Bitmovin Player now supports the latest tvOS15+ playback experience features

albertobitmovin · September 22, 2022, 2:42pm

Hi community!

As many of you will know, Apple has recently introduced a whole bunch of new features in tvOS15+, aimed to deliver a totally new and more immersive playback experience to viewers: Apple Developer Documentation

We’re glad to announce that, since version 3.23.0 and later of our iOS/tvOS SDK, our Player started supporting most of those features, including but not limited to:

Adding Custom Transport Bar Items (transportBarCustomMenuItems) Bitmovin Docs - Player iOS / tvOS Release 3.23.0
Presenting Actions on the Info Tab (infoViewActions) Bitmovin Docs - Player iOS / tvOS Release 3.24.0
Displaying Content Tabs (customInfoViewControllers) Bitmovin Docs - Player iOS / tvOS Release 3.27.0

Feel free to give it a try and let us know what you think!

jturpin · October 1, 2022, 2:20am

We are in the process of switching to the tvOS 15 player and all of its new features.

I have noticed that there are still some missing features in the Bitmovin library, including:

Interstitial content (creating markers in the transport bar)
Livestream swipe channel change
And most importantly, all of the methods that are associated with the AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate - which provides callbacks for many important events in the tvOS 15 player.

If these are indeed supported already, can you point to the appropriate documentation?

Thanks,

JT

Onlyvatana22 · November 16, 2022, 3:54am

I don’t see ContextualActions integrated into Bitmovin yet. Is there any update upon that?