dart_vlc 0.4.0

Flutter audio / video playback, broadcast & recording library for Windows & Linux. Based on libvlc.

0.4.0

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

0.3.0

• BREAKING CHANGES
  • Removed iOS support.
  • Removed macOS support.

0.2.1

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

0.2.0

• 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).

0.1.9

• Fix RTSP & HLS streams launching separate window instead of using Video widget (@alexmercerind).
• Add playlistLength value to ensure the "skip next" and "skip previous" buttons do not render if there is only one Media in a Playlist. (@GroovinChip)
• Update dart_vlc.podspec to ensure the correct Pods path on macOS. NOTE: This is based on Flutter's stable channel. (@GroovinChip)
• Added support for setting current audio track and getting audio track count (@exts)
• (linux) store texture info in instance data instead of class data (@hansihe)

0.1.8

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

0.1.7

• Fixed Player.open (OnOpen event) randomly causing crash on Windows (@alexmercerind).
• Using constant frame buffer size until #137 is resolved (@alexmercerind).

0.1.6

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

0.1.5

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

0.1.4

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

0.1.3

• Fixed libVLC shared libraries not being copied on Windows (@jnschulze).

0.1.2

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

0.1.1

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

0.1.0

• Fixed build on Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Changed cmake minimum required version to 3.10 for fixing use with snap installation (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed vlc header not being located in Flutter on Linux version 2.2.4 (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed few memory leaks (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed calling setState after dispose & other Video widget issues (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed build warnings on Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Changed required CMake version to 3.10 on Linux (@alexmercerind).

0.0.9

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

0.0.8

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

0.0.7

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

0.0.6

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

0.0.5

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

0.0.4

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

0.0.3

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

0.0.2

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

0.0.1+1

• Little left-over changes in the project documentation (@alexmercerind).

0.0.1

• Media playback from file.
• Media playback from network.
• Media playback from assets.
• play/pause/playOrPause/stop.
• Multiple Player instances.
• Playlist.
• next/back/jump for playlists.
• setVolume.
• setRate.
• seek.
• Events.
• Automatic fetching of headers, libs & shared libraries.
• Changing VLC version from CMake.
• Event streams.
  • Player.currentState
    • index: Index of current media in Playlist.
    • medias: List of all opened Medias.
    • media: Currently playing Media.
    • isPlaylist: Whether a single Media is loaded or a Playlist.
  • Player.positionState
    • position: Position of currently playing media in Duration.
    • duration: Position of currently playing media in Duration.
  • Player.playbackState
    • isPlaying.
    • isSeekable.
    • isCompleted.
  • Player.generalState
    • volume: Volume of current Player instance.
    • rate: Rate of current Player instance.
• Initial release, worked & documented by @alexmercerind.