Upgrade Notes

Upgrading from v2.0.0 to v3.0.0

This upgrade carries a lot of new components and changes to the player and is backward compatible with v2.0.0 while there are some new props added to the existing components to make them more customizable.

This version bump doesn't require any new dependencies to be installed. But v3.0.0 doesn't require to install yarn add videojs-hotkeys as a peer dependency. This functionality is built into the Ramp code from v3.0.0, thus after installing v3.0.0 run;

yarn remove videojs-hotkeys

New components

• AutoAdvanceToggle component: related documentation
• MetadataDisplay component: related documentation
• MarkersDisplay component: related documentation
• SupplementalFiles component: related documentation

Changes to existing components

• IIIFPlayer component:

  Props:

  • 3 new props added to it; they are customErrorMessage, startCanvasId, and startCanvasTime. These are explained in detail in the documentation here.

• MediaPlayer component:

  Props:

  • One new prop for disabling Picture-In-Picture in the player called enablePIP, this prop has a default value of false.

  ** CHANGED DEFAULT BEHAVIOR: This prop changes the default behavior of v2.0.0, which had Picture-In-Picture enabled by DEFAULT.

• Transcript component:

  Props:

  • One new prop for providing a manifestUrl, which is the same Manifest url given to IIIFPlayer component. The component will parse the supplementing annotation for each Canvas in the Manifest and generate a transcripts list. More information is available in the documentation.

  Functionality changes:

  • Transcripts component used to always auto-scroll with playback when there are transcripts with time information. In v3.0.0 the auto-scrolling can be turned on/off using the check box in the component. This is only available with transcripts with time information (e.g. WebVTT)
  • Indicates machine generated transcripts in the component. More information can be found in the documentation.

• StructuredNavigation component:

  UI changes:

  • In v3.0.0 the component has a new look and feel. In the new look it indicates each root-level Range explicitly, displays time information, and displays a Scroll to see more message on the bottom of the component when there are long structures.

    Example from the IIIF Cookbook's Table of Content for A/V Content recipe;

    In v2.0.0:	In v3.0.0:

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Upgrading from 3.0.0 to 3.1.2

This upgrade includes the following changes to the existing components;

• MetadataDisplay component:

  • Supports Null values for metadata fields

• MediaPlayer component:

  • Removed Video.js handling of any captions embedded into HLS manifests only supporting captions/subtitles via IIIF Annotations with supplementing motivation (related issue)
  • Minor bug fixes related to Canvas transitions, and styling

• StructuredNavigation component:

  • Minor bug fixes to improve usability
  • Removed strict filtering when marking structure items with media fragments (related issue)

• Transcript component:

  New Feature:

  Added support for displaying SRT files with playback synchronization

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Upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.2.0

This upgrade includes a version bump to Video.js from 7.21.3 to 8.10.0, which was waiting on a Video.js upgrade to @silvermine/videojs-quality-selector, a plugin Ramp uses. To install the new Video.js version, run the relevant command based on the package manager used in your application;

yarn add video.js@8.10.0 OR npm install video.js@8.10.0

This upgrade includes the following changes to the existing components;

• IIIFPlayer component:

  Props:

  • One new prop called emptyManifestMessage to provide a customized message to display when a given IIIF Manifest is empty. More information can be found under the component's documentation

• MediaPlayer component:

  Props:

  • This component has 3 new props in this version, and they are enablePlaybackRate, enableTitleLink, and withCredentials all of which are optional props. More information can be found under the component's documentation

  Functionality changes:

  • For inaccessible/empty items the player now displays previous/next buttons to navigate through canvases along with a given message. More information can be found under the component's documentation

• MetadataDisplay component:

  Functionality change:

  • Added support to display both rights and requiredStatement properties under both Manifest and Canvas. They are displayed after the respective metadata block in the same component (related issue)

• Transcript component:

  New Feature:

  A search within feature for all supported transcript file types was added to the Transcript component. More information can be found under the component's documentation