Version 2.0.0 - 8 January 2021

General

  • Added
    • Multi-track video and audio support
    • Embedded multi-track subtitles support
    • Automatic detection of stereo packing mode
    • Frame based time control methods
    • Asset based media handling via MediaReference asset
    • Edit-mode media playback
    • New MediaPlayerUI demo with solid UI
  • Changed
    • Removed Unity 4.x, 5.x and 2017.x support
    • WebGL no longer official supported (but kept for reference)
    • Minimum hardware specs changed
    • All time values changed from milliseconds (as floats) to seconds (as doubles)
    • Better live stream support
    • PlayMaker actions removed
    • NGUI component removed
    • Scripts now organised using assembly definitions
    • Improved and refactored API and C# components
    • Custom HTTP fields changed from JSON to simpler string blob
    • Improved frame resolver system
    • Documentation moved from PDF to HTML

macOS / iOS / tvOS

  • Added
    • Completely rewritten much lower overhead plugin
    • Added support for Apple Silicon
    • Added support for alternative video renditions with HLS
    • Added support for generating mipmaps
    • YCbCr internal optimisations for less memory usage
    • Added support for HapR/Hap7 codec on macOS
  • Changed
    • All 3 platforms unified to a single codebase
    • All 3 platforms combined into a single edition
    • BGRA is now the default format, but still retains the memory benefits of YCbCr
    • Improved looping support to make it as seamless as possible
    • Improved the signing and notarisation process
    • macOS minimum version changed to 10.12
    • iOS minimum version changed to 11.0
    • Dropped 32-bit iOS/tvOS support
    • Dropped OpenGLES iOS/tvOS support
    • Updated to Xcode 12, iOS SDK 14.0, tvOS SDK 14.0

Android

  • Added
    • Piping of audio playback to Unity
    • Option to start adapative streaming on highest bitrate
    • Buffered range support
    • Added stereo audio panning to ExoPlayer
  • Changed
    • ExoPlayer updated from 2.8.4 to latest API 2.12.1
    • Upgraded from Facebook Audio 360 1.6.0 to 1.7.12
    • Android minimum API level raised to 18
  • Fixed
    • ExoPlayer package collision issue
    • ARM64 plugins now identified correctly
    • Fixed out of memory crash issue when seeking very high bitrate videos
    • Fixed OES shader and added 180 degree video support and transparent version
    • Fixed judder when adaptive playback swaps between a dimensions that need and don't-need padding when using fast OES

Windows

  • Added
    • Direct3D 12 support
    • NotchLC codec support
    • Asynchronous Hap codec support
    • HapR (BC7) format playback support to DirectShow and Media Foundation
    • Stereo metadata support
    • WinRT video API added for improved streaming support
    • AES-128 HLS support
    • 10-bit texture support added
    • Custom HTTP header support added
    • Facebook Audio 360 support added to UWP
    • Option to start adapative streaming on highest bitrate
    • New 'None' option for AudioOutput
  • Changed
    • DirectShow player supports dynamic format change allowing higher than 1080p with Microsoft H.264 decoder and better 3rd party streaming format support
    • Improved Facebook Audio 360 spatial player
    • Upgraded from Facebook Audio 360 1.6.0 to 1.7.12
    • Upgraded Hap and GDCL-MPEG4 libraries
    • Improved audio piping to Unity including wider range of formats, channel configurations, looping, sync handling and optimisations
    • Audio to Unity of PCM supports up to 32 channels
    • Removed support for Windows XP, Windows Phone
  • Fixed
    • UWP ARM64 plugins now identified correctly