Version 0.9.0 - Free Video Player (ALPHA)

• Version 0.9.0 - ALPHA
  • Ability to play adaptive VOD content in the form of DASH
  • Aswell as regular VOD content with containers such as MP4 and WEBM
  • Modularized player code into modules - for better code separation and enabling for a future module based system
  • Optional configuration object when instantiating Free Video Player, being able to show/hide specific video controls
  • Ability to alter CSS classes and HTML of video controls being generated
  • The video controls being generated includes support for spacebar working as play/pause button, and enter button acting as toggling between fullscreen mode. The user can exit the fullscreen mode by pressing esc
  • Support in Chrome, Safari, Opera and FireFox
  • For adaptive DASH content, support for multiple bitrates exists
  • For adaptive DASH content, built in adaptive bitrate algorithm for multiple bitrates exists. This is currently based on the download times for each segment
  • For adaptive DASH content, support for subtitles exists, for non-segmented subtitle VTT files, added as a separate adaptionSet within the mpd
  • For adaptive DASH content, support for both separated video and audio tracks, aswell as muxxed (video and audio combined) exists
  • The release comes with a fully documented version (free.video.player.full.js) and a minified version (free.video.player.minified.js), a css file for player styles (free.video.player.style.css), aswell as base files for SCSS (for web-designers/developers wanting to just style the player a bit), a documentation folder including JSDOC based documentation more explicitly describing the Free Video Player API and more, a subtitles folder with a parsed JSON file including information for subtitle labels which Free Video Player per default utilizes if subtitles are found within a DASH stream, and finally the release also contains both a README and a LICENSE file