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 😉
Below is the release notes of version 2.9,
Version: 2.9 – Release Date: January 2021
• Hardware Video acceleration for h265 codec
• Hardware Video acceleration for h264 codec for tvOS platform • iOS14 & tvOS14 support
• openSSL is updated to stable 1.1.x version (openssl-1.1.1d)
• ffmpeg libraries are updated to 4.2.1 stable version
• VideoKit deployment target is set to 10.x
• Code is cleaned from old version SDK checks
• Sample project supports Swift 5
• kitkat.flv video has an A/V sync issue with ffmpeg 4.2.1 – FIXED
• filesharing was broken – FIXED
• channels are updated and a new webcam is added to the list.
• Added dark mode support to sample project
• Added logic to detect availability of video hardware acceleration for h264 and h265 codecs
• Fixed the bar height issue for devices having notch
• When recording MJPEG, the FPS( or PTS values) is not correct, so it causes fast playing – FIXED
• Hardware video accelerated decoding is enabled for tvOS
• iPhoneX iOS12 and iOS13, airplay fails with black screen, since renderView is zero size – FIXED
• showPicOnInitialBuffering feature is removed