4.16.24 (2026-03-23)
Bug Fixes
- HLS: Add support for DTS and DTS-HD audio codec variants (#9863) (e5fe50f)
- HLS: Prevent infinite manifest update delay (#9867) (a07d36c)
- Increase tolerance for duplicate segment detection (#9865) (e2f69d4)
- util: Add support for MPEG-2 video codec (#9860) (b84f01f)
Performance Improvements
- DASH: loop over adaptation sets using the partition method (#9862) (e5e0c58)
- HLS: parse tag string directly instead of creating an array (#9856) (6658629)
- HLS: reduce GC pressure when parsing HLS manifest tags (#9857) (b0d5551)
- net: avoid array allocations in XHR header parsing to reduce GC pressure (#9874) (b2015c4)
- player: stop recreating functions on video time update (#9854) (d21babd)
- Transmuxer: replace identical object literals with named constants (#9852) (fcc993e)
- VTT: reduce GC pressure in VTT text parser (#9869) (e178f31)