Release 8.11 14/10/2024

We’re pleased to release the 8.11 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.

  • Improved the OVP GUI on smaller screen sizes.
  • Extended the “Editor” permissions to allow you to edit subtitles.
  • Improved Content Protection token creation with an expiration time mandatory field check.
  • Extended the avoidPreload functionality to also affect WebView.
  • Improved the handling of subtitles and transcripts in the same language.
  • When downloading a transcript from the player, we now download a plain text version of the transcript.
  • We now use percentages instead of decimals for the volume slider.
  • Introduced short keys for the accessibility assets.
  • Changed the short key for play/pause to “K” to prevent conflicts with keyboard accessibility.
  • Changed the focus behaviour when toggling the transcript sidebar to stay on the transcript toggle when using the keyboard.
  • Introduced a mechanism to make the accessibility assets more accessible on smaller screens.
  • Grouped all accessibility options in a new tab in the Playout settings.
  • Added the option to add editor notes to steps within the flowchart.
  • Fixed an issue with moving thumbnails displaying unintendedly on mobile devices.
  • Fixed an issue with filtering on value with ‘%’.
  • Fixed an issue with deleted Content Protection policies still displaying in clip data.
  • Fixed an issue with descriptions being included in the “label” field.
  • Fixed an issue with clips not showing in the static playlist table.
  • Fixed an issue where the audio description toggle was only visible when playback of the content had already started