Bradmax Player

1.1.31

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.470 (bug fixes & improvements)
  ** Handling HTML entities in WEBVTT subtitles so video.track will not crush.
  ** Supporting HLS with CMAF transport to cast to Chromecast devices.
  ** Solving problems with progressbar for some live streams.
  ** Solving problems with DASH and not consistient DolbyDigital audio tracks for multiple languages.
  ** Prevent displaying wrong text tracks in Safari browser on some older iPad devices.
  ** Performance improvement for quicker video zapping – switching from one content to another (via JavaScript API).

1.1.30

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.417 (bug fixes)
  ** Solving problem with unintended player focus (scroll to player) on page load.

1.1.29

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.415 (bug fixes)
  ** Solving problem with sometimes showing keyboard on mobile devices after clicking player.
  ** Improving stability on Safari browser.
  ** Improving UI for live streams with variable DVR window (for example recording live event from begining).
  ** Further UI improvements for small screens.

1.1.28

• WordPress plugin security issues fixes.
• Upgrading default player to v2.14.384 (general bug fixes and improvements)
  ** Improvement: UI improvement for mobile devices (additional seek buttons, multiple tap for seek forward/backward support).
  ** Bug fix: Solving UI problems for mobile devices with very small screens.

1.1.27

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.287 (general bug fixes and improvements)
  ** Improvement: Smaller size of player file.
  ** Improvement: Better sking behaviour on various devices.
  ** Bug fix: Solving UI problems for mobile devices.
  ** Bug fix: Playback stability improvement.

1.1.26

• Correcting Bradmax player JS detection for newest builds from https://bradmax.com/client/panel/ .

1.1.25

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.249 (general bug fixes)
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with fullscreen on iPhone.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems ads playback on iOS.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with glitches on video on some Android devices.
• Adding possibility to disable Bradmax Analytics via wordpress short code parameter.

1.1.24

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.246 (general bug fixes)
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with missing buffering event for DASH when seeking live stream & DVR on pause.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with new format of video google ads url (lack of format extension) – incorrectly detected as not supported.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with displaying subtitles on iOS/MacOS&Safari with horisontal video on vertical screen.
  ** Bug fix: Returning seekable time in DVR info for MPEG-DASH instead of theoretical available time for seeking.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with pre-playback seeking for html5 and simple video files.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with incorrectly triggering error on DRM issue.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with incorrect error on network connection, when there should be load error.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with autoplaying next media, when playback allready successfully started on iOS devices.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with Safari and very short DVR window for HLS.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with sometimes playback freezing on video discontinuity on DASH on LG SmartTVs.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with Safari on iOS and resuming player after device sleep.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with running video in fullscreen on latest Safari for iOS 16.5.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with pre-playback-seeking for HLS on Chrome/FF browsers.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problems with flickering parts of video on some Android devices after seeking.

1.1.23

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.160 (general bug fixes)
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with HLS playback on Android devices after Chrome browser changes.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with progress bar near end of video on HLS for short VOD.

1.1.22

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.133 (general bug fixes)
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with MPEG-DASH initialization.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with unmuting video before staring playback.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with displaing long audio and subtitles list on small screens.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with missing loader during buffering MPEG-DASH on some devices.

1.1.21

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.95 (general bug fixes)
  ** Bug fix: Solving playback problems on iOS/iPad devices.
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with playback on Safari browser after recent browser update.
  ** Bug fix: Improving MPEG-DASH playback stability for live streams (problem on some older devices).
  ** Bug fix: Solving problem with seeking to live edge on live streaming HLS.

1.1.20

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.40 (general bug fixes) and time markers / chapters support.

1.1.19

• Upgrading default player to v2.14.14 (general bug fixes).

1.1.18

• Solving problems with tracking media_id parameter.

1.1.17

• Upgrading default player to v2.12.3 (general fixes, live streams support improvements, Picture-In-Picture/PIP support).
• Picture-In-Picture support for short codes (requires at last player v2.12.0) with pip=”true”.
• Adding support for live stream short codes: live_low_latency_mode, live_end_date, live_thank_you_image_url, live_waiting_for_transmission_image_url.
• Adding support for midroll_X_vast_url, midroll_X_vast_time_offset, vast short codes.

1.1.16

• Adding support for postroll_vast_url short code.
• Minor corrections for setting DRM params with short codes.

1.1.15

• Supporting additional video source URLs in short codes (url_2, url_3, url_4) – for providing alternative stream formats for same video material. Player will choose automatically best format for device.

1.1.14

• Adding DRM params support for player with enabled DRM support.

1.1.13

• Solving problems with escaped query params for URLs used in short code.

1.1.12

• Upgrading default player to v2.10.6 (General player fixes and stability improvements.).

1.1.11

• Upgrading default player to v2.10.0 (Update for better support MPEG-DASH an MS Smooth Streaming. General player fixes and stability improvements.).

1.1.10

• Solving problems with player load, when some JS loader library is used on page.

1.1.9

• Upgrading default player to v2.8.12 (General player fixes and stability improvements. Improved handling for network issues.).

1.1.8

• Upgrading default player to v2.7.14 (HLS decoder update, UI fixes for MS Edge, MS Explorer browsers and for small screens on mobile devices).

1.1.7

• Upgrading default player to v2.7.0 (HLS decoder update, better autoplay behaviour, when autoplay blocked by browser).

1.1.6

• Support to “mute” video with video short code.
• Upgrading default player to v2.6.1 (new better HLS decoder; possibility to “mute” video by configuration).

1.1.5

• Solving conflict between default bradmax player and Youtube embed script (upgrading player to v2.5.12).

1.1.4

• Plugin readme.txt formatting correction.

1.1.3

• Upgrading default JavaScript player file from version 2.5.5 to 2.5.9 (bugfixes and better HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming support).
• Implementing Google Analytics video statistics by video shortcode option.

1.1.2

• Correcting subtitles documentation in readme.txt file.

1.1.1

• Upgrading default JavaScript player file from version 2.4.11 to 2.5.5 (bugfixes and new features).
  ** SRT VTT subtitles files support for player.
  ** Better HLS live stream support.
  ** Solving problems with HLS playback on Android 6.0.

1.0.2

• Upgrading default JavaScript player file from version 2.4.2 to 2.4.11 (bugfixes and better support for HLS).

1.0.1

• First version of WordPress plugin.