video_compressor_plus 4.1.0

Compress videos, trim them, strip audio, and extract thumbnails from Dart. A maintained continuation of video_compress, with Swift Package Manager support.

4.1.0

Completes the rename. Nothing in the package still carries the upstream video_compress identity, so the two can coexist in the same build without symbol or module collisions.

• Native plugin classes renamed VideoCompressPlugin → VideoCompressorPlusPlugin on iOS, macOS, and Android, with the files renamed to match and pluginClass updated in pubspec.yaml. Two plugin classes with the same Objective-C runtime name in one app is a real conflict, not a cosmetic one.
• Example app identifiers renamed off video_compress_example.

Deliberately unchanged: the Dart API — VideoCompress, VideoQuality, MediaInfo. Renaming those would break the promise that migrating from video_compress is a one-line import change. They live in a different package namespace, so they only collide if an app imports both packages at once, which no migration does.

4.0.2

Fixes the CocoaPods build, which was broken in 4.0.0 and 4.0.1.

• The iOS and macOS podspecs still pointed source_files at the pre-rename path (video_compress/Sources/video_compress/**/*.swift). CocoaPods matched zero files, so no module was produced and any app using CocoaPods failed with Module 'video_compressor_plus' not found. The Swift Package Manager path was unaffected, which is why it went unnoticed.

No Dart or native code changes.

4.0.1

• Point homepage, repository, and issue_tracker at the current GitHub account (ardev-dev). The 4.0.0 metadata still referenced the previous account name; those links only worked through a GitHub redirect, which is not something a published package should depend on.

No code changes.

4.0.0

First release of video_compressor_plus, a maintained continuation of video_compress by Jonny Borges, which has had no release since February 2025 (208 open issues, and four unmerged pull requests adding Swift Package Manager support).

Added

• Swift Package Manager support for iOS and macOS. Flutter warns that plugins without SPM support "will become an error in a future version of Flutter"; video_compress was frequently the last CocoaPods-only plugin in a project, keeping an entire build system alive for a single dependency. Merged upstream PR #325.
• Documentation for every public member, and a test suite covering the platform channel contract, MediaInfo parsing, and the VideoQuality index mapping that crosses the channel.

Changed

• Android toolchain modernised: Kotlin 1.9.10 → 2.2.20, Android Gradle Plugin 8.1.1 → 8.11.1, compileSdk 34 → 36, Java 8 → 17, com.otaliastudios:transcoder 0.10.5 → 0.11.2. minSdk stays at 21.
• Android package renamed from com.example.video_compress to com.zinonsoftware.video_compressor_plus — com.example is a placeholder that tooling flags.
• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE now carries maxSdkVersion="28"; it has been unnecessary since Android 10, and requesting it unconditionally is a Play Console warning.
• The deprecated package attribute was removed from AndroidManifest.xml (AGP 8 takes it from namespace), and lintOptions became lint.

Breaking

• Package name. Imports become package:video_compressor_plus/video_compressor_plus.dart. Everything else is unchanged: VideoCompress, VideoQuality, MediaInfo, and every method keep their names, signatures, and behaviour. Migration is a find-and-replace of the import line.
• MediaMetadataRetriever no longer declares a type parameter. It was written as class MediaMetadataRetriever<int>, where int was a type parameter shadowing the real int type. value now genuinely resolves to int. Only code that wrote MediaMetadataRetriever<…> explicitly is affected — using the constants is not.

No compression, trimming, or thumbnail logic was modified.