CONNECT Player SDK 5 for Browsers and Connected TV

Browsers and Connected TV SDK 5 Release Notes

The current version of the Browsers and Connected TV SDK 5 is 5.4.1. To install this release, please contact your regional NAGRA representative.

Release

Purpose

New features

Fixes

Known issues

5.4.1

Release date: 01 Apr 2021

This is a maintenance release to fix a customer reported issue and minor CSS issues in previous releases.

There are no new features in this release.

Loading symbol shows after playback resumes.

Menu items do not appear after exiting full screen and then opening PIP.

Resolution/bitrate Capping does not show stats on smart TV.

SmartTV analytics overlay lost after zap.

Roll up text not displayed correctly
Quickmark and stats enabled 16:9 stream freezes after 1-2 sec.

VTT Elephants Dream French and German 2004 - Shaka Error TEXT.BAD_ENCODING.

App event handling needs to abort currentTime increasing after the duration has expired.

SMPTE-S4C stream when 2 or more lines text is reduced in size.

Tizen3-DRM Pref set to Playready unable to play SSM stream.

dash-customer-ssm - does not autoplay when changing to the second stream.

The licence expiry error msg is cleared after a few seconds.

Errors while trying to play DASH Encrypted Playback with licence callback and SSM (PlayReady enforcement and heartbeat).

5.4.0

Release date: 08 Mar 2021

This is the latest feature release of the Shaka-based player SDK.

Key per Track

Temporal Licence Pre-Delivery

Multi-video

iOS Safari and Android Chrome support 

Handheld device support is in development

Subtitle refresh frequency.

UI element duplication every zap.

No buffering symbol when bandwidth is limited.

Watermark does not correctly cover view on ConnectedTV.

Subtitle display issues: black space added between line, indent, mid-row text, default TTML display area.

Playback does not stop when the licence expires.

Subtitle display issues: roll-up text.

Switching audio causes playback to buffer and renders a few frames in a loop.

Customer SSM callback for PlayReady does not work properly on ConnectedTV devices.

PlayReady Security Level 1 machines unable to playback PlayReady only streams.

No stream end / end of content when stream reaches the end (HEVC).

5.3.2

Release date: 20 Jan 2021

This is a patch release of the Shaka-based player SDK.

There are no new features in this release.

HTTP HEAD request is made even stream MIME type is passed to the player.

No buffering symbol when bandwidth is limited.

Subtitle display issues: roll-up text, black space added between line, indent, mid-row text, default TTML display area.

Switching audio causes playback to buffer and renders a few frames in a loop.

Playback does not stop when the licence expires.

Customer SSM callback for PlayReady does not work properly on ConnectedTV devices.

PlayReady Security Level 1 machines unable to playback PlayReady only streams.

No stream end / end of content when stream reaches the end (HEVC).

UI element duplication every zap.

Watermark does not correctly cover view on ConnectedTV.

5.3.1

Release date: 07 Jan 2021

This is a patch release of the Shaka-based player SDK.

DRM device identifier

drmdeviceid in the licence request headers keeps changing when zapping.

No buffering symbol when bandwidth is limited.

Switching audio causes playback to buffer and renders a few frames in a loop.

Subtitle display issues: roll-up text, black space added between line, indent, mid-row text, default TTML display area.

Playback does not stop when the licence expires.

Customer SSM callback for PlayReady does not work properly on ConnectedTV devices.

PlayReady Security Level 1 machines unable to playback PlayReady only streams.

No stream end / end of content when stream reaches the end (HEVC).

UI element duplication every zap.

Watermark does not correctly cover view on ConnectedTV.

5.3.0

Release date: 06 Nov 2020

This is the latest feature release of the Shaka-based player SDK.

Upgrade to Shaka Player v3

QuickMark forensic watermarking

Verified Media Path support

DRM security level report

Watermark disappears when escaping out of the browser in full screen.

AD track displays the wrong name.

Screen size change during pause hides the current subtitle.

No buffering symbol when bandwidth is limited.

Switching audio causes playback to buffer and renders a few frames in a loop.

Subtitle display issues: roll-up text, black space added between line, indent, mid-row text, default TTML display area.

Playback does not stop when the licence expires.

Customer SSM callback for PlayReady does not work properly on ConnectedTV devices.

PlayReady Security Level 1 machines unable to playback PlayReady only streams.

No stream end / end of content when stream reaches the end (HEVC).

UI element duplication every zap.

Watermark does not correctly cover view on ConnectedTV.

5.2.0

Release date: 08 Oct 2020

This is the latest feature release of the Shaka-based player SDK.

Resolution and bitrate capping

Player statistic support

Diagnostics support

Subtitles not scaling up for fullscreen.

One less subtitle track is shown for DASH-SMPTE-TT-TTML-Segmented-Subtitles-VoD. 

Subtitles not repositioned when the control bar is shown.

Subtitle tracks selection can be retained over zap.

Subtitles not aligned correctly and fonts are not applied.

SMPTE-TT-TTML-subtitle-xml-image subtitle does not display.

After seeking, a few video frames are rendered in a loop.

No buffering symbol when bandwidth is limited.

Switching audio causes playback to buffer and renders a few frames in a loop.

Subtitle display issues: roll-up text, black space added between line, indent, mid-row text, default TTML display area.

Playback does not stop when the license expires.

Customer SSM callback for PlayReady does not work properly on ConnectedTV devices.

PlayReady Security Level 1 machines unable to playback PlayReady only streams.

No stream end / end of content when stream reaches the end (HEVC).

Screen size change during pause hides the current subtitle.