New Update 2.9

Hello, this important update includes hardware video acceleration for h265 codec, hardware video acceleration for h264 codec for tvOS platform, openSSL and ffmpeg updates and bug fixes below. Have fun with a more stable and more powerful version of VideoKit ๐Ÿ˜‰ Below is the release notes of version 2.9, Version: 2.9 โ€“ Release Date: January […]

New Update 2.8

Hello, this important update includes support for iOS 11,Swift 4 and the new iPhone X as well as shoutcast/icy metadata handling, playlist handling and switching between multiple video streams in real time. The sample project is rewritten in Swift. This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements below. Have fun with the most stable […]

Custom I/O data support

Hi folks! Today we are going to talk about the new feature of iOS VideoKit, released in version 2.7 : Custom I/O data support Until version 2.7, VideoKit needed a file or network url to play audio/video stream. Starting from version 2.7, itโ€™s possible to provide custom audio/video stream data to VideoKit without giving a […]

New Update 2.7

Hello, In this version we have added Custom I/O support to iOS VideoKit so that now it supports playing audio/video stream in memory. This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements below. Have fun with the most stable powerful version of VideoKit ๐Ÿ˜‰ Below is the release notes of version 2.7, Version: 2.7 โ€“ […]

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Playing RTSP streams with iOS VideoKit

Playing RTSP streams with iOS VideoKit As we all know iOS SDK does not support playing RTSP streams natively. But if you want to play RTSP streams in your applications, you can use iOS VideoKit for doing that. It’s as easy as adding a few lines of code to play RTSP streams using iOS VideoKit. […]

New Update 2.6

Hello, this is an important update in VideoKit release history which includes hardware acceleration improvements for both Audio & Video. Thanks to Apple for letting developers use VideoToolbox.framework for video hardware acceleration for h264 codec and AudioToolbox.framework for dolby licensed codecs like ac3, and eac3 codecs. This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements […]

New update 2.5

Hello, this update includes bug fixes and improvements below. Have fun with a more stable and more powerful version of VideoKit ๐Ÿ˜‰ Below is the release notes of version 2.5, Version: 2.5 โ€“ Release Date: June 2016 โ€ข Added zoom to anywhere functionality with pinch in/out gesture on video as in whatsapp โ€ข FTP protocol […]

New update 2.4 (tvOS Support)

Hey everybody, We have added tvOS support to VideoKit in this version, updated the latest ffmpeg libraries and fixed some important issues. Have fun with a more stable and more powerful version of VideoKit on iOS & now tvOS platform ๐Ÿ˜‰ Below is the release notes of version 2.4, Version: 2.4 โ€“ Release Date: Nov […]

VideoKit for tvOS

As of September 2015, Apple announced their new operating system tvOS for the new Apple TV platform. This is a great news for the developers as they can submit their new tvOS apps for Apple TV on App Store. tvOS is mostly built on top of iOS platform, that means iOS developers won’t have much […]

Using iOS VideoKit Titanium Module in an Appcelerator Project

Hello everyone, In this post we are going to talk about Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform, a mobile engagement platform that provides cross-platform native mobile app development using JavaScript. We have ported iOS VideoKit project into a Titanium module, and in this post we will learn […]