video_compressor_plus 4.0.0

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

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.