HLS Plugin Changelog

The following tracks changes to the plugin:

Changelog

14 Nov 2018

v5.15.0

Added redirect support for manifest and media requests

21 Mar 2018

v5.14.1

Fixed the minified dist file
- Updated webwackify to 0.1.6
- Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.7.2

15 Mar 2018

v5.14.0

Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.7.1 and webwackify to 0.1.5
More useful info in segment-metadata cue (bandwidth/resolution/codecs/byte-length)

7 Mar 2018

v5.13.0

Use webwackify for webworkers to support webpack bundle
Fix tech.play() throwing unresolved promise errors on Chrome
update url-toolkit to version 2.1.3
Add jsDelivr link
Update karma reconnect configuration to match video.js
- Increase karma's browserDisconnectTolerance to 3
Add nvmrc and update travis' chrome reference
- Update karma-chrome-launcher to version 2.2.0
- Update karma to version 1.7.1 and remove firefox from travis configuration
- enable node_modules caching on travis
- Update videojs-contrib-quality-levels to version 2.0.4
- Fix test for event handler cleanup on dispose by calling event handling methods

6 Nov 2017

v5.12.2

Remove unused expected manifest JavaScript files
Remove extraneous methods from PlaylistLoader
- Move isLowestEnabledRendition to Playlist module
Update contrib-media-sources to 4.6.2
- Update mux.js to 4.3.2
  - Flush pes packets when there is enough data

24 Oct 2017

v5.12.1

Update contrib-media-sources to 4.6.1
- Update mux.js to 4.3.1
  - Set active data channel per-field instead of globally for CEA-608
  - Fixed an issue with captions being placed in the wrong CC

19 Oct 2017

v5.12.0

Use lastSegmentDuration + 2 * targetDuration for safe live point instead of 3 segments
- Do not let back buffer trimming remove within target duration of current time
- Increase threshold for stuck playlist checking
Fix video corruption on rendition switches in IE11 Win 8.1+ and Edge
- segment-time-mapping event
- Update contrib-media-sources to 4.6.0
Prioritize user enabled playlists over blacklist
- Never allow playlist selector to select a playlist that has been permanently blacklisted due to incompatible configuration
- When filtering playlists within the playlist selectors, if there are no enabled playlists (i.e. not blacklisted internally AND not disabled by the user) available, then fall back to using the list of playlists not disabled by the user regardless of blacklist state.
- Make sure playlists blacklisted from an illegal media switch is permanently blacklisted, as there is no reason to try it again at a later time.
- The representation api will return a list that filters out just incompatible playlists instead of both incompatible playlists and temporary blacklisted playlists.

11 Oct 2017

v5.11.1

update videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.5.3
- update mux.js to 4.2.2
  - Use the first audio and video tracks in the PMT
fix InvalidStateError for live playback in IE11

20 Sep 2017

v5.11.0

Update videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.5.2
- Let video.js remoteTextTrack auto cleanup take care of text track cleanup
Blacklist incompatible playlists on probe if codec information not in master manifest
Seek to seekable start when seeking before the seekable window
MediaGroups: various bug fixes and refactor
- Removes the Firefox 48 check for for supporting a change in audio info
- Fix delayed switching between audio tracks and intermittent desync

28 Aug 2017

v5.10.1

Fixed: FLV metadata tags now appended when audio info changes

22 Aug 2017

v5.10.0

Implemented CEA608: support for cc2-cc4, special/extended characters, formatting
- All four CC tracks are now available
- If CLOSED-CAPTIONS are specified in the master manifest, the corresponding CC text tracks will be labled appropriately, otherwise will be labled CC1 - CC4
- Underline and italics will now be rendered
- Special thanks to @squarebracket

16 Aug 2017

v5.9.0

Added option to select lowest bitrate video rendition available on startup
Always activate loading in segment loaders after a seek
Wait for canplay event from tech before PlaybackWatcher begins monitoring
- Fixed InvalidStateError in Win10 IE11
Blacklisted playlist for 2 minutes on early abort to prevent cache loop
- Prevented rendition switch loop due to inconsistent network/caching
- Don't fire bandwidthupdate when aborting early
Made sure text tracks added by HLS are properly disposed
Fixed Backward Seeking in IE11 Win8.1

7 Aug 2017

v5.8.3

Fixed double caption issue
Now attach attributes property to playlist objects in cases the m3u8-parser does not
- Added warning log when missing attribute for stream-inf

12 Jul 2017

v5.8.2

Fixed processing of segments when mediaSource is closed

12 Jul 2017

v5.8.1

Fixed: Audio only playlists with videojs-contrib-media-sources v4.4.7

6 Jul 2017

v5.8.0

ABR Improvements
- Use a starting bandwidth value of 0.0625 MB/s on Android devices
- Do not allow an up-switch in quality until a certain amount of forward buffer has been filled, BUFFER_LOW_WATER_LINE
- Dynamically increase the BUFFER_LOW_WATER_LINE and GOAL_BUFFER_LENGTH from 0 - > 30 and 30 -> 60 respectively during the first 30 seconds of playback
- Abort segment requests before completion if bandwidth reported by the XHR progress event shows that network conditions are not fast enough to complete the request without causing rebuffering

27 Jun 2017

v5.7.0

Update mux.js to 4.1.5 and videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.4.6
- Only flush PES packets from TS parsing front end when they are complete
  - Complete is defined as any time PES_packet_length matches the data’s length OR is a video packets
  - Works around an issue with incomplete packets getting sent down the pipeline when the source has audio PES packets split between segments
Add HLS usage tracking events
- Usage tracking events are fired when we detect a certain HLS feature, encoding setting, or API is used. Note that although these usage events are listed in the README, they may change at any time without a major version change.
Fix endOfStream for demuxed audio and video

20 Jun 2017

v5.6.0

Do not reset segmentloaders when switching media groups
- Set loader state to ready on aborts even when loader is paused
Prevents crash when segment metadata cues can't be created
Allow overrideNative to be set as a player-level option
Create a moving-average playlist selector
- Define a variant of the standard playlist selector that calculates a moving average of bandwidth and uses that to select a playlist.
Trigger bandwidthupdate events on the tech

16 May 2017

v5.5.3

Updated mux.js to 4.1.4 and videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.4.5
- ts probe searches packets for first it can successfully parse
- Fixed an issue that could cause updateend events to fire more than once per append or remove under very specific conditions on Firefox
Trigger error events when received empty response

10 May 2017

v5.5.2

Fixed playback stalls when everything appears okay
- Add playback watcher check for unknown player waiting
- Do not do unknownwaiting check when the tech fires a native waiting event
- Don't track current time waiting when at the end of the buffer
- Call techWaiting_ when we detect a stall at the end of buffer

4 May 2017

v5.5.1

Use specified mediasequence for VOD expired sync instead of assuming 0
1. Used synccontroller for expired
Fixed: CODEC to mime-type conversion now takes into account all possible scenarios

25 Apr 2017

v5.5.0

Update mux.js to 4.1.3 and media-sources to 4.4.4
Trigger an event when a playlist is blacklisted or retried
Triggers blacklistplaylist when a playlist is blacklisted
Triggers retryplaylist when retrying to load an errored playlist
Added option to modify blacklist duration

10 Apr 2017

v5.4.1

Updated contrib-media-sources to 4.4.3
Fixed: Exceptions from calling endOfStream when the media source isn't ready
Fixed: Segment time mapping for fmp4 playback
If beforeRequest is set, reuse it on source changes
- Allow changing global xhr beforeRequest at runtime
- Always use latest beforeRequest instead of setting it when creating hls object

3 Apr 2017

v5.4.0

Added support for in-manifest WebVTT
Fixed: Minor SegmentLoader Fixed: es
Fixed: Enable fast quality change for alternate audio
Added feature: Blacklist live playlists that have stopped being updated
- Never blacklist final available final rendition
Refactored all the XHR handling code and related state out of SegmentLoader and into a single mediaSegmentRequest function
Added a segment-metadata TextTrack that contains cues for the segments currently in the buffer
Added support for description audio tracks in HLS
- Added support for description audio tracks (marked with characteristics of public.accessibility.describes-video)
- Added test for correctly setting alternative audio kinds

3 Mar 2017

v5.3.3

Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to v4.4.2 and mux.js to 4.1.1
- Fixed silence insertion to not insert extra frames when audio is offset
- Fixed metadata cue mapping so that it considers group cues with the same startTime and remaps them collectively to the same endTime
- Added fudge factor to Flash tag trim target
- Feature Video.js 6 compatibilbity
- Fixed Flash tag trimming for misaligned audio and video
- Reverted "Revert flash transmuxing in a web worker"
Fixed do not timeout segment requests for non-master playlist source

22 Feb 2017

v5.3.2

Fixed a bug with the combination of seek-to-live and resync-on-a-poor-guess behaviors

22 Feb 2017

v5.3.1

Updated locking url-toolkit to 1.0.9 to support relative URLs
Resynced on poor initial segment choice
Fixed resuming live playback after long pauses

16 Feb 2017

v5.3.0

Reset segment loaders on all Flash seeks
- Updated mux.js to 4.1.0
- Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.4.0
Reorganized the functions in SegmentLoader to better follow the flow of execution from top-down
Removed ad-hoc logging in favor of a config-enabled logging like playback-watcher
isLowestEnabledRendition worked with redundant streams
Renamed Worker to DecrypterWorker

9 Feb 2017

v5.2.1

Support for Akamai-style Redundant HLS
- Stable sorting and always pick primary first
Fixed routing of decrypter messages intended for audio segment loader

8 Feb 2017

v5.2.0

Updated dependencies for 4.3.0 mediasources
Removed HLS object events from README

3 Feb 2017

v5.1.1

Introduced Video.js 6 forward compatibility while maintaining backward compatibilty
- Swap to use getTech and null-check Flash tech
- Only registerComponent HLS in older Video.js
- Use registerPlugin if it exists
- addTrack cross compatibility
Added events for underflow and live resync
- For QoS measurement purposes, it may be useful to know how often the playback watcher is activating. Add new events for when the player falls off the back of the live window or stalls due to a video buffer gap.

31 Jan 2017

v5.1.0

Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to v4.2.0
- Added support for inserting silence when appending a new segment will introduce a gap in the audio SourceBuffer
Remove hls-audio-track.js as this file was no longer being used
Stop blacklisting audio codecs as there is now wide support for switching between audio codecs on-the-fly among all modern browsers
Fix qualityLevels setup for videos with a source element
Error early for misconfigured overrideNative

25 Jan 2017

v5.0.0

Updated issue template to use unpkg for latest versions
Used a snapshot of the issue template JSBin to protect from changes by owner
Fixed any possible fillBuffer_ race conditions by debouncing all fillBuffers_
- Converted all calls to fillBuffer_ to calls to monitorBuffer_
- Renamed monitorBuffer_ to monitorBufferTick_ which becomes the 500ms buffer check timer loop
- Made monitorBuffer_ schedule an immediate timer for monitorBufferTick_
Made it possible for processing segment reachable even after playlist update removes it
- Changed processing segment reference on playlist refresh
- Tested for correct segment references on pending segments
- Fixed unreachable segment tests after rebase on async monitor buffer change
- Updated media index on playlist refreshes for all requests (including syncs)
Made progress events bubble
- If the segment request triggers progress events (that is, XHR2 is supported), bubble those up to the tech. This makes it clearer that buffering is happening even on very slow connections.
Running decryption in a webworker no longer supported for IE10
Fixed mediaIndex tracking so that it is consistent when the playlist updates during a live stream
- Fixed mediaIndex tracking so that it is consistent when the playlist updates during a live stream
- Removed any code in SegmentLoader#handleUpdateEnd_ that changed the mediaIndex
- Reordered SegmentLoader#playlist to make it easier to follow
- All changes to both mediaIndexes (SegmentLoader's and segmentInfo's) now happen in SegmentLoader#playlist
- Added tests for proper mediaIndex tracking with live playlists

20 Jan 2017

v4.1.1

Fixed the m3u8-parser to support ES3

13 Jan 2017

v4.1.0

Updated m3u8-parser to 2.0.0 and videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.1.4
Added Representations and Quality Levels

23 Dec 2016

v4.0.3

Fix a segment hop in live
Map legacy AVC codecs to their modern equivalents when excluding incompatible playlists
Update video.js to 5.15.1

29 Nov 2016

v4.0.2

Fixed excessive segment loads on seeks
- Fixed a few cases where seeking caused the player to load too many segments

23 Nov 2016

v4.0.1

Reverted Upgrade aes-decrypter to use webcrypto for HLSe decryption where available
- WebCrypto's subtle-crypto was failing to decrypt segments that worked previously with the JavaScript-only implementation

21 Nov 2016

v4.0.0

Simplified the algorithm at the heart of SegmentLoader as much as possible
- Introduced the concept of sync-points to help associate currentTime with segments across variants
- More information available at: https://www.brightcove.com/en/blog/2016/10/improving-hls-playback
Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.1.2
- Started using remote TextTracks because they can be properly removed
- Handled remove cues from track properly if cues is null
Updated mux.js to 3.0.3
- Stopped applying the compositionTimestamp of the first frame to the baseMediaDecodeTime for the fragment
- Fixed coalesce stream to account for missing audio data in pending tracks

17 Nov 2016

v3.6.13

Added the concept of systemBandwidth - a measure of the bandwidth (in mb/s) of the entire system from download through transmuxing and appending data to a flash or native media source
- Adaptive bitrate selection is now based on the performance of the entire system

14 Nov 2016

v3.6.12

Changed resolveUrl to use JavaScript only

11 Nov 2016

v3.6.11

Updated the reloadSourceOnErrors plugin: Don't try to set the source if getSource returns undefined or null
resolve-url.js now uses an iframe to contain the base and anchor elements used to resolve relative urls

10 Nov 2016

v3.6.10

Updated the reloadSourceOnErrors plugin
- Option to pass a getSource function that can be used to provide a new source to load on error
- Added the ability to override the default minimum time between errors in seconds
- Plugin now cleans up event bindings when initialized multiple times
Fixed trimBuffer to compare correct segments and correctly trim in the live case

9 Nov 2016

v3.6.9

Added a plugin that can be used to automatically reload a source if an error occurs
Fixed an error when checking if the lowest quality level is currently in use

9 Nov 2016

v3.6.8

Enhanced gap skipper to seek back into the live window if playback slips out of it; renamed GapSkipper to PlaybackWatcher

3 Nov 2016

v3.6.7

Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.0.5
- Fixed an issue with ID3 and 608 cue translation

21 Oct 2016

v3.6.6

Use setTimeout in gap skipper instead of relying on timeupdate events
Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.0.4
- Append init segment to video buffer for every segment

18 Oct 2016

v3.6.4

Fix 'ended' event not firing after replay
Updated videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.0.2
- Only trim FLV tags when seeking to prevent triming I frames
- Updated Mux.js to 3.0.2
  - Set h264Frame to null after we finish the frame

18 Oct 2016

v3.6.3

Update videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.0.1
- Fix flash fallback

17 Oct 2016

v3.6.2

Update videojs-contrib-media-sources to 4.0.0
- Append init segment data on audio track changes
- Normalize ID3 behavior to follow Safari's implementation

14 Oct 2016

v3.6.1

Allow for initial bandwidth option of 0
Added support for MAAT in Firefox 49
Corrected deprecation warning for player.hls

27 Sep 2016

v3.6.0

Updated Mux.js to 2.5.0
- Added support for generating version 1 TFDT boxes
- Added TS inspector
Added bundle-collapser to create smaller dist files
Added fMP4 support
Fixed a bug that resulted in us loading the first segment on a live stream

24 Aug 2016

v3.5.3

Updated videojs-contrib-mediasources to 3.1.5
- Updated Mux.js to 2.4.2
  - Fixed caption-packet sorting to be stable on Chromium

17 Aug 2016

v3.5.2

Changes to the underflow-detection in the gap-skipper to remove restrictions on the size of the gaps it is able to skip

16 Aug 2016

v3.5.1

Fixes an issue where playback can stall when going in/out of fullscreen

15 Aug 2016

v3.5.0

Updated support for #ext-x-cue-out, #ext-x-cue-in, and #ext-x-cue-out-cont to create a single cue spanning the range of time covered by the ad break
Updated to videojs-media-sources 3.1.4 to increase the values of the FlashConstants to push more data into flash per chunk-interval

29 Jul 2016

v3.4.0

Added support for #ext-x-cue-out, #ext-x-cue-in, and #ext-x-cue-out-cont via a special TextTrack
Added the ability to skip gaps caused by video underflow behavior in Chrome

25 Jul 2016

v3.3.0

No longer timeout segment requests if there is only one playlist left or if we are on the lowest rendition available
Fixed a bug where sometimes the first segment was not fetched when it should have been

15 Jul 2016

v3.2.0

Added an algorithm to seek over gaps in the video element's buffer when they are created because of missing video or audio frames
Moved the AES decryption logic to it's own project

9 Jun 2016

v3.1.0

Added manual rendition selection API via the representations() function on each instance of the HlsHandler class
Pulled out and moved m3u8 parsing functionality into it's own project at https://github.com/videojs/m3u8-parser

2 Jun 2016

v3.0.5

Fixed a bug where the adaptive bitrate selection algorithm would not switch to media playlists that had already been fetched from the server previously

31 May 2016

v3.0.4

Added support for multiple alternate audio tracks
New class SegmentLoader contains all buffer maintenence and segment fetching logic
New class SourceUpdater tracks the state of asynchronous operations on a SourceBuffer and queues operations for future execution if the SoureBuffer is busy
New class MasterPlaylistController now encapsulates operations on the master playlist and coordinates media playlists and segment loaders
Bug fixes related to fetching and buffer maintenance

11 Mar 2016

v2.0.1

First release of the ES6 version of the SourceHandler
All new lint/build/test setup via the generator-videojs-plugin project

4 Mar 2016

v1.13.1

Converted from a Tech to a SourceHandler for Video.js 5.x compatibility
Implemented a Media Source Extensions-based playback engine with a Flash-based fallback
Rewrote the Transmuxer and moved it into it's own project mux.js
Added support for 608/708 captions

29 Jul 2015

v0.17.6

autoplay at the live point. fix live id3 cue insertion. (view)

14 Jul 2015

v0.17.5

do not assume media sequence starts at zero (view)
fix error with audio- or video-only streams (view)

12 Jul 2015

v0.17.4

Fix seeks between segments. Improve duration calculation. (view)

29 Jun 2015

v0.17.3

Improved video duration calculation. (view)
Clamp seeks to the seekable range (view)
Use getComputedStyle for player dimensions when filtering variants (view)
Add a functional test that runs in SauceLabs (view)

15 Jun 2015

v0.17.2

Fix seeking in live streams (view)

8 Jun 2015

v0.17.1

Do not preload live videos (view)

5 Jun 2015

v0.17.0

Implement seekable for live streams. Fix in-band metadata timing for live streams. (view)

29 May 2015

v0.16.1

Do not unnecessarily reset to the live point when refreshing playlists. Clean up playlist loader timeouts. (view)
Ensure segments without an initial IDR are not displayed in 4:3 initially (view)
Wait for an SPS to inject metadata tags. (view)
Trim whitespace in playlist. (view)
Allow playback of TS files with NITs. Don't warn about PCR PIDs. (view)
Quicker quality switches when bandwidth changes. (view)
Fix temporary warped display after seeking. (view)

v0.16.0

support preload=none

v0.15.0

expose all ID3 frames and handle tags larger than 188 bytes

v0.14.0

performance improvements for HLSe

v0.13.0

Improved audio/video synchronization
Fixes for live, HLSe, and discontinuities
Rename internal methods to clarify their intended visibility

v0.12.0

support for custom IVs with AES-128 encryption

v0.11.0

embedded ID3 tags are exposed as an in-band metadata track

v0.10.0

optimistic initial bitrate selection

v0.9.0

support segment level AES-128 encryption

v0.8.0

support for EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY

v0.7.0

convert the HLS plugin to a tech

v0.6.0

Refactor playlist loading
Add testing via karma

v0.5.0

cookie-based content protection support (see withCredentials)

v0.4.0

Live stream support

v0.3.0

Performance fixes for high-bitrate streams

v0.2.0

Basic playback and adaptive bitrate selection

v0.1.0

Initial release