v0.4.0 Intermediate Step

• Bumped ffi to 2.0.1.
• Fixed locking of VLC::MediaList during modification.
• Upgraded libVLC to 3.0.17.4.
• BREAKING CHANGE: Discontinued NativeVideo implementation for Windows.

v0.2.1 Steady Progress

• Fixed switch case directShow control (@Paradoxu).
• Addressed few issues related to NativeVideo on Windows (@alexmercerind).
• Fixed Bump flutter_native_view and window_manager to latest versions (@ashutosh2014, @alexmercerind).

BREAKING CHANGE

If you're using NativeVideo in your application, you'll need changes in your windows/runner/main.cpp file, as required by the flutter_native_view. Learn more about this here.

v0.2.0 Movin' On

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Addressed multiple Dart-sided memory leaks during FFI interop (@alexmercerind).
• Introduce NativeVideo for Windows to render video playback performantly (uses flutter_native_view) (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor native source code, move implementations to separate translation units & remove inline class methods (@alexmercerind).
• Fix Video rendering when explicit VideoDimensions are passed (@alexmercerind).
• Expose Player::SetHWND (@alexmercerind).
• Added showFullscreenButton to Video widget (disabled by default) (@alexmercerind).

v0.1.8 Improving Over Time

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Added startTime and stopTime parameters to Media for clipping (@alexmercerind). (#126)
• Added Player.bufferingProgress & Player.bufferingProgressStream to listen to buffering percentage of the player (@alexmercerind). (#162)
• Video widget no longer turns black after being scrolled out of the view (@alexmercerind). (#142)
• Now Linux uses texture registrar API for performant video playback (@alexmercerind) (💥 REQUIRES Flutter master channel presently).
• Now macOS uses texture registrar API for performant video playback (@jnschulze).
• Initial work on iOS support has been started (@krjw-eyev).

v0.1.7 More Mending

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• Fixed Player.open (OnOpen event) randomly causing crash in release mode on Windows. (#124 & #136)
• Using constant frame buffer size until #137 is resolved.

v0.1.6 Let's Go

This new release of dart_vlc includes:

• A hotfix update to fix a critical bug.
• Fixed a critical bug that resulted in a crash upon opening more than one Media in Playlist (apologies).
• Implemented media and playlist equality operators. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Added Player.takeSnapshot to save snapshot of a playing video.

v0.1.5 Apples & Fixes

This new release of dart_vlc fixes & adds:

• Added initial macOS support. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Improved NativePort callbacks & removed unnecessary serialization.
• Now using a common dartvlc wrapper CMake library for all platforms. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Other bug-fixes related to Video playback on Windows. (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Setup garbage cleaning finalizers for memory allocated on heap (for C++/Dart FFI communication).
• Removed deprecated libVLC API calls.

v0.1.4 Going Better

This new release of dart_vlc adds & fixes:

• Now Player no longer requires videoWidth & videoHeight to be passed for video playback.
• Video widget now uses the dimensions of the currently playing video.
• For overriding the automatic video dimensions retrieval, videoDimensions argument must be passed while instantiating Player class.
• Video widget no longer asks for playerId argument, but player instead.
• Added videoDimensionStream and videoDimension attributes to Player class to listen to currently playing video dimensions.
• Migrated C++ code to use smart pointers instead of raw pointers.
• Player.dispose no longer causing crash on Windows (#103).
• Added Add fit and alignment properties to Video widget (Thanks to @jnschulze).

v0.1.3 Build fix

This new release of dart_vlc fixes:

• Fixed libVLC shared libraries not being copied on Windows (#98) (thanks to @jnschulze).

v0.1.2 Windows improvements

This new release of dart_vlc fixes & adds:

• Now using flutter::TextureRegistrar for performant Video playback on Windows. (#54) (Thanks to @jnschulze).
• Fixed autoStart in Player.open.
• Fixed other crashes for Windows.
• Improved stability.