Dash.js v1.5.0 Released!!

[Sparacio, Daniel]

Hello All, 

We are pleased to announce that a new version of Dash.js has been released!  

A big thank you to all the contributors that made this release possible! There were over 10 major contributors this release!

  

Release Info Here:

https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/releases/tag/v1.5.0

The latest minified files have been hosted on a global CDN and are free to use in production. 

The “latest” branch will be updated with each release to point to the latest content. 

The branches tagged with a specific release will never change once archived. 

Latest:

http://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/dash.all.js

http://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/dash.debug.js

http://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/dash.min.js

v1.5.0

http://cdn.dashjs.org/v1.5.0/dash.all.js

http://cdn.dashjs.org/v1.5.0/dash.debug.js

http://cdn.dashjs.org/v1.5.0/dash.min.js

(Note - hope to have the https variants of these up within 48hrs)

The latest docs are also available here:

http://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/jsdocs/MediaPlayer.html

DASH-IF Hosted Player:

http://dashif.org/reference/players/javascript/v1.5.0/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html

Release Notes v1.5.0

New Features:

• Fully Integrated Box Parser (For extracting items like EMSG)
• Multiple Video Adaptation Support
• Multiple Audio Adaptation Support
• Multiple Text Adaptation Support
• Richly styled TTML subtitling (almost complete EBU-TT-D)
• Support for Safari and Firefox 
• Multiperiod DRM/EME Protection

Enhancements:

• Buffer Pruning/Seeking
• HTTP Metric Improvements
• DRM/EME JSDocs.
• Improved support for app-specific DRM license servers

Bug Fixes:

• Multiperiod
• xLink onload
• TextTrack 
• Cross Browser
• Scheduling
• Live edge detection.
• HTTPS Timeserver calls
• DRM/EME

New Contribution Akamai Control Bar:

• Simple yet stylizable video control bar that is very easy to use.
• Includes a caption menu for multiple selections. It allows displaying time and duration (relative OR UTC).
• Will work with Live DVR Window seeking (timeShiftBufferDepth). 
• Built to work only with players using Dash.js!  
• Drop into a page with just two lines of code, one css/js include and some HTML.

Known Issues:

• Firefox: Rich TTML  subtitling is not working
• IE: Rich TTML subtitling is not working in full-screen (not enabled at all in reference player)
• Edge: Rich TTML subtitling does not work unless one turns on the IE11 flag.
• Control Bar: IE Fullscreen does not show control bar.
• Typo in control bar css file name contolbar.css should be controlbar.css. 
• cnd.dashif.org HTTPS certificate deployment is underway.   

THANK YOU!!