v6.0.0

Stable 6.0.0 (2024-05-14)

Main Changes

🚀 Features

General

• Add typescript (#3266)
• Add notification controls (#3723)
• Add support of subtitles style configuration
• Implement startPosition (#3355)
• Add full screen support
• RN 0.73 support
• Add playback functions to ref
• Update isCodecSupported to return enum
• Add onVolumeChange event (#3322)
• Add AdEvent enum to have an exhaustive list of all possible AdEvent values (#3374)
• Move require (local files) to source.uri (#3535)
• Implement opacity to control visibility of subtitles (#3583)

Android

• Replace deprecated ExoPlayer2 with AndroidX media3 (#3337)
• Add new apis to query device capabilities
• Add new events for audioTrack, textTracks and videoTracks
• Add prop to control debug log level (#3277)
• Add subtitle event (#3566)
• Allow to disable selected functionalities (#3681)
• Cache (#3514)
• Implement asset folder playback (#3733)
• Make buffering strategy dynamic (#3756)
• Add support of square video format
• Add support for AGP 8

iOS

• Implement onPlaybackStateChanged callback (#3307)
• Add onBandwidthUpdate event (#3331)
• Add visionOS support (#3425)
• Implement onAudioTracks and onTextTracks (#3503)
• Add support for accessing WebVTT Subtitle Content (#3541)
• Add support for ios camera roll
• Swift Conversion

tvOS

• Add custom image metadata option for tvos and add missing types for custom metadata properties (#3280)

🐛 Bug Fixes

General

• Improve initial test for checking url validity
• Add accessibility & testID in typing (#3434)
• Fix crash with interop layer (#3509)
• Add missing shutterColor type (#3561)
• Fix getLicense function's type definition (#3606)
• Remove setNativeProps usage (#3605)
• Fix codegen types (#3636)
• Ensure poster works as expected and add it to the sample (#3643)
• Ensure tracks are available in sample (#3660)
• Prevents crash from occurring when using the selected video track with resolution type (#3664)
• Avoid crash when setting index to 0 to tracks selection (#3721)

Android

• Ensure playback progress is reported even if paused
• Fix the play button no shown after pausing video at the very first time
• Fix the hardware back button
• Ensure player is stopped when invalid uri is configured
• Add stub for IMA and option to enable it on demand
• Remove kotlin-android-extensions (#3299)
• Ensure audio volume is changed in UI thread (#3292)
• Fix leak caused by removing lifecycle listener too early (#3380)
• Ensure save doesn't crash on android (#3415)
• Support opacity properly (#3464)
• Fix Re-layout controls after fullscreen dismiss (#3490)
• Check disableFocus when state is ready (#3494)
• EnableDecoderFallback to decrease DECODER_ERROR issue (#3416)
• Ensure rate is never set to 0 (#3593)
• Track selection parameter has change in last release. (#3594)
• Keep screen on on fullscreen (#3563)
• Set title for external subtitles (#3676)
• Fixed bug where video would not be visible after remount and change of drm source (#3668)
• Seek callback with controls (#3694)
• Prevent changing video track when video load (#3683)

iOS

• Fix Unable to disable sideloaded texttracks in the AVPlayer
• Fix memory leaks for iOS
• Fix the kvo compliance crash when rapidly switching source
• Ensure controls are not displayed when disabled by user
• Ensure audio and subtitle tracks are well reported
• Fix Memory leak due to [weak self] and delegate not being weak
• Fix Fairplay different key per asset (#3261)
• Fix Resuming video ad after closing the in-app browser on iOS (#3275)
• Remove false calls at onPlaybackRateChange (#3306)
• Fix Player is frozen after re-focusing on the app (#3326)
• Fix external text tracks crashes with m3u8 files (#3330)
• Fix pip when player doesn't fill screen (#3363)
• Check for ios url query encoding (#3384)
• Do not crash when accessLog return nil (#3549)
• Fix missing bridge in bridgeless mode (#3570)
• Don't crop video when in repeat mode (#3575)
• Split licenseUrl and loadedLicenseUrl (#3578)
• Ensure playback stopped in background (#3587)
• Fix iOS DRM header parser (#3609)
• Fix PiP callback (#3601)
• Call PictureInPicture callbacks with native controls (#3603)
• Apply PictureInPicture state on start (#3655)
• Do not save pause state before seeking (#3650)
• Workaround for rate change (#3657)
• Add workaround for TouchableWithoutFeedback (#3688)
• Fix sideloading external subtitles (#3690)
• Ensure duration available when playing live (#3710)
• Ensure orientation is correct on iOS (#3719)
• Destroy adsManager when player detach from super view (#3716) (#3722)
• Restore caching feature (#3341)
• Fix real time issue when fast zapping (#3582)

tvOS

• Fix Compile issues with tvOS linked to earpiece & pip (#3276)

🚜 Refactor

• (ios) Remove type assertion within setupPipController (#3493)
• Refactor resize prop handler (#3286)
• Refactor fullScreenPlayerView creation

⚡ Performance

• Ensure we do not provide callback to native if no callback provided from app (#3735)
• (ios) Add early returns (#3741)
• (android) Refactor side loaded text tracks (#3754)

Full History

This changelog only includes the changes that are relevant to the end user. 5.2.1 is +900 commits behind new stable version.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the commit history.
Full Changelog: v5.2.1...v6.0.0

v6.0.0-rc.2

What's Changed

• Revert "fix(android): video flickering add playback start (#3746)" by @ZakirBangash in #3748
• fix(js): fix onPlaybackStateChanged callback by @YangJonghun in #3753
• chore(android): refactor side loaded text tracks by @freeboub in #3754
• fix(ts): add missing type by @freeboub in #3757
• feat(android): make buffering strategy dynamic by @freeboub in #3756
• fix(avoid): avoid early return in setSrc by @freeboub in #3759
• Fix(android): avoid video resizing flickering by @freeboub in #3751
• fix(ios): call onLoadStart earlier by @KrzysztofMoch in #3750

New Contributors

• @ZakirBangash made their first contribution in #3748

Full Changelog: v6.0.0-rc.1...v6.0.0-rc.2

v6.0.0-rc.1

6.0.0-rc.1 (2024-04-22)

Performance ⚡️

• perf: ensure we do not provide callback to native if no callback provided from app by @freeboub in #3735
• perf(ios): add early returns by @KrzysztofMoch in #3741

Features ✨

• feat: add notification controls by @KrzysztofMoch in #3723

Android

• feat(android): cache by @lovegaoshi in #3514
• feat(android): implement asset folder playback by @freeboub in #3733

Bug fixes 🐛

• chore: fix bug template to get free field for version by @freeboub in #3714
• fix: avoid crash when setting index to 0 to tracks selection by @freeboub in #3721

Android

• fix(android): prevent changing resolution video track when video load by @YangJonghun in #3683
• fix(android): Switch order of literals to prevent NullPointerException by @pixeeai in #3711
• fix(android): video flickering add playback start by @freeboub in #3746

iOS

• fix(ios): ensure duration available when playing live by @freeboub in #3710
• fix(ios): ensure orientation is correct on iOS by @freeboub in #3719
• fix(ios): destroy adsManager when player detach from super view (#3716) by @Khuongnb in #3722
• fix(ios): text track selection by index ios by @freeboub in #3728

Others

• docs(ios): no onSeek callback with controls by @freeboub in #3701
• chore(android): rework bufferConfig to make it more generic and reduce ReactExoplayerView code size by @freeboub in #3739

New Contributors

• @pixeeai made their first contribution in #3711
• @Khuongnb made their first contribution in #3722

Full Changelog: v6.0.0-rc.0...v6.0.0-rc.1

v6.0.0-rc.0

6.0.0-rc.0 (2024-04-22)

Features ✨:

• feat(android): allow to disable selected functionalities by @KrzysztofMoch in #3681
• feat(android): add rtsp support by @freeboub in #3677
  Fixes:

Braking

• feat!(ios): remove native dependency promises by @KrzysztofMoch in #3631

Bug fixes 🐛

iOS

• fix(ios): call PictureInPicture callbacks with native controls by @gkueny in #3603
• fix(ios): apply PictureInPicture state on start by @KrzysztofMoch in #3655
• fix(ios): do not save pause state before seeking by @freeboub in #3650
• fix(ios): workaround for rate change by @freeboub in #3657
• fix(ios): fix onPlaybackStateChanged by @YangJonghun in #3687
• fix(ios): add workaround for crash when using TouchableWithoutFeedback by @KrzysztofMoch in #3688
• fix(ios): fix sideloading external subtitles by @KrzysztofMoch in #3690

Android

• fix(android): set title for external subtitles by @KrzysztofMoch in #3676
• fix(android): fixed bug where video would not be visible after remount and change of drm source by @YangJonghun in #3668
• fix(android): catch errors in performOnPlayerViewCrash by @JinYuSha0 in #3685
• fix(android): seek callback with controls by @freeboub in #3694

Other

• fix: ensure poster works as expected and add it to the sample by @freeboub in #3643
• fix: prevents crash from occurring when using the selected video track with resolution type by @YangJonghun in #3664
• fix(ts): onPlaybackRateChangeData was not correctly typed by @freeboub in #3651

New Contributors:

@JinYuSha0 made their first contribution in #3685

v6.0.0-beta.8

6.0.0-beta.8 (2024-04-03)

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix(android): update ui manager getter by @KrzysztofMoch in #3634
• fix: fix codegen types by @KrzysztofMoch in #3636

Others ✨

• chore(android): fix various warning by @freeboub in #3625
• chore: disable codegen by @KrzysztofMoch in #3647

Full Changelog: v6.0.0-beta.7...v6.0.0-beta.8

V6.0.0-beta.7

6.0.0-beta.7 (2024-03-30)

Bug Fixes

• android: ensure rate is never set to 0 (#3593) (3d7444a)
• android: improve and backBufferDurationMs. mainly let exoplayer manage the prop (#3619) (f10511d)
• android: keep screen on on fullscreen (#3563) (bfb76e6)
• android: track selection parameter has change in last release. (#3594) (d5c8b51)
• fix getLicense function's type definition (#3606) (89ae843)
• inject onGetLicense prop properly for detect user defined or not (#3608) (24c1aab)
• iOS: fix iOS DRM header parser (#3609) (c9a75f3)
• ios: fix PiP callback (#3601) (bb9e7eb)
• ios: fix regression when playing source starting with ph:// (#3630) (75d3707)
• ios: fix startPosition, cropStart and cropEnd to handle float values correctly (#3589) (36bd2e2)
• iOS: throw when content id defined with empty string (#3612) (0983580)
• remove setNativeProps usage (#3605) (0312afc)

BREAKING CHANGES

• android: move backBufferDurationMs from root props to bufferConfig

v6.0.0-beta.6

6.0.0-beta.6 (2024-03-18)

Bug fixes 🐛

iOS

• fix(ios): fix tvOS build by @KrzysztofMoch in #3524
• fix(ios): apply cropStart when in repeat mode by @KrzysztofMoch in #3525
• fix(ios): Do not crash when accessLog return nil by @gkueny in #3549
• fix(ios) add to validTextTracks only if we successfully insertTimeRage by @gkueny in #3557
• fix(ios): correct release volume change observer by @jerrylcliu in #3565
• fix(ios): fix missing bridge in bridgeless mode by @KrzysztofMoch in #3570
• fix(ios): don't crop video when in repeat mode by @KrzysztofMoch in #3575
• fix(ios): split licenseUrl and loadedLicenseUrl by @freeboub in #3578
• fix(ios): fix real time issue when fast zapping by @freeboub in #3582
• fix(ios): ensure playback stopped in background by @freeboub in #3587

Android

• fix(android): onSeek called instantly by @GyanendroKh in #3530
• fix(android): suppress lint PrivateResource by @KrzysztofMoch in #3531
• fix(android): check disableFocus when state is ready by @YangJonghun in #3494
• fix(android): enableDecoderFallback to decrease DECODER_ERROR issue by @freeboub in #3416

Features ✨

• feat(ios): add ios support for accessing WebVTT Subtitle Content by @coofzilla in #3541
• feat(android): subtitle event by @coofzilla in #3566
• feat: move require (local files) to source.uri by @KrzysztofMoch in #3535
• feat: implement opacity to control visibility of subtitles by @coofzilla in #3583

New Contributors

• @GyanendroKh made their first contribution in #3530
• @gkueny made their first contribution in #3549
• @coofzilla made their first contribution in #3541
• @jerrylcliu made their first contribution in #3565
• @DominikDanielewicz made their first contribution in #3562

Full Changelog: v6.0.0-beta.5...v6.0.0-beta.6

v6.0.0-beta.5

6.0.0-beta.5 (2024-02-02)

Bug Fixes

• android: fix crash with interop layer (#3509) (41e9bcb)

• android: re-layout controls after fullscreen dismiss (#3490) (135d97c)

• android remove lifecycle listener after component unmount (#3489) (3858a15), closes #3488

• ios: fix pip memory leak (#3506) (53068dd)

• fix typo (#3497) (336eb44)

Features

• implement onAudioTracks and onTextTracks on ios (#3503) (6a49cba)

Full Changelog: v6.0.0-beta.4...v6.0.0-beta.5

v6.0.0-beta.4

6.0.0-beta.4 (2024-01-15)

Bug Fixes

• add missing audioOutput prop (#3450) (f20d68b)
• android: support opacity properly (#3464) (11e5b75)
• ios: currentPlaybackTime in ms and not seconds (#3472) (3f63c16)
• ios: remove extra dismissFullscreenPlayer declaration (#3474) (045f5fa)

Features

• add visionOS support (#3425) (cf3ebb7)
• ios: migrate from deprecated methods (#3444) (5aaa53d)
• ios: update the way to get keyWindow (#3448) (f35727f)
• ios: update timed metadata handler (#3449) (481cc71)

v6.0.0-beta.3

Bug Fixes

Common: ReactVideoProps: add accessibility & testID in typing (#3434) (d986b7b)

Android: default UA (#3429) (dd7bb54)
Android: ensure save doesn't crash on android (#3415) (22a2655)

Ios: revert ios url encoding as this breaks encoded urls (#3440) (0723481)