We are happy to announce the new release 0.8.0 of GPAC, featuring AV1, full CENC and ATSC3.0 support.

General

• Many security fixes (static compile and fuzzing through AFL, always ongoing).
• Many bugs fixes
• Added :ncl option in log levels to disable color logs
• More tests and coverage

File Formats

• Better support of QTFF / ProRes files
• Support for AV1
  -- import and export
  -- source formats: OBUs (Section 5), IVF and AnnexB
  -- AV1 in HEIF
• Support for color (nclc, nclx and ICC profiles) in HEIF and ISOBMFF
• Support for HDR (mdcv, clli) info in HEIF and ISOBMFF
• Support for alpha in HEIF
• Support for enforcing pasp presence even for 1:1 ratios
• HEVC temporal sublayer split in MP4Box
• Allow meta storage before mdat for meta-only files (heif and co)
• Added option to keep AU delimiter in isobmff samples
• Support for opus import
• Support for pixi and ccst in HEIF
• DolbyVision 'dvcC' and partial 'dvhe' boxes for HDR
• Support for VP9 import and playback
• Sample dependency in avc and hevc importers, and track thinner for non-refs images
• Support for audio_roll signaling
• New audio import mode to control AudioSampleEntry creation (v0, v1 ISOBMFF, v1 QTFF)
• xHE-AAC import with detection of sync samples
• Added support for MPEG-H 3D audio boxes (no import yet)
• Handle Vobsub empty SPU packets
• Added auxv and pict support

Common Encryption

• Fully compliant CENC supporting cenc, cens, cbc1 and cbcs
• CENC for AV1
• Improved DASH+CENC support, pssh in MPD
• ForceClear mode for CENC to skip encryption without sample groups
• Made senc in movie fragments always stored before truns
• Added default values handling for cbcs and possibility to set protection system per track
• Compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.x

Streaming and Adaptive Streaming

• Support for ATSC3.0 both US and Korean versions !
• Support for for live splices (xlink period insertions) in DASH client
• Automatic period continuity in DASH when no codec change between periods
• Added DASH cue-base segmentation (XML based) and -dsap option to generate cue files from source
• Support for BBA-0 and BOLA implementations
• Write fragment defaults in trex even when not using them
• Support for simple ssix for keyframe data byterange at the start of a segment
• Moved segment template at AdaptationSet level if only one representation
• Changed default bsmode in dasher if single input file
• Added init-seg-ext option
• Added -mvex-after-traks option to MP4Box when dashing for CMAF
• Added segmentation option to insert a tfdt per traf
• Added -closest mode for DASH segmentation
• Added -bound option to use audio segmenting method for video
• Renamed -dash-run-for to -run-for
• Added '=' in dash templates
• Improved bandwith estimation when using HTTP 1.1 chunk transfer
• Add option to force moof base offsets

MP4Box

• Added -catpl to concatenate from playlist in MP4Box
• Added options to set movie timescale at import and dash time
• Added mpd rip option and top-level box compressor in MP4Box
• Made -dts skip timing check and added -dtsc for that
• Made force-cat option more agressive
• Support for MovieFragmentRandomAccess using -mfra option
• Added -dtsx to dump timing without offset
• Added -dnalc opt for nal CRC dump
• Added chunk extraction up to time until end
• ISOBMFF single track import now removes references by default

Decoders

• Updated ffmpeg to 4.0.2
• Moved to openHEVC 3.0 API
• Added nvdec support (windows, linux) with reuse of decoder context for tiled VR
• Added HEVC support to mediacodec on android
• AV1 playback through ffmpeg
• Opus playback through ffmpeg

3D, VR and 360

• Added vrhud for multiviewpoint 360
• Added forced visibility mode of tiles in VR
• Added tile visibility debug mode
• Added forced stereo output for openhevc
• Disable face nav if mouse grabbed
• Added simple face tracking vr navigation based on udp commands
• Added PSVR support
• Added mouse move emulation at window border to force sphere rotation when inactive
• Changed tile visibility algo to sample points in mesh

Players (Mobile and Desktop)

• Added about extension
• Added multiple audio objects in dynamic scene
• Added addon splicing of main content
• Added mosaic://v1:.:vN url support
• Added gaze simulation through mouse and gaze-sphere visibility test

Subtitles

• Allow * as argument of -srt|ttxt to dump all possible tracks (#925)
• Improved support for WebVTT import
• Improved support for WebVTT DASHing/fragmentation

Misc

• OSX install now done through PKG and modify PATH env in/etc/paths
• Added initial PMT version and disc marker to TS muxer
• Moved dektec output to matrix API, added SDI clipping
• Added temi periodic toggle and manual toggle in MP42TS