Highlights

• breaking(AbrPlayer): upgrade shaka player from v4 to v5

Release notes

SDK Player

Breaking

• breaking(AbrPlayer): upgrade shaka player from v4 to v5. If you are interfacing with the shaka player instance directly this may affect you.

Features

• features(SegmentPlayer): added support for crossfade transitions

Fixes

• fix(jit): pass peer id to backend when creating a session to enable reuse of instances
• fix(TimedTextPlugin): IMSC didn't work in firefox when element is adopted by a new window
• fix(TimedTextPlugin): fix cue positioning issue in Firefox on seek/scrub
• fix(SegmentPlayer): an issue where audio adjustments sometimes caused a brief crackle on segment change has been resolved
• fix(SegmentPlayer): audio effect duration being interpreted as one frame shorter than actual duration
• fix(plugins): Channel Control now reports a clear error when audio tracks contain more than 32 channels

JIT Backend

Features

• feature(orchestrator): Mount media files as read-only
• feature(orchestrator): Add flag to disable playback of local files
• feature: Add support for Docker version 29+
• feature: enable host machine access via host.docker.internal

Fixes

• fix: allow Docker file access without SELinux relabeling
• fix: make local JIT Docker builds work with either GitLab tokens or SSH access

Full Artifact Version List

JIT Backend: 1.2.0