PyAV Files

Breaking

• Remove the undertested av.option and av.descriptor APIs, along with the related Codec and Filter descriptor accessors.

Features

• Use FFmpeg 8.1.1 in the binary wheels by @WyattBlue.
• Build Linux ARMv7 binary wheels by @WyattBlue.
• Expose AVCodecContext.global_quality by @WyattBlue in [#2246].
• Expose Stream.discard so demuxing and seeking can skip unwanted streams by @WyattBlue (#2272).
• Add Stream.set_display_matrix() and Stream.set_display_rotation() to write the container display (rotation) matrix on output streams by @hmaarrfk in [#2287].
• Add Container.video_codec_id to force a specific video codec on a container by @WyattBlue (#2243).

Fixes

• Add cython.final to leaf classes, ensuring that they are not subclassed by @WyattBlue.
• Warn that CodecContext.decode() is not memory safe in some cases.
• Fix memory leaks in FFmpegError, AudioLayout channel layouts, and Frame.opaque, and break a reference cycle between FilterLink and Graph by @lgeiger.
• Reduce excessive logging lock contention by @WyattBlue (#2276).
• Fix a crash when accessing Stream from multiple threads under FFmpeg 8.1 by @WyattBlue (#2247).
• Fix a crash during InputContainer initialization by @WyattBlue (#2010).
• Fix enumerate_input_devices and enumerate_output_devices raising AttributeError by @WyattBlue and @kazuki (#2264).
• Map HTTP 429 to HTTPTooManyRequestsError instead of UndefinedError by @WyattBlue (#2267).
• Fix crash in VideoFrame.to_ndarray() and to_image() on bottom-up frames with a negative line_size by @WyattBlue (#2213).
• Make Disposition an IntFlag so Stream.disposition can be assigned without raising TypeError by @HotariTobu.
• Assign parser-inferred pts, dts, and duration to packets from CodecContext.parse() by @WyattBlue (#1919).
• Copy time_base in add_stream_from_template() by @daveisfera in [#2249].
• Fix the remux examples dropping keyframes that demux with no DTS, which produced audio-only output by @WyattBlue (#1917).
• Fix subtitle UTF-8 handling by @jbree in [#2271].
• Fix several incorrect malloc size calculations by @WyattBlue.

New Contributors

• @HotariTobu made their first contribution in https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV/pull/2257
• @jbree made their first contribution in https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV/pull/2271
• @kazuki made their first contribution in https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV/pull/2288

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV/compare/v17.0.1...v17.1.0