dash.js RC 4.2.1 Code Freeze

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

Dear all,

we have just started the code freeze for dash.js version 4.2.1.

Again big thanks to all of the contributors.

We would like to ask you for some help testing this release. We really appreciate your help verifying it is free from regression. Any help, feedback, comment will be really appreciated.

Release date of version 4.2.1 will be December 23rd. You can find all the issues and pull requests of the 4.2.1 milestone here .The release candidate branch can be found here.

Version 4.2.1 - Release notes

Improvements

#3823 Account for seek to 0 in _noMediaRequestGenerated and consider if the requiredMediaTime is larger than the start time of the segment

#3827 Update sources.json with new Axinom test vectors

#3824 Wait for video element ready state to change to HAVE_METADATA before triggering STREAM_INITIALIZED

Link Update Unified Streaming sample URLs

Link Add demo page to load stream via query parameters

#3830 Adding AACH in the list of supported codecs for MSS parser

#3811 Preserve cdata on manifest parsing and expose on dash event messageData

#3832 Enable gap seek fix by default

Link Add an example how to use parsed MPD objects instead or urls

Bugfixes

#3833 Apply a minor offset when using MPD anchors with #t=0 for dynamic streams when calcFromSegmentTimeline is enabled

#3825 Fix race condition when using "autoplay" in the reference UI

Link Fix SessionToken typings

Link Fix error in JSDoc in ProtectionController.js