dart_vlc

• Bumped ffi to 2.0.1.
• Fixed locking of VLC::MediaList during modification.
• Upgraded libVLC to 3.0.17.4.
• BREAKING CHANGE: Discontinued NativeVideo implementation for Windows.

• Fixed switch case directShow control (@Paradoxu).
• Addressed few issues related to NativeVideo on Windows (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed Bump flutter_native_view and window_manager to latest versions (@ashutosh2014, @alexmercerind).

BREAKING CHANGE

If you're using NativeVideo in your application, you'll need changes in your windows/runner/main.cpp file, as required by the flutter_native_view. Learn more about this here.

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Addressed multiple Dart-sided memory leaks during FFI interop (@alexmercerind).
• Introduce NativeVideo for Windows to render video playback performantly (uses flutter_native_view) (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor native source code, move implementations to separate translation units & remove inline class methods (@alexmercerind).
• Fix Video rendering when explicit VideoDimensions are passed (@alexmercerind).
• Expose Player::SetHWND (@alexmercerind).
• Added showFullscreenButton to Video widget (disabled by default) (@alexmercerind).

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Added startTime and stopTime parameters to Media for clipping (@alexmercerind). (#126)
• Added Player.bufferingProgress & Player.bufferingProgressStream to listen to buffering percentage of the player (@alexmercerind). (#162)
• Video widget no longer turns black after being scrolled out of the view (@alexmercerind). (#142)
• Now Linux uses texture registrar API for performant video playback (@alexmercerind) (💥 REQUIRES Flutter master channel presently).
• Now macOS uses texture registrar API for performant video playback (@jnschulze).
• Initial work on iOS support has been started (@krjw-eyev).

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Fixed Player.open (OnOpen event) randomly causing crash in release mode on Windows. (#124 & #136)
• Using constant frame buffer size until #137 is resolved.

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• A hotfix update to fix a critical bug.
• Fixed a critical bug that resulted in a crash upon opening more than one Media in Playlist (apologies).
• Implemented media and playlist equality operators. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Added Player.takeSnapshot to save snapshot of a playing video.

This new release of dart_vlc fixes & adds:

• Added initial macOS support. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Improved NativePort callbacks & removed unnecessary serialization.
• Now using a common dartvlc wrapper CMake library for all platforms. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Other bug-fixes related to Video playback on Windows. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Setup garbage cleaning finalizers for memory allocated on heap (for C++/Dart FFI communication).
• Removed deprecated libVLC API calls.

This new release of dart_vlc adds & fixes:

• Now Player no longer requires videoWidth & videoHeight to be passed for video playback.
• Video widget now uses the dimensions of the currently playing video.
• For overriding the automatic video dimensions retrieval, videoDimensions argument must be passed while instantiating Player class.
• Video widget no longer asks for playerId argument, but player instead.
• Added videoDimensionStream and videoDimension attributes to Player class to listen to currently playing video dimensions.
• Migrated C++ code to use smart pointers instead of raw pointers.
• Player.dispose no longer causing crash on Windows (#103).
• Added Add fit and alignment properties to Video widget (Thanks to @jnschulze).

This new release of dart_vlc fixes:

• Fixed libVLC shared libraries not being copied on Windows (#98) (thanks to @jnschulze).

This new release of dart_vlc fixes & adds:

• Now using flutter::TextureRegistrar for performant Video playback on Windows. (#54) (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Fixed autoStart in Player.open.
• Fixed other crashes for Windows.
• Improved stability.

This new release of dart_vlc fixes & adds:

• Fixed setState being called after dispose (#75) (Finally)
• Improved memory management.
• Fixed ton of memory leaks.
• Fixed Devices::all & Media::parse causing crash on Windows.

This new release of dart_vlc fixes:

• Fixed build on Linux. (#83)
• Changed cmake minimum required version to 3.10 for fixing use with snap installation. (#71 #81)
• Fixed few memory leaks. (#80)
• Fixed calling setState after dispose & other Video widget issues. (#69 #75)

This new release of dart_vlc fixes following issues:

• Fixed multiple Video widgets not working after FFI migration. (No playerId was being sent along frame buffer through NativePort)
• Now package contains complete libVLC & libVLC++ source inside.
  • No longer fetching from videoLAN & GitHub servers required.
  • No more build errors for developers in China.
• Fixed Player::setPlaylistMode.
• Fixed built-in play/pause button in Video widget.
• Added back Media.asset for Flutter.

This release of dart_vlc adds:

• Now using FFI (instead of Platform channels).
• Better performance, being direct C++ <-> Dart interop with no Flutter involvement.
• Added Equalizer class.
• Support for Dart CLI. See package dart_vlc_ffi.
• Added commandlineArguments to Player constructor to pass VLC commandline arguments.
• BREAKING CHANGES
  • Now plugin requires initialization in the main method, call DartVLC.initialize() to instantiate the plugin.
  • Now all the methods are synchronous & no longer require await. Please update your code.

A lot of code has been refactored & complete functionality is nearly written from scratch, there can be many issues. Feel free to report.

Thankyou.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Added Player.setUserAgent.
• Improved & fixed issues related to play/pause button in Video widget.
• Fixed compilation issues on arch linux.
• Fixes to device changing.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Now Player class has sync constructor & no longer needs Player.create.
• Fixed memory leaks on Windows & Linux.
• Added controls to Video widget. Thanks to @tomassasovsky.
• Added Record class for recording media. Thanks to @DomingoMG.
• Added Chromecast class. Thanks to @DomingoMG.
• Fixed Player.setPlaylistMode on Linux.
• Event streams inside Player no longer can be null.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Broadcast class to broadcast a Media.
• Fix to a bug that caused CurrentState to not update in Player.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Video Widget for showing video output from a Player inside Widget tree.
  • Player must be used as a controller for a Video.
  • Initialize Player with videoHeight and videoWidth optional parameters, if you wish to use it for video playback.
• Null-safety migration.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• More advanced playlist modification methods like:
  • add for appending a new Media to the Playlist of the Player.
  • remove for removing a Media from the Playlist of the Player from certain index.
  • insert method for inserting Media to certain index.
  • move a Media from one index to another.
• Ability to get all playback Devices on machine & change.
  • Devices.all gives List of all Devices.
  • Player.setDevice can be used to set a playback device for the Player instance.
• Ability to retrieve metadata of a Media (either from Media.network or Media.file).
  • Now you can access metadata of a Media by passing parse: true for parsing the metadata.
  • Retrieved metadata is stored inside Media.metas as Map<String, String>.
• Now event streams are splitted into four:
  • Player.currentStream
    • Contains:
      • index
      • media
      • medias
      • isPlaylist
  • Player.positionStream
    • Contains:
      • position
      • duration
  • Player.playbackStream
    • Contains:
      • isPlaying
      • isSeekable
      • isCompleted
  • Player.generalStream
    • Contains:
      • volume
      • rate
• Thanks to @DomingoMG for thorough testing.

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Support for Flutter on Linux.
• Fixed bug that caused index to not update properly in Playlist, when next or back or on completion of Media.
• Changed default Player volume to 0.5.