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.

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

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

• SideloadedSubtitle
  • Prevent using HTTP redirects on media requests.

• SideloadedSubtitle
  • Added automaticTimestampSyncEnabled API on SSTextTrackDescription.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Conviva
  • VPF (Video Playback Failure) detection

• 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

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

• SideloadedSubtitle
  • Add iOS 17 compatibility

• SideloadedSubtitle
  • adjust content string encoder in transformer

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

• SideloadedSubtitle
  • Take into account playlist redirects

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

• Conviva
  • Added additional Ad metadata properties

• Conviva
  • Reset stored bitrate value on source changes

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

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

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

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

• Conviva
  • Reporting bitrates for ads (0af67a3c)

• 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)

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

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

• Conviva
  • Report ad resourceURI’s (a6b158d9)

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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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)

• Conviva
  • Removed backgrounding logs from stdout (ccb64d05)

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

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

• Comscore
  • Added Comscore connector

• Nielsen
  • Readme (62afa92c)

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

• 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

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

• 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)

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

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

• Conviva connector
• Conviva-VerizonMedia connector