v7.0.0-beta.4

Improvements:

• Added support for per-operation timeout.
• Added global setting for the default per-operation timeout.
• FFMPEG::Status objects now keep track of the duration of operations.

Fixes:

• No progress reported for audio-only transcoding operations.

7.0.0-beta.3

Improvements:

• Added new FFMPEG::Status class to handle the status of ffmpeg and ffprobe processes.

Breaking Changes:

• Removed the borderline useless thumbnail preset.

7.0.0-beta.2

Fixes:

• Make sure the DASH H.264 preset includes at least one video stream.

Improvements:

• Added LD H.264 presets for the DASH H.264 preset that are only included when no other preset fits the specific media.
• Added more options to customize most presets.

7.0.0-beta.1

Fixes:

• Some incorrect or incomplete documentation comments.

Improvements:

• Added non-blocking popen3 methods for both ffmpeg and ffprobe.
• Improved IO handling for ffmpeg and ffprobe processes.

Breaking Changes:

• Dropped support for Ruby 3.1, Ruby 3.2 is now the minimum supported version.

7.0.0-beta

Breaking Changes:

• Added new, more powerful (though less extensible) DSL to build ffmpeg commands.
• Introduced new concept of long-lived presets and transcoders.
• Removed full output storage during the transcoding process.
• Added built-in presets that can be used out-of-the-box:
  • H.264 360p all the way up to 4K resolution.
  • AAC 128k all the way up to 320k bit rate.
  • DASH H.264 360p all the way up to 4K resolution.
  • DASH AAC 128k all the way up to 320k bit rate.
• Dropped support for Ruby 3.0, Ruby 3.1 is now the minimum supported version.

6.1.2

Fixes:

• Calculate rotation correctly for media files with multiple side data elements

6.1.1

Fixes:

• MOV files processed in iMovie should not be marked as audio with attached picture

6.1.0

Improvements:

• Added new default? and attached_pic? helper methods to FFMPEG::Stream objects
• Added new audio_with_attached_pic? helper method to FFMPEG::Media objects

6.0.3

Fixes:

• Fixed a possible race condition that would cause the transcoder to time out even if the transcoder was still running

6.0.2

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash where extremely long media files would cause the transcoder to fail with SystemStackError: stack level too deep