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reference client

FOMS 2017�Kevin Spiteri

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Reference client

Can play DASH-IF test vectors
Illustrates best practices
Is also used as foundation for developing players
Written in JavaScript
Uses W3C MSE, EME
Fully adaptive MBR playback
Works on Chrome v30+, Firefox v39+, Safari under Yosemite,�IE11 under Win8.1, Edge under Win10

Reference client

2.6.0 Latest release

ABR algorithm has been refactored and improved
Added EWMA moving average option to ThroughputHistory
ABR algorithm now allows dynamically choose between ThroughputRule and BolaRule
Leverage the use of imscJS library for parsing TTML
Huge effort on increasing number and coverage of unit tests
Added typings to the npm package
Added support for Smooth Streaming live playing
Added support for SMPTE-TT base64 encoded subtitle images
Enhanced debug
Example code uses HTTPS
Add IRT CMAF live stream sample to reference player
Generate stream end event artificially when browser video element fails to do so

2.6.1 Upcoming release (next week)

Update subtitles management
Modules management (loading dash.js as set of smaller modules instead of very big one)
Changes in management of aborted requests
Fix issue with Safari and silent pruning of buffers
Fix issue related with playing from a specific start time
Updated management of captions layout
[DRM] – Make visible report error codes of PlayReady license server
[DRM] – Fix issue detected in Protection Model 1b
[DRM] – Optimize number of times calling requestKeySystemAccess to avoid crashes of CDM
Fixed issues related with Audio Track switch in live streams
Add unsupported codec detection mechanism to avoid trying to play not supported streams
Clean up samples

2.6.2 Upcoming release (four weeks)

Release first version of Thumbnails support
Review/Refactor Management of buffers and pruning mechanism. We will add more stability here.
Make easier dev/testing/release process. Set tools and mechanism that will allow us to increase release frequency time (target: one release every 4 weeks).