26 May 2013 - Version 2.0

New Features

• Introduces pluggable architecture for player widgets via API/Provider mechanisms
• Adds support for YouTube's IFrame API

Improvements

• Creation of YouTubePlayer widgets now requires the ID of the video instead of the YouTube URL

Bug Fixes

• Issue #49 - QuickTimePlayer "this.GetPluginVersion" is not a function in Firefox on Mac OS
• Issue #53 - PlayerUtil.getPlayer() parsing problem with www url's
• Issue #56 - FlashMediaPlayer play(index) event information incorrect
• Issue #65 - Setting 'wmode' with YouTubePlayer.setConfigParameter() has no effect
• Issue #66 - YouTubePlayer not firing error events
• Issue #68 - YouTubePlayer setAutoPlay(false) stopped working

Known Issue

• Resizing WinMediaPlayer widget is not supported for non-IE browsers. This is due to unpredictable rendering behaviour when using playlists. However, this feature works fine in IE browsers.

8 December 2011 - Version 1.3

New Features

• Requires GWT 2.2 or later
• FlashMediaPlayer widget requires Flash Player 10 or later
• Introduces ASX and XSPF/JSPF playlist parsers
• Issue #47 - Introduces support for custom player/plugin integration based on the API

Improvements

• Enhanced UiBinder support
• YouTubePlayer widget now wraps YouTube's AS3 player version
• Added support for autohide, controls and modestbranding parameters on the YouTubePlayer widget

Bug Fixes

• Issue #38 - TypeError: Object [object HTMLObjectElement] has no method 'close'
• Issue #45 - PlayStateEvent.getItemIndex() always return 0 for FlashMediaPlayer
• Issue #46 - QuickTime player doesn't work in IE
• Issue #50 - Error getting plugin if URL contains sessionid parameter
• Issue #51 - Transparent Mode for CustomVideoPlayer

Known Issue

• Resizing WinMediaPlayer widget is not supported for non-IE browsers. This is due to unpredictable rendering behaviour when using playlists. However, this feature works fine in IE browsers.

24 February 2011 - Version 1.2.1 / 1.2.1-le

This is a bug-fix release addressing critical bugs and some feature improvements. Version 1.2.1-le is provided for GWT versions before 2.2

Improvements

• Provides support for plugin/mime-type specification based on media plugin version
• Conditional inclusion of player resources
• BackgroundColor configuration property added for background color support

Bug Fixes

• Issue #32 - Video invisible in FlashMediaPlayer with player height less than 30px
• Issue #35 - FlashMediaPlayer enhanced with filesystem support
• Issue #36 - WinMediaPlayer autoplays with autoplay set to false
• Issue #44 - Compilation problems with GWT 2.2 (for version 1.2.1 only)

Known Issue

• Resizing WinMediaPlayer widget is not supported for non-IE browsers. This is due to unpredictable rendering behaviour when using playlists. However, this feature works fine in IE browsers.

27 November 2010 - Version 1.2

New Features

• Introduces DivXPlayer widget to embed DivX® Web Player plugin.
• Adds support for fullscreen events
• Adds fullscreen support to FlashMediaPlayer widget
• Introduces playlist repeat modes

Improvements

• FlashMediaPlayer implements native player controls
• Adds playlist support to all core player widgets
• API internals reworked to improve performance

Bug Fixes

• Issue #18 - Fixed autoplay for Chromeless YouTube player
• Issue #20 - Playlist support for custom player widgets
• Issue #23 - Memory leaks on each repeat
• Issue #24 - Continous playback with WinMediaPlayer
• Issue #26 - NativePlayerImpl$setTime should return 0 on Exception
• Issue #27 - LoadingProgressHandler not working in IE
• Issue #28 - QuickTimePlayer widget surrounded by padding in IE
• Issue #29 - getPlayPosition() and getMediaDuration() always returning 0.0 on YouTube videos
• Issue #30 - Loop forever a flash video do not work

Known Issue

• Resizing WinMediaPlayer widget is not supported for non-IE browsers. This is due to unpredictable rendering behaviour when using playlists. However, this feature works fine in IE browsers.

08 February 2010 - Version 1.1

New Features

• Adds NativePlayer widget to embed media using HTML 5 video elements.
• Introduces YouTube module to wrap YouTube player as GWT widget
• Adds GWT 2.0's UiBinder support
• Adds module to export the player widgets as Javascript object
• Adds matrix transformation feature support

Improvements

• Adds support for Mouse and Keyboard event handlers

Bug Fixes

• Issue #8 - Setting UIMode on WinMediaPlayer now work in Google Chrome.
• Issue #11 - JavaScript Exception properly handled when player is created without any suitable plugins
• Issue #13 - Fixed visibility issues for unknown video codec in FlashMediaPlayer.
• Issue #14 - FlashMediaPlayer now scales properly if size is smaller than video size
• Issue #15 - Transparent mode support for FlashMediaPlayer implemented

26 July 2009 - Version 1.0

New Features

• Supports GWT 1.7
• Introduces VLCPlayer widget to embed VLC Media Player plugin.
• Players can auto-adjust size to match the dimension of videos
• Client-side playlists support added
• Introduces automatic player selection based on desired plugin features

Improvements

• Code refactoring: library split into modules and packages renamed.
• MediaStateListeners replaced with media state handlers inline with GWT 1.6 event system
• FlashMP3Player and FlashVideoPlayer widgets replaced with the new FlashMediaPlayer widget
• FlatCustomControl widget replaced with the new CustomPlayerControl widget
• JSNI implementation of player widgets reworked to reduce memory leaks
• More plugin-specific accessors added ( Issue #5)

Bug Fixes

• Method calls on QuickTimePlayer object works in Internet Explorer

13 March 2009 - Version 0.6

This release introduces the following features

• FlashVideoPlayer for Flash video playback support, other players also support video playback
• SWFWidget class to embed generic Flash applications
• Media metadata now supported via MediaInfo class
• Automatic player plugin selection algorithm refined to support streaming media protocols.

Bug Fixes

• All WinMediaPlayer constructors work as expected - ( Issue #2)

Known Issue

• Method calls on QuickTimePlayer object does not work in Internet Explorer although embedding QuickTime plugin with the widget works fine

13 February 2009 - Version 0.5.1

This release fixes various bugs in the JSNI implementation of the player widgets.

Known Issue

• Method calls on QuickTimePlayer object does not work in Internet Explorer although embedding QuickTime plugin with the widget works fine

03 February 2009 - Version 0.5

Initial release