists of videos).
• JWPlatform web interface, create and manage players (the widgets that play your video).
• JWPlatform web interface, statistics, analyze how your videos perform. Track views, pageviews, hours viewed and engagement.
• JWPlatform web interface, Account management, you can track your content and traffic balance and edit your account settings.
• JWPlatform Backend Extension, Choose streaming display : JWPlatform, combine JWPlatform to Local, combine local to JWPlatform, Local.
• JWPlatform Backend Extension, Sign url, your content is secure by signing link trough your secret api key.
• JWPlatform Backend Extension, Set time out for sign url.
• Improved image size decisioning for JW Platform streams. When the player loads an image, whether it's a poster image or thumbnail, it now uses the closest available image size rather than one fixed size across the board. This will improve data transfer as well as user experience. NEW!
  

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) have become ubiquitous for digital publishers, which is why we’re excited to release AMP improvements in JW 8.23+ and to our official AMP component, amp-jwplayer. AMP is an open source HTML-based web component framework that enables media companies to easily create web pages that are “compelling, smooth, and load near instantaneously.” Developers will find that amp-jwplayer is now compatible with other AMP components, including amp-analytics, which allows video player data to be sent to any supported analytics platform, and amp-video-docking, which allows the player to stick to the page.

• Updated our amp-jwplayer documentation on amp.dev including all the attributes mentioned in the release notes.
• To the amp-jwplayer component, added support for a new attribute, data-config-json, which accepts a full JSON configuration using any key values listed in the web player configuration reference, with the exception of media, which should use the media ID or playlist ID attribute, and the floating player, which should use the amp-video-docking component and the dock attribute on the player element.
• Added support for appending the iframe source url before player setup, to support token signing for example, with new attributes data-player-param-* and data-player-querystring.
• Added an attribute, data-ad-cust-params, which supports a JSON string of custom parameters that will be appended to the end of an ad tag on ad request.
• Added an attribute, data-config-skin-url, which accepts a url to an externally-hosted CSS file that will be loaded inside of the iframe, and can be used to target JW Player elements. You can also load this file as skin.url in your JSON setup configuration using data-config-json. See our documentation on how to create your own CSS file.
• Added an attribute, data-config-plugin-url, which accepts a url to an externally-hosted Javascript file that will be loaded inside of the iframe, and can be used to apply custom Javascript to the player.
• Added support for populating ad tag macros in AMP with a new attribute, data-ad-macro-*.
• An attribute used to override the default value of macros in ad tags. Supported macros include: domain, referrer,page-url, item-{custparam}, and item-{custparam}-list. For example, setting data-ad-macro-domain=jwplayer.com would ensure the requested ad tag populates the domain parameter with the defined page url. See our ad tag macro documentation for more information.
• In AMP, added support for the amp-consent component, which a way for publishers to collect and store user s consent through a UI and is a way to block AMP components based on the user’s consent. Added a new attribute, data-block-on-consent, which if set blocks the player from loading until the consent state is resolved. The consent data will then be passed to the player's iframe as query parameters for use with advertising implementations. See the amp-consent blocking behaviors documentation for possible values that this attribute accepts.
  

Facebook embed (Load Meta Tag in HTML Head).
Type the link to the Thumbnail for sharing the page on Facebook, this allow sharing the page where the page player is on Facebook, for that you will have to set this field.
Please note: JW Player no longer supports in-feed video playback on Facebook.

Javascript Functions, This JS code field will be place just after the main parameters code and allow you inline Javascript Functions, this is a shorthand JavaScript API for interacting with your website. This API abstracts any differences between Flash and HTML5; any code you write will work with both technologies.

• JW8 API (API Updates)
• JW7 API (Legacy support)

The beforePlay event now contains the state property that indicates the play state. NEW !!
The system has migrated from using the unload event. NEW !!
OM SDK has been upgraded to version 1.4.12 NEW !!

CSS JW Player skin support

JW Player skins change the appearance of the player, adding a custom layer to your player embeds. All visual components of the player (the controlbar, display, tooltip, dock and visual playlist) can be skinned. There are two ways to get a skin for your player.
The nine complimentary skins offered in JW7 have been deprecated in JW8, but customizing JW Player is easy with JW Player 8's CSS-based skinning model.

• JW 8 :
  • To configure colors only, our 11 skin color configuration options, which can be defined inside the player setup, may be sufficient.
  • For more advanced users, you can build your css skin and load it in the backend as JW7 does, please see our CSS Skin Reference.
  • Added support for updating aspectratio, width, height, and stretching configuration options via the setConfig() API.
  • New methods for converting color names and creating DOM elements have been implemented, which improve player performance. NEW !!
• JW 7 :
• To configure colors only, our 3 skin color configuration options, which can be defined inside the player setup, may be sufficient.
• Using JW Player's built-in skins, The 9 skins included in JW7 can be select in the backend of the extension, thaye can be modified

JW Player wants to save you time and improve the viewer experience out of the box with our latest feature, automated player localization.
Did you know that our video player contains over 50 customizable tooltips, labels for menus and overlays, and ARIA labels (for accessibility viewers who use screen readers)?
Previously, you had to customize these fields in order to provide a better viewing experience on non-English language sites. It is time consuming to translate the player, so we have done the work for you so that your viewers can benefit today.
The player will automatically translate those fields to match the language on your website. We have included support for 25 languages and will add more by request. Enjoy a seamless experience that increases clarity and engagement for all of your viewers.

abouttext: The text that goes between 'About' and '...' in the right-click menu. If it is not set, no menu item will appear.With JW7 and 8 No commercial license is required.

Updated the About This Video modal (accessible via the right click menu) to include stats for nerds, including information about the stream including media ID, buffer health, resolution, and more.

Google Chromecast and Airplay, JW Player is Airplay adn Google Cast Ready, This functionality will allow your videos to be cast from a Chrome browser via the Chromecast plugin directly to a JW Player receiver app on a Chromecast-connected TV.
Once the JW Player detects a Chromecast on the network, a Cast icon appears in the control bar to let viewers know they can display their content on a TV. The JW Player within the browser becomes a remote control for viewing media on a TV screen.
Cast videos from Chrome on iOS using built in casting controls. Control closed captions with the JW Player support. Includes FCC caption styling support. Casting controls are available when JW Player renders in Flash to play mp4 videos.
The following HLS v3 streams can now be played on Chromecast : AES Encrypted streams, Live and DVR Streams and VOD streams.
Control playback and volume directly from the Google Cast extension. Includes native caption and subtitle support for casting.

Registering with Google Cast : JW 7+ no longer uses the custom receiver application hosted by JW Player. Instead, once casting is enabled the player will connect to the default receiver application hosted by Google. Because of this, you no longer need to register an application ID with Google and all existing setups will function correctly.

Licence less Plan : Starting at 19€ with Advanced (*JW7 and 8 Only) editions
Licence Plan: Enterprise editions

Sharing, Sharing is most often used in viral sharing of a video. The Sharing plugin for the JW Player can display a screen to share the embed code of the video, or a share link for the video, e.g. the URL for the page where the video is hosted.Also is displayed as a tooltip for the sharing icon.
This Plugin adds sharing functionality to the JW Player.

• In the embed screen, an embed code for the specific video can be copy-pasted.
• In the share screen, a link to thesite for this specific video can be copy-pasted.
  This screen also offers shortcuts for posting this link to: Twitter, Facebook, An email message
• Sharing Plugin supports the JW Player Skinning, and Playlists.
• Facebook embed link feature.
• CSS-based design
• API to triggers and hides display as well as showing which networks get clicked.
• Add your own custom social networks. Default networks include - Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email, Tumblr, Google Plus, Reddit, LinkedIn.
• Created small player and mobile-friendly overlay that scales based on player size

Licence less Plan : Starting at 19€ with Advanced (*JW7 and 8 Only) editions
Licence Plan: Enterprise editions

Related, Users can activate the overlay by clicking the Related Videos button in the top left of the display. Additionally, the overlay can be popped up automatically when a video is completed.The plugin automatically renders a grid of thumbs, showing as many as fit the screen. Buttons for re-playing the video and for closing the overlay are shown in the top corners.Also is displayed as a tooltip for the relate icon.

Recommendations Widget

Introducing a new user interface for our Recommendations customers: the shelf widget, which dynamically inserts a horizontally-scrolling carousel of thumbnails directly below the player.
In contrast to the in-player shelf, which is only visible on pause and when the viewer manually opens it themselves, the new widget interface is always viewable below the player.
We encourage you to turn on the shelf widget, which will further increase opportunities to display recommendations and drive plays as a result. (Business and Enterprise editions only)

• CSS-based design with responsive Grid layout
• Automatic Related Playback with configurable countdown timer and message.
• Added support for related feeds in JSON file format
• New API to triggers and hide display as well as show which video gets watched.

Licence less Plan : Starting at 19€ with Advanced (*JW7 and 8 Only) editions
Licence Plan: Enterprise editions

Google Analytics Pro, This plugin for the JW Player is designed to help you understand how well your video content is performing online. It takes advantage of Google's new Flash API for Analytics so you can track events within the JW Player itself.

The tracking of events (which includes allowing you to access information about not only what videos are watched, but how long users watch each video), aggregates it, and passes along the relevant information for easy and concise tracking within Google Analytics.we support Google's gtag.js. More information on Google's Universal Analytics upgrades can be found here.

Added support for the most recent Google Analytics embed type, gtag.js. Older types of embeds are still supported.

Google Analytics 4 is supported.

Licence less Plan : Starting at 19€ with Advanced (*JW7 and 8 Only) editions
Licence Plan: Enterprise editions

JW Analytics, Website Statistics. JW Player 6 offers a set of hosted services that augment the functionality of the client-side JW Player library. One of these services is JW Player Analytics, which provides basic video analytics to all users of the JW Player. Video analytics can be found inside your JW Player Account (it also holds your download zip and license key). Analytics are automatically enabled when a valid player license key is setup.

Licence less Plan : Free
Licence Plan : Free

HD , On desktop browsers, JW Player add an HD quality toggle to your player embeds, allowing users to switch between multiple qualities of your videos.

JW Player automatically adds an HD button to its controls when it is setup with multiple qualities of a video file:

• If there are 2 file qualities, the HD button acts as a toggle between the HD and SD qualities.
• If there are 3 or more file qualities, the HD button will display a quality selection menu on rollover (like YouTube).
• If there are 3 or more file qualities and the viewer is on a mobile device, JW Player will still toggle only between the first 2 qualities. This to keep the interface easy to use with Touch controls.

As a publisher, you can set which quality to use on startup. The first quality in the list is the default and should be the lower quality version of your file. Once a viewer clicks the HD button and overrides the quality, JW Player saves that in a cookie for subsequent videos.

Licence less Plan : Free
Licence Plan : Free

• External captions can be in WebVTT format, which is part of the HTML5 standard. Additionally, SRT and DFXP are supported. In all cases, the captions are stored and served as separate text files.
• Embedded captions can be in TX3G format, which is part of the MP4 standard. The captions are stored inside the MP4 video files, requiring no separate downloads.
• FCC Captions Compliance by supporting further customization of caption styling options.
• VTT position is support.
• 608 captions in HLS streams for Microsoft Edge.
• OMID has been upgraded to version 1.4.2.
• For a more accessible user interface, ARIA labels have been incorporated into the float bar icon.
  

Licence less Plan: Free
Licence Plan : Free

Multiple plugin on same player
(Google Analytics Pro, Chromecast, Adobe SiteCatalyst, JW player Analytics, Sharing, Related, Captions, HD, VAST, IMA...)

Extra Plugin , With this new features you can add with a simple syntax some plugins not yet implement, you just have to list them and use a comma to separate them, like this : plugin1,plugin2,plugin3.
Note : as some plugins need extra flashvars and / or extra JS files this is relate to Extra Flashvars and Extra JS features

VAST/VPAID -The VAST plugin effectively turns the JW Player into an IAB compliant, advertising enabled video player. Through the use of the VAST plugin, linear (video and SWF) and non-linear (overlay) ads along with companion banners can be delivered from any VAST 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0

• VAST 4 - Compliant ad server communication, HTML 5 compliant.
• VMAP - Able to parse ad schedules from a VMAP tag.
• VPAID Mode, a set of constants for enabling VPAID functionality
• FreeWheel ad Mode Plugin
• Several FreeWheel and Google PPS fixes have been released.NEW!!
• The display of the ad loading screen has been updated for videos without thumbnails.NEW!!

Licence less Plan : Not available
Licence Plan : Enterprise editions

The Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK enables publishers to display linear, non-linear, and companion ads in interactive media content such as videos and games. Publishers can use the IMA SDK to request and display ads served by DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), the Google AdSense network, or any VAST-compliant ad server. Common scenarios for using the IMA SDK include displaying pre-rolls or overlays in video content.Support for the updated Googima IMA API.

Note: In-video ads served by Google's Dart For Publishers (DFP), supported through the Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK version 3. JW Player is one of Google's official video technology partners.

Passed the results of the autoplay restrictions check to the ad plugin.
Improved the IMA ads UI to account for Google ads with built-in skip buttons, countdowns, etc.
Created a new configuration property for VAST and IMA, preloadAds, which enables ad preloading for prerolls, midrolls, postrolls in the first playlist item.
Add maxRedirects configuration, The maximum number of redirects the player should follow before timing out.
Add bids configuration, Enable video player bidding with the given settings and bidders.
Add rules configuration, Enable ad rules with the given settings and bidders.

Licence less Plan : Not available
Licence Plan : Starting at 79€ with Managed or Enterprise editions