Release Version 0.10.4

• Support macCatalyst
• Support vulkan on apple silicon
• VT decoder:
  • Support VP9 on macOS 11+. Profile 0 and 2 are confirmed
  • Support more(all) semi-planar formats, output a format with the same chroma subsample size as original format, e.g. 'p410' for hevc yuv444p10le.
  • Fix high depth channel formats output error on apple silicon. It's r10g10a10a2 for 10bit Y plane, but not support yet in renderer, so use p010('x420')
  • Add "hardware" property to enable/disable hardware acceleration
  • Add "width" and "height" property
  • Support HDR in mkv
  • Reduce compressed packet copy
• VAAPI, VDPAU: fix not work since 0.10.2
• MFT video decoder: fix h264 constrained baseline profile check
• CUDA decoder: fix chroma format
• FFmpeg:
  • Fix a crash if avio open error
  • Fix "drop" option does not work correctly
• Improve decoder switch in paused state
• Fix can't switch to a new decoder via setVideoDecoders() since 0.10.0
• Fix a blank frame in gapless playback
• Fix 2 crashes in player dtor, 1 race in setNextMedia(), 1 race/crash if faile to open a media
• Examples:
  • Enable glfw for apple silicon

Release Version 0.10.3

• Player.setMedia() will stop previous media
• Default buffer range changes to 1000~2000ms
• Deprecate foreignGLContextDestroyed(), does nothing now. Use setVideoSurfaceSize(-1, -1) instead
• Support key-frame only decoding via env "KEY_FRAMES_ONLY=1" (per player option will be better)
• Support play/seek dynamic duration streams, e.g. recording mpeg ts
• Support 'x444'/p410 pixel format
• OpenGL:
  • smart resources release, no leak even if no context destroyed
  • fix external image in essl3 may crash on android
• VT decoder:
  • force nv12 for mpeg?video
  • support hevc yuv444p10le decoded format 'x444'
• Change macOS framework struct to support codesign better
• AMediaCodec decoder: use baseline as fallback of CBP(constrainted baseline) to fix decoder open error
• Fix crash when destroying player if use native surface
• Fix unable to seek if EOS is decoded
• FindMDK.cmake:
  • support xcframework
  • support android studio
• New swift binding: https://github.com/wang-bin/swiftMDK
• New android java wrapper and example: https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-android

Release Version 0.10.2

• Support apple sillicon(not tested on real device)
• Support swift language
• Support cocoapods for macOS via pod 'mdk'
• Add xcframework, including both macOS and iOS frameworks
• Add av1 support for CUDA decoder
• check pixel format support for mmal to fix yuv444p error
• mmal decoder: force copy if no 0-copy support
• Add ACES HDR tone map, via env GPU_TONE_MAP=aces
• Metal, d3d11, vulkan renderer support alpha blending if video has alpha channel
• Metal: fix crash if frame is invalid
• Fix a/v sync regression after seek since v0.10.1

Release Version 0.10.1

• Vulkan: support Player.snapshot()
• GLRenderAPI.egl/opengl/opengles combinations
• Fix Player.setProperty("audio.avfilter")
• D3D11 supports shared nt handle 0-copy rendering via decoder "D3D11:nthandle=1"
• Simplify ffmpeg runtime loading
• Fix some crashes and endless waits

Release Version 0.10.0

• API:
  • Add VulkanRenderAPI
• Support Vulkan: win32, macOS, android(buggy). Everything works except hardware decoder 0-copy rendering, only software decoders and hardware decoder with ":copy=1" are supported.
• Correct HDR trc if obviously wrong from decoder(mediacodec vp9)
• AMediaCodec:
  • Improve async mode
  • Fix blocks on some devices
• No need to call setLogHandler(nullptr) manually
• Remove redundant gpu color primaries convertion
• Fix D3D11 hevc decoder wrong result because of ignoring profile/level
• Fix D3D11 decoder + D3D11 0-copy rendering wrong result on RTX2060
• Partialy upport mac catalyst build

Release Version 0.9.2

• API:
  • Add version()
  • Add Player.set(VideoEffect effect, const float& values, void* vo_opaque) to set brightness, constrast, hue, saturation
• Metal: Fix viewport resize if create from user provided view
• D3D11/Metal: Fix stop playback does not clear background
• Fix XAudio2 crash on win7, fix leak
• HDR:
  • support HLG transfer function
  • use primaries from decoder(maybe wrong values) iff env "USE_METADATA_PRIMARIES" is 1
  • tone mapping improves
• Add AV1 for android "AMediaCodec" decoder
• Fix another A-B range loop endless waiting
• Vulkan WIP: apple, swapchain, debug, queue, apis, clear background render pass etc.

Release Version 0.9.1

• API:
  • D3D11RenderAPI.rtv can be a texture to reduce platform dependent user code, context is optional if rtv is set
  • Add GLRenderAPI.fbo, so no need to bind & restore fbo in user code
  • Add MDK_strdup(). Fix potential crashes if msvc build configuration(Debug) != SDK(Release)
• HDR:
  • BT.2390 is the default tone map curve. Controlled by env GPU_TONE_MAP=2390/hable
  • All decoder and renderer combinations has almost the same result
• MFT:
  • Read HDR metadata
  • Support AV1 decoder, need to install av1 extension from store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/av1-video-extension/9mvzqvxjbq9v
• Clear background on stop can be disabled by SetGlobalOption("videoout.clear_on_stop", 0)
• Default log level is Info. Must manually set to Debug to see more. playback progress log only appears in LogLevel::All
• Seek: ensure the last request will be executed. Useful for timeline preview
• Fix D3D11 backbuffer resize error
• Fix A-B range loop endless waiting if stop playback by user
• Fix change decoder error and wait forever near EOF
• Fix D3D11/Metal renderer crash if change from GPU decoder to CPU decoder
• Fix D3D11RenderAPI.feature_level
• Fix mute crash (avfilter)
• Fix crash if a chapter tile is empty
• Fix failed to save snapshot as png
• Fix win64 cmake search dir
• Deploy: requires vcruntime140_1.dll by win64
• WIP: vulkan

release version 0.9.0

• API: Add GLRenderAPI and MetalRenderAPI
• Support Metal on macOS and iOS. Lower CPU and GPU load.
• Windows:
  • Fix com initialization may affect cef
  • D3D11 support decode in 1 gpu and render in another (poor performance).
  • D3D11 upport some 16bit pixel formats if R16 is not supported
  • Add D3D11 debug mode for MFT decoder("MFT:debug=1") and D3D11 renderer
• Android:
  • Fix EGL load
  • Fix decoding EOS frame in sync and async mode
• Apple
  • Add debug symbol
  • (macOS) weak link to standard ffmpeg dylibs so no need to dlopen by user. see https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-sdk/wiki/FFmpeg-Runtime#macos
  • Support software decoder direct rendering, decode to CVPixelBuffer via decoder "FFmpeg:pool=CVPixelBuffer". Less memory use.
  • VT decoder supports ProRes, decode into P010 frames
• FFmpeg:
  • Print ffmpeg logs in log mdk log handler. Fix multi-lines logs not print completely
  • Support reload via library handle
  • Custom frame pool
  • Add "sw_fallback" property
• Examples:
  • Modified apple official metal example: https://github.com/wang-bin/HelloTriangle/tree/master
  • QtQuick RHI example. supports d3d11, metal and opengl: https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-examples/tree/master/Qt/qmlrhi

Release Version 0.8.1

• API:
  • Player.onSync() default interval is 10
  • Add options for creating D3D11RenderAPI
• CUDA: supports decoding yuv444 formats and 0-copy rendering
• Support rendering gray formats
• Fix MFT:d3d=11 texture leak
• Fix Player.setMute()
• Player.setState(State::Stopped) is much faster
• Fix seek error after setPlaybackRate() if sync to audio
• Apple: enable arc

Release Version 0.8.0

• API:
  • Add Player.mapPoint() to map coordinates between video frame and viewport
  • Aspect ratio change: negative is scale and crop, positive is scale without crop
  • Add Player.onSync() to support sync to user provided clock. Currently only video can sync to it
• D3D11 renderer:
  • Supports 16bit be formats
  • Convert to rgb by cpu if format is not supported
• Linux multi arch cross build. Less platform specific code
• Add V4L2M2M decoder
• Improve EGL
• Fix a crash on macOS when destroying player
• setBackgroundColor(): always draw background if color is valid. Fix regression since 0.7.0.
• Fix playback speed is too fast if resume after paused seek. Regression since v0.5.0
• Fix video only stream clock sync if change playback rate
• Fix wrong position when seeking (if media 1st pts > 0)
• GLX is not linked
• Use clang-8 for rpi to fix invalid armv6 so
• Fix undefined symbol for sunxi
• Enable cf guard for windows