First full release! Public API is stable from this point onward.
New Features (not exhaustive):
- Generic media pipeline allowing apps to replace media components
- Offline storage and playback support
- Use native AVPlayer for HLS
- Controllable with
streaming.useNativeHlsOnSafari
configuration - Exposes the AVPlayer instance for app control
- Controllable with
- Don't use FFmpeg decoders to reduce binary size
- Removes SDL to reduce binary size
- Better Swift support
- Network request/response filters
- Playback of HEVC content
- Honors sample aspect ratio (SAR)
- Allow setting video fill mode
Initial beta launch!
New Features (not exhaustive):
- DASH and HLS playback
- Adaptation support and manual stream switching
- VOD and Live content
- MP4 and WebM playback
- With hardware acceleration on iOS with H.264
- Encrypted media playback
- Clear key built in
- Plugin system for external DRM providers