Broadsign Control Player 15.8.x

Fixed

• [CORE-25116] Fixed automatic leader discovery for player synchronization via TCP.

Improved

• [CORE-25244] / [CORE-22872] Updated timezone definitions used on Windows to account for Mexico and Jordan no longer observing daylight saving time.

Fixed

• [CORE-25302] Fixed an issue causing follower players to fail playing Broadsign Reach campaigns when the file extension of the ad copy was not specified.

• [CORE-24747] Fixed issue causing Broadsign Control Player to skip all video ad copies with audio indefinitely when the last audio output device gets disconnected on Windows player. Broadsign Control Player will now only skip the current and prebuffered ad copies. It will also be able to resume playing audio if the audio device is reconnected, after the current and prebuffered ad copies.

Fixed

• [CORE-24978] Fixed an issue where adding a transition of less than one second would cause POPs to not be submitted. This issue only affected some locales where commas were not interpreted properly as decimals.

Improved

• [CORE-24509] Updated timezone definitions used for displaying time in HTML ad copies.
• [CORE-24442] Minor security updates.

Fixed

• [CORE-24884] Fixed an issue where Broadsign Control Player would not report external PoPs if it failed to download the player's statistical audience file.
• [CORE-25247] Fixed an issue that caused misleading error logs around not being able to parse Publisher categories.

Improved

• [CORE-24714] Broadsign Control Player now prevents the Windows browser selection prompt from appearing over it.

Fixed

• [CORE-24576] Fixed an issue causing playback to halt if a trigger with the --play_next parameter is sent to Broadsign Control Player between two ad copy playbacks.

Fixed

• Stability improvements and minor bug fixes.

Fixed

• [CORE-25074] Fixed an issue that caused Takeover campaigns to start late and under-perform.
• [CORE-24724] Fixed issue that would cause Ubuntu players to blank out after 10 minutes when screen controls are enabled.
• [CORE-25066] Fixed issue where, on rare occasions, BroadSignObject would be missing from HTML ad copy in a multiple-frame setup.

Fixed

• [CORE-23792] Fixed an issue that caused Broadsign Control Player to occasionally ignore ad copy criteria.
• [CORE-24814] Fixed an issue causing the trigger executable to fail sending triggers to players in UDP broadcast mode.
• [CORE-24837] Fixed an issue causing the player to report as unregistered when it fails to poll due to a conflict with an existing player's MAC addresses.

Fixed

• [CORE-24970] Fixed issue causing HTML ad copies scheduled to multiple frames on the same screen via Broadsign Publish to have the incorrect Frame ID in BroadSignObject.

Improved

• [CORE-23726] Updated the debugging tool overlay to show the selected Display Unit custom timezone.

Added

• [CORE-21322] Added support for Ubuntu 22. From now on, Broadsign Control Player will have a separate package for Ubuntu versions prior to 22 and for Ubuntu 22 and later.