CHANGELOG.md

0.8.3 (Beta)

New Features

• Add option to keep player controls hidden.
• Make BaseThemeOverlay more configurable:
  • Add option to hide buttons (audio, full screen, track options)
  • Add option to hide the top bar of player controls
  • Add option to render a companion component above the bottom bar of player controls
• Add option to display cues on the seek bar

Fixes

• Fix rounding of duration.

0.7.3 (Beta)

Fixes

• Show UI controls on mouse move.
• Add basic keyboard shortcuts (Fast-forward, Rewind, Pause/Play).

0.7.2 (Beta)

Fixes

• Fix styling of video canvas.

0.7.1 (Beta)

Fixes

• Make sure the default entry point is ESM (this helps prevent Webpack issue 4674).

0.7.0 (Beta)

Breaking changes

• Removed showWhenDisabled props from PlayerControls, it is no longer meaningful after the recent changes to controls visibility. Now controls are always visible when video is paused or idle.
• Removed the player prop from all components (except PlayerSurface). Instead of it, all components should be descendants of PlayerSurface and this way they get access to the player instance from its context.

      <PlayerSurface player={player}>
          <BaseThemeOverlay/>
      </PlayerSurface>

  To access the values from the context directly use PrestoContext.

  import { PrestoContext } from "@castlabs/prestoplay-react-components"
  
  // descendant of PlayerSurface
  const UiComponent = () => {
    const { player, presto } = useContext(PrestoContext)
  }

• Changes to hooks:
  • Hooks usePrestoCoreEvent, usePrestoUiEvent no longer accept the player argument, instead they should be wrapped with PlayerSurface (or PrestoContext).
  • Removed the usePresto. You can use PrestoContext instead to access the PRESTOplay instance.

    import { PrestoContext } from "@castlabs/prestoplay-react-components"
    
    const useMyHook = () => {
      const { presto } = useContext(PrestoContext)
    }

  • Removed the useGlobalHide hook.
  • Hooks usePrestoEnabledState, usePrestoEnabledStateClass should be wrapped with PlayerSurface (or PrestoContext), in which case it is not necessary to pass the player argument anymore.
• HoverContainer no longer accepts props listenToHover and notTrackFullWidth.

New Features

• VU Meter component.

Fixes

• Fixes to BaseThemeOverlay:
  • Before start of playback make sure CurrentTime displays a valid value of 0:00.
  • Make sure seek bar is visible.
  • Improve responsiveness of the UI.
• Improve positioning by HoverContainer.
• All components now accept style and className prop and apply them to their top-most element.
• Removed children prop from components that do not render any child components.
• Fix Duration to display the correct value even when it is rendered after the video has been loaded.

Changes

• Player controls auto-hide after 3s instead of 5s.
• Added mode prop to PlayerControls which can be used to configure the visibility of player controls.

0.6.0 (Beta)

Breaking changes

• Moved hooks usePrestoCoreEvent, usePrestoUiEvent, usePresto to a different subfolder. This will only affect you if you are using subfolder imports.

  // Instead if this import
  import { usePrestoCoreEvent, usePrestoUiEven, usePresto } from '@castlabs/prestoplay-react-components/Player';
  // Use this import:
  import { usePrestoCoreEvent, usePrestoUiEvent, usePresto } from '@castlabs/prestoplay-react-components/react';

• Removed usePrestoEvent hook. It has been renamed to usePrestoCoreEvent. Note, that the use of the more high-level hook usePrestoUiEvent is preferred whenever possible over usePrestoCoreEvent.

• Removed Player.on/off/one() methods. Use usePrestoCoreEvent hook to listen to Player events instead. Alternatively, for you can use:

  const prestoPlayer = await Player.presto()
  prestoPlayer.on('event', () => {})
  prestoPlayer.off('event')

• Removed Player.use() method. Use the initializer callback passed to the constructor instead.

  e.g.:

  new Player((pp:any) => {
    pp.use(clpp.dash.DashComponent);
    pp.use(clpp.hls.HlsComponent);
  })

• Removed StartButton.config props. Instead, the PlayerSurface now has the option to configure if the config passed to it should be loaded immediately or not via the PlayerSurface.autoload prop. If autoload is set to false, the passed config will be cached but only applied with a call to Player.load() or after setting Player.playing = true.

Improvements and fixes

• Update @castlabs/prestoplay to v6.2.7.
• Add options to disable or hide seek bar.
  • Add SeekBar.enabled prop to disable seek bar.
  • Add BaseThemeOverlay.seekBar prop that can be configure with 'enabled' | 'disabled' | 'none' to enable, disable or the hide seek bar.
• Add Player.trackLabelerOptions.showVideoBitrate option to configure track selection UI. This is useful for videos which have multiple qualities of same resolution but at different bitrates.
• Fix an issue with BufferingIndicator where it was not visible.
• Extend BaseThemeOverlay.startButton prop. Now it can be passed a config object { onClick?: () => Promise<void> } which can override the default on-click behavior.
• For StartButton
  • Fix styles.
  • Fix issue where it blocks interaction with any other player controls.
• Fix animation of player controls and side menu (slide-in).
• Fix an issue where Escape key press brings up player controls.
• For PlayerSurface

  • Add PlayerSurface.playsInline prop to be used on mobile or iPad. It configures whether player will automatically go to full-screen mode when playback starts or not.

  • Add PlayerSurface.baseConfig prop to pass initial configuration to PRESTOplay player. (#3)

    e.g.:

    <PlayerSurface player={player} baseConfig={{ license: "..." }} />

  • Fix an issue where event listeners were not being properly detached from the underlying video element on unmount.

  • Fix an error occurring when PlayerSurface.config is undefined.

• Add a lot of API-level documentation to the modules.
• Add shortcut getters and setters to Player.
  • position (read/write) Use this setter to seek.
  • volume (read/write).
  • muted (read/write).
  • live (read only).
  • rate (read/write).
  • playing (read/write).
  • seekRange (read only).
  • state (read only).
• Fix seeking logic and avoid unnecessary seeking in a situation where seek is being called repeatedly in a short period of time.
• Improve support for touch screens and touch vs mouse interaction.
• Fix FullscreenButton behaviour on iOS devices. Now it by default ignores the fullscreenContainer props on iOS and displays video element in fullscreen instead.
• Fix issue with the default labeler with some HLS content tracks. Now video tracks that do not expose a size are excluded.

New Features

• Add support for keyboard control. Use up/down arrow to switch between UI controls, left/right to use sliders, Enter to accept and Escape to go back.
• Add MuteButton component intended to mute audio.
• Add HoverContainer component intended for displaying thumbnails when hovering over the seek bar.
• Disable buttons, sliders and other components or hide them when the player is not in an "OK"/"enabled" state. The player is considered to be in an enabled state e.g. when it is playing and it is not considered to be in an enabled state e.g. when it is idle or stopped due to an error. Changes to this state can be subscribed to via Player.onUIEvent('enabled', ...) and the current value can be retrieved using Player.enabled.
• Add useVideoElementForFullscreen prop to the FullscreenButton, which allows configuration of whether video element should be displayed in fullscreen mode instead of fullscreenContainer.
• Add platform specific pp-ui-ipad CSS class to the player controls, overlay and player surface on iPadOS platform.

0.5.0 (Beta)

The first public release.