v0.2.6

Summary: New Parameters, Support for SRTP/RTSPS protocol, and Enhanced Video Orientation Handling and Process Termination 🎉

📓 Complete Release Notes can be found here ↗️

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What's Changed

✨ New Features

• FFdecoder:
  • Introduced a new optional -disable_ffmpeg_window boolean parameter.
    • 💬 Prevents the FFmpeg command line window from appearing by applying the DETACHED_PROCESS flag to the subprocess FFmpeg pipeline when building .exe files on Windows in silent (verbose=False) mode.
• Sourcer:
  • Added new parameters to metadata to accurately display video orientation.
    • Added source_video_orientation parameter (default 0.0).
    • Added output_orientation parameter (default 0.0).
• FFHelper:
  • Added support for SRTP/RTSPS in is_valid_url function.
    • Enhanced is_valid_url method to support both RTP/RTSP and SRTP/RTSPS protocols.
    • 💬 SRTP/RTSPS extends RTSP/RTP to encrypt video/audio data using ciphers like AES with a 128-bit key.
• Core:
  • Added official support for Python 3.11.x legacies.
• Docs:
  • Added context and detailed instructions for Input and Output Seeking methods.
  • Added documentation for the new optional -disable_ffmpeg_window boolean parameter.

⚡️Updates/Improvements

• FFdecoder:
  • Changed process termination from kill() to terminate() if the process is still running, to ensure graceful shutdown.
    • 💬 The terminate() method sends the SIGTERM signal to a process, which typically allows for a graceful shutdown. On Unix, this uses the SIGTERM signal, while on Windows, it uses TerminateProcess().
• FFhelper:
  • Improved regex pattern in get_supported_demuxers method.
• Sourcer:
  • Updated extract_resolution_framerate method to also return video orientation.
• Docs:
  • Included GitHub sponsors in FUNDING.yml.
  • Removed deprecated Gitter community chat sidecard.

💥 Breaking Updates/Changes

• Core:
  • ☠️ Ended support for Python 3.7.x legacies.

🐛 Bug-fixes

• FFdecoder API:
  • Fixed regex expression bugs in get_supported_demuxers method.