FlowPlayer 3.2.5 - Changelog

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.2.5:

October 12th, 2010

· added new scaling option 'crop' that resizes to fill all available space, cropping on top/bottom or left/right
· improvements to RSS file parsing
· Now displays a hand cursor when a linkUrl is used in clips

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.1.4:

October 8th, 2009

· player did not initialize if the controlbar plugin was disabled and if the play button overlay was disabled with play: null
· works properly without cachebusting on IE
· RSS playlist parsing now respects the isDefault attribute used in mRSS media group items
· Fixed passing of connection arguments

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.1.3:

September 3rd, 2009

· erformance and stability improvements were made. RTMP/RTMPT connection establishment was made faster.
· Improvements were made in Akamai connectivity.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.1.1:

May 22nd, 2009

· Flowplayer 3.1.1. adds support for so-called "instream clips" which are playlists defined for an individual clip. What this means is that now you can play short video clips within the main video at pre-defined times. For example, you can play a short video clip on the third second of the main video and when the instream clip ends, the main video clip will resume playing from where it was when the instream clip began.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.1.0:

April 16th, 2009

· a new controlbar skin called Tube.
· Create Custom Skins
· We now have tooltips. By default they are enabled for the timeline scrubber and for the volume slider.
· JavaScript based controlbar was updated to have a mute button and a time display
· A new skinning documentation area
· Bandwidth detection
· Dynamic switching
· Secure streaming
· Clustering

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.6:

February 26th, 2009

· You can now associate a link with the player canvas. This makes it possible to show ads in the player canvas.
· There are new bugfix releases of the playlist JavaScript plugin, flashembed Flash embedding tool, and jquery.scrollable.
· There are new versions of the control bar and pseudostreaming Flash plugins, fixing some issues that were found by users. In particular, the pseudostreaming plugin has important fixes if you are using it to stream H.264 encoded videos.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.4:

February 3rd, 2009

· Scripting support was improved for the play button laid over the video area.
· The license key in the commercial version now works on all levels of subdomains.
· Several bugs were fixed.
· There are new versions of the flashembed Flash embedding tool, the playlist plugin, and the embed plugin.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.3:

January 8th, 2009

· This release has a couple of important fixes to the core player and to the control bar plugin.
· The control bar also has a new API method that allows you to disable the buttons and other control widgets from JavaScript.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.2:

December 16th, 2008

· This is a bugfix release, but there are some new features as well.
· The control bar was improved: the scrubber works better now, and the autoHide behavior is more reliable.
· The player's Flash framerate was increased, which makes the animations smoother and snappier.
· The API has new onMouseOver and onMouseOut events, setPlaylist and setClip methods for replacing the whole playlist, and a new onError event handler for clip and player specific errors.
· For Flash plugin developers, there are new events for plugin loading and error handling.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.1:

December 6th, 2008

· This is a bugfix release with one major new feature: audio (MP3) playback with a new plugin.
· Negative cuepoints on the common clip are fixed.
· The buffering animation is now the same size as the play button overlay.
· The commercial version now supports license keys that allow the use of subdomains.
· Error messages are now automatically hidden after a 4 second delay, and are also hidden when a new clips starts playing (when onBeforeBegin is fired).
· The ability to disable the buffering animation has been added. There are some other fixes.

What's new in FlowPlayer 3.0.0:

November 26th, 2008

· This is a complete rewrite and redesign.
· It has an object oriented JavaScript API with a compete event model.
· A plugin architecture with plugins implemented in Flash and/or JavaScript.
· Animation and positioning of player components and plugins.
· Improved "pseudostreaming" for lighttpd FLV streaming, etc.
· RTMP video-on-demand streaming and live streaming.
· Fully skinnable appearance.
· Easy embedding of multiple players on one page.
· jQuery support and scripting.
· Several plugins that extend this functionality.

What's new in FlowPlayer 2.2.3:

September 9th, 2008

· Better fonts for Mac
· Added new "combine" variable for clips. If true (default) the clip will be combined to the previous clip so that it will be played as one stream when RTMP is used
· New backgroundColor variable that controls the color of the player's background. Specifying -1 causes the background not to be drawn.
pause/resume button stays enabled when controlEnabled: false is used. Now the video can be resumed if the user comes back from the advertised (linked) web site Fixes:
· disables the "Email to a friend" menu item when in fullscreen
· JavaScript API's getDuration() now forks for MP3 clips
· clip specific start option was not working with RTMP streaming
· pausing on first frame was not working with lighttpd & it's cousins
· using certain configurations the player went to an internal loop at the end of the playlist
· fixed controlsOverVideo: 'locked'
· now triggering fullscreen resizes video correctly when "fit to window" is missing from the menu