fastpix_video_player 1.0.2

A high-performance video player for Flutter with advanced features and customizable UI.

Changelog

1.0.2

Added

• Preloading: FastPixPreloadManager warms upcoming sources so the next tap skips the manifest fetch, license acquisition and decoder setup. Two strategies — network warms the connection and manifest, player builds a detached player that playback then adopts. Warm depth, per-platform player caps, Cast awareness and a full event stream included
• Precaching: FastPixPrecacheManager writes manifest and segment bytes to disk ahead of playback, with byte accounting, request coalescing and its own event stream. Reads back into playback on Android; on iOS it stores but does not yet shorten a later start
• Chromecast: FastPixCastController for discovery, session management, remote transport control, receiver volume and subtitle selection, with startCastingFrom / stopCastingTo moving playback between phone and TV at the position it left off. Cast failures are normalized into FastPixCastErrorCode, including the Android 13+ nearby devices permission that otherwise makes discovery find nothing silently
• Screen capture protection: secureScreen on FastPixPlayerDrmConfiguration applies Android's FLAG_SECURE while a DRM source plays. On by default, best effort, and window wide

Changed

• iOS FairPlay setup is now self-contained. The resource-loader patch ships inside the plugin and installs itself at registration, so the manual edit to the cached engine that iOS DRM used to require is no longer needed. Nothing to do on upgrade — remove the manual patch step from your build if you scripted it
• Engine floor raised to better_player_plus: ^1.2.1, from ^1.0.8. FairPlay relies on the engine's Objective-C surface, which settled in 1.2.1. The old floor allowed older engines to satisfy the constraint, so a project resolving to one could see iOS DRM behave inconsistently. Raising the floor makes the supported engine explicit rather than resolution-dependent. Most projects already resolve to 1.2.1 or later and will see no change
• Pinned the Material control theme in the iOS player so controls render consistently across platforms
• Reworked the example app UI, including working subtitles and cast track selection

Documentation

• Corrected the stated cause of disabled iOS HLS caching. It is the local cache proxy failing on signed FastPix URLs with CoreMediaErrorDomain -12642, not FairPlay holding the asset's single resource-loader delegate. The distinction matters because caching is off for unprotected iOS HLS too
• Corrected the FastPixPlayerDrmConfiguration.validate signature, the reachable set of pre-flight DRM error codes, two Chromecast behaviours around DRM refusal and local resume, and the Android manifest snippet, which was missing FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK

1.0.1

Added

• DRM Playback: Protected playback via FastPixPlayerDrmConfiguration with Widevine (Android) and FairPlay (iOS) support, configured through FastPixPlayerDataSource.drmConfiguration
• DRM Error Handling: FastPixDrmException, FastPixDrmErrorCode, and FastPixDrmErrorClassifier for categorized DRM failures, including token-related and retryable error detection
• Custom Error UI: errorWidgetBuilder and drmErrorWidgetBuilder on the player widget, plus a diagnoseErrors flag to run diagnostics automatically on failure
• Example App: Full runnable example application demonstrating standard and DRM playback

Changed

• Caching is now automatically disabled for DRM-protected sources and for all iOS playback. On iOS, better_player's cache serves bytes through an AVAssetResourceLoader, which cannot back an HLS playlist and caused AVFoundation to reject healthy streams with CoreMediaErrorDomain -12642. cacheEnabled: true is silently ignored on iOS as a result; Android caching is unaffected.

Tests

• Added coverage for playback diagnostics, DRM error classification, error widget rendering, and controller lifecycle

1.0.0

Changed

• BREAKING: Updated default streaming base URL from https://stream.fastpix.io to https://stream.fastpix.com
• Updated FastPix Dashboard, documentation, and streaming domain references from .io to .com across README and issue templates

0.2.0

Added

• In-built data analytics

0.1.0

Initial Release Flutter Player SDK

• Player Controller: FastPixPlayerController for managing player state and lifecycle
• HLS Support: Native HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) playback support
• Private and Public media playback support: Simplified video playback using FastPix playback IDs
• Auto Playback: Configurable auto-play functionality with WiFi-only option
• Loop Playback: Video looping capability for continuous viewing
• Security Features: Token-based authentication for private
• Error Handling: Comprehensive error handling with categorized error types and severity levels
• Subtitle Support: Automatic subtitle detection and manual subtitle switching
• Stream Type Support: Both on-demand and live streaming capabilities
• Quality Control: Advanced video quality management with resolution controls
• Progress Tracking: Built-in progress bar with time remaining display
• Fullscreen Support: Fullscreen playback capability
• Quality Selection: Manual quality selection with quality control widget
• Cache Management: Video caching for improved playback performance for on-demand media playback
• Custom Domain Support: Support for custom streaming domains

Platform Support

• Android: Full Android support with native integration
• iOS: Full iOS support with native integration