v0.2.8

New Features

✨ Custom ffmpeg Path Support

• Added a GUI option to specify a custom ffmpeg executable path
• The custom path is now used across all detection and test modules
• Improved ffmpeg discovery logic in utilities

✨ Automatic ffmpeg Installation (install_ffmpeg_if_needed)

• New module to automatically detect if ffmpeg is installed
• If missing, prompts and guides the user through installation
• Significantly improved installation logic with 306+ lines of enhancements

✨ Colorful Terminal Output

• Added vibrant color-coded output for bit depth and chroma detection results
• Enhanced test runner output with colorized status indicators
• Improved readability of console output across all modules

✨ Hardware Device Index Support

• Added device index configuration for hardware encoders/decoders
• New codec_defs.py module defining available hardware devices and codecs
• GUI now supports selecting hardware device indices

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Bug Fixes

🐛 Vulkan hwupload Format Compatibility

• Fixed issue where Vulkan hwupload only accepted semi-planar HW-friendly pixel formats
• Added proper format validation for Vulkan hardware uploads

🐛 tkinter ImportError

• Fixed ImportError when tkinter is not available in certain Python environments
• Added graceful fallback when running in headless mode

🐛 Subprocess Timeout

• Set subprocess timeout to 10 seconds to prevent indefinite hangs
• Improved error handling for timed-out ffmpeg operations

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Refactoring & Improvements

🔧 Major Codebase Restructuring

• Extracted hardware codec definitions into dedicated codec_defs.py module
• Extracted theme/color definitions into dedicated theme.py module
• Reduced gui.py by 873 lines through modularization
• Overall: +499 lines added, -873 lines removed across 8 files

🔧 Improved Test Runner

• Refactored run_tests.py for better code organization
• Enhanced test output formatting
• Added support for custom ffmpeg path in test execution

🔧 Optimization

• Optimized GUI layout and logic
• Improved error handling and user feedback across all modules

v0.2.7

• The UI was redesigned.
• Merge branch 'ui'

Supported Platforms:

• Windows: x64, x86 (32-bit)
• macOS: Apple Silicon (ARM64), Intel (x64)
• Linux: x64, ARM64, x86

Note: Windows ARM users should use the Windows x86 or x64 binary.

v0.2.6

• Fix wrong stty config after tests on Linux ( @peasoft )
• Better table printing(markdown friendly) ( @peasoft )
• More Robust FFmpeg Installation Logic
• Update README

Supported Platforms:

• Windows: x64, x86 (32-bit)
• macOS: Apple Silicon (ARM64), Intel (x64)
• Linux: x64, ARM64, x86

Note: Windows ARM users should use the Windows x86 or x64 binary.

v0.2.5

Release Notes

• Add subprocess creationflags: CREATE_NO_WINDOW
• Add Apple VideoToolbox and D3D12VA decoders
• Fix Decoder definitions table(miss d3d12va)
• fix decoder_bitdepth_test miss d3d12va

Note: Windows ARM users should use the Windows x86 or x64 binary.

v0.2.4

HwCodecDetect v0.2.4 Release Notes

Release Overview

This release includes 1575 total lines changed across 9 files, combining improvements from both main and ui branches.

🔧 Core Engine Improvements (Main Branch)

New Features

• Added unified get_temp_path() utility for consistent temporary file management
• Added --disable-windowed-traceback command line flag for headless environments
• Implemented pre-flight codec capability check before running detection tests

Enhancements

• Refactored bit-depth and chroma subsampling detection logic
• Improved error handling and exception reporting
• Updated GitHub Actions release workflow
• Cleaned up module import structure

Fixes

• Resolved PyInstaller console parameter handling issue
• Fixed edge cases in 10/12-bit codec detection

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🎨 GUI Interface (UI Branch)

All items below marked with [GUI] are only available in UI branch builds

✅ [GUI] MAJOR: Complete graphical user interface added (1267 lines new gui.py module)

• Full desktop application with modern interface
• All codec detection features available via GUI
• Real-time test progress visualization
• Test result export capabilities

✅ [GUI] New Features:

• Bit-depth & Chroma sampling test interface
• Automatic FFmpeg environment validation on startup
• Built-in version check and update notification system
• Proper temporary file management for GUI sessions
• Windows GUI mode runs without console window

✅ [GUI] Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed ProRes codec detection for MOV container format
• Added CI/CD pipeline for GUI executable builds
• Improved exception handling in GUI context

Build & Deployment

• Updated version number to v0.2.4
• PyInstaller spec file optimized for both CLI and GUI builds
• GitHub Actions workflow updated for dual release artifacts

v0.2.3

• Add Vulkan AV1 Encoder support.
• Add VideoToolbox ProRes Decoder/Encoder support.

v0.2.2

Release Notes

• Add Microsoft Hardware AV1 Encoder(MediaFoundation) support.

v0.2.1

Release Notes:

• Upgraded to FFmpeg 8.1: Core engine enhancement.
• D3D12 Hardware Encoding: New support for H.264 and AV1 via Direct3D 12(d3d12va).

Supported Platforms:

• Windows: x64, x86 (32-bit)
• macOS: Apple Silicon (ARM64), Intel (x64)
• Linux: x64, ARM64, x86

Note: Windows ARM users should use the Windows x86 or x64 binary.

v0.2.0

Release Notes: HwCodecDetect v1.2.0

• Added Bit-depth & Chroma Detection: New support for testing 8/10/12-bit and YUV 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4 compatibility at a fixed 1280x720 resolution.

• Smart Encoding Fallback: Automatically uses software encoding to generate test vectors if hardware encoding fails, ensuring consistent decoding tests.

• UI/Logic Refactoring: Decoupled UI rendering from run_tests.py into a standalone module for better stability and maintainability.

• Enhanced Interface: Added two new UI notebooks specifically for Bit-depth and Chroma results, while renaming existing resolution-based tabs for clarity.

• New CLI Argument: Added --no-bitdepth-chroma flag to run_tests to allow skipping extended color-space testing (enabled by default).

• Bug Fixes: Resolved the execution exception occurring in run_tests.py when initializing the new detection scripts.

v0.1.10

Automated multi-platform build for CLI and GUI.

• CLI Version: main branch
• GUI Version: ui branch

Supported Platforms:

• Windows: x64, x86 (32-bit)
• macOS: Apple Silicon (ARM64), Intel (x64)
• Linux: x64, ARM64, x86

Note: Windows ARM users should use the Windows x86 or x64 binary.