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 below. Have fun with a more stable and more powerful version of VideoKit 😉
Below is the release notes of version 2.6,
Version: 2.6 – Release Date: October 2016
• Hardware Video acceleration for h264 codec (iOS platform only)
• Hardware Audio acceleration for ac3, aac, eac3, amr, and mp3 codecs
• Portrait videos are supported
• iOS10 & Xcode 8 support
• cache protocol support (youtube like caching for http file streams)
• ffmpeg libraries are updated to latest 3.1.3 stable version
• Build scripts are updated for Xcode 8 and iOS10 (bitcode support)
• VideoKit deployment target is set to 8.x
• Code is cleaned from iOS 7 SDK checks
• Some UI related bugs are fixed