News and updates from the Video.js open-source video player project
Video.js 6.0 fixes critical accessibility regression by replacing VolumeMenuButton's nested control structure with VolumePanel, restores visual keyboard focus outlines, and implements proper ARIA attributes for screen reader support including role, aria-live, and control text.
Video.js 6.0 introduces advanced plugins with class-based architecture reminiscent of components, featuring lifecycle management through dispose events, React-inspired statefulness, evented communication channels, and player awareness methods hasPlugin and usingPlugin.
Video.js 6.0.0-RC.0 removes Flash from core, introduces React-inspired plugin architecture, recommits to accessibility with volume control fixes and visible outlines, and debuts middleware feature for interfacing between techs and player.
Thumbcoil debuts as an open-source suite of tools for inspecting H.264 video bitstreams within MP4 and MPEG2-TS containers, using parser combinators to decode NAL units, parameter sets, and slice headers for debugging Mux.js transmuxer output.
Video.js releases 5.11.5 stable and 5.12.0 pre-release with comprehensive codebase linting, ES5 source file exposure for webpack/browserify bundling, Node.js requiring support, and preparation for automated changelog generation with standard-version.
Video.js announces plans to remove Flash from core and transition from "HTML-first" to "HTML-only" by December 2016, coinciding with Chrome's Flash deprecation, to focus on HLS, DASH, and modern plugin architecture improvements.
Video.js 5.11.0 pre-release un-deprecates videojs.players property, enables waiting for source before playback, improves caption settings accessibility, but includes known MPEG-DASH compatibility issues requiring investigation.
Video.js 5.0's fluid mode uses intrinsic ratios for responsive layouts, with a detailed tutorial on combining flexbox and dimension classes to create perfectly aligned playlist pickers that scale alongside video players.
Video.js 5.0 features a completely redesigned UI with flex-box controls, ES6 codebase compiled with Babel, switched from Less to Sass, and represents 146 merged pull requests from 25 contributors updating nearly every line of code.
Video.js 5.0 release candidate debuts with redesigned base theme, ES6/Babel transpilation, Browserify integration with NPM packages, earlier plugin initialization for greater control, and community testing to ensure production readiness.