Product Release: Player Dev Kit 4.4.3
Customer Requests Bring New Enhancements
We think our latest release of Player Dev Kit is going to make a lot of people happy. After all, many of the enhancements are the result of your feedback. You spoke, we listened. And now we have an assortment of features and new capabilities you can take advantage of right now.
Here’s a list of what Player Dev Kit 4.4.3 has to offer:
Custom Controls during Ads – Customers can now change the control rack during advertisements via Advertisement Controls in the layout XML. This gives you more control over the playback experience while your ads are playing.
VPAID interactive ad support – We now support the use of Video Player-Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) files referenced from VAST ad payloads. The introduction of VPAID is intended to reduce the need for custom plug-ins for different advertising providers. A VPAID ad uses a standard interface that allows it to control the player software that hosts it.
Akamai HD support – We upgraded to the latest Akamai HDNetwork, version 2.2. This enables delivering of a single set of files from MPX as either Adobe H.D.S (Zeri) or Apple H.L.S. without doing multiple encodes for each platform, and using a single Public Url.
ComScore & Authentication plugins in HTML5 – We added a ComScore Plugin and an Authentication token plugin to the HTML5 player.
Metadata URL plugin support in HTML5 – We added support for Metadata URL plug-ins in the HTML components. This now allows the plug-ins to modify release URLs as they come into the HTML5 player.
Changes to Pause Events – We added smarter logic to determine where the pause call came from, was it automatic from an ad or other event or manual from the user clicking pause? This gives you more control over your decision path on what to do when the video is paused.
Customer input leads to innovation – so keep those requests coming!
We want to ensure you continue to provide your customers with the best video viewing experience out there.
If you are interested in learning more our Player Dev Kit or other products, please visit our Technical Resource Center.
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