Version History
2.19.1 (2016/02/26)
- Fix for closed caption button caused by previous 508 change
2.19.0 (2016/02/24)
- YouTube now uses HTML5 iframe API as a priority to Flash
- Simplified Fullscreen code for older browsers without native API support
- 508 Accessibility Fixes #1690 @rtackett
- Fix a minor typo in Readme #1693 @pra85
- Fix wrong "currentSrc" call in ga plugins #1687 @ivanteoh
2.19.0 (2015/12/18)
2.18.2 (2015/10/09)
2.18.1 (2015/08/11)
2.18.0 (2015/08/05)
2.17.0 (2015/05/30)
2.16.4 (2015/03/01)
2.16.3 (2014/12/10)
2.16.2 (2014/11/15)
- Fixed broken swf files because of new problem with binary @OwenEdwards
2.16.1 (2014/11/07)
2.16.0 (2014/11/06)
2.15.1 (2014/08/11)
2.15.0 (2014/08/03)
2.14.2 (2014/04/04)
2.14.1 (2014/03/31)
- Fix infinite loop on progress bar
2.14.0 (2014/03/29)
2.13.2 (2014/01/24)
2.13.1 (2013/09/?06)
- Support for fullscreen in IE11 beta
2.13.0 (2013/09/01)
2.12.1 (2013/08/26)
2.12.0 (2013/06/02)
2.11.3 (2013/04/13)
- Change to
getScriptPath
to allow querystring variables to be added (for Wordpress Core)
2.11.2 (2013/04/12)
2.11.1 (2013/04/11)
Major changes
Fixes and updates
2.11.0 (2013/03/13)
2.10.3 (2013/01/27)
2.10.2 (2013/01/26)
2.10.1 (2012/12/31)
2.10.0 (2012/11/23)
2.9.5 (2012/09/26)
- Fixed faulty FlashMediaElement.swf (due to Git program mashing it)
- Fixed track element issues introduced by DFXP captions
2.9.4 (2012/09/24)
*2.9.3 (2012/08/23) *
- Allows use of
style="max-width: 100%;"
for responsive video
- Added type to source buttons in mep-feature-sourcechooser.js:48 @flamadiddle
- Fix use of inArray and $ in src/js/me-shim.js @lftl, @Seb33300, @eusonic and others (this was a regression bug from another fix)
- Fixing syntax error in events demo @JeffreyATW
*2.9.2 (2012/07/06) *
- Added a few height checks (from Joe Anderson)
- Removed console.log statements
- Better file MIME type detection when the "type" attribute is not set @Seb33300)
- Pass the event keyCode to the keyActions handler, and make seek interval configurable @bborn
- Responsive flash fix, YouTube edits @heikki
- New
auto_plugin
mode that starts with plugins then tries HTML5 @savil
2.9.1 (2012/06/01)
- Fixed Firefox 10+ Fullscreen error
2.9.0 (2012/05/31)
- Fixed pointer-events detection in IE9 (when using Flash mode or YouTube)
- YouTube now shows annotations (using YouTube player rather than chromeless)
- Fix play/pause when clicking on video when overlays are displayed @markomarkovic
- Dont listen to mouse events when there's not a reason to @neverarriving
- Adding CSS animated buffer to the time rail @neverarriving
- Fix for box-sizing: border-box from cutting off time text. @MatthewCallis
2.8.2 (2012/05/15)
- Fixed volume slider bug when initially hidden
- Fixed YouTube size problems in Flash mode
2.8.1 (2012/04/19)
- Flash fullscreen: video not fullsized
- Flash fullscreen: youtube controls not working
2.8.0 (2012/04/17)
- Revamped YouTube to work using the Flash shim so that it supports fullscreen
- Fix for
remove()
method (lennym)
- Fix possible issue with ContextMenu ( quangvhg)
- Fix for stop button ( slavva97)
- Type on
var
and ;
(lennym)
- Fix for keyboard support forward and backward (myffical)
2.7.0 (2012/03/12)
2.6.5 (2012/02/01)
- Removed iOS 3.x poster code @xtat @James Cross
- Fixed bug when player is initially hidden in
display:none;
- Workaround for when inside an
<iframe>
and Chrome doesn't correctly report exiting from fullscreen
2.6.4 (2012/01/10)
- Fixed a Flash bug when one video ended and another was loaded through
setSrc()
and load()
- Option for markup between current time and duration @tantalic
2.6.3 (2012/01/08)
- Sending all options to Flash including colors
2.6.2 (2012/01/06)
- Fixed Flash fullscreen button inside an
<iframe>
- Fixed flash auto starting in 100% mode
2.6.1 (2012/01/03)
- Updated Opera's Flash Fullscreen support (apparently, it doesn't like pointer-events:none with Flash)
- Added a
fullscreenchange
event to Flash to better track events
2.6.0 (2011/12/27)
2.5.0 (2011/12/15) - 56kb
- Flash fullscreen now works on hover, so it's much easier to use. For Firefox it's always on, but for others
usePluginFullScreen:true
option
- For the audio player, Flash objects are positioned outside the main
<div>
which allows the player to be hidden without breaking flash
- Volume controls was adjusted slightly
- Removed Google translate features (Google killed the API)
2.4.3 (2011/12/10)
- keyboard controls are now an array, allowing multiple keys to do the same thing
- support for Google TV keybuttons (based on above)
- arrow keys now move when paused
- floating time is now handled via JavaScript instead of CSS :hover (and removed from touch devices)
2.4.2 (2011/12/06) - 57.3kb
- keyboard controls (up/down controls volume, left/right seeks, space play/pause, f goes fullscreen)
<audio>
now works with 100% for responsive layouts @283(https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/issues/283)
- Support for auto start with class
mejs-player
and data-mejsoptions
e.g. <video src="media.mp4" class="mejs-player" data-mejsoptions='{"features":@"playpause","progress","volume"}, "success": "myCallback"}'><video>
- With multiple players on a page, when one starts the others pause (toggle
pauseOtherPlayers: true
) @285(https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/issues/285)
2.4.1 (2011/12/05) - 55.7kb
2.4.0 (2011/11/28) - 54.9kb
2.3.3 (2011/11/21) - 49.4kb
- removed volume controls for touch devices (Android and iOS require hardware volume)
- set a timeout to hide controls on touch devices
- fixed timecode bug with :09 (used radix)
- fixed bug when long videos end: (try/catch)
- fixed issue with
alwaysShowControls
- removed a
console.log
in fullscreen that broke IE
2.3.2 (2011/11/12) 49.6kb
- removed
http
from Flash and Silverlight embeds to support SSL
- fixed a possible bug when neither
src
nor type
was specified
- turned off useCapture for a few events
2.3.1 (2011/11/07)
- Another set of changes to handle various browser native fullscreen issues
- New control behavior for touch enabled devices (iPad, Android tablets)
- Bug fix for Flash (bradleyboy)
2.3.0 (2011/11/01) - 48.5kb
- Fixed bug when fullscreen was called before play pressed
- Additional classes mejs-audio, mejs-video, mejs-ios, mejs-iphone, mejs-ipad, mejs-android added to contianing
<div>
for styles
- IE9 can't use
<video width="100%">
so you must use either options ({videoHeight:'100%'}) or inline style <video style="width:100%;height:100%;">
- updated fullscreen code for Safari (erktime)
- loading indicators shows during 'waiting' event
- iOS and Android now show "big play" button again (sometimes overlaps on iPhone)
2.2.5 (2011/10/14)
- fix for Flash fallback in certain scenarios (IE RegExp problem, Firefox fullscreen Flash issue)
- adjustments for floating time indicator
2.2.4 (2011/10/10)
- True FullScreen support in Firefox (nightly) and Chrome (Canary)
- more updates for 100% mode
- enableContextMenu(), disableContextMenu() methods
- change to poster code to let it be set later
2.2.3 (2011/10/07b) - 45.8kb
- updated accessibility again for JAWS and NVDA (thanks to twitter.com/mohammed0204)
- added CSS class
<html class="mejs-embed">
for <iframe>
embeds
2.2.2 (2011/10/07) - 45.8kb
- added support for
<video width="100%" height="100%"></video>
<video style="width:100%;height:100%"></video>
(i.e. responsive/adaptive players)
- added :focus state for buttons to improve accessibility
- added title and aria-controls attributes to buttons to improve accessibility
- changed when loading circle appears (WebKit fires the 'loadstart' event differently than FF or IE)
2.2.1 (2011/10/06) - 44.1kb
- fixed a bug with fullscreen that caused IE to completely mess up it layout
- fixed another bug with fullscreen and z-index
2.2.0 (2011/10/04)
- controls now display on iPad, iPhone, and Android. Can be turned off using (iPadForceNativeControls:true)
- fullscreen support for iPad (different from true fullscreen on Safari 5.1)
- added frameaccurate timecode (via gselva)
- added contextmenu as a feature. if turned on the default includes: fullscreen toggle, mute toggle, and media download
- updated WebVTT support (still had some SRT formatting restrictions)
- dynamic player creation: from
<a href="media.mp4">video</a>
and <div class="mejs"></div>
specifying type (string or array)
- Fixed bug where Flash couldn't go fullscreen with track chapters
- fixed a bug with Flash fullscreen ratios
- controls now disappear on timeout when mouse is idle (useful for fullscreen)
- enableControls() and disableControls() (for pre/post roll scenarios)
- added an autoplay override (especially for WebKit browsers)
- fixed functionality of mute toggling
- reorganized plugins to use $.extend
- updating functionality of loading graphic to account for various browser inconsistencies (loadstart event)
2.1.9 (2011/08/04) - 36.9kb
- fixed Android 2.1 and 2.2 playing problems (still need a good 2.3 and 3.0 device. hint. hint.)
2.1.8 (2011/08/03) - 36.9kb
- True fullscreen for Safari 5.1
- Flash/Silverlight fullscreen is now "full window" (except for Firefox which cannot handle adjusting Flash without reloading it)
2.1.7 (2011/07/19) - 35.9kb
- fixed mute button (kaichen)
- added alwaysShowControls option (kaichen)
- forceful padding override on buttons
- started "ender" branch to experiment with removing jQuery dependency and baking in ender.js
- updated the use of
type
javascript option with src is present
- remove preload="none" hack for Chrome now that it supports it (note: Chrome still strangely fires a 'loadstart' event)
- added hooks for other jQuery compatible libraries like @ender.js(http://enderjs.com)
- Wordpress: if you don't specify a file extension, mejs will look for attached files and use them @video src="/wp-content/uploads/myfile"
- Wordpress: option to select a 'skin'
- Wordpress: option to select audio width/height
2.1.6 (2011/06/14) - 35.5kb
- fix errors when the progress bar isn't present
- buttons are now actual
<button>
tags which allows tabbed controls (for better accessibility and possible ARIA support)
- fix problems with low volume in Flash on startup (startVolume was sometimes 0!)
- updated a few places to use jQuery 1.6's new prop/attr methods
- updated skins to account for new
<button>
(still need highlighted style)
2.1.5 (2011/05/28) - 35.2kb
- minor fix for controls not showing time or duration
- when switching files, the Flash plugin now forcibly stops downliading
2.1.4 (2011/05/20) - 35.2kb
- fixed display of hours
- fixed Flash audio bug where pausing when the file wasn't fully loaded would cause the progress bar to go offscreen
- fixed Flash video bug where percent loaded was always 100%
- fixed Flash audio bug where pressing pause, then play would always restart playback from the beginning
- startVolume works more clearly in plugins (esp. Opera and Linux)
- tracks support no longer refers to WebSRT, but is more generic for WebVTT (not all features of WebVTT are supported yet)
- fixed fullscreen in Safari OS X 10.5 (which doens't really support true fullscreen)
- Flash and Silverlight can now start downloading if preload="auto" or preload="metadata" (warning: preload="metadata" will load the entire thing)
2.1.3 (2011/04/12) - 35.8kb
- added support for hours in time format (00:00:00) and an alwaysShowHours option to force hours to always show
- removed some duplicate flash events
- added 'seeking' event to Flash/SL (already had 'seeked')
2.1.2 (2011/03/23) - 34.4kb
- fixed IE6 and IE7 caption position
- fixed IE7 failure in certain places
- changed browser UA detection to use only lowercase (iPhone iphone)
- fixed Flash audio loaded bug (reporting 0 after loaded)
- added removeEventListener to shims
- new rail-resizing code
2.1.1 (2011/03/07) - 33.5kb
- added 'loadeddata' event to Flash and Silverlight
- switched to flashvars parameter to support Apache's mod_security
- better flash fullscreen support
- added flv-x to flash's accepted types
- Fixed a bug in poster sizing (only affected IE)
- added "isFullScreen" property to media objects (like Safari's webkitDisplayingFullscreen)
- controls start hidden with autoplay
- fixed iOS loading issues (success wasn't firing, other errors)
- fixed IE6 when using new MediaElementPlayer(), rather than jQuery
2.1.0 (2011/02/23) - 32.9kb
- Updated control styles for a cleaner look
- Added loadeddata and canplay events to Flash and Silverlight
- Added loading indicator to MediaElementPlayer
- Added stop button (pause, then return to currentTime:0)
- IE6/7 CSS updates
- Poster is now forced to the size of the player (could be updated to be proportional if someone wants to add that)
- Updated Flash ended event to account for buffering weirdness
- Fixed a track text hovering problem
2.0.7 (2011/02/13) - 31.9kb
- Added 'mode' option to force native (HTML5) or shim (Flash,Silverlight) modes
- Fixed audio seeking bug in Flash (thanks Andy!)
- Fixed startVolume not working in Flash
- Overrided Chrome's autoplay since it doesn't always work
2.0.6 (2011/02/04) - 31.7kb
- Whitespace cleanup on files
- Preventing flash/sl plugins from reinitializing when they are removed by another script
- Fixed IE JavaScript errors in Flash fallback (seen in Wordpress)
- Added 'play' event to Silverlight to prevent errors
2.0.5 (2011/01/25) - 31.7kb
- Added error object to player
- Adjusted popup timer and progress bar
- Fixed media URL escaping
- Stopped sending poster to plugin
- Silverlight culture update
- Added back reference check (also makes jQuery usage easier)
- Added stop() function to mediaelement
- timerupdate still fires when paused (plugins)
- Added Security.allowDomain("*") to Flash so it can be used on different domains
- Fixed progress bar for Firefox 3 with Ogg files
- Prevented Flash from re-creating the player when show/hide restarts it
- Fixed initial volume level in non-HTML5 players
- Made PNG8 versions of controls images (for IE6)
2.0.4 (2011/01/14) - 31.2kb
- Fixed a major bug in plugin detection.
2.0.3 (2011/01/13) - 31.2kb
- changed IE Flash insertion to include me-plugin CSS class
- changed player error handling
- fixed a bug in the Silverlight player related to URLs
2.0.2 (2010/12/31) - 31.1kb
- Changed HTML escape method to encodeURICompnent
- Flash-based RMTP support (contributor: sylvinus)
- Fixed Wordpress loop bug
- Changed time popup to move with mouse instead of currentTime
- added enablePluginSmoothing (Flash)
- Added some "play" "playing" event duplication to Flash
2.0.1 (2010/12/20) - XX.Xkb
- Changed Flash to allow cross domain video
- Added 'click' event to Flash and Silverlight
- Updated autoplay attribute detection
2.0.0 (2010/12/13) - 30.8kb
- Reorganized MediaElementPlayer code to allow each button to become a pluggable feature that can be removed or overrided
- Enabled a no JavaScript version to support Video for Everybody nested syntax (optional)
- Enabled drag on progress bar
- Preload="none" is default for Flash and Silverlight
- Preload="none" enabled on Google Chrome
- Added skins to download
- Support for skin swapping
- Updated volume handle controls
- Update progress controls display
- Exposed MediaElement API methods on player
- Adjusted layout for IE6
1.1.7 (2010/11/29) - 29.8kb
- Fixed bug with
<track>
loading on <audio>
player
1.1.6 (2010/11/23) - 29.8kb
- Chapters support
<track kind="chapters" />
1.1.5 (2010/11/21) - 29.8kb
- Workaround for IE issues when accidentally placed inside
<p>
tag
- Fixed silverlight pause state reporting
- Switched back to Flash as default
- Removed requirement for Google translate API
<script>
(direct JSONP call)
- Added googleApiKey option
1.1.4 (2010/11/21) - 29.5kb
- Added Default volume level to options (0.8)
- Fix for IE volume slider positioning
- Fix for IE tracks parsing (replacement String.split)
- Changed namespace from html5 to mejs
- Remove all showMessage references
- Controls show again after playback ends
1.1.3 (2010/11/20) - 29.0kb
- Change to fallback mechanism and styling (Windows Phone 7)
1.1.2 (2010/11/19) - 28.9kb
- Removed messages, added big play button
- Google translate now supports more than 1000 characters
- Added a dropdownlist of languages from which the user can select
- Added timerUpdate option to set the millisecond speed of timeupdate events
- Updated the media file and examples
1.1.1 (2010/11/18) - 27.1kb
1.1.0 (2010/11/17) - 22.6kb
- Total re-oganization of MediaElement, MediaElementPlayer, and supporting objects
- Updated CSS to a cleaner look, with better IE support & big play button
- Simplified all plugin and version detection
- Added loop option (useful for audio files)
- Added the ability to turn each control button on/off
- Added canPlayType to PluginMediaElement
- Updated setSrc to take multiple sources
1.0.7 (2010/11/16) - 18.15kb
- Total re-oganization of MediaElement code
- JSLint compliant, YUI compliant
1.0.6 (2010/11/15) - 17.96kb
- Rebuilt PluginDetection (removed SWFObject and Microsoft code)
- More JSLint compatible (still a few iterations to get there)
- Added jQuery 1.4.4
1.0.5 (2010/11/10 later on)
- Fixed a problem with the *.min.js files
- Added jQuery 1.4.3
1.0.4 (2010/11/10) - 18.32kb
- Fixed Flash display when
<video>
did not match actual dimensions
- autosizing in Flash and Silverlight
- added options for defaultVideoWidth, defaultVideoHeight when
<video>
height
and width
are not set
- included minified versions using YUI compressor
1.0.3 (2010/09/24)
- changes in poster handling
- fix IE9 startup bug (its 'play' event fires wrongly it seems)
- fixed Flock, Opera sizing bugs
- fixed audio ended bug in special cases under Flash
- added default height/width when they are not specified in attributes
1.0.2 (2010/09/17)
- minor updates to support IE9 beta1
1.0.1 (2010/09/13)
- added native fullscreen support for Safari 5 (via webkitEnterFullScreen)
1.0.0 (2010/08/09)
Someday/Maybe features
- deeper WebVTT support (alignment, color, etc.) - include captionator
- Full support for Ender.js, including mediaelement-and-player-standalone which includes ender.
- thin line when controls are off
- system-wide events
- Ogg/Theora playback
- Better alignment with native MediaElement (using shimichanga.com techniques)