🚀 MediaFlow 2.4.4 Released
This update focuses on significant performance optimizations, streaming stability for DASH protocols, and critical fixes for HLS authentication.
🚀 New Features & Enhancements
- ⚡ DASH Prebuffering & Live Stability: Major enhancements to DASH streaming, including new configuration options for player lock timeouts and concurrent prefetch downloads. Improved MPD live playlist logic to ensure stable media sequences and better performance during live streams (#87).
- 📉 Optimized Startup & Resource Usage: Implemented lazy loading for optional integrations like Acestream and Telegram. This refactor prevents unnecessary CPU spikes on startup and ensures resources are only used when features are enabled.
- ⚙️ Advanced Streaming Control: Added configurable timeouts and concurrency limits for prebuffering to give users finer control over their streaming experience.
🛠️ Bug Fixes
- 🔒 HLS Authentication Propagation: Fixed a critical issue where authentication headers were not being passed to HLS initialization segments (
EXT-X-MAP), ensuring encrypted or protected streams load correctly (#241). - 🧹 Code Maintenance: Applied formatting improvements and refactored router initialization for better long-term stability.
🤝 Contributors
Special thanks to @mhdzumair and @tiagomatrixd for their contributions to this release!
📄 Full Changelog
For a detailed list of all changes, visit the official comparison link.