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Version: 8.4.1

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[8.0.1.1] - 2024-09-18​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Fixed an issue where the vpfDetector was not firing a VPF due to a missing player reference.

[7.10.0] - 2024-08-13​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Fixed an issue where multiple fatal errors were reported to the Conviva backend, resulting in multiple sessions being created.
    • Fixed an issue where VPF was not detected for VOD when the player has enough buffered data to get passed the detection interval.

[7.9.0] - 2024-08-01​

Fixed​

  • Comscore
    • Fixed an issue where converting Double.infinity values would crash on some analytics events.

[7.8.0] - 2024-07-18​

Added​

  • Yospace
    • Added Yospace integration with THEOplayer to allow playback of server-side ad inserted streams.

[7.5.0] - 2024-06-06​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Fixed an issue that prevented automaticTimestampSyncEnabled to sync cues properly.

[7.4.0] - 2024-05-23​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Prevent using HTTP redirects on media requests.

[7.3.0] - 2024-05-08​

Added​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Added automaticTimestampSyncEnabled API on SSTextTrackDescription.

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Fixed an issue where reported contentInfo was not cleaned up correctly when starting a new viewing session.
    • Fixed an issue where c3.ad.technology was reported as an integer value instead of a string.

[7.2.0] - 2024-04-24​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Fixed an issue where playlists that contain urls with percentEncoding got an extra percentEncoding pass resulting in erronneous urls.
    • Fixed an issue where variant playlists with additional tags between EXTINF and the segment url, where not properly processed.

[7.0.0] - 2024-04-03​

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Aligned the API to THEOplayer's Android and Web Conviva connectors.
    • Shield Conviva analytics endpoints. All data reporting now happens via the API.
    • Removed the 'report' methods for AssetName and ViewerID. These are replaced by using the setcontentInfo method (for viewerId) and by passing metadata to the sources (for AssetName).

Added​

  • Conviva
    • VPF (Video Playback Failure) detection

[6.8.1] - 2024-01-18​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Updated deprecated name for access log notification to fix broken bitrate reporting.
  • Comscore
    • Prevent Comscore connector crash when reporting ad info for a DAI stream

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Dropped the protocol dependency for the external event dispatcher.

[6.1.1] - 2023-10-06​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Add iOS 17 compatibility

[6.0.1] - 2023-09-27​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • adjust content string encoder in transformer

[6.0.0] - 2023-09-26​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • urlDecode the contentUrl string before downloading the track
    • resolve relative uri params in quality playlists

[5.11.0] - 2023-09-14​

Fixed​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Take into account playlist redirects

[5.9.1] - 2023-08-24​

Added​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Sideloaded subtitle connector now supports: SRT text tracks, specifying a time offset and caching for offline playback.

[5.7.0] - 2023-07-28​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Added additional Ad metadata properties

[5.5.1] - 2023-06-29​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Reset stored bitrate value on source changes

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Send c3.csid and contentAssetName as adMetadata on AdBegin event

5.4.2 - 2023-06-21​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Reporting bitrates after start and stop new session.

5.2.0 - 2023-05-31​

Added​

  • SideloadedSubtitle
    • Added new connector to sideload subtitles on tvOS and iOS

5.1.0 - 2023-05-15​

Fixed​

  • Conviva
    • Do not use ads API when there is no ad integration on the THEOplayer
    • Fix example with custom built framework

5.0.5 - 2023-04-27​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Reporting bitrates for ads (0af67a3c)

Fixed​

  • Comscore
    • Prevent crash that sometimes happened during playback (75e9eacb)
  • Conviva
    • Fixed a bug that would cause the connector to not report bitrates when using manifest interception on the THEOplayer via the developer settings. (6ee5e519)

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Report bitrates from iOS in kbps to conviva (a231831a)
    • Do not report empty sessions (4257d803)

5.0.4 - 2023-04-21​

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Report false as default for CIS_SSDK_METADATA_IS_LIVE (6bb45c17)

5.0.3 - 2023-04-17​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Report ad resourceURI’s (a6b158d9)

5.0.2 - 2023-04-14​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Report rendered framerate (c5e272d1)
    • Report ended when deinitialised (f49d2bb0)
    • Report network errors (02930576)

5.0.1 - 2023-04-13​

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Do not report duration if no source is set (64db6846)

5.0.0 - 2023-04-07​

Fixed​

  • Comscore
    • Call notifyPlay when playback resumes after seek (9420ec5f)
    • Don't pause the player on background move (df92e0ff)

Changed​

  • Comscore
    • Changed THEOplayer cocoapod dependency from THEOplayerSDK-basic to THEOplayerSDK-core
    • Changed minimum version requirement of ComScore from 6.7.1 to 6.10.0
  • Nielsen
    • Changed THEOplayer cocoapod dependency from THEOplayerSDK-basic to THEOplayerSDK-core
  • Conviva
    • Changed THEOplayer cocoapod dependency from THEOplayerSDK-basic to THEOplayerSDK-core

4.6.0 - 2023-04-05​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Report player framework info for ads (ececcab0)
    • Read duration of ads from THEOplayer instance (54a51109)

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Report a default value of "NA" for CIS_SSDK_METADATA_ASSET_NAME (6c4ba003)
  • Nielsen
    • Only report ended if played to Nielsen (639c08c1)
    • Remove length metadata reporting (c53642b9)

Removed​

  • Conviva
    • Removed backgrounding logs from stdout (ccb64d05)

4.5.1 - 2023-03-30​

Fixed​

  • Comscore
    • Fixed a crash that happened when removing the connector (36c30950)

Removed​

  • Nielsen
    • removed the following DCR reports (cc14c08c):
      • playheadPosition
      • play
      • loadMetadata

4.5.0 - 2023-03-24​

Added​

  • Comscore
    • Added Comscore connector

4.4.0 - 2023-03-21​

Added​

  • Nielsen
    • Readme (62afa92c)

Changed​

  • Nielsen
    • Use NielsenAppSDK and NielsenTVOSAppSDK dependencies for cocoapod instead of NielsenAppSDK-XC (ded687d0)

4.3.1 - 2023-03-17​

Added​

  • Nielsen
    • Report play, stop and end events (b737b336)
    • Report ID3 tags, metadata and duration changes (f4118e19)
    • Report Ad events (47ab93e6)
  • Utilities
    • Shared package with utilities that can be reused for multiple connectors

4.3.0 - 2023-03-02​

Added​

  • Nielsen
    • Setup target for SPM (33b5ff6c)
  • Conviva
    • Added tvOS platform to cocoapod (d4ea17dc)

Changed​

  • Conviva
    • Round CIS_SSDK_METADATA_DURATION to closest integer (105ddf96)
    • Report metrics in milliseconds instead of seconds (105ddf96):
      • CIS_SSDK_PLAYBACK_METRIC_PLAY_HEAD_TIME
      • CIS_SSDK_PLAYBACK_METRIC_SEEK_STARTED
      • CIS_SSDK_PLAYBACK_METRIC_SEEK_ENDED
    • Only report non-linear ad types. (39edc330)
    • Report “NA” for CIS_SSDK_METADATA_ASSET_NAME when no title is provided. (90c86a4c)
    • Close session after fatal error (ce6bcd27)
    • Report THEOplayer.version instead of .playerSuiteVersion for Conviva's CIS_SSDK_PLAYER_FRAMEWORK_VERSION metric (9e1eb3c8)

Removed​

  • Conviva
    • Removed unneeded playing report during ads (51670e42)

4.2.0 - 2023-02-21​

Added​

  • Conviva
    • Automatic reporting of CIS_SSDK_METADATA_ASSET_NAME from THEOplayer's metadata.title inside the current source's SourceDescription (f4c59570)

4.1.1 - 2022-10-19​

Added​

  • Conviva connector
  • Conviva-VerizonMedia connector