dash.js v4.5.2 officially released

[daniel....@fokus.fraunhofer.de]

Hello all,

we are pleased to announce that version 4.5.2 of dash.js has officially been released.

A big thank you to all the contributors that made this possible

The release info can be found here:

https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/releases/tag/v4.5.2 

Features

#4089 Add parsing and rendering of WebVTT subtitles in dash.js, not relying on native texttracks events anymore. This is required for platforms like HbbTV that do not provide native WebVTT support. An example can be found here: https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/nightly/samples/captioning/vttjs.html @dsilhavy

Improvements

#4088 Fix redundant segment download when seeking back into already buffered area 
#4093 In case of gaps: Check for a valid segment request using the period duration

Bugfixes

#4087 Do not trigger live delay calculation multiple times at playback start 
#4091 If seek is called with a negative value rewrite to 0 
#4092 Account for invalid starttimes provided to attachSource() 
#4096 Fix linting errors

The CDN hosted version is available here:
http://cdn.dashjs.org/v4.5.2/dash.all.min.js

The docs are available here:
https://cdn.dashjs.org/v4.5.2/jsdoc/index.html

DASH-IF Hosted Player:
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.5.2/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html

Samples Page
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.5.2/samples/

Archived versions of the Reference Player
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/

Official NPM Project
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dashjs