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Index

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Implementation

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Past editions

The items below were originally individual blog posts.

The OTT Changelog, Farewell Edition: Week 53, 2020 (December, January)

The last week of December was a slow one - as one would expect.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-12-29 Bitmovin’s Intern Series: The Journey from x86 to ARM – Part One
Hotstar 2020-12-29 IPL 2020 Infrastructure in Perspective

Data

Source Date Item
VMAF 2020-12-30 v2.1.0
  • New VMAF release.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
dav1d 2021-01-02 dav1d 0.8.1 'Eurasian hobby' the fast and lean AV1 decoder
  • Small update.
rav1e 2020-12-31 Compatibility release
  • Add support for Apple Silicon.

Players

Source Date Item
hls.js 2021-01-02 v1.0.0-beta.2
  • v1 is coming along nicely.

Specifications

Source Date Item
Encrpted Media Extensions 2020-12-28 Auto-generate respec HTML with GitHub Actions (#479)

The OTT Changelog: Week 52, 2020 (December)

Not much has happened during the holidays between the 21st and 27th of December..

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Disney Streaming Services 2020-12-22 Hacking Together in a Remote World
  • Disney+ hackathon outcome: "song tab", "Picture-in-Picture sign language video", "remote pairing tool"
Facebook 2020-12-21 A smaller, faster video calling library for our apps
Vimeo 2020-12-21 Raising the sound and the standards bars

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-12-22 Web 8.51.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-12-22 iOS 2.58.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-12-22 Android 2.59.0
hls.js 2020-12-23 v1.0.0-beta.1
VHS 2020-12-22 v2.4.1
Video.js 2020-12-22 v7.11.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 51, 2020 (December)

This is what happened between the 15th and 20th of December!

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-12-15 85.0beta
  • No real changes.
Firefox Nightly 2020-12-15 86.0a1
  • No real changes AFAIK.
Firefox Nightly News 2020-12-18 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 85
  • Nothing special.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-12-17 AWS joins Blender Development fund
  • Here's to hoping that we get new free-to-download videos.
Facebook 2020-12-16 Co-experiences: Hanging out in the digital living room
  • Facebook on their Watch Together feature.
FAME 2020-12-17 Deep Encode: Part II
Netflix 2020-12-14 Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer — The case of extra 40 ms
  • Reads like a novel.
Showmax 2020-12-16 Demuxed: What we saw

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-12-16 Encoder 2.60.1
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-12-15 Encoder 2.60.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-12-18 Guidance for Uniquely Identifying Creative Asset IDs in VAST
IAB Tech Lab 2020-12-14 Fast-Tracking Open Measurement SDK Compliance
IMA HTML5 2020-12-15 3.432.0
  • Upgrade OMID version. (Does this mean their HTML5 SDK now supports OMID?!)
IMA HTML5 2020-12-14 3.431.1
  • No big changes.
Prebid.js 2020-12-16 Prebid 4.20.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-12-15 What’s your MAD score?
  • Get a Modern Android Development scorecard!
Google Cast 2020-12-18 December 18, 2020
  • Disable loading of Shaka and MPL.

Players

Source Date Item
JW Player Android 2020-12-17 3.19.1
JW Player iOS 2020-12-18 3.19.0
  • Compatible with iOS 14.
JW Player Web 2020-12-17 v8.18.3
VHS 2020-12-16 v2.3.2

The OTT Changelog: Week 50, 2020 (December)

What's up with OTT between the 7th and 13rd of December?

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-12-10 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 117
  • Some changes to WebRTC and Media, but nothing noteworthy.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-12-08 Bring Your Own Cloud: Introduction to Bitmovin Cloud Connect Encoding
Netflix 2020-12-07 Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
  • VMAF update.

Data

Source Date Item
VMAF 2020-12-07 v2.0.0
  • Big one! (If you use VMAF)

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-12-09 Open Measurement for Web Video Arrives
IMA Android 2020-12-09 3.21.4
  • No big changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-12-11 3.431.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-12-09 3.430.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-12-08 3.429.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-12-07 3.428.0
  • No changes.

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-12-09 Web 8.50.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-12-09 iOS 2.57.1
Bitmovin Android 2020-12-09 Android 2.58.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-12-08 Roku 1.38.0
dash.js 2020-12-11 dash.js v3.2.0
hls.js 2020-12-08 v0.14.17
THEOplayer 2020-12-09 2020.4.1
  • Add support for license-as-a-config. (Avoid need to redeploy SDK when updating whitelisted domains, updating expiration date, etc.)
VHS 2020-12-07 v2.4.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 49, 2020 (November, December)

So, 30th of November until the 6th of December!

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-12-01 Aligning thousands of Billie Eilish covers in an infinite music video experiment

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-12-03 [Updated 12/10] re:Invent Week 1: Watch Media & Entertainment sessions on-demand
  • There are some pretty good on-demand videos here!
Bitmovin 2020-12-02 132nd MPEG Meeting Takeaways: MPEG Continues to Progress – First Meeting with the New Structure
Showmax 2020-12-03 Turning a major failure into series of improvements

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-12-01 Encoder 2.59.0
Verizon Media Platform 2020-12-03 Slicer Release 20112300

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-11-30 More Efficiency and Transparency for your Video Ads with the SSAI VAST Macro Guidance
IMA HTML5 2020-12-02 3.427.1
  • No big changes.

Platforms

Source Date Item
Google Cast 2020-12-03 December 3, 2020
  • No big changes.

Players

Source Date Item
ExoPlayer 2020-12-01 r2.12.2
JW Player Android 2020-12-01 3.19.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 48, 2020 (November)

So, what happened between the 23rd and 29th of November?

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-11-23 MediaRecorder API
  • Pretty cool, right!?

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-11-24 Video Tech Deep Dive: Super-Resolution with Machine Learning Part 3
Mux 2020-11-23 Mux Data, now twice as helpful!
THEOplayer 2020-11-27 Getting Started with THEOplayer

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-11-25 Encoder 2.56.2
dav1d 2020-11-23 dav1d 0.8.0 'Eurasian hobby' the fast and lean AV1 decoder

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-11-25 Web 8.49.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-11-24 iOS 2.57.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-11-24 Android 2.57.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-11-23 Roku 1.37.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-11-26 5.11.2

Specifications

Source Date Item
HLS 2020-11-22 draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08
  • Add STABLE-RENDITION-ID.
  • Add SCORE.
  • Add STABLE-VARIANT-ID.

The OTT Changelog: Week 47, 2020 (November)

This is what happened between the 16th and 22nd of November.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-11-17 84.0beta
  • FF 84 is the final version to support Flash.
Firefox Nightly 2020-11-16 85.0a1
  • Flash is no longer supported.
Firefox Nightly News 2020-11-18 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 83
  • Added support for multiple Picture-in-Picture windows.
Edge 2020-11-20 Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Version distribution mode
WebKit 2020-11-19 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 116
  • Changes to the Web Audio API and the MediaRecorder.
WebKit 2020-11-16 New WebKit Features in Safari 14
  • Adds support for Safari Web Extensions.
  • Adds support for WebP image format.
  • Adds support for Picture-in-Picture on the iPhone.
  • Improve support for HDR on MacOS.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-11-20 Upload and transcode video with AWS Elemental MediaConvert and Magine Pro
AWS Media 2020-11-19 Media & Entertainment attendee guide to AWS re:Invent 2020
  • Bookmark some events!
Bitmovin 2020-11-18 ICYMI – DRM Security and Protection Week Displays Best Industry-Wide Anti-Piracy Practices
FAME 2020-11-16 Deep Encode: Part I
JW Player 2020-11-18 Protecting Your Content with DRM
  • Basic article on DRM.
Showmax 2020-11-18 The Showmax Engineering story, Part I.
  • Nice, short overview of video terms.
Vimeo 2020-11-17 Scalable codec testing with Are We Compressed Yet?

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-11-17 Encoder 2.58.0
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-11-16 Encoder 2.56.1

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA Android 2020-11-20 3.21.2
IMA Android 2020-11-17 3.21.1
IMA HTML5 2020-11-18 3.426.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-11-16 3.425.2
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-11-18 Prebid 4.17.0 Release
SIMID 2020-11-19 Updates html file (#416)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-11-19 New Android App Bundle and target API level requirements in 2021

Players

Source Date Item
Clappr 2020-11-19 0.4.2
hls.js 2020-11-17 v1.0.0-alpha.2
  • Adds support for LL-HLS.
JW Player Web 2020-11-20 v8.18.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-11-18 5.11.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-11-17 5.11.0

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-11-19 TypeScript 4.1

Specifications

Source Date Item
HLS 2020-11-22 draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08
  • Add STABLE-RENDITION-ID.
  • Add SCORE.
  • Add STABLE-VARIANT-ID.

The OTT Changelog: Week 46, 2020 (November)

This is what happened between the 9th and 15th of November.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-11-12 Encode video in a smarter way using Automated ABR
Bitmovin 2020-11-12 How to Trust Your Player: Protecting Content from Origination to Playback
Mux 2020-11-11 It’s Tricky: Storyboards and Trick Play
  • Mux adds supports for WebVTT Preview Thumbnails for trickplay purposes.
YouTube 2020-11-09 Visit our new blog destination

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Unified Streaming 2020-11-12 Version 1.10.28

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-11-11 Rollback to 3.423.0
IMA HTML5 2020-11-09 3.424.1
IMA HTML5 2020-11-09 3.423.0
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-11-12 Prebid 4.16.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Fire TV 2020-11-12 Update to Fire TV Edition - Onida HD/FHD (2020)
  • Specifications now available for this new smart TV released in India
Fire TV 2020-11-12 Update to Fire TV Edition - OK 4K (2020)
  • Specifications now available for this new smart TV released in Germany/Austria
Fire TV 2020-11-11 Update to Promote Your App On Fire TV
  • Fire TV Self-Service Advertising is now available.

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-11-12 Web 8.48.2
Bitmovin Web 2020-11-12 Web 8.48.1
Bitmovin Web 2020-11-10 Web 8.48.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-11-10 iOS 2.56.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-11-10 Android 2.56.0
JW Player iOS 2020-11-11 3.18.2
Shaka Player 2020-11-12 v3.0.6
Shaka Player 2020-11-12 v2.5.18

The OTT Changelog: Week 45, 2020 (November)

This is what happened between the 1st and 8th of November.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Eyevinn Technology 2020-11-07 The shopping malls of video entertainment
Hotstar 2020-11-02 Watch Hotstar, Watch your friends
  • Hotstar on their watch together feature.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-11-03 Encoder 2.57.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-11-04 3.422.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-11-03 3.421.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-11-02 3.420.1
  • Small fix.
Prebid.js 2020-11-05 Prebid 4.15.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Xbox One 2020-11-05 OS version: 10.0.19041.5082 (rs_xbox_release_2010.201102-1500)(6)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Google Cast 2020-11-04 November 4, 2020
  • Small change exclusive to Cocoapods.

Players

Source Date Item
JW Player Web 2020-11-05 v8.18.0
  • Start adding support for Tizen 2018+.
hls.js 2020-11-03 v0.15.0-alpha.2

The OTT Changelog: Week 44, 2020 (October, November)

This is what happened between the 26th of October and the 1st of November.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-10-28 PixelStrings®: a cloud-based media conversion platform powered by industry standard tools
Bitmovin 2020-10-27 How to Trust Your Player #4: Beyond DRM – Video Watermarking
Disney Streaming Services 2020-10-27 Event-Driven Architecture: Use Cases

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaTailor 2020-10-29 New ad marker passthrough topic

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-10-26 3.419.0
Prebid.js 2020-10-28 Prebid 4.14.0 Release

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-10-27 Web 8.47.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-10-27 iOS 2.55.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-10-27 Android 2.55.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-10-27 Roku 1.36.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-10-27 5.10.6
THEOplayer 2020-10-26 2020.4.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 43, 2020 (October)

This is what happened between the 19th and the 25th of October.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-10-20 83.0beta
Firefox Nightly 2020-10-19 84.0a1
Firefox Nightly News 2020-10-21 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 82
Edge 2020-10-19 Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability
WebKit 2020-10-22 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 115

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Hacks 2020-10-20 Coming through with Firefox 82
  • Added support for the Media Session API! (Feel free to read up on our article at /media-session-api/)

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Facebook 2020-10-22 How we scale Live streaming for millions of viewers simultaneously
Facebook 2020-10-21 How Facebook is bringing QUIC to billions
FAME 2020-10-22 Common pitfalls in MPEG-DASH streaming
Hulu 2020-10-19 Data Science at Hulu: An Overview
Netflix 2020-10-19 Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-10-20 Encoder 2.56.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA Android 2020-10-23 3.21.0
IMA HTML5 2020-10-22 3.418.3
IMA HTML5 2020-10-21 3.418.1
IMA HTML5 2020-10-19 3.417.2
Prebid.js 2020-10-21 Prebid 4.13.0 release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-10-21 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241
  • Adding theme-aware splash screens for UWP apps.
Windows 2020-10-20 Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux

Players

Source Date Item
ExoPlayer 2020-10-22 r2.12.1
hls.js 2020-10-19 v0.14.16
JW Player Android 2020-10-21 3.18.2
Video.js 2020-10-22 v7.10.1

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-10-21 Introducing Swift Service Discovery

The OTT Changelog: Week 42, 2020 (October)

This is what happened between the 12th and the 18th of October.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Nightly News 2020-10-13 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 81

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
THEOplayer 2020-10-12 Going Big Screen: Bringing Video to Samsung's Tizen
  • Good intro to app development for Samsung Tizen.
Mux 2020-10-13 Zoom Like You Mean It, Pt. I: Audio Gear
Roku 2020-10-15 Roku Streambar features you should know about

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Verizon Media Platform 2020-10-12 Slicer Release 20092800
AWS MediaTailor 2020-10-14 Updated configuration advanced settings
Unified Streaming 2020-10-15 Version 1.10.27

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-10-14 Measurement & Verification in CTV Advertising
IAB Tech Lab 2020-10-14 Sales & Delivery in CTV Advertising
IMA Android 2020-10-12 3.20.1
IMA iOS 2020-10-13 3.13.0
Prebid.js 2020-10-14 Prebid 4.12.0 release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Xbox One 2020-10-13 OS version: 10.0.19041.4981 (rs_xbox_release_2010.201009-0000)(13)
Xbox One 2020-10-13 OS version: 10.0.19041.4981 (rs_xbox_release_2010.201009-0000)(8)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-10-12 Android Studio 4.1
Google Cast 2020-10-13 October 13, 2020

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-10-13 Web 8.46.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-10-13 iOS 2.54.1
Bitmovin iOS 2020-10-13 iOS 2.54.0
  • Minimum version changed to 10.
Bitmovin Android 2020-10-13 Android 2.54.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-10-12 Roku 1.35.0
hls.js 2020-10-12 v0.14.15
  • Minor change.
Bitmovin Web 2020-10-13 Web 8.45.3
Radiant Media Player 2020-10-16 5.10.5
Radiant Media Player 2020-10-14 5.10.4
VHS 2020-10-14 v2.2.3
Video.js 2020-10-14 v7.10.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 41, 2020 (October)

This is what happened between the 5th and the 11th of October.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-10-07 Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
WebKit 2020-10-08 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 114
  • Added support for lazy iframe loading!
  • Small improvements to PiP, HDCP (for Netflix) and 'sleeping'.

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-10-06 DASH-IF publishes a series of updates and extensions for the next IOP version and CPIX.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-10-06 How to Trust Your Player #3: How to Secure Your Content in Challenging Streaming Environments
Hotstar 2020-10-08 Machine Vision in Test Automation
Hotstar 2020-10-05 Hotstar’s Journey from EC2 to containers

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-10-07 Release 4.0.7
Conviva SDK 2020-10-07 Release 4.0.6

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-10-06 Encoder 2.55.0
Verizon Media Platform 2020-10-09 Ad Profile Matching

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-10-08 SIMID 1.1 Updates Add Support For Nonlinear Ads
IMA HTML5 2020-10-07 3.416.2
IMA HTML5 2020-10-05 3.415.1
Prebid.js 2020-10-08 Prebid 4.11.0 Release

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-10-08 Web 8.45.2
hls.js 2020-10-08 v0.14.14
hls.js 2020-10-06 v1.0.0-alpha.1
  • Initial support for Apple's LL-HLS.
JW Player Android 2020-10-07 3.18.0
JW Player iOS 2020-10-09 3.18.1
Shaka Player 2020-10-07 v3.0.5
Shaka Player 2020-10-06 v2.5.17
VHS 2020-10-06 v2.2.2
Video.js 2020-10-06 v7.9.7
JW Player Web 2020-10-06 v8.17.7

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-10-07 Announcing Swift Algorithms

The OTT Changelog: Week 40, 2020 (September, October)

This is what happened between the 28th of September and the 4th of October.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Edge 2020-10-01 Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code
  • Dev tools in Visual Studio? Pretty interesting move. Could make a batch of devs prefer Edge > Chrome.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-09-29 How to Effectively & Affordably Deliver 4K, HDR, & Dolby Vision Content
Kay Singh 2020-10-02 How Spotify is Killing the Open Podcast Ecosystem
  • This is a great piece about the Podcasting space. It's not technical though, but it's worth the read if you're looking for something different this week.
Mux 2020-10-01 stream.new: Add a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.

Content Protection

Source Date Item
Widevine 2020-10-02 Widevine Quarterly Partner Update - Q3 2020
  • Quarterly update!

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-09-29 v0.63.3

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-10-01 Anti-Fraud & Transparency in CTV Advertising
IAB Tech Lab 2020-10-01 Brand Safety in CTV Advertising
IAB Tech Lab 2020-09-28 Chrome Will Block Heavy Ads Soon: Get Your VAST Video Ads Ready
  • Read this if you're serving big, lengthy client-side ads.
IMA HTML5 2020-09-30 3.414.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-09-29 3.413.0
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-09-29 Prebid 4.10.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Fire TV 2020-09-28 Update to Fire TV Stick - 3rd Gen
  • Tech specs for the new Fire TV Stick - 3rd Gen device have been published.
Fire TV 2020-09-28 Update to Fire TV Stick Lite - 1st Gen
  • Tech specs for the new Fire TV Stick Lite - 1st Gen device have been published.
Fire TV 2020-09-28 Update to Fire TV Cube (2nd Gen)
  • The device is now available in France, Italy, and Spain marketplaces.
Android 2020-10-02 Announcing the launch of the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative
Roku 2020-09-29 Roku OS 9.4
  • Rollout starts on the 29th of September.
  • Quite a bit of video related updates. Must-read if you are on Roku.
  • 9.4 is the last version to support Adobe DRM.

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-30 Web 8.45.1
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-29 Web 8.45.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-09-29 iOS 2.53.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-09-29 Android 2.53.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-09-28 Roku 1.34.0
JW Player Web 2020-09-30 v8.17.6
Radiant Media Player 2020-09-29 5.10.2
THEOplayer 2020-10-01 2020.3.3
VHS 2020-10-02 v2.2.1
  • 1 bug fix.
Video.js 2020-10-01 v7.9.6
  • 1 small change.

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-10-01 Introducing Swift Atomics

The OTT Changelog: Week 39, 2020 (September)

So what's new between the 21st and 27th of September? Well...

  • The <video>-dev community had their 24h global livestream. That was pretty cool!
    The Google Sheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13zZyjcA2tfX-T9woz6Xj1ZwNLGkVSTyxQHm9XKQwpuw/edit?usp=sharing contains an overview of all talks, and has a Twitch-timecode-link associated with every talk for accessibility purposes. Feel free to comment suggestions/changes as I'm happy to add them!
  • Some great new Google content is out there. ExoPlayer 2.12.0 is available, and they also did a blog post on MediaPipe 3D face transformations. Also: Android 11 is now available on Android TV.
  • New resources have been added to Awesome.video.

Let's take a closer look.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-09-22 82.0beta
  • Nothing related to streaming.
Firefox Nightly 2020-09-21 83.0a1
  • "Developer Information" is not available. :(
Firefox Nightly News 2020-09-23 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 80

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-09-25 MediaPipe 3D Face Transform
  • Pretty cool.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Awesome Video 2020-09-22 Merge pull request #15 from adrg/add-libvlc-go
AWS Media 2020-09-22 Solving OTT workflow challenges with AWS
  • How Float Left uses AWS.
AWS Media 2020-09-21 Zee5 inserts millions of ads in live and VOD content using AWS
  • How Zee5 does SSAI with AWS.
Bitmovin 2020-09-21 Bitmovin’s Intern Series: Analyzing Docker images for optimal sizes
  • Bitmoving on reducing the sizes of Docker images. Not really video related though.
Mux 2020-09-21 Timeout. Let’s try this again. Tuning timeouts and retries at scale.
  • More about DB management and reliability.
Disney Streaming Services 2020-09-23 Keeping it Fresh on the Web
  • Disney+, CDNs and revalidation.
Mux 2020-09-25 Mux API: With GraphQL Powered by OneGraph
  • Mux on going from REST to GraphQL.
THEOplayer 2020-09-24 Low Latency DASH (LL-DASH)

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-09-22 Encoder 2.54.0

Ads

Source Date Item
Prebid.js 2020-09-22 Prebid 4.9.0 Release
IAB Tech Lab 2020-09-24 Privacy, Data, and Identity for CTV Advertising
IAB Tech Lab 2020-09-24 CTV Advertising Standards: IAB Tech Lab Standards & Guidance
IMA HTML5 2020-09-23 3.411.1
  • Changes to deep link behavior on Android 6 and older.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-09-22 Announcing more ways, we’re making app development easier on Windows
  • Interesting if you're creating Windows apps.
Xbox One 2020-09-23 OS version: 10.0.19041.4172 (rs_xbox_release_2008.200921-1330)(1)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-09-22 Introducing Android 11 on Android TV
  • Benefits for Low Latency, gamepad and testing.

Players

Source Date Item
Azure Media Player 2020-09-21 2.3.6
ExoPlayer 2020-09-21 2.12.0
hls.js 2020-09-22 v0.14.13
JW Player Web 2020-09-21 v8.17.5
Clappr 2020-09-23 0.4.1
JW Player iOS 2020-09-24 3.18.0
VHS 2020-09-25 v2.2.0

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-09-22 Introducing Swift on Windows

Specifications

Source Date Item
SRT 2020-09-25 v1.4.2
  • Latest update was in Dec 2019.

The OTT Changelog: Week 38, 2020 (September)

This is what happened between the 14th and 20th of September.

  • Chromecast changes to iOS 14.
  • User-agent of Chrome is changing on iOS.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-09-14 Changing the Chrome on iOS User Agent for Request Desktop Site
Firefox Nightly News 2020-09-19 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 79
  • More PiP experiments!
Edge 2020-09-14 Introducing Web APIs for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices
  • This article makes you think about dual devices and foldable devices, so it's quite good to a get a new perspective.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-09-16 Inserting ad breaks into video content using Amazon Rekognition, AWS Elemental MediaConvert and AWS Elemental MediaTailor
  • Big tutorial. It describes how to generate CSAI VMAP, so a bit different than all of these SSAI articles.
AWS Media 2020-09-15 AWS debuts Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) to reliably transport uncompressed live video between applications
BBC 2020-09-17 Adding Voiceover To Carousel Components
  • Might be interesting to the iOS devs out here. Too bad there wasn't a screenrecording in it to demo the concept.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
rav1e 2020-09-16 v0.4.0-alpha
  • Quite some updates compared to 0.3.4. Good info on the linked page.

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-09-16 What You Need to Know: iOS14 Privacy Changes and OpenRTB
IMA HTML5 2020-09-17 3.410.0
  • Improved support for companion ads when using DAI.
Prebid.js 2020-09-17 Prebid 4.8.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Google Cast 2020-09-14 September 14, 2020

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-15 Web 8.44.0
  • Add support for transmuxing .ts to .mp4 for HEVC.
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-18 Web 8.42.2
Bitmovin iOS 2020-09-17 iOS 2.52.1
Bitmovin iOS 2020-09-15 iOS 2.52.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-09-15 Android 2.52.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-09-14 Roku 1.33.0
JW Player Web 2020-09-17 v8.17.4

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-09-18 TypeScript 4.0.3
TypeScript 2020-09-18 TypeScript 4.1 Beta
Swift 2020-09-16 Swift 5.3 released!

The OTT Changelog: Week 37, 2020 (September)

7-13 September was pretty slow! Feel free to skip this one – you won't miss much.

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-09-09 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 113
  • Enable H.264 low latency code path by default for macOS.
  • Changes to WebRTC.

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-09-11 DASH-IF receives first hand information on Versatile Video Coding (VVC) from Dr. Ye-Kui Wang (ByteDance) during our virtual special sessions.
  • Related, because some codec features might be useful for adaptive streaming.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Mux 2020-09-10 Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams
Netflix 2020-09-08 Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-09-08 Encoder 2.53.0
GPAC 2020-09-10 GPAC 1.0.1
  • Various improvements.
rav1e 2020-09-09 v0.3.4
  • Add support for Android and iOS.
SVT-AV1 2020-09-07 SVT-AV1 v0.8.5

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-09-09 If you see something. Say Something.
IMA HTML5 2020-09-10 3.409.0
  • No changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-09-09 3.408.0
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-09-08 Prebid 4.7.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-09-08 Turning it up to 11: Android 11 for developers
  • Interesting read. Also mention of optimisations for low-latency video.
Google Cast 2020-09-08 September 8, 2020
  • Introduce Chrome Connect for Chrome apps to cast to Android TV apps.

Players

Source Date Item
dash.js 2020-09-08 Dash.js v3.1.3
  • Multiperiod improvements.
hls.js 2020-09-11 v0.14.12
JW Player Android 2020-09-11 3.17.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-09-08 5.10.0
VHS 2020-09-09 v1.13.4
Video.js 2020-09-10 v7.9.5
Video.js 2020-09-10 v7.9.4
  • No big changes.

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Kotlin 2020-09-06 Add changelog for 1.4.10

Specifications

Source Date Item
Encrpted Media Extensions 2020-09-09 Update generated HTML

The OTT Changelog: Week 36, 2020 (August, September)

Interesting things happened between the 31st of August and 6th of September. Seems like Summer is over?

  • Microsoft updated their stance on Flash. Summary: support for Flash will be dropped in 2021, but their are alternatives for enterprise users.
  • Chromium 86: preservesPitch property, VP9 on MacOS Big Sur and more.
  • Netflix published three articles.
  • Chromecast Web Receiver now supports manifest metadata.
  • The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to Adult Swim's video on "WHAT CODEC SHOULD I USE?". Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwLs9juzWw – it's pretty good.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Nightly News 2020-08-31 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 78
  • More Picture-in-Picture changes... e.g. it now works through iframes.
Google Web Updates 2020-09-01 Deprecations and removals in Chrome 86
Edge 2020-09-04 Update on Adobe Flash Player End of Support
Chromium 2020-09-03 Chrome 86: Improved Focus Highlighting, WebHID, and More

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-09-01 Our esteemed colleague Mike Dolan (Pearl TV) provides an article in the ATSC News: DASH INDUSTRY FORUM CONTINUES TO FORGE ADOPTION WITH ATSC 3.0
Google Developers Blog 2020-08-31 Instant Motion Tracking with MediaPipe

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-09-02 Creating a Feature Film with DaVinci Resolve on AWS
Bitmovin 2020-09-03 How to Trust Your Player #2: Securing Content Access with DRM Best Practices by Intertrust
FAME 2020-09-03 Solving ExoPlayer rendering performance issues
Hotstar 2020-08-31 Using Apple’s Testing Mjölnir: XCUITest
Netflix 2020-09-04 HDMI — Scaling Netflix Certification
  • Great read on HDMI and HDCP.
Netflix 2020-09-02 Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
Netflix 2020-09-01 Key Challenges with Quasi Experiments at Netflix
Roku 2020-08-31 [Mulan on Disney+
THEOplayer 2020-09-01 LL-HLS Series: Implementing LL-HLS with ABR, Subtitles, DRM and SSAI

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Verizon Media Platform 2020-09-01 Slicer Release 20081700

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-09-02 3.407.0
  • Address potential issues with VPAID.
IMA HTML5 2020-09-01 3.406.0
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-09-02 Prebid 4.6.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Tizen 2020-08-30 Tizen 5.5 Public M3
Windows 2020-09-02 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20206
  • Updates to emoji keyboard and voice-typing. Nothing video related though!

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-09-02 Prefer Storing Data with Jetpack DataStore
Google Cast 2020-08-31 August 31, 2020

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-01 Web 8.43.0
  • Added basic support for Chromecast CAF.
Bitmovin Web 2020-09-01 Web 8.42.1
Bitmovin iOS 2020-09-01 iOS 2.51.1
Bitmovin Roku 2020-08-31 Roku 1.32.0
hls.js 2020-08-31 v0.14.11
  • Fix bug related to ID3 handling.
JW Player Android 2020-09-01 3.17.0
THEOplayer 2020-09-03 2020.3.2
  • Add new DRM API.

The OTT Changelog: Week 35, 2020 (August)

This is what happened between the 24th and 30th of August.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-08-25 81.0beta
  • Users can control media playback through hardware controls. (e.g. keyboard, headset, ...)
  • Improvements to video playback quality.
Firefox Nightly 2020-08-25 82.0a1

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Blog 2020-08-25 Fast, personalized and private by design on all platforms: introducing a new Firefox for Android experience
  • No real changes to media apply though!

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Netflix 2020-08-28 Optimized shot-based encodes for 4K: Now streaming!

Data

Source Date Item
VMAF 2020-08-24 v1.5.3

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-08-25 Encoder 2.52.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-08-27 3.405.0
  • Bunch of small patches in the past week, starting with 3.403.1.
Prebid.js 2020-08-27 Prebid 4.5.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Tizen 2020-08-30 Tizen 5.5 Public M3
Xbox One 2020-08-27 OS version: 10.0.19041.4162 (rs_xbox_release_2008.200824-1730)(2)
  • Content exploration might have become easier.

Players

Source Date Item
ExoPlayer 2020-08-26 2.11.8
hls.js 2020-08-26 v0.14.10
JW Player Web 2020-08-25 v8.17.3
Shaka Player 2020-08-25 v3.0.4
Shaka Player 2020-08-25 v2.5.16

The OTT Changelog: Week 34, 2020 (August)

Between the 16th and 23rd of August,

  • Apple hinted that they're all in on VP9?
  • Android wrote an article on APIs which help make Android 11 more suitable as a media system.
  • TypeScript 4 came out.

What news did we miss this week? Tweet @thijsl_!

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-08-18 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 112
  • VP9 gets HDR support! YouTube also seems to get support for HDR.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-08-20 Protecting your video stream with Amazon CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 2
AWS Media 2020-08-20 Protecting your video stream with Amazon CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 1
AWS Media 2020-08-20 Discovery Builds Direct-to-Consumer Video Platform with SOUTHWORKS and AWS
Mux 2020-08-20 New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices
Showmax 2020-08-18 SmartTV - Behind the scenes II. (The WebOS)
  • Worth a read!

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA Android 2020-08-18 3.20.0
  • Quite some updates.
IMA HTML5 2020-08-18 3.402.1
  • No new features.
Prebid.js 2020-08-20 Prebid 4.4.0 Release
Prebid.js 2020-08-20 Prebid 3.27.1 Release (Final 3.x Release)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-08-20 Playing nicely with media controls

Players

Source Date Item
JW Player Android 2020-08-18 3.16.0
Bitmovin Web 2020-08-18 Web 8.42.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-08-18 iOS 2.51.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-08-18 Android 2.51.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-08-18 Roku 1.31.0
  • Update documentation.
hls.js 2020-08-19 v0.14.9
JW Player Web 2020-08-19 v8.17.2
Video.js 2020-08-17 v7.9.3

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-08-20 TypeScript 4.0

Specifications

Source Date Item
Encrpted Media Extensions 2020-08-19 Update generated HTML for PR #474

The OTT Changelog: Week 33, 2020 (August)

Not much happened between the 10th and 16th of August. Sorry! We'll do better next week?

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-08-12 WarnerMedia presents its cloud-based linear playout system using AWS Media Services
Hulu 2020-08-10 Virtual collaboration drives real innovation at the 2020 Hulu Hackathon
Netflix 2020-08-14 Telltale: Netflix Application Monitoring Simplified
Netflix 2020-08-12 Computational Causal Inference at Netflix
Netflix 2020-08-10 Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaTailor 2020-08-14 New debug log mode
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-08-11 Encoder 2.51.0
  • OCR processing of DVB subs!

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-08-13 3.402.0
  • Added support for IAB TCFv2.
IMA iOS 2020-08-11 3.12.1
  • Add support for iOS 14.
Prebid.js 2020-08-13 Prebid 4.3.0 Release
SIMID 2020-08-13 Updates and fixes (#404)

Players

Source Date Item
Shaka Player 2020-08-13 v3.0.3
Shaka Player 2020-08-13 v2.5.15

The OTT Changelog: Week 32, 2020 (August)

This is what happened between the 3rd and 9th of August:

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Nightly News 2020-08-07 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 77

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-08-06 Introducing Cast Connect: a better way to integrate Google Cast directly into your Android TV apps
Mozilla Hacks 2020-08-04 Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
  • Default value is now Lax instead of None.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-08-06 Getting Started with AWS Cloud Video Editing
AWS Media 2020-08-05 Using Amazon Interactive Video Service Timed Metadata – Part 2
AWS Media 2020-08-05 Using Amazon Interactive Video Service Timed Metadata – Part 1
AWS Media 2020-08-04 The transformation of live event streaming with AWS Elemental Link
BBC 2020-08-03 Bringing darkness to the BBC Sounds mobile apps
Bitmovin 2020-08-05 Battle of the Video Codecs: VP9 vs HEVC
Eyevinn Technology 2020-08-07 How video will be consumed
Mux 2020-08-04 2020: The Summer of Making Powered by Hack Club
THEOplayer 2020-08-06 ABR para un uso más eficiente del ancho de banda [Spanish]

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaPackage 2020-08-07 Support for SCTE-35 EXT-X-DATERANGE tag
AWS MediaTailor 2020-08-05 Clarification around EXT-X-CUE-OUT duration attribute for bumpers
Shaka Packager 2020-08-05 v2.4.3
Verizon Media Platform 2020-08-04 Slicer Release 20072100

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-08-05 1.20.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-08-04 IAB Tech Lab, Project Rearc and the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media
IMA iOS 2020-08-05 3.12.0
Prebid.js 2020-08-05 Prebid 4.2.0 Release
SIMID 2020-08-06 Added comments for what each chunk of code does.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-08-05 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-08-06 Android 11 final Beta update, official release coming soon!
Android 2020-08-05 Leverage the In-App Review API for your Google Play reviews

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-08-04 Web 8.41.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-08-05 iOS 2.50.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-08-05 iOS 2.49.1
Bitmovin Android 2020-08-04 Android 2.50.0
hls.js 2020-08-07 v0.14.8
THEOplayer 2020-08-04 2020.3.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 31, 2020 (July, August)

Between the 27th of July and the 2nd of August,

  • Mux did a quality post about colorspaces in browser. Worthy of the  🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!
  • Bitmovin's encoder added support for Dolby Atmos.
  • Apple posted a huge article on "Speculation in JavaScriptCore", which is pretty cool. On the other hand, the next Technology Preview didn't have anything on multimedia – not so cool!

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-07-28 80.0beta
WebKit 2020-07-29 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 111
WebKit 2020-07-29 Speculation in JavaScriptCore
  • Not relevant to video streaming, but could be interesting to you?

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-07-28 How to Set Up a Resilient End-to-End Live Workflow Using AWS Elemental Products and Services: Part 4
Crunchyroll 2020-07-28 Crunchyroll Crosses Three Million Subscribers
Awesome Video 2020-08-02 Merge pull request #13 from carlanton/patch-1
AWS Media 2020-07-30 Introducing AWS Amplify Video on Demand
BBC 2020-07-29 Monitoring on the BBC Sounds Mobile application. A story of parenting and friendship
Bitmovin 2020-07-29 Quality of Experience Issues: Levelling the Content Creation Playing Field (ft. Dalet)
Bitmovin 2020-07-29 131st MPEG Meeting Takeaways – Future Codecs are now: VVC is finalized
Mux 2020-07-31 Announcing the Mux bug bounty program
Mux 2020-07-29 Your browser and my browser see different colors
  • Very interesting read!
Netflix 2020-07-29 Unbundling Data Science Workflows with Metaflow and AWS Step Functions

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-07-28 Encoder 2.50.0
  • Add support for Dolby Atmos.
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-07-30 Encoder 2.50.1
Verizon Media Platform 2020-07-28 Slicer Release 20062300

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-07-29 1.20.0-7.3.pre beta cherrypicks (#62444)

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-07-29 SafeFrame 2.0: Safer, Simpler and More Advanced
IAB Tech Lab 2020-07-29 ads.txt: Don’t Blame the Tools, Learn How to Use Them
IMA HTML5 2020-07-30 3.400.1
  • No update.
IMA HTML5 2020-07-28 3.399.2
  • Small improvements.
Prebid.js 2020-07-30 Prebid 4.1.1 Release
Prebid.js 2020-07-29 Prebid 4.1.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-07-28 New Developer Landing Page and Issues Repo

Platforms

Source Date Item
Google Cast 2020-07-29 July 29, 2020

Players

Source Date Item
hls.js 2020-07-28 v0.14.6
hls.js 2020-07-30 v0.14.7
Shaka Player 2020-07-28 v3.0.2
Shaka Player 2020-07-28 v2.5.14
VHS 2020-07-28 v2.1.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 30, 2020 (July)

Not a lot happened between the 20th and 26th of July to be honest. There's a new Editor's Draft of EME at https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/ though!

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-07-23 Chrome 85: Upload Streaming, Human Interface Devices, Custom Properties with Inheritance and More
  • Add support for AVIF.
  • leavepictureinpicture event references the PiP window.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-07-20 Find video clips faster with Amazon Rekognition and AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Media 2020-07-22 Introducing the AWS Content Analysis Solution
AWS Media 2020-07-21 Live Video Production using vMix on Amazon EC2
Bitmovin 2020-07-23 Metrics That Matter: Top-Down Error Reporting
THEOplayer 2020-07-23 Speak the Language: Multi Audio and Language Localisation
Vimeo 2020-07-22 Handling internal and external refs to the same element with useImperativeHandle in React
Awesome Video 2020-07-25 Merge pull request #12 from tiffsequence/master
Disney Streaming Services 2020-07-21 Moving Live Video Quality Control from the Broadcast Facility to the Living Room

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-07-21 Encoder 2.48.1
Verizon Media Platform 2020-07-20 Live Linear Syndication Publishing now available
  • Syndication can now be used to broadcast live to Facebook, Twitch and more.

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-07-22 v0.63.2

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-07-24 iOS 14 Privacy Features Impact: What Advertisers Need to Know
IMA HTML5 2020-07-21 3.398.1
  • Add extra debug information.
IMA HTML5 2020-07-21 3.397.1
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-07-23 Prebid 4.0.0 Release
Prebid.js 2020-07-23 Prebid 3.27.0 Release
SIMID 2020-07-24 Merge pull request #370 from InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/newCssImpro…
  • Bunch of smaller (?) changes to SIMID.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-07-24 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.421 (20H2)
Windows 2020-07-23 Introducing the Microsoft Edge enterprise roadmap and release schedule

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-07-24 11 Weeks of Android: Jetpack

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin iOS 2020-07-21 iOS 2.48.1
hls.js 2020-07-20 v0.14.5
hls.js 2020-07-20 v0.14.4
Video.js 2020-07-20 v7.9.2
Bitmovin Web 2020-07-22 Web 8.40.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-07-21 iOS 2.49.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-07-21 Roku 1.30.0
dash.js 2020-07-24 Dash.js v3.1.2
JW Player Web 2020-07-23 v8.17.0

Specifications

Source Date Item
Encrpted Media Extensions 2020-07-23 Merge branch 'xhwang-chromium-issue-469' into master

The OTT Changelog: Week 29, 2020 (July)

Between the 13th and 19th of July,

  • Amazon released a low-latency product based on the Twitch stack.
  • Firefox is rethinking the discoverability of their PiP feature.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Nightly News 2020-07-17 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 76
WebKit 2020-07-16 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 110
  • Changes to WebRTC (support for VP9, ...)

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-07-16 Setting Up for Streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service
AWS Media 2020-07-14 How to use Amazon Rekognition video for product placement in video
Bitmovin 2020-07-15 Living in a Multi-Codec World – Future Codecs revisited
Hotstar 2020-07-14 GoCD on Kubernetes
Netflix 2020-07-17 Empowering the Visual Effects Community with the NetFX Platform

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-07-14 Release version 4.0.5
Conviva SDK 2020-07-14 Release version 4.0.4

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-07-14 Encoder 2.49.0
  • Added support for HLS I-FRAME playlist generation.

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-07-14 v0.63.1

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-07-16 3.396.0
  • Minor changes.
IMA HTML5 2020-07-14 3.395.0
Prebid.js 2020-07-17 Prebid 3.26.0 Release
SIMID 2020-07-16 added index.html (#358)

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-07-14 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.388 (20H2)
Xbox One 2020-07-14 OS version: 10.0.19041.3503 (rs_xbox_release_2007.200709-1200)(1)

Players

Source Date Item
hls.js 2020-07-16 v0.14.3
hls.js 2020-07-15 v0.14.2
hls.js 2020-07-13 v0.14.1

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-07-15 Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle

The OTT Changelog: Week 28, 2020 (July)

Between the 6th and the 12th of July,

  • The Hulu Design Team picked up their pen and wrote about the "Ten Feet Experience". They get the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!
  • Widevine posted their quarterly update.
  • IAB posted some afterthoughts on an SSAI workshop.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Nightly News 2020-07-08 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 75
  • There is a new WebRTC global sharing indicator on Firefox Nightly.
Edge 2020-07-08 Introducing the Storage Access API
  • Info on this API.

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-07-09 Teaching the art of great documentation

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-07-09 Monitoring AWS Media Services using Amazon CloudWatch Events
AWS Media 2020-07-09 Services and tools for monitoring video workflows on AWS
AWS Media 2020-07-06 How-to: Stream your live video to social media sites using AWS Elemental Link
DAZN 2020-07-08 Visualising Front-End Performance Bottlenecks
Hotstar 2020-07-08 Android : Leveraging RecyclerView Effectively with ViewModel
Hulu 2020-07-06 Embrace the 10-ft. Space
  • Takeaways: Keep Interactions Super Simple; Build on What They Already Know; Consider Lean Back vs. Lean In
Hulu 2020-07-06 A Brief Introduction
  • The Hulu Product Design team joined Hulu's Medium blog.
Netflix 2020-07-08 Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
THEOplayer 2020-07-09 LL-HLS Series: Implementing LL-HLS Today

Content Protection

Source Date Item
Widevine 2020-07-08 Widevine Quarterly Partner Update - Q2 2020

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
FFmpeg 2020-07-11 n4.3.1
FFmpeg 2020-07-09 n4.2.4
FFmpeg 2020-07-07 n2.8.17
Verizon Media Platform 2020-07-06 Live Streaming Statistics API now available

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-07-08 v0.63.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-07-10 Final Audience Taxonomy 1.1 and Content Taxonomy 2.1 Provide Additional Consumer Privacy Safeguards
IAB Tech Lab 2020-07-07 Solving Tech Challenges in SSAI: Takeaways from a recent workshop at IAB Tech Lab
  • Fast read if you're into SSAI.
IMA Android 2020-07-08 3.19.4
  • Fix a timeout issue.
IMA HTML5 2020-07-09 3.393.1
  • No changes.
Prebid.js 2020-07-09 Prebid 3.25.0 Release
SIMID 2020-07-09 Merge pull request #357 from InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/geolocation…

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-07-10 Web 8.39.1
Bitmovin Web 2020-07-07 Web 8.39.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-07-07 Android 2.49.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-07-07 Roku 1.29.1
JW Player Web 2020-07-07 v8.16.3
THEOplayer 2020-07-07 2020.3.0
Video.js 2020-07-10 v7.9.0
Video.js 2020-07-08 v7.8.4

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Kotlin 2020-07-08 Add changelog for 1.4-M3 & 1.3.72 plugins update
TypeScript 2020-07-06 TypeScript 3.9.6
TypeScript 2020-07-06 TypeScript 4.0 Beta

The OTT Changelog: Week 27, 2020 (June)

This is what changed between the 29th of June and the 6th of July:

Browsers

Source Date Item
Safari 2020-06-28 Safari 14 Beta Release Notes
  • Supports HTTP/3.
  • Drop support for Flash.
  • Support HDR video playback.
  • Support Picture-in-Picture on iOS iPhone
Chromium 2020-06-25 Changes to quality criteria for PWAs using Trusted Web Activity
WebKit 2020-06-26 App-Bound Domains
WebKit 2020-06-25 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 109 with Safari 14 Features
WebKit 2020-06-23 Async Clipboard API

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Hacks 2020-06-23 Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-06-25 Collaborative live events blend real-time engagement with broadcast video reach
AWS Media 2020-06-22 New – Streamline media analysis tasks with Amazon Rekognition Video
  • Introduction on using Amazon Rekognition Video to detect black frames, end credits, and more.
Bitmovin 2020-06-25 Video Tech Deep-Dive: Live Low Latency Streaming Part 2
  • Nice collection of information on MPEG-DASH manifests and low latency.
Mux 2020-06-26 Respond to and Resolve Incidents with the Real-Time Dashboard
Mux 2020-06-22 Traversing the First Mile: Considerations for Live Streaming Ingest

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-06-24 Release version 4.0.3
Conviva SDK 2020-06-24 Release version 4.0.2

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaPackage 2020-06-24 Moved the maximum live manifest length from hard quota to soft quota

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-06-24 With The End Of Browser Cookie Support, What Will Happen To Measurement And Attribution?
IMA Android 2020-06-22 3.19.2
IMA HTML5 2020-06-22 3.392.0
Prebid.js 2020-06-25 Prebid 3.24.0 Release
SIMID 2020-06-26 New named version Version 1.0.1 (#348)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-06-25 Android 11 Developer Preview on Android TV

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-06-23 Web 8.38.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-06-24 iOS 2.48.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-06-23 iOS 2.47.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-06-23 Android 2.48.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-06-23 Roku 1.29.0
Clappr 2020-06-28 0.4.0
ExoPlayer 2020-06-23 r2.11.6
hls.js 2020-06-26 v0.14.0-rc.2
JW Player Android 2020-06-25 3.15.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-22 5.9.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 26, 2020 (June)

Between the 22nd and 28th of June,

  • Google let us know we can test Android 11 on the Android TV.
  • The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to Apple! Apple shared their Safari 14 Beta release notes: no more Flash, HDR support, PiP on iPhone, and more. WWDC also took place, and a bunch of must-view videos are available at https://developer.apple.com/videos/media/.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Safari 2020-06-28 Safari 14 Beta Release Notes
  • Support HTTP/3.
  • Drop support for Flash.
  • Support HDR video playback.
  • Support Picture-in-Picture on iOS iPhone
Chromium 2020-06-25 Changes to quality criteria for PWAs using Trusted Web Activity
WebKit 2020-06-26 App-Bound Domains
WebKit 2020-06-25 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 109 with Safari 14 Features
WebKit 2020-06-23 Async Clipboard API

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Hacks 2020-06-23 Welcoming Safari to the WebExtensions Community

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-06-25 Collaborative live events blend real-time engagement with broadcast video reach
AWS Media 2020-06-22 New – Streamline media analysis tasks with Amazon Rekognition Video
  • Introduction on using Amazon Rekognition Video to detect black frames, end credits, and more.
Bitmovin 2020-06-25 Video Tech Deep-Dive: Live Low Latency Streaming Part 2
  • Nice collection of information on MPEG-DASH manifests and low latency.
Mux 2020-06-26 Respond to and Resolve Incidents with the Real-Time Dashboard
Mux 2020-06-22 Traversing the First Mile: Considerations for Live Streaming Ingest

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-06-24 Release version 4.0.3
Conviva SDK 2020-06-24 Release version 4.0.2

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaPackage 2020-06-24 Moved the maximum live manifest length from hard quota to soft quota

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-06-24 With The End Of Browser Cookie Support, What Will Happen To Measurement And Attribution?
IMA Android 2020-06-22 3.19.2
IMA HTML5 2020-06-22 3.392.0
Prebid.js 2020-06-25 Prebid 3.24.0 Release
SIMID 2020-06-26 New named version Version 1.0.1 (#348)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-06-25 Android 11 Developer Preview on Android TV

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-06-23 Web 8.38.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-06-24 iOS 2.48.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-06-23 iOS 2.47.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-06-23 Android 2.48.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-06-23 Roku 1.29.0
Clappr 2020-06-28 0.4.0
ExoPlayer 2020-06-23 r2.11.6
hls.js 2020-06-26 v0.14.0-rc.2
JW Player Android 2020-06-25 3.15.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-22 5.9.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 25, 2020 (June)

Between the 15th and 21st of June,

  • VHS dropped v2.0, FFmpeg 4.3, GPAC 1.0. Busy times!
  • Hotstar, Mux, Showmax and THEOplayer wrote interesting blog posts. (THEOplayer snatches the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball with their article on the history of Low Latency HLS.)

Browsers

Source Date Item
Edge 2020-06-18 ICYMI – Recapping Microsoft Edge at Build 2020
  • Information by the Edge team about WebView2 and PWAs. (Could be interesting!)

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-06-17 Voice Global 2020: New improvements to core platform and development tools for Google Assistant
  • Google Assistant is getting updates. Users can now resume playback across different surfaces through the updated Media API.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-06-18 Enabling Video Chats Using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams for WebRTC
Eyevinn Technology 2020-06-20 Node.js Native Addon for Secure Reliable Transport
Hotstar 2020-06-19 Scaling Subscriptions — Cache for Cash!
Mux 2020-06-16 Building TikTok: Smooth scrolling on iOS
Showmax 2020-06-16 Pushing video bitrate to the limit
  • How Showmax optimized their bitrate.
  • (Hint: HEVC, VP9, capped constant rate factor (CRF) encoding, lower resolutions)
THEOplayer 2020-06-16 LL-HLS Series: The Evolution of LL-HLS
  • The history of LL-HLS, starting from Periscope to Apple.
THEOplayer 2020-06-16 HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
  • Basic article on HLS.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-06-18 Encoder 2.46.2
dav1d 2020-06-21 dav1d 0.7.1 'Frigatebird' the fast and lean AV1 decoder
  • Small update.
FFmpeg 2020-06-15 n4.4-dev
FFmpeg 2020-06-15 n4.3
GPAC 2020-06-16 GPAC 1.0
GPAC 2020-06-15 GPAC 0.8.1
  • Last release in the old architecture.
Verizon Media Platform 2020-06-17 Content Release 20061701

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-06-18 SafeFrame Update: Input Last Call
IAB Tech Lab 2020-06-17 DigiTrust – The Final Chapter
  • DigiTrust will sunsetted on July 31, 2020.
IMA HTML5 2020-06-15 3.391.0
  • Fix bug related to skippable ads in livestreams.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-06-18 ICYMI – Top Announcements from Microsoft Build 2020

Players

Source Date Item
Clappr 2020-06-17 0.3.13
JuvoPlayer 2020-06-21 JuvoPlayer 1.5.4 (beta)
JW Player iOS 2020-06-18 3.15.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-16 5.9.0
Shaka Player 2020-06-18 v3.0.1
Shaka Player 2020-06-18 v3.0.1-master
VHS 2020-06-16 v2.0.0

Specifications

Source Date Item
Picture-in-Picture 2020-06-17 Merge pull request #105 from w3c/secure-context

The OTT Changelog: Week 24, 2020 (June)

So you're probably wondering what happened in OTT between the 8th and 14th of June?

  • Apple improved their video handling. Check out their 108 patch notes if you were struggling with PiP, fullscreen and switches between unencrypted and encrypted content.
  • HLS.js went into 0.14.0, Shaka Player in 3.0.0 and THEOplayer is using a new versioning scheme.
  • The PiP W3C implementation status page received an update. The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to the contributors of this specification.
  • (In other news: you can now install the Android 11 Beta if you have a recent Pixel device!)

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-06-11 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 108
  • Made Picture-in-Picture more robust.
  • Made Fullscreen mode more robust.
  • Improved transition between encrypted and clear content.
  • (Plus other fixes/improvements.)

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-06-10 Unwrapping the Android 11 Beta, plus more developer updates

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-06-10 How AWS live streams re:Invent

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-06-09 Encoder 2.47.2

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-06-09 1.20.0-0.0.pre

IDEs

Source Date Item
Xcode 2020-06-11 Xcode 11.6 Beta Release Notes

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-06-10 3.390.0
  • No fixes or improvements.
IMA HTML5 2020-06-08 3.389.0
  • No fixes or improvements.
Prebid.js 2020-06-11 Prebid.js 3.23.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-06-09 Introducing Google Play Asset Delivery

Players

Source Date Item
hls.js 2020-06-11 v0.14.0-rc.1
  • Nice DRM-related improvements!
JW Player Android 2020-06-08 3.14.0
JW Player iOS 2020-06-10 3.15.0
JW Player Web 2020-06-11 v8.15.2
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-08 5.8.6
Shaka Player 2020-06-08 v3.0.0
THEOplayer 2020-06-10 2020.2.1
  • THEOplayer switched to a new versioning scheme! ..<release_in_quarter>.
Shaka Player 2020-06-11 v2.5.13

Specifications

Source Date Item
Picture-in-Picture 2020-06-11 Merge pull request #153 from w3c/edge-implementation-status

The OTT Changelog: Week 23, 2020 (June)

Between the 1st and 7th of June, the video streaming didn't do a whole lot. More important things are happening in the world, and if we would be awarding any Weekly Golden Ball, it would go to the protesters addressing the murder of George Floyd.

  • Radiant Media Player deprecated support for IE11. 🙏 (That being said, netmarketshare.com writes that there are almost as many people on IE11 as on Edge...)
  • Eyevinn Technology wrote a good article on the age-old discussion of Buy-versus-Build.
  • The IAB started a spec to deal with "Data Deletion Request Handling". (I guess we're not against it?)

Also, a question to you, the reader: which sources should we add to our tracking list? What is a website or product (related to the OTT industry) you are interested in? (Email us!)

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-06-02 78.0beta
Firefox Nightly 2020-06-01 79.0a1

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Hacks 2020-06-02 New in Firefox 77: DevTool improvements and web platform updates

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-06-01 Creating a secure video-on-demand (VOD) platform using AWS
AWS Media 2020-06-04 Master control and distributed remote production on AWS with GV AMPP from Grass Valley
Disney Streaming Services 2020-06-04 Chaos Engineering: Intro
Eyevinn Technology 2020-06-05 Build or Buy?
Zattoo 2020-06-04 Repeatable double-click and hybrid clicks solution with useDoubleClick hook

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaTailor 2020-06-03 Ad Suppression is available for DASH
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-06-03 Encoder 2.47.0
Azure Media Services 2020-06-01 June 2020
Verizon Media Platform 2020-06-05 New Monitoring Metric: SCTE Last Seen
Bento4 2020-06-06 v1.6.0-636

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-06-04 1.17.3

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-06-02 3.388.1
Prebid.js 2020-06-03 Prebid 3.22.0 Release
IAB Tech Lab 2020-06-05 The industry’s first standard for handling user data deletion requests (CCPA)

Platforms

Source Date Item
iOS iPadOS 2020-06-03 iOS & iPadOS 13.5.5 Beta Release Notes
tvOS 2020-06-03 tvOS 13.4.8 Beta Release Notes

Players

Source Date Item
Azure Media Player 2020-06-01 2.3.5
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-03 5.8.5
Radiant Media Player 2020-06-02 5.8.4
  • Deprecated support for IE11.
Bitmovin Web 2020-06-05 Web 8.36.2
ExoPlayer 2020-06-05 r2.11.5

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-06-04 TypeScript 3.9.5

The OTT Changelog: Week 22, 2020 (May)

The industry was busy between the 25th and 31st of May.

  • Google did a little throwback to the birth of WebM and VP8 in 2010. It's a fun little article, so we'll award it the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!
  • Crunchyroll published a quality post on upscaling anime content, and AWS on GOPs.
  • Xbox One and PS4 received updates, as did a lot of video players. Conviva jumped to v4.0!
  • Android Studio v4 is coming, and the Android 11 Beta Launch Show is next week.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-05-28 Chrome 84 Beta: Web OTP, Web Animations, New Origin Trials and More
Chromium 2020-05-27 Celebrating 10 years of WebM and WebRTC
Firefox Nightly News 2020-05-26 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 74
WebKit 2020-05-28 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 107
  • Setting a poster is ignored once playback starts.
  • Fix UI track issue.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-05-29 Virtual hackathon delivers real-world video workflows on AWS
AWS Media 2020-05-28 Back to Basics: GOPs Explained
  • Great intro article on Group of Pictures.
BBC 2020-05-27 Building apps for everyone: discover why inclusivity and accessibility truly matter
  • Accessibility, Android and BBC's iPlayer.
Bitmovin 2020-05-28 Video Streaming Industry Snapshot – Do’s and Don’ts of optimizing operations
Crunchyroll 2020-05-28 Scaling up Anime with Machine Learning and Smart Real Time Algorithms
  • Fantastic article on upscaling anime content on the server-side with Waifu2x and on the client-side with Anime4K.
Disney Streaming Services 2020-05-28 Bringing New Aspects of The Simpsons to Disney+
  • Disney+ is now also streams The Simpsons in 4:3 in addition to 16:9. Their Media Manifest Core can now signal the aspect ratio through a new subType property.
Netflix 2020-05-27 Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
Netflix 2020-05-26 Hyper Scale VPC Flow Logs enrichment to provide Network Insight

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-05-28 Release Version 4.0.1
Conviva SDK 2020-05-28 Release Version 4.0.0
  • Conviva 4.0.0 is in town. There is a simpler API and integration.
  • They skipped v3 though?

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
rav1e 2020-05-28 v0.3.2
  • Mainly a bug-fix release, but there are some performance improvements as well.

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-05-26 3.387.1
Prebid.js 2020-05-27 Prebid 3.21.0 Release
SIMID 2020-05-29 newest html version (#347)

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
PS4 2020-05-27 7.51
Tizen 2020-05-30 Tizen 6.0 Public M1
  • The multimedia release notes are interesting. Mentions of AV1 and Opus.
Windows 2020-05-27 What’s new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update
  • Edge memory improvements.
Xbox One 2020-05-28 OS version: 10.0.19041.2494 (rs_xbox_release_2005.200522-1800)(1)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-05-28 Android Studio 4.0
Android 2020-05-27 #Android11: The Beta Launch Show - Here’s how to join in and watch next week!

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-05-29 Web 8.36.1
Bitmovin Web 2020-05-26 Web 8.36.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-05-26 iOS 2.46.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-05-26 Android 2.46.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-05-25 Roku 1.27.1
JW Player Web 2020-05-28 v8.15.0
  • Improved support with the AMP framework.
Shaka Player 2020-05-29 v2.5.12
THEOplayer 2020-05-26 2.71.0
THEOplayer 2020-05-26 2.70.3
Video.js 2020-05-28 v7.8.3
Video.js 2020-05-26 v7.8.2
Video.js 2020-05-26 v7.7.7

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-05-29 Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime

The OTT Changelog: Week 21, 2020 (May)

Between the 18th and 24th of May:

  • JW Player took their FireTV release notes offline.
  • AWS posted a lot of articles on their blog.
  • Bitmovin published a neat introduction article on upscaling video content, and grab the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball.
  • Mux published a neat introduction article on monetizing content.
  • Microsoft shared the latest from Build 2020.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Edge 2020-05-19 Everything new from Microsoft Edge at Build 2020

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-05-21 Cloud-optimized Channel Origination with Imagine Communications’ Versio Playout Solution
AWS Media 2020-05-21 Delivering rugged video and spatial streaming capability in a flexible, cost-effective solution
AWS Media 2020-05-19 Monitoring AWS Elemental MediaStore with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Bitmovin 2020-05-20 Video Tech Deep Dive: Super Resolution with Machine Learning P1
  • An article on temporal and spatial upsampling.
Hotstar 2020-05-22 Building Audience Manager — Hotstar’s Growth Marketing Toolkit
Mux 2020-05-19 6 Ways to Monetize Video
THEOplayer 2020-05-18 High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP): Reducing Bandwidth Consumption by up to 20%

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-05-19 Encoder 2.46.0
dav1d 2020-05-20 dav1d 0.7.0 'Frigatebird' the fast and lean AV1 decoder
  • The new major update, Frigatebird, increases the speed on all platforms.
FFmpeg 2020-05-21 n4.2.3

IDEs

Source Date Item
Xcode 2020-05-24 Xcode 11.5 Release Notes

Ads

Source Date Item
IAB Tech Lab 2020-05-20 Brand safety in the age of COVID-19
Prebid.js 2020-05-22 Prebid 3.20.0 Release
  • New adapters for Rakuten, Trendqube and pubgenius.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-05-19 Introducing WinUI 3 Preview 1

Platforms

Source Date Item
iOS iPadOS 2020-05-24 iOS & iPadOS 13.5 Release Notes
tvOS 2020-05-24 tvOS 13.4.5 Release Notes

Players

Source Date Item
dash.js 2020-05-22 Dash.js v3.1.1
JW Player Android 2020-05-19 3.13.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-05-22 5.8.3

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-05-19 TypeScript 3.9.3

The OTT Changelog: Week 20, 2020 (May)

Between the 11th and 17th of May, a lot of new patches got pushed compared to the previous weeks. (Did people adjust to the new normal?)

  • The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to... Mux' "Russia With Love: How ClickHouse Saved our Data" for being a good tech read.
  • Bitmovin's "2020 Video Technology Trends Revisited" sketches a good image of Today's video consumption, even though it doesn't have the technical 'hook' we yearn for.
  • Zattoo was added to our index! (Let us know if you think we should track a new source.)

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-05-14 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 106
  • Fixed audio session category to be set incorrectly after changing video source with MSE (r261004)
  • Fixed video elements to return to an incorrect position when exiting fullscreen (r260150)

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-05-13 Monetize media content with AWS Elemental MediaTailor and Computer Vision
Bitmovin 2020-05-14 2020 Video Technology Trends Revisited – Operational Optimization Rises, Viewer Experience Suffers
Mux 2020-05-13 From Russia With Love: How ClickHouse Saved our Data
Zattoo 2020-05-11 DVB bitmap subtitles processing at Zattoo

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
AWS MediaPackage 2020-05-15 Updated manifest filtering topic.
Encoding.com 2020-05-14 14 May 2020

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA Android 2020-05-12 3.19.0
IMA HTML5 2020-05-14 3.386.2
IMA HTML5 2020-05-13 3.386.1
IMA HTML5 2020-05-11 3.385.0

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-05-12 Start Developing on Windows 10, version 2004 Today
Xbox One 2020-05-15 OS version: 10.0.19041.2493 (rs_xbox_release_2005.200512-1756)(1)
Xbox One 2020-05-12 OS version: 10.0.19041.2490 (rs_xbox_release_2005.200507-0000)(5)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Fire TV 2020-05-13 Update to DIAL Integration
  • Updated with more code samples and other details specific to the second-screen app integration.

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-05-12 Web 8.35.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-05-12 iOS 2.45.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-05-12 Android 2.45.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-05-11 Roku 1.27.0
hls.js 2020-05-11 v0.14.0-beta.2
JW Player Web 2020-05-13 v8.14.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-05-15 5.8.2
Radiant Media Player 2020-05-14 5.8.1
VHS 2020-05-13 v2.0.0-rc.2

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-05-12 TypeScript 3.9.2
  • Final release of TS 3.9!

The OTT Changelog: Week 19, 2020 (May)

This is what happened between 4 and 10 May, 2020.

  • The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to FireTV. Amazon is trying something new with their "Linear Television Integration". They want to aggregate data on live TV channels, and display EPG data outside of the app. Viewers can navigate to the TV channels outside of the application, and can even use voice commands to get there.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-05-04 77.0beta
Firefox Nightly 2020-05-04 78.0a1

Organizations

Source Date Item
Google Developers Blog 2020-05-06 Android 11: Beta Plans
  • The 4th Developer Preview is available.
  • Beta 1 coming June 3rd.
Mozilla Hacks 2020-05-05 Firefox 76: Audio worklets and other tricks
  • Audio worklets can be used in the Web Audio API instead of ScriptProcessorNode. The latter runs in the main thread, and can block everything.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Eyevinn Technology 2020-05-06 A “cheap” way to generate a 24/7 SRT live stream
AWS Media 2020-05-07 Getting Started with Ultra-Low Latency Using AWS Elemental Live – Part 2
AWS Media 2020-05-07 Getting Started with Ultra-Low Latency Using AWS Elemental Live — Part 1
Bitmovin 2020-05-07 130th MPEG Meeting Takeaways – Innovation meets Essential Needs
Mux 2020-05-07 What is Video Observability?

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-05-05 Encoder 2.45.0

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-05-06 1.18.0-12.0.pre
React Native 2020-05-04 v0.63.0-rc.1
  • Node.js 10 or higher is required, instead of v8.
Flutter 2020-05-07 1.19.0-0.0.pre

IDEs

Source Date Item
Xcode 2020-05-06 Xcode 11.5 Beta 2 Release Notes

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-05-04 3.384.1
IMA HTML5 2020-05-04 3.384.0
  • Improved accessibility of the skip-button.
IAB Tech Lab 2020-05-07 OTT vs. CTV: What’s in a Name?
  • Article on when to use OTT and when to use CTV.
Prebid.js 2020-05-08 Prebid 3.19.0 Release
SIMID 2020-05-07 newest html version (#342)
  • Update 7 May.

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-05-06 Android 11: Beta Plans
iOS iPadOS 2020-05-06 iOS & iPadOS 13.5 Beta 4 Release Notes
tvOS 2020-05-06 tvOS 13.4.5 Beta 4 Release Notes
Fire TV 2020-05-08 Live TV Integration
  • Live TV integration is primarily focused on helping your existing customers experience live TV (programs scheduled in a 24/7 linear feed) in a content-forward way.

Players

Source Date Item
JW Player iOS 2020-05-06 3.14.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-05-04 5.8.0
Shaka Player 2020-05-05 v2.5.11
Shaka Player 2020-05-05 v2.5.11-master
VHS 2020-05-06 v2.0.0-rc.0
JW Player Android 2020-05-07 3.13.0
VHS 2020-05-07 v2.0.0-rc.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 18, 2020 (April, May)

The HLS specification now mentions "Low Latency" mode (AKA LL-HLS), so Apple gets the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball.  Huray!

What else is new between 27 April - 3 May?

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-04-29 Keeping spam off the Chrome Web Store
  • Policy changes to Chrome Web Store and Chrome extensions.

Organizations

Source Date Item
Mozilla Blog 2020-04-28 Which Video Call Apps Can You Trust?

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-04-30 Developer Network Series: Everything you need to know about Video Compression
JW Player 2020-04-30 Live Channels by JW Player
Eyevinn Technology 2020-05-02 Live Streaming a Tech Talk with a Remote Presenter

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
FFmpeg 2020-04-27 n2.8.16

IDEs

Source Date Item
Xcode 2020-04-30 Xcode 11.5 Beta Release Notes

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-04-28 3.383.0
Prebid.js 2020-04-29 Prebid 3.18.0 Release

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-04-27 High refresh rate rendering on Android
iOS iPadOS 2020-04-30 iOS & iPadOS 13.5 Beta 3 Release Notes
tvOS 2020-04-30 tvOS 13.4.5 Beta 3 Release Notes

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-04-28 Web 8.34.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-04-28 Android 2.44.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-04-27 Roku 1.26.0
JW Player iOS 2020-04-27 3.13.0
JW Player Web 2020-04-30 v8.13.8

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
TypeScript 2020-04-28 TypeScript 3.9 RC
TypeScript 2020-04-28 TypeScript 3.9 Beta

Specifications

Source Date Item
HLS 2020-05-02 draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-07
  • Added low latency mode to the spec!

The OTT Changelog: Week 17, 2020 (April)

It was uneventful between the 20th and the 26th of April. No 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball this week!

Browsers

Source Date Item
WebKit 2020-04-23 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 105
Safari 2020-04-26 Safari 13.1 Release Notes
  • Added support for Picture-in-Picture API.
  • Speed improvements.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-04-22 Video Tech Deep-Dive: Live Low Latency Streaming Part 1
Netflix 2020-04-21 How Netflix brings safer and faster streaming experience to the living room on crowded networks…
  • Article on how TLS 1.3 makes Netflix more secure and faster compared to TLS 1.2.
FAME 2020-04-23 Streaming FOKUS´ Virtual Town Hall Meeting

Data

Source Date Item
Conviva SDK 2020-04-22 2.142.6
Conviva SDK 2020-04-22 2.141.6
Conviva SDK 2020-04-23 Release Version 2.142.6
Conviva SDK 2020-04-23 Release Version 2.141.6

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Azure Media Services 2020-04-20 April 2020
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-04-21 Encoder 2.44.1
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-04-21 Encoder 2.44.0
Encoding.com 2020-04-20 20 April 2020
SVT-AV1 2020-04-19 SVT-AV1 v0.8.2
Verizon Media Platform 2020-04-20 Slicer Monitoring 2.0 Launched
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-04-24 Encoder 2.44.2
SVT-AV1 2020-04-24 SVT-AV1 v0.8.3

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-04-22 3.382.1
Prebid.js 2020-04-23 Prebid 3.17.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Xbox One 2020-04-21 OS version: 10.0.19041.1927 (rs_xbox_release_2004.200415-0000)(4)

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-04-23 Android 11: Developer Preview 3

Players

Source Date Item
Radiant Media Player 2020-04-21 5.7.10
VHS 2020-04-22 v1.13.3
JW Player iOS 2020-04-22 3.12.1
JW Player Web 2020-04-23 v8.13.7
  • No new features.
THEOplayer 2020-04-23 🚀 2.70.0

The OTT Changelog: Week 16, 2020 (April)

This is what changed in online video between the 13th and the 19th of April.

  • DASH-IF releases CPIX v2.3 for community review.
  • 🥎 GPAC's core gets a rewrite in 0.9.0. (Their first release since 27-Jun-2019, so definitely worthy of the Weekly Golden Ball!)
  • Dash.js and Hls.js get nice new features.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-04-17 Chrome 83 Beta: Cross-site Scripting Protection, Improved Form Controls, and Safe Cross-origin Resource Sharing
  • Increase support for JavaScript V8 engine to v8.3.
Firefox Nightly News 2020-04-17 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 73
  • Added support for Picture-in-Picture across workspaces on MacOS.

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-04-17 DASH-IF publishes CPIX v2.3 for community review to address alignment between SPEKE and CPIX based on broad industry support.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
AWS Media 2020-04-14 Connecting OBS Studio to AWS Media Services in the Cloud
AWS Media 2020-04-13 Connecting AWS Elemental Live On-Premises to AWS Media Services in the Cloud
Mux 2020-04-15 Intro guide: How to figure out which live streaming platform to use and why
Mux 2020-04-13 The state of going live from a browser
AWS Media 2020-04-16 Now on Video: Presentations from the AWS Media Symposium – Miami
  • Bunch of videos can be accessed linked. Could be useful.
THEOplayer 2020-04-16 VR360: Immersive Engagement for your Viewers
  • Recap on basics of VR/360.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-04-14 Encoder 2.40.2
GPAC 2020-04-15 0.9.0 Preview
  • Rewrite of the core.
  • Added better support for DASH low latency.
  • Full ffmpeg support.
Verizon Media Platform 2020-04-15 Channel Stats API v5 now available

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-04-16 v0.63.0-rc.0

IDEs

Source Date Item
Xcode 2020-04-15 Xcode 11.4.1 Release Notes
  • Mainly just bug fixes.

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-04-14 3.381.0
IMA HTML5 2020-04-13 3.380.0
Prebid.js 2020-04-15 Prebid.js 3.16.0 Release
SIMID 2020-04-13 Edits to 1.0.1 (#333)
  • Small changes to spec.
IMA HTML5 2020-04-17 3.381.3
IMA HTML5 2020-04-16 3.381.2
IMA HTML5 2020-04-16 3.381.1
  • Fixed playback freeze issue due to ad loading failure.

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
PS4 2020-04-16 7.50

Platforms

Source Date Item
iOS iPadOS 2020-04-15 iOS & iPadOS 13.4.5 Beta 2 Release Notes
tvOS 2020-04-15 tvOS 13.4.5 Beta 2 Release Notes
Android 2020-04-17 Developer tools to debug WebView in Beta
  • Add WebView DevTools.

Players

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Web 2020-04-14 Web 8.33.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-04-14 iOS 2.44.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-04-14 Android 2.43.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-04-13 Roku 1.25.0
dash.js 2020-04-14 Dash.js v3.1.0
  • Add support for offline playback (without support for content protection or multi-period).
JW Player Web 2020-04-13 v8.13.4
hls.js 2020-04-16 v0.14.0-beta.1
  • Add support for 4 CEA-608/708 channels.
Video.js 2020-04-16 v7.8.1

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Kotlin 2020-04-15 Added 1.3.71, 1.3.72 changelogs

The OTT Changelog: Week 15, 2020 (April)

This is what happened in online video between 6 and 12 April in 2020.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Firefox Beta 2020-04-07 76.0beta
  • Double-clicking PiP puts the player in fullscreen.
Firefox Nightly 2020-04-06 77.0a1
Firefox Nightly News 2020-04-06 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 72
WebKit 2020-04-08 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 104
  • Add support for WebRTC HEVC.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Eyevinn Technology 2020-04-06 Javascript Libraries for HLS Manifest Manipulation
Dailymotion 2020-04-10 How Dailymotion and CANAL+ managed to host a PR screening… with cinemas closed
FAME 2020-04-06 dash.js – Common-Media-Client-Data

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-04-07 Encoder 2.43.0
Verizon Media Platform 2020-04-06 Slicer Release 20031300

Frameworks

Source Date Item
React Native 2020-04-08 v0.62.2

Ads

Source Date Item
Prebid.js 2020-04-07 Prebid 3.15.0 Release
IMA HTML5 2020-04-09 3.379.2
  • Updated the handling of VPAID ads to no longer spawn new video elements. Previously, IMA would create a new video element for VPAID ads when the element provided by the publisher did not function as expected.

Players

Source Date Item
Video.js 2020-04-06 v7.8.0
Bitmovin Web 2020-04-07 Web 8.32.1
ExoPlayer 2020-04-08 r2.11.4
JW Player Android 2020-04-10 3.12.1

The OTT Changelog: Week 14, 2020 (March, April)

This is the transition for online video from March to April 2020.

  • 📺 DASH IF publishes a joint webinar with DVB to YouTube. This 95' video talks about ad-insertion in live, low-latency and multi-DRM.
  • 🍏 Apple surprises us with Safari 13.1:  support for Picture-in-Picture W3C API, playing nice with DataCue and enhancements for TextTrackCue.
  • 💨 Windows lures us to the new Edge as the only Windows browser to support Netflix in 4K.
  • 🥎 Netflix gets our Weekly Golden Ball for their post on Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Edge 2020-03-31 Plan for change: TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 soon to be disabled by default
WebKit 2020-04-03 New WebKit Features in Safari 13.1

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-04-01 DASH-IF delivers joint webinar with DVB - Presentations and Videos Online.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-03-31 Everything you need to know on image compression
JW Player 2020-03-31 Video Consumption Trends Across JW Player Network Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Video usage +40% due to COVID-19.
Roku 2020-03-31 Roku OS 9.3: better performance, enhanced Roku Voice and compatible with smart assistants!
  • Roku Voice was made more natural, and supports more commands.
  • Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can now control Roku Players and TV models.
  • 9.3 roll-out starts in April and will probably last until May.
Netflix 2020-04-02 Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
  • An article on the state of (up-scaling the quality of) anime content, with too many insights. Awesome read.

Content Protection

Source Date Item
Widevine 2020-04-01 Widevine Quarterly Partner Update - Q1 2020
  • Released the Proxy SDK for DRM.

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Shaka Packager 2020-03-30 v2.4.2
Encoding.com 2020-04-02 02 April 2020
  • Added support for an EXT-X-IMAGE-STREAM-INF tag to achieve preview thumbnails?

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-04-02 1.17.0-dev.5.0: Add toggleable attribute to Radio (#53846)
React Native 2020-04-03 v0.62.1

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA HTML5 2020-04-01 3.378.0
  • Service release; no new features.
Prebid.js 2020-04-01 Prebid 3.14.0 Release
  • Improved support for GDPR TCF 2.0.
IAB Tech Lab 2020-04-02 Retiring the DigiTrust CMP by End of June

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-03-30 The top 10 reasons to switch to the new Microsoft Edge
  • One of the selling points is that it's the only Windows browser which lets you watch Netflix and 4k.
  • Another selling point is that it's the only browser on Windows 10 to support Dolby Audio and Vision.

Platforms

Source Date Item
iOS iPadOS 2020-03-31 iOS & iPadOS 13.4.5 Beta Release Notes
tvOS 2020-03-31 tvOS 13.4.5 Beta Release Notes

Players

Source Date Item
VHS 2020-03-30 v1.13.2
Bitmovin Web 2020-03-31 Web 8.32.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-03-31 iOS 2.43.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-03-31 Android 2.42.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-03-30 Roku 1.24.0
JW Player Web 2020-04-01 v8.13.3
  • JW Player now uses Prebid.js for header-bidding.
THEOplayer 2020-03-30 🚀2.69.0
Radiant Media Player 2020-04-01 5.7.8

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The OTT Changelog: March 2020

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So what changed in March 2020?

  • 🍏 Apple's complete phasing out of third-party cookies is one to write down, and so is the Swift 5.2 release. The HLS spec got their periodic update. Nothing spectacular changed though.
  • 🦊 Firefox did some changes to PiP.
  • 😷 Microsoft and Google paused working on their Edge and Chrome releases due to COVID-19.
  • 👩‍💻 DASH-IF had a busy month.
  • 📺 Tizen 5.5 and webOS 5.X info got published to the Samsung and Tizen websites.

Browsers

Source Date Item
Chromium 2020-03-26 Chrome and Chrome OS release updates
  • Upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases are paused due to COVID-19.
Chromium 2020-03-18 Upcoming Chrome releases
  • Upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases are paused due to COVID-19.
Chromium 2020-03-12 New developer dashboard and registration flow for Chrome Web Store
Firefox Beta 2020-03-10 75.0beta
Firefox Nightly 2020-03-10 76.0a1
  • Picture-in-Picture update: add support for keyboard controls on most websites (Play, Pause, Seeking, Volume)
  • Picture-in-Picture update: put PiP in fullscreen by double-clicking.
Google Web Updates 2020-03-01 The Chromium Chronicle: Time-Travel Debugging with RR
Google Web Updates 2020-03-01 What's New In DevTools (Chrome 82)
Edge 2020-03-20 Update on Stable channel releases for Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft paused working on the Stable channel for Microsoft Edge due to COVID-19.
Edge 2020-03-11 Improving DevTools accessibility in Microsoft Edge
Safari 2020-03-29 Safari 13.1 Beta Release Notes
  • Picture-in-Picture: Added support for the Picture-in-Picture API.
  • Media Capabilities: Added support for HDR video using the Media Capabilities API.
  • Remote Playback: Added support for the Remote Playback API.
WebKit 2020-03-26 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 103
WebKit 2020-03-24 Full Third-Party Cookie Blocking and More
  • Third-party cookies completely blocked as of iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS. This could impact your stream if it relies on these type of cookies.
WebKit 2020-03-05 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 102
Firefox Nightly News 2020-03-18 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 71
Firefox Nightly News 2020-03-03 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 70
Google Web Updates 2020-03-01 What's New In DevTools (Chrome 83)

Organizations

Source Date Item
Dash IF 2020-03-29 DASH-IF publishes Low-Latency DASH extensions and 2nd Community Review for DASH-IF Ad Insertion.
Dash IF 2020-03-23 DASH-IF publishes Live Media Ingest Technical Specification.
Google Developers Blog 2020-03-24 Alfred Camera: Smart camera features using MediaPipe
  • Use-case of MediaPipe. Read if you are into object-detection.

Company Blogs

Source Date Item
Bitmovin 2020-03-05 Bitmovin’s Video Top Video Technology Trends 2020
Crunchyroll 2020-03-18 Behind VRV’s Recommendation Engine
  • Read if you are into recommendation engines.
JW Player 2020-03-24 JW Player Launches Video Thumbnails
Netflix 2020-03-13 SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoder
Netflix 2020-03-03 How Netflix uses Druid for Real-time Insights to Ensure a High-Quality Experience
THEOplayer 2020-03-12 ABR for More Efficient Bandwidth Usage
Showmax 2020-03-22 Cost Effective Encoding Noises
Dailymotion 2020-03-03 One year with Jenkins X
Eyevinn Technology 2020-03-07 The hockey stick
Eyevinn Technology 2020-03-04 Keep an Eye on the Video Quality
Roku 2020-03-24 Disney+ now available on Roku streaming devices in the UK & Ireland!
Roku 2020-03-13 How to Activate Your Roku Streaming Player or Roku TV
Roku 2020-03-06 International Women’s Day: The best films created by female directors

Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers

Source Date Item
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-03-24 Encoder 2.42.0
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-03-10 Encoder 2.41.0
Bitmovin Encoder 2020-03-04 Encoder 2.40.1
Encoding.com 2020-03-12 12 March 2020
Verizon Media Platform 2020-03-25 Improved Analytics & New Services Tab
Verizon Media Platform 2020-03-20 Log pushing enhancements
Shaka Packager 2020-03-30 v2.4.2
dav1d 2020-03-05 dav1d 0.6.0 'Gyrfalcon', the fast and lean AV1 decoder
  • 2.5 times faster than the previous patch.
rav1e 2020-03-06 v0.1.1
AWS MediaPackage 2020-03-09 Updated maximum time-shifted and live-to-VOD manifest length
AWS MediaTailor 2020-03-13 New avail.index dynamic ad variable
AWS MediaTailor 2020-03-10 New AdVerifications and Extensions elements

Frameworks

Source Date Item
Flutter 2020-03-26 v1.16.3
React Native 2020-03-26 v0.62.0

Ads

Source Date Item
IMA Android 2020-03-25 3.18.1
  • Adds scaling for Companion Ads on high-pixel-density devices.
IMA Android 2020-03-04 3.18.0
  • Adds pause() and resume() to the VideoStreamPlayer interface.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-25 3.377.0
  • Service release; no new features.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-20 3.376.3
  • Service release; no new features.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-16 3.375.0
  • Service release; no new features.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-11 3.374.1
  • Service release; no new features.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-10 3.373.2
  • Fixed a bug that caused VOLUME_CHANGED and VOLUME_MUTED events to not fire correctly.
IMA HTML5 2020-03-02 3.372.1
  • Service release; no new features.
IMA iOS 2020-03-26 3.11.4
  • Increases the minimum runtime version to iOS 10
  • Fixes a bug where some UI updates could trigger on a background thread
  • Fixes an issue where strict flags would make IMACompanionAd's init conflict with NSObject's
  • Deprecates the loadURL method on the IMAVideoDisplay protocol
Prebid.js 2020-03-25 Prebid 3.13.0 Release
Prebid.js 2020-03-17 Prebid 3.12.0
Prebid.js 2020-03-11 Prebid 3.11.0 Release
Prebid.js 2020-03-05 Prebid.js 3.10.0 Release

Operating Systems

Source Date Item
Windows 2020-03-25 Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19592
Windows 2020-03-20 Update on Stable channel releases for Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft paused working on the Stable channel for Microsoft Edge due to COVID-19.
Windows 2020-03-30 The top 10 reasons to switch to the new Microsoft Edge
  • One of the selling points is that it's the only Windows browser which lets you watch Netflix and 4k.
  • Another selling point is that it's the only browser on Windows 10 to support Dolby Audio and Vision.

Platforms

Source Date Item
Android 2020-03-18 Android 11: Developer Preview 2
Google Cast 2020-03-12 March 12, 2020
  • CAF Receiver: Shaka Player to 2.5.8.
  • CAF Receiver: Added support for new device capability IS_CBCS_SUPPORTED to deviceCapabilities.
iOS iPadOS 2020-03-29 iOS & iPadOS 13.4 Release Notes
Samsung Tizen 2020-03-29 2020
  • Info on Tizen 5.5 published!
tvOS 2020-03-29 tvOS 13.4 Release Notes

Players

Source Date Item
Azure Media Player 2020-03-04 2.3.4
Bitmovin Web 2020-03-17 Web 8.31.0
Bitmovin Web 2020-03-03 Web 8.30.1
Bitmovin Web 2020-03-03 Web 8.30.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-03-16 iOS 2.42.0
Bitmovin iOS 2020-03-02 iOS 2.41.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-03-23 Android 2.41.2
Bitmovin Android 2020-03-17 Android 2.41.1
Bitmovin Android 2020-03-16 Android 2.41.0
Bitmovin Android 2020-03-02 Android 2.40.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-03-15 Roku 1.23.0
Bitmovin Roku 2020-03-01 Roku 1.22.0
dash.js 2020-03-12 Dash.js v3.0.3
  • Implement a first version of the Common Media Client Data specification.
JW Player Android 2020-03-16 3.12.0
JW Player iOS 2020-03-16 3.11.1
Radiant Media Player 2020-03-14 5.7.6
Radiant Media Player 2020-03-06 5.7.5
Radiant Media Player 2020-03-05 5.7.4
Radiant Media Player 2020-03-04 5.7.3
Shaka Player 2020-03-24 v2.5.10
Shaka Player 2020-03-24 v2.5.10-master
JW Player Web 2020-03-29 v6.12.0
Clappr 2020-03-05 0.3.12
Clappr 2020-03-05 0.3.11
Clappr 2020-03-05 0.3.10
MediaElementJs 2020-03-16 4.2.16
MediaElementJs 2020-03-09 4.2.15
Radiant Media Player 2020-03-29 5.7.7
React Native Video 2020-03-11 4.4.5
VHS 2020-03-28 v1.13.1
VHS 2020-03-26 v1.13.0
VHS 2020-03-16 v1.12.3
Video.js 2020-03-25 v7.7.6
VHS 2020-03-30 v1.13.2
JW Player iOS 2020-03-26 3.12.0
JW Player Web 2020-03-23 v8.13.1
THEOplayer 2020-03-30 🚀2.69.0
THEOplayer 2020-03-18 2.68.1

Programming Languages

Source Date Item
Swift 2020-03-25 Swift 5.3 Release Process
  • Swift 5.3 will be cut in the Swift repo on April 20, 2020.
Swift 2020-03-24 Swift 5.2 Released!
  • Offers improved compiler diagnostics.
  • Has code completion improvements.
  • Has improved build algorithms.
  • Part of Xcode 11.4.
Kotlin 2020-03-23 Add changelog for 1.4-M1
TypeScript 2020-03-02 TypeScript 3.8.3

Specifications

Source Date Item
HLS 2020-03-29 draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-06
  • Expires September 26, 2020.
  • Master Playlist Tags moved up in the document.