dart_vlc 0.0.9

A media playback library for Dart & Flutter. Based on libVLC & libVLC++.

0.0.9

• Fixed multiple Video widgets not working after FFI migration.
• 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.

0.0.8

• 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.

0.0.7

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

0.0.6

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Now Player class has sync constructor & no longer needs Player.create.
• Fixed memory leak errors 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.

0.0.5

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.

0.0.4

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.

0.0.3

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.
• 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
• 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>.

0.0.2

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.

0.0.1+1

This new release of dart_vlc adds:

• Little left-over changes in the project documentation.

0.0.1

This first release of dart_vlc adds:

• 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.