dart_vlc 0.1.6

Flutter media playback, broadcast, recording & chromecast library. Based on libVLC & libVLC++.

0.1.6

• 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.

0.1.5

• 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. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Setup garbage cleaning finalizers for memory allocated on heap (for C++/Dart FFI communication).
• Removed deprecated libVLC API calls.

0.1.4

• 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).

0.1.3

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

0.1.2

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

0.1.1

• 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.

0.1.0

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

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

• 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

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

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.
  • Initialize Player with videoHeight and videoWidth optional parameters, if you wish to use it for video playback.
• Null-safety migration.

0.0.3

• 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

• 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

• Little left-over changes in the project documentation.

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.