We’re pleased to release the 8.42 version of the Blue Billywig Online Video Platform.
Improved OVP dashboard
We’ve completely redesigned the OVP dashboard to make it more relevant and user-friendly for all OVP users.
The new dashboard now offers a clear overview of your most important KPIs and visually showcases your latest published media clips. Furthermore, it provides quick access to essential actions like uploading media clips, and creating a playlist, shorts player, channel, or live stream.
To make content management even easier, we’ve introduced a new global search function, accessible from the dashboard header, allowing you to easily find any content within your publication.
Log in to your publication today to explore the changes! We welcome any suggestions you have for making the dashboard even more useful.
- Improved the player accessibility in multiple areas.
- Added information about the display mode to the Content Protection summary.
- We now make it easier to request a new link when a forgotten password link has expired.
- Our platform can now better handle a wider range of special characters.
- Our player now refrains from using H1 headers to avoid impacting page SEO negatively.
- Improved the way we show related items when clips deviate from the 16:9 aspect ratio.
- Fixed an issue with displaying logos in channels.
- Fixed an issue with sharing at a specific time in the video.
- Fixed an issue with live stream URLs.
- Fixed an issue with wrong items playing in channels in some cases.
- Fixed an issue with the fullscreen button in certain situations.
- Fixed an issue with Soft Embargo overlapping with the preview side bar on certain screen sizes.
- Fixed an issue where trying to open the detail screen of a specific project from within the playlist content editor failed.
- Fixed an issue where we showed legacy permission roles as options when no role is assigned to a user.
- Fixed an issue with using an enable/disable button multiple times in user management.
- Fixed an issue with the wrong menu item being highlighted when searching in playouts.
- Fixed an issue where subtitles were rejected when a strict upload policy is set.
- Fixed OTF font uploads failing due to MIME type validation and font conversion issues.
- Fixed an issue where source files were downloaded with a different name.
SDK
- Fixed an issue with the settings menu not closing from a modal view on iOS.
- The UMP consent framework now supports a more flexible range of versions on iOS.
- Updated modal view cases to not show a fullscreen button on iOS.
- Swipe to skip now only works after the skip countdown is completed on both iOS and Android.
- Tweaked playlist collection handling on both iOS and Android.
- While Chromecasting and navigating to another video, we will show a message to cast instead of the current playing video after advertisements have finished.
- Updated Android SDK documentation.