dash.js v4.4.1 officially released

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

Hello all,

we are pleased to announce that version 4.4.1 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/v4.4.1

Features

#3988 Add support for specifying the start time of the stream as part of the initialize or the attachSource call. A demo can be found here

Improvements

#3968 JSDoc cleanup

#3969 Dispatch volumechange from the native video element via dedicated MediaPlayerEvent

#3963 Extends the License Request Complete event to include the original server response when DRM errors are reported

link Add example for multi audio tracks with initial track selection

#3986 Fix d trace httpList metric reporting

#3971 Overwrite manifest mediaPresentationDuration if duration mismatch

#3997 Functional Tests: Add missing vectors with "//" in url to functional tests

#3998 Run functional tests by groupname

Bugfixes

#3980 Do not trigger inline and inband events multiple times after a manifest refresh

#3984 Account for events defined in different periods in the EventController.js

#3985 Fix for a rounding error not allowing BUFFERING_COMPLETED to get fired

#3970 Fix _checkPortalSize and initialRatio caluculation for unsorted Representations in an AS

#3966 Fix text track enabling for MSS live streams

#3944 Fix bug in abandon request workflow. Also enable rule by default

#3953 Use lastBitrateCachingInfo.enabled and lastMediaSettingsCachingInfo.enabled

#3939 Check for keyPairs in clearkeys object before updating the key session

#3942 Fix/clearkey from ref UI: Check for initData in protData before overwriting

#3928 Fix SegmentTimeline's segment getter from requested time

#3978 Fix wrong description of PLAYBACK_LOADED_DATA event

#3979 Fix a bug that lead to undefined customParametersModel after calling Mediaplayer.reset()

Link Fix multitrack captions sample: lang values in manifest have changed

Link Fix multi audio DRM sample

The latest docs are also available here:
https://cdn.dashjs.org/v4.4.1/jsdoc/index.html

DASH-IF Hosted Player:
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.4.1/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html

Samples Page
https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/v4.4.1/samples/index.html

Archived versions of the Reference Player

https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/

Official NPM Project

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dashjs