light_compressor_v2 1.9.0

Native light video compression for Flutter (No FFmpeg) — single or batch, H.264/H.265, target size, trim, rotate and colour, with live progress and cancellation.

Changelog

1.9.0

New

• Tap the foreground notification to reopen the app (Android, #16): the ongoing compression notification now carries a content intent, so tapping it brings the running app forward (FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT). With a task-reusing host activity (Flutter's default launchMode="singleTop") the existing Flutter state is kept; after a full process kill it cold-starts. Thanks @khlebobul (#18).

Fixed

• iOS/macOS crash when compressing videos that have audio (#17): with no AudioConfig (the default), the source audio is muxed through unchanged. The native audio writer input was created without the source format description, which made AVAssetWriter throw NSInvalidArgumentException ("provide a format hint") on a physical iOS device — reproducing 100% on .mov camera recordings (they always carry an audio track). The input now carries the source CMFormatDescription, so passthrough muxing to the .mp4 container succeeds. The simulator and macOS did not surface the crash, which is why it slipped past.
• Batch progress bounds: BatchProgress.percent and overallPercent are now clamped to 0..100, matching single-video progress — a native value that rounds just over 100 (or a transient negative) no longer leaks into batch progress UIs.

1.8.2

Changed

• Wider compatibility: lowered the minimum toolchain to Flutter 3.24 / Dart 3.5 (from 3.41 / 3.11) — no code changes; the floor now matches the SwiftPM baseline and Android compileSdk 34 (AGP 8.1.1+).

1.8.1

Changed

• Docs: refreshed the pub.dev package description. No code or API changes.

1.8.0

New

• Opt-in debug logging — pass debugLogging: true to compressVideo / compressVideos to have the native side emit a couple of structured log lines per video (the resolved encode plan and the outcome). File paths are reduced to their base names. Off by default; intended for diagnosing a single run.
• Progress detail (ETA + bytes) — a new onProgressDetail (Stream<CompressionProgress>) reports, alongside the percentage, the estimated time remaining (etaMs), elapsed time (elapsedMs) and encoded output bytes written so far (bytesProcessed) for the single-video flow. The same fields are now also on BatchProgress (via onBatchUpdate). The existing onProgressUpdated (Stream<double>) is unchanged — it stays the simplest option for just the percentage. etaMs is a rough projection (an indicator, not a guarantee) and is null until it becomes estimable.
• Configurable batch concurrency — pass maxConcurrent to compressVideos to cap how many videos transcode at the same time. Leaving it unset keeps each platform's historic default (Android compresses up to 2 at once; Apple starts them all); setting it (>= 1) compresses strictly one-at-a-time (1) or trades memory and device heat for throughput at higher values. Honoured on Android, iOS and macOS; has no effect on a single compressVideo.
• Example app gains a "Max concurrent" (Auto / 1 / 2 / 3) selector in the batch flow.

Fixed

• iOS/macOS: getMediaInfo now reports the correct fileSize for sources larger than ~2 GB (it read the size as a 32-bit value, which wrapped). Affects metadata only; compression was unaffected.
• Android: the AAC audio re-encode (AudioConfig) no longer holds the whole encoded audio track in RAM — it spills to a temp file and streams into the muxer, so memory stays flat regardless of audio duration. Output is unchanged.

Known limitations (large files)

• ~4 GB MP4 output ceiling (Android). MediaMuxer's MP4 writer uses 32-bit box offsets, so outputs approaching 4 GB may fail or truncate. Target a smaller size (targetSizeMb) for very large/long sources.

All additions are additive and fully backward compatible — existing APIs are unchanged.

1.7.0

New

• Lightweight native editing — pass an optional VideoEdit as edit: to compressVideo / compressVideos to trim and/or rotate while compressing (still 100% native — no ffmpeg):
  • Trim — trimStartMs / trimEndMs keep a time range; the output timeline is rebased to start at 0 and the reported duration reflects the trimmed length. Frame-accurate (the clip is re-encoded). Either bound is optional.
  • Rotate — rotationDegrees (0 / 90 / 180 / 270) applies a quarter-turn on top of the source orientation. This is a cheap container-metadata rotation (no extra pixel pass) that players honour — a 90° turn swaps the displayed dimensions.
  • Colour adjust — brightness (-1..1), contrast (0..2) and saturation (0..2) tweak the picture (CIColorControls semantics; 0 / 1 / 1 = no change). Baked into the output pixels — Android via a GL shader, Apple via a CIColorControls video composition. Exact cross-platform pixel parity is not guaranteed.
• Example app gains trim start/end (ms) fields, a 0/90/180/270 rotate selector and brightness/contrast/saturation sliders in the single-video flow.

All additions are additive and fully backward compatible — existing APIs are unchanged.

1.6.0

New

• Target output size — pass targetSizeMb to compressVideo (on Video) or to compressVideos to compress toward a maximum file size in megabytes. The compressor solves for the video bitrate that lands the output at or below the target (reserving room for audio + ~3% container overhead), clamped to a 2 Mbps quality floor and never above the source bitrate. Mutually exclusive with videoBitrateInMbps. The new OnSuccess.targetSizeMet reports whether the target was achievable — false when the floor forced a larger output. Single-pass and approximate (typically within ~10–15%).
• Two-pass encoding — pass twoPass: true (on Video / compressVideos, alongside targetSizeMb) to land closer to the target size: the compressor encodes once, and only if the output overshot the target does it re-encode a second time at a corrected (lower) bitrate. An undershoot is kept as-is, so it re-encodes only when needed (roughly doubling the time on overshooting clips). The new OnSuccess.passesUsed reports how many passes ran (1 or 2). Ignored without a targetSizeMb.
• Frame-rate control — pass videoFps (on Video / compressVideos) to downsample the output frame rate (e.g. 30 → 24). Downsample-only: a value at or above the source rate leaves it unchanged (frames are never duplicated).
• Audio re-encoding — pass an AudioConfig(bitrate:, sampleRate:) as audio: to re-encode the audio track as AAC with a custom bitrate (and, on Apple, sample rate). Omitting it copies the source audio through untouched.
  • Platform note: audioSampleRate is applied on iOS/macOS; Android re-encodes at the source sample rate (no resampler), so only bitrate takes effect there.
• Example app gains "max output size (MB)", a "Two-pass (precise size)" toggle, "output FPS" and "audio bitrate (kbps)" fields in the single-video flow.

All additions are additive and fully backward compatible — existing APIs are unchanged.

1.5.0

New

• getCompressionEstimate() — predict a compression's output (size, bitrate, output resolution, % reduction) without transcoding, via the new CompressionEstimate model. It reuses the same bitrate/resize math the compressor uses, so the figures track the real output (approximate — single-pass).
• getVideoThumbnails() — extract several frames in a single native round-trip, returning the JPEG paths in request order, via the new ThumbnailRequest model. More efficient than calling getVideoThumbnail repeatedly.
• isCompressing() — query whether a compression (single or batch) is currently running (e.g. to gate UI).
• New EstimateException (extends LightCompressorException) for estimate failures.
• Example app gains a pre-flight estimate card and a multi-thumbnail filmstrip in the single-video flow.

All additions are additive and fully backward compatible — existing APIs are unchanged.

1.4.0

New

• H.265 / HEVC output — pass an optional videoFormat to compressVideo / compressVideos to choose the output codec (VideoFormat.h264 — the default — or VideoFormat.h265). HEVC produces noticeably smaller files at comparable quality. Omitting the parameter keeps the previous H.264 behaviour and is fully backwards compatible.
  • Automatic fallback — VideoFormat.h265 is used only when the device can encode HEVC in hardware (Android: a non-software video/hevc encoder; iOS/macOS: an advertised HEVC encoder). On devices without it, the compressor transparently falls back to H.264 instead of failing.
  • OnSuccess.usedFormat — every successful result now reports the codec actually used, so you can tell whether an H.265 request was honoured or fell back to H.264.
• OnFailure.failureType — failures now carry a CompressionFailureType (permission, unsupported, notFound, unknown) so you can react to why a video failed — including per-item in a batch — without parsing message text. Defaults to unknown and OnFailure.message is unchanged, so this is fully backwards compatible.
• Example app gains a “Use H.265 (HEVC)” toggle in both the single and batch flows, and the single-video result now shows the codec used.

Changed

• Android: video muxing now uses the platform MediaMuxer (native H.264 and H.265 support) instead of a bundled mp4 writer. This removes the third-party mp4parser / isoparser dependency.

1.3.0

New

• Background execution — pass an optional BackgroundConfig to compressVideo / compressVideos to keep a compression running while the app is backgrounded or the screen is off. Omitting it (the default) preserves the previous behaviour and is fully backwards compatible. Behaviour is platform-specific:
  • Android — runs under a foreground service. Its ongoing notification shows live progress (bar + %), an elapsed-time timer, the current file name (single) or a done/total count like 2 / 5 (batch, since videos compress in parallel) and a Cancel action. The title comes from BackgroundConfig. The plugin declares the service + receiver and requests POST_NOTIFICATIONS (Android 13+) automatically; no host-app manifest changes are required.
  • macOS — suppresses App Nap (NSProcessInfo.beginActivity) so the process keeps full CPU while in the background. The notification fields are ignored.
  • iOS — not supported. iOS suspends backgrounded apps within seconds and offers no sanctioned way to keep video transcoding running, so passing a BackgroundConfig has no effect there; the compression pauses and resumes when the app returns to the foreground.
• Example app gains a “Run in background” toggle in both the single and batch flows.

1.2.0

New

• Batch compression — compressVideos({required List<String> paths, required List<String> videoNames, ...}) compresses multiple videos with a shared set of options and returns Future<List<Result>> in the same order as the inputs (each entry an OnSuccess, OnFailure or OnCancelled). A single video failing does not stop the rest.
• onBatchUpdate — a Stream<BatchEvent> that emits BatchProgress (per-video and overall percent) and BatchItemCompleted (a video's result) as the batch runs, for building per-item UIs.
• The single-video compressVideo and its onProgressUpdated stream are unchanged — batch uses a separate compression/batch-stream channel, so existing code is unaffected.

Changed

• cancelCompression() now returns Future<void> instead of Future<Map<String, dynamic>?>. The old return type never carried a meaningful value; the cancellation outcome arrives as an OnCancelled result on the pending compressVideo / compressVideos call.

Fixed

• Cancelling a single compression crashed the app on Android. Cancellation delivered two terminal callbacks for one video (onCancelled followed by onFailure) and replied twice on the same MethodChannel.Result, throwing IllegalStateException: Reply already submitted. Cancellation now yields exactly one onCancelled, and the single-video handler de-duplicates its reply like batch already did.
• cancelCompression() never completed. The Android, iOS and macOS handlers did not reply to the method call, so the returned Future hung forever. All three platforms now reply.
• iOS / macOS: the single-video handler funnels every terminal reply through one main-thread reply, so a cancel/finish race can no longer deliver two FlutterResults or reply off the main thread.

1.1.0

New

• getMediaInfo(path) — returns a structured MediaInfo (width, height, duration, file size, bitrate, rotation, frame rate, MIME type) with rotation-aware displayWidth/displayHeight. On Android, duration/bitrate fall back to the MediaExtractor track format when the metadata retriever does not expose them.
• getVideoThumbnail(path, {positionInMs, quality}) — extracts a JPEG frame and returns its file path (Android MediaMetadataRetriever, iOS/macOS AVAssetImageGenerator).
• clearCache() — deletes temporary files generated during compression and thumbnail extraction (.mp4 and .jpg).
• Structured success result — OnSuccess now carries originalSize, compressedSize, duration and ratio (percentage reduction).
• Typed exceptions — PermissionDeniedException, UnsupportedVideoException, VideoNotFoundException, MediaInfoException, ThumbnailException, all extending LightCompressorException. Native failures are surfaced via stable error codes instead of message text.
• Example app demonstrates metadata display, thumbnail preview, and a Clear Cache action.

Fixed

• Android H.264 encoder — pair KEY_PROFILE with a supported KEY_LEVEL, so the hardware encoder no longer fails configure() with error -38 and silently downgrades to Baseline.
• Reported duration — use the exact duration measured during transcoding instead of a file-size/bitrate estimate (previously could report wildly wrong values for files without duration metadata).
• Over-compression — when a source has no duration/bitrate metadata, estimate the bitrate from the resolution instead of collapsing to the minimum bitrate.
• Resource handling (Android) — keep MediaMetadataRetriever/MediaExtractor file descriptors open while reading and release the retriever (previously leaked).
• macOS — fixed a build failure caused by an out-of-sync LightCompressor.swift.

1.0.1

• Added Swift Package Manager (SPM) support for iOS.
• Fully migrated the Android native layer to Kotlin, including core compression algorithms, MP4 builder, and video/texture renderers.
• Integrated the native compression library sources directly into the plugin codebase.
• Upgraded the Android build system and configurations (converted build scripts to Kotlin DSL .gradle.kts).
• Added comprehensive production-ready documentation (README.md).
• Updated example project and video player.
• Optimized codebase and improved performance.
• Fixed minor issues.

1.0.0 (Fork)

• Forked from the original light_compressor package.
• Updated kotlin-gradle-plugin to version 1.8.21.
• Upgraded the LightCompressor dependency to version 1.3.2.
• Increased compileSdkVersion to 33.
• Fixed various bugs and improved performance.