Product Update: Player Dev Kit 4.4

Enhancements Make for a Simpler, Better Video Player

We are excited to announce the latest updates to our Player Dev Kit (Player Dev Kit 4.4). This release marks a major advancement to our player framework, making it easier to build players and provide a better viewing experience for your end users.

Thanks to the great feedback from our customers, we’ve improved the overall structure of our player code base and removed unnecessary complexities. The result? You now have more flexibility in building a player for any environment.

What Was Changed?

We enhanced the underlying framework in order to make it easier to build players that are optimized for websites, mobile devices, tablets and OTT services. To do this we focused on a few key areas:

  • Simplify the code base – Improved to make it easier and faster for you to implement.
  • Automatically detect the right device
    • You no longer have to worry about building more than one player or adding in detection logic to your pages. We take care of that for you behind the scenes . Example: If you have an environment that supports Flash, our Flash Player components will render, or if your environment only supports HTML5, such as an iPad, HTML5 player components will automatically render.
    • We now automatically select the best file format for play back, or you can set your preferences through configuration.
  • Make the player more SEO friendly – Our new framework and semantically sound code base makes it easier to code and structure your SEO elements within the Any Player page.

These enhancements mark some pretty significant changes to our Player Dev Kit, all of which are well documented in the Player Dev Kit Users Guide. If you have any questions or would like some additional training, please contact our Trainer. We’ll be more than happy to walk you through all of these changes.

What’s Next on Player Dev Kit’s Roadmap?

Soon, the HTML5 player will share the same rich features found on the Flash player, such as Navigation, Category List, the Control Rack, Search, and other plug-ins. Stay tuned for future release information.

To learn more about our latest Player Dev Kit releases, check our Technical Resource Center.

Questions, comments, or suggestions? Feel free to contact us or call your Account Manager.

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