CHANGELOG.md

Version 5.5.2

Fixes

• Fix #729 - 5.5.1 flash regression: playlists do not advance
• Fix #727 - Android (Chrome) reports currentTime as zero in live setups
• Fix #721 - Video not shown on Windows Phone 8.1

Version 5.5.1

Enhancements

• The performance of the Flash engine was improved. There's less video stuttering with Firefox.
• Improvements for HLS and live streams.

Fixes

• Fix #697 - Flash with http progressive download: preload="none" breaks buffer indication
• Fix #387 - Initial volume setting was ignored with the flash engine
• Fix #462 - Add possibility to disable the rtmpt connection attempt. Can be done by setting rtmpt: false in configuration
• Fix #612 - Make looping work with non-rtmp clips
• Fix #655 - Add support for complete rtmp urls
• Fix #697 - Fix the buffer bar to work when preload="none" is set
• Fix #701 - Make autoplay work on live RTMP streams
• Fix #577 - Force native subtitles for certain devices
• Fix #717 - Insert subtitle track in ready event
• Fix #577 - Enable subtitles explicitly
• Fix #479 - Background handling for HLS videos/streams
• Fix #705 - Don't allow seeking in live setups
• Fix #699 - Correctly check for video type

Version 5.5.0

Enhancements

• Full support for HLS on Android (on HLS-compatible browsers)
• Added shadow to play icon to avoid dissapearing controls on light background
• Added data-subscribe option for flash engine (FCSubsribe). Needed by some CDNs.
• preload can now be given by config when initializing into empty container
• Fullscreen support for Internet Explorer 11

Fixes

• Fix #683 - Engine selection does not loop through all available engines
• Fix #677 - Subtitle: are not removed at end point if timecode contains hours
• Fix #648 - Local Storage bug with IOS private browsing
• Fix #661 - Make all video type checks case-insensitive
• Fix #637 - HLS: playlist or splash setup crashes desktop Safari
• Fix #633 - HLS embedded with wrong mime-type "video/mpegurl"
• Fix #581 - flash: autoplay setup broken
• Fix #622 - preload="none" causes error in Internet Explorer 11
• Fix #509 - live: always preload="none"
• Fix #659 - speed help text outdated - show speed only if supported?
• Fix #586 - Chrome + flash fullscreen bug - video is play from beginingA
• Fix #645 - Flash engine should allow bufferLength of zero
• Fix #446 - Mute-state not restored from storage in splash setups
• Fix #570 - Live Flash: stream cannot be resumed

Changes

• On Android, source order is now respected (previously mp4 was always chosen)

Version 5.4.6

Fixes

• Fix #604 - Android + iPhone - no video
• Fix #606 - Amazon Silk - no visible video

Version 5.4.5

Fixes

• Fix #575 - iOS 7: extremely long loading times with several players on page
• Fix #569 - Live Flash WebKit: hangs on fullscreen toggle
• Fix #559 - safari + flash: type error
• Fix #573 - iOS fullscreen exit shows splash
• Fix #591 - iframe + Chrome nitpicks about local storage
• Fix #594 - API Safari 6 Flash detection
• Fix #595 - Problems with Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 N-edition
• Fix #599 - preload="none" Type Error

Version 5.4.4

Enhancements

• Add UI support for live streaming
• Add context menu for the player
• Allow configuring NetStream.bufferTime for flash engine (#337)

Fixes

• Fix #555 - no subtitles in IE with splash setup
• Fix #539 - Black horizontal lines in iOS 7
• Fix #557 - rtmp js playlist: 2nd video does not start at beginning
• Fix #486 - playlist: iOS always starts with first item
• Fix #481 - On Chrome for Android, "ready" event is sent before having metadata, and is sent twice.
• Fix #126 - flash: webkit always plays first clip in playlist on fullscreen toggle
• Fix #455 - flowplayer makefile does not use variable mxmlc path
• Fix #480 - fullscreen broken in some Chrome versions on Android
• Fix #476 - embed: only works with absolute urls
• Fix #389 - flash: fullscreen toggle restarts clip even in rtmp in some browsers
• Fix #466 - Do not let key 219 trigger help
• Fix #490 - Flash fallback doesn't work on (certain) Windows 8 / Internet Explorer 10 combinations
• Fix #521 - flash fullscreen: screen.availHeight not reliable in WebKit
• Fix #548 - Libs from embed.min.js included twice
• Fix #549 - Multiple embeds on same page fail with jquery 1.10+
• Fix #483 - Webkit rounding issue was causing buffered event to not fire
• Fix #498 - Flash Buffered Event Firing Multiple Times
• Fix #497 - ie9 plays both rtmp and mp4 if flash engine is preferred
• Fix #469 - esc binding to stop() unfortunate
• Fix subtitles with jquery.migrate.js
• Fix javascript-playlist setup without .fp-next and .fp-prev elements

Version 5.4.3

Enhancements

• Flowplayer now works inside iOS UIWebView component

Fixes

• Fix #421 - js-playlist setup does not play through in rtmp (regression)
• Fix #419 - empty container js setup: needs 2 clicks to trigger replay
• Fix #426 - js-setup: method "map" not supported (flash? jQuery.map?)
• Fix #427 - js-playlist: fp-prev, fp-next no-ops
• Fix #424 - Subtitles and seeking
• Fix #369 - Fullscreen not working with jQuery 1.7.1

Version 5.4.2

Enhancements

• Flash engine now supports RTMP load balancing with Wowza
• RTMPT support for Flash engine
• beforeseek event now supports defaultPreventing

Fixes

• Fix #381 - XSS vulnerability in Flash fallback
• Fix #375 - Error when no index passed to play() method
• Fix #373 - native_fullscreen + playlist: duplicate controls on "done"
• Fix #369 - jquery 1.7.1 not sufficient for JS install
• Fix #383 - resolve() should not delete type
• Fix #367 - no-mute modifier class broken on its own
• Fix #387 - Volume/muting params after refreshing page
• Fix #353 - playlist: problem with similarly named files
• Fix #391 - finish + playlist: index, is_last video properties not available, is-last class always present
• Fix #392 - [Internet Explorer] Play button behavior
• Fix #356 - JavaScript playlist clip indices still depend on file naming scheme

Version 5.4.1

Enhancements

• When embedding, make embed script, flowplayer library, flowplayer swf and skin configurable
• Load all resources without protocol where possible

Fixes

• Fix mobile safari native_fullscreen configuration option
• Fix commercial embedding with flash engine
• Fix playlist advancing with Internet Explorer 9
• Fix clip choosing after playing through the playlist
• Fix for falling back to flash engine on Internet Explorer installation without media extensions
• Fix fullscreen with Chrome on Android

Version 5.4

Enhancements

• RTL (right-to-left) support
• Playlist configuration via JavaScript
• Support for Chrome on iPad
• Support for Windows Phone
• Support for Firefox on Android
• Support native fullscreen
• Opt-in for Apple Airplay
• Touch-optimized control bar for touch enabled devices

Fixes

• Only remove owned video nodes on unload()
• Fix poster for flash engine
• Hide error message caused by navigating away from page
• Don't preload anything with flash engine when preload="none" specified
• Fix fullscreen in desktop Safari
• Fix cuepoint firing for 0.0
• Show correct duration with desktop Safari for HLS
• Don't start playback accidentally when scrolling over player with touch devices
• Fallback background color for splash-setups on touch devices is now only set when Flowplayer falls back to splash config
• For iPhone and other devices incapable of displaying videos inline - the video component is hidden to avoid UI bugs
• data-volume -attribute is now always respected
• Don't set incorrect aspect ratio when embedding
• Timeline isn't accidentally enabled in ready event anymore if explicitely disabled
• Make sure load-event can be canceled via event.preventDefault()
• Source urls can now contain query strings (signed AWS URLS etc)
• Cuepoints are now cleaned for playlist items
• Relative video source urls now work also in IE7
• Re-introduce support for Android 2.x
• is_last and index properties are now correctly reported for playlist items
• finish event isn't triggered twice anymore
• don't set last volume to zero when muting (allow un-muting)
• Check for correct support property when showing error of unsupported video format