Wistia Updates

Wistia Updates

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Resumable Video Updates

by Meg Salisbury
Following up on our Resumable Video and Viewer Preferences features here we have released additional updates. Videos no longer Resume if your viewers are returning to your content and would be resuming the video within the first 10...
Improvement

M3U8 Asset Retrieval Change

by Meg Salisbury
On February 24th, 2020, we'll be removing support for static HLS asset retrieval. What does that mean? Well, you won't notice any visible changes to playback or performance, but this will affect any hardcoded m3u8 assets you may have in...

Updated privacy policy

by Josh Johnson
Wistia's privacy policy has been updated with information regarding recent CCPA changes.

New Log In Page

by Josh Johnson
Our new log in page has more room to learn about what's new at Wistia.
New Feature
Improvement

Video color improvements

by Kristin Bagnoli
We recently released an update that improves the handling of video color during our encoding process. That means the colors of the Wistia derivatives are more accurate to your original version. Any videos uploaded after December 16...
New Feature
Improvement

Player Animation & Behavior Improvements

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
We have two small but delightful updates to the Wistia player live now: A more refined and smooth play / pause animation Standard embeds now behave much better with CSS transforms and zoom
Improvement

Goodbye, Wistia Labs 👋

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Over the years, Wistia Labs has been a testing ground for some of our more experimental player features—with most of the tools being moved to a permanent home within Wistia. That means much of what was left on this page didn't have a ton...

A few fixes to popover behavior

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
We have a handful of tweaks to the behavior & tracking of popover embeds coming in hot 🚀. The following bug fixes are now live: Turnstiles at the beginning of the video will no longer trigger "play" events if the popover is opened...
Improvement

Bug fix: Hiding controls on fullscreen

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Bug: If you clicked the fullscreen button and didn't move the mouse at all afterward, the controls would never hide. If you were to refresh the page and click to play without moving the mouse, the controls might never hide. This is now...