VidGear Stable v0.2.5

📓 Complete Release Notes can be found here ↗️

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New Features ✨

• WriteGear:
  • Added support for GStreamer pipeline in WriteGear API's Non-Compression mode:
    • Implemented GStreamer Pipeline Mode to accept GStreamer pipeline formatted as string to its output_filename parameter.
    • Added new special -gst_pipeline_mode attribute to its output_params dictionary parameter to enable this mode.
    • This feature provides flexible way to directly write video frames into custom GStreamer Pipeline with controlled bitrate.
  • Added new -ffpreheaders special attribute to WriteGear's output_params dictionary parameter in Compression mode:
    • This attribute is specifically required to set special FFmpeg parameters in Compression Mode that are present at the starting of command(such as -re).
    • This attribute only accepts list datatype as value.
• NetGear:
  • Added bidirectional data transfer support to existing exclusive Multi-Clients and Multi-Servers exclusive modes:
    • Users will now able to send data bidirectionally in both Multi-Clients and Multi-Servers exclusive modes.
    • Bidirectional mode will no longer disables automatically when enabled along with Multi-Clients and Multi-Servers exclusive modes.
• Maintenance:
  • 🌟 Added official support for Python-3.10 legacies. 🌟
  • Added float value support to THREAD_TIMEOUT optional attributes in threaded gears.

Updates/Improvements ⚡️

• Setup.py:
  • Dropped support for Python-3.6 and below legacies.
  • Updated logging formating.
  • Updated python_requires to >=3.7.
• Helper:
  • Vidgear will now report current version on every run.

Breaking Updates/Changes 💥

• ⚠️ Dropped support for Python-3.6 legacies from vidgear.

Bug-fixes 🐛

• NetGear: Fixed bidirectional mode forcefully overriding multi-clients mode's payload.
• Setup: Fixed uvicorn and aiortc dropped support for Python-3.6 legacies.