Mux Player releases

Current release

1.7.0

• Feature: Introduce a captions menu button.
• Feature: Add API for CuePoints metadata.
• Fix: Bring back play button to the control bar for small player size.
• Fix: Migrate to use new Media Chrome media-live-button.
• Fix: Improve attribute empty behavior.
• Fix: Upgrade Media Chrome v0.18.1.
• Fix: Use new MC template syntax.

1.6.0

• Feature: Add storyboard-src attribute and corresponding prop
• Fix: Use webp format instead of jpg, less bandwidth
• Fix: Memory leaks related to the playback engine not being torn down properly.

Previous releases

1.5.1

• Fix: Allow setting of a Media Chrome theme template via a property.

1.5.0

• Feature: Mux player uses a new HTML based templating syntax as preparation for Media Chrome theme compatibility which will give developers an easy way to change the look and feel of the player.
• Feature: Allow <mux-player> web component to receive any Mux Data metadata-* fields, beyond metadata-video-title, metdata-video-id and metadata-viewer-user-id, now things like metadata-sub-property-id and any other Mux Data fields can be passed with this syntax. Note the muxPlayer.metadata = { video_title: "My Title", sub_property_id: "Sub prop 123" } syntax also still works.
• Fix: Prevent the player of duplicate rendering the top-level internal elements in edge cases.

1.4.0

• Feature: Player design update: removed the backdrop shade by default.
• Fix: Attributes set after the playback-id are now correctly passed in playback core.

1.3.0

• Feature: Add disable-cookies attribute and disableCookies property.
• Feature: Add experimental-cmcd attribute and experimentalCmcd property for headers-based CMCD usage.
• Feature: Add ability to unset poster
• Feature: Conditionally use title for title metadata in Mux Data
• Feature: Add storyboard getter on player
• Fix: Check JWT before setting poster and storyboard urls
• Fix: Don't register prop for --controls-backdrop-color CSS var
• Fix: Upgrade to Media Chrome v0.15.1
• Fix: Various edge case fixes in Media Chrome UI
• Fix: Improve hiding controls behavior when interacting with play or fullscreen buttons.

1.2.0

• Feature: Implement React lazy for mux-player-react
• Feature: Add type-compliant seekable property to the API
• Fix: playbackRate for mux-player-react

1.1.3

• Fix: Add default values to object-fit and object-position

1.1.2

• Fix: Upgrade Media Chrome to v0.14.0
• Fix: Properly check iPhones for fullscreen unavailability
• Fix: Properly unset poster image sources when they're removed

1.1.1

• Fix: Add --media-object-fit and --media-object-position to mux-video

1.1.0

• Feature: Add ability to unset poster by setting it to an empty string
• Fix: Turn off backdrop color when controls are disabled

1.0.0 🎉

• Feature: Replace prefer-mse with prefer-playback for more control
• Feature: Add default width 100% to avoid unexpected CLS and resizing scenarios
• Feature: Disable unusable controls when playback-id is unset
• Feature: Add hotkey for toggling closed captions (c)
• Fix: Google Chrome v106 caption positioning bug
• Fix: Disable all controls when error dialog is open (a11y)
• Fix: Hide fullscreen button when fullscreen is unavailable (e.g. iframe usage)
• Fix: Ignore Safari for captions movement.
• Fix: audio UI height bugs
• Fix: Add missing setter for defaultHiddenCaptions prop.
• Fix: Clean up crossOrigin and playsInline usage while respecting defaults/availability.
• Fix: Make player interface compliant with more of HTMLVideoElement type expectations, even on initialization
• Fix: Handle removing/nil playback-id
• Fix: Add preload property support
• Fix: title property bug
• Fix: Use CSS.registerProperty on vars to declare them as colors for better resilience/fallback
• Fix: (Mux Player React) Resolve issues with currentTime prop
• Fix: (Mux Player React) Remove vestigial code for tertiaryColor prop

1.0.0-beta.0

• Feature: add video CSS part for styling the <video> element
• Feature: add --controls-backdrop-color CSS var to allow changing the backdrop color
• Feature: upgrade hls.js to version v1.2.3
• Feature: prefer Media Source Extensions on Android
• Feature: refresh seek backward and forward icons
• Fix: memory leak of hls.js instances
• Fix: start-time attribute now works on iOS
• Fix: a11y tab order of player controls
• Fix: control bar icon alignment was off by a few pixels
• Fix: restore right-click video menu

0.1.0-beta.27

• Feature: configure playback rates for the player
• Feature: add a title component to the player
• Feature: allow hiding controls based on CSS variables
• Feature: allow turning off keyboard shortcuts via the hotkeys attribute, don't allow seeking in live streams with the arrow keys
• Feature: use Media Chrome's poster image element for posters
• Fix: don't pollute global in SSR
• Fix: change position of the live indicator

0.1.0-beta.26

• Improvement: update the warning logged when an incorrect stream type is passed to the player.

0.1.0-beta.25

• Feature: add keyboard shortcuts and a nohotkeys attribute to turn off keyboard shortcuts.
• Feature: expose CSS parts for targeting controls via CSS.

0.1.0-beta.24

• Improvement: Improve time range behavior; add preview time code, smooth playhead progress and fine seek control, keep preview thumb in player bounding box.
• Improvement: Add Mux flavored cast icon.
• Feature: Add defaultMuted and defaultPlaybackRate properties.
• Feature: Add textTracks property, addTextTrack() and removeTextTrack() methods.

0.1.0-beta.23

• Update: Rely on Media Chrome availability states where appropriate. Remove unneeded code from mux-player.

0.1.0-beta.22

• Improvement: Optimize mux-player tests.

0.1.0-beta.21

• Update: Mux Player (and all Mux Elements) are now published under the @mux NPM scope. Please update @mux/mux-player references to @mux/mux-player as of 0.1.0-beta.21.

0.1.0-beta.20

• Feature: Chromecast is built in -- via castable-video. See docs in the Core Features section for details on how to enable it.

0.1.0-beta.19

• Fix: import for castable-video while we hammer on Chromecast.

0.1.0-beta.18

• Fix: Some captions shifting jankyness on live streams when shifting wasn't necessary.
• Fix: Captions offset for Safari
• Feature: Support for audio-only Mux assets with the audio attribute
• Feature: Experimental Chromecast support added with castable-video. This is intentionally undocumented while we work out the kinks.
• Improvement: Better progress bar alignment.

0.1.0-beta.17

• Fix: Some recoverable errors were incorrectly being sent to Mux Data -- this caused an inflated playback error percentage metric in your Mux Data dashboard. This incorrect error tracking was especially prevalent on live streams. We fixed this after it was discovered at TMI.

0.1.0-beta.16

• Fix: Log an error if a token is passed in with playback-id (playback tokens should be passed in via playback-token attribute)

0.1.0-beta.15

• Fix: update commonjs import files to cjs.js. This fixes some build systems that rely on the cjs.js extension

0.1.0-beta.14

• Improvement: Tweaked a few Hls.js configuration settings for live and low-latency live based on some recent testing (backed up by Mux Data, of course). This is the kind of thing the team working on Mux Player worries about so that you don't have to!

0.1.0-beta.13

• Fix: For live streams on non-Safari browsers the red (live) / gray (behind live) dot indicator was being a little too aggressive about switching to gray, which indicates the viewer is behind the live edge. This is fixed now, you shouldn't fall back from the live edge unless you pause or rebuffer.

0.1.0-beta.12

• Important fix for fullscreen. In previous versions if you entered fullscreen you would get stuck there
• Improve interaction so that clicks (not taps) anywhere on the video player will play/pause. Many people expected and asked for this behavior, so now you have it.

0.1.0-beta.11

• Added thumbnail-time optional attribute that can be used to set the poster image thumbnail (if you're not using signing tokens)
• Point to github/template-parts@0.5.2 instead of Mux's fork because they were so kind to get a fix in for us. Thanks GitHub!

0.1.0-beta.10

• Improvement: The progress bar now shows above the controls, it's cleaner 💅🏼
• Fix: when changing playback-id on an existing mux-player instance we had some leftover state around
• Fix: full screen was incorrectly using the controls layout depending on the size of the player before it entered full screen. That meant if the player was small and you went full screen you still saw the small controls. Bad!

0.1.0-beta.9

• Your beautiful errors will now flow nicely into Mux Data. Your Mux Data errors dashboard just got a whole lot more useful. This is a big one.
• Mux Player is now implemented as a Media Chrome "theme" under the hood. Laying some groundwork for some exciting Media Chrome things to come
• Fix for adding event listeners on mux-player, if mux-player JavaScript was loaded after your HTML, events wouldn't get registered. Sorry about that -- fixed now. And we have tests to make sure we don't accidentally introduce a regression down the road.
• The .hls property on mux-player is super-secret and should not be used unless you are a serious professional. We make no guarantee and your warranty is void if you use this property. To reflect this stance, it has been renamed to _hls.
• Fixed some seek to live behavior
• When the error dialog is open we no longer steal the focus of the document. Much better.

0.1.0-beta.8

• If you're using Webpack 4, maybe upgrade? But if not, we got you covered. Fixed package.json to point browser field at mjs so that Webpack 4 is happy

0.1.0-beta.7

• Fix: make mux-player size based on video element
• Fix: make mux-player errors more uniform

0.1.0-beta.6

• Fix: messed up the release in beta.5, quick follow-on

0.1.0-beta.5

• Fix: clear out some state that was hanging around when playback-id is changed on an existing Mux Player instance, and add some test coverage for this sort of thing
• Fix: mux-player web component metadata- attributes were not always propagating down
• Fix: prevent non-fatal Hls.js errors from propagating and causing error states

0.1.0-beta.4

• Paid off some technical debt to handle web components being upgraded after existing in the DOM
• Fix primary-color attribute so that it is used for all controls, both icons + text. Previously it was only being applied to icon colors

0.1.0-beta.3

• Fix developer log links that go to GitHub
• Make sure internal state monitoring setup happens when the element exists. Fixes a bug in React when the captions button was sometimes not showing.

0.1.0-beta.2

• Added descriptive error handling. This is important so that you and your viewers are able to easily and quickly understand why a video is not playing. Is your local network connection offline? Is the signed URL expired? Maybe you mixed up PlaybackIDs and you have the wrong signed URL? Is it a problem specific to the media on your device? Often times video-related playback errors are cryptic and difficult to understand the root cause of. We put extra effort into this and we hope it helps you when things go wrong 💖.
• Fix conditional rendering bug when attributes are removed sometimes the template wasn't updating.

0.1.0-beta.1

• When the control bar is engaged, slide the captions/subtitles up so they are still visible and don't get obscured

0.1.0-beta.0

First beta tag release 🎉

• Extended autoplay options autoplay, autoplay="muted" and autoplay="any" are all options now. See docs above for details.
• Started tracking Player Startup Time with Mux Data. The mo' QoE data we can get, the better!
• Changed the behavior of the time display, it now defaults to ascending time (current time) and on click will toggle to show remaining time. Previously it showed only remaining time and that was confusing.
• Fixed a bug related to storyboards on the thumbnails track when the underlying source changed. This should have impacted exactly 0 developers but we wanted to make sure to squash it anyway. If you somehow ran into this bug then you're welcome.

0.1.0-alpha.7

• Support for Signed URLs (see advanced usage section)
• No longer require env-key to be passed in (Mux Data will infer environment based on the PlaybackID)