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@WyattBlue WyattBlue released this 22 Oct 18:03
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26.0.0
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Major

  • You can now preview videos before rendering is complete. (see footnote 1).
  • unset is now never a valid codec/bitrate value. Use auto instead.
  • Removed the --extras and -qscale:v cli options.
  • The ae-ffmpeg pypi package is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Future versions of auto-editor will not ship ffmpeg cli binaries.
  • The --my-ffmpeg --ffmpeg-location --show-ffmpeg-commands and --show-ffmpeg-debug cli options are now deprecated and can be removed in a future 26.x release.

Features

  • Auto-Editor is consistency twice as fast as 25.x if -c:a pcm_s16le is set.
  • Auto-Editor is now 20% faster to 50% slower with default options. (see footnotes 2 and 3).
  • Remove all uses of ffmpeg-cli in auto-editor, with the exception of a few holdouts (EBU norm, audio mixing, yt-dlp).
    • using GPL vs LGPL builds of PyAV now determine if the libx264 or libopen264 encoder is used.

Fixes

  • Never write a "null frame" if the timeline is known to be linear. Fixes #468

Known Regressions

  • Data Streams, Attachment Streams, and Embedded Image (video) streams are now always dropped due to some limitations with the current version of PyAV. This should be fixed in a future version of 26.x

Footnotes

  • [1] You can preview media files if they are in the Matroska format (.mkv). Although .mp4 hybrid could theoretically work, ffmpeg does not appear to have sufficient support yet. YMMV with other formats.
  • [2] Smaller files perform better. Larger files perform worse compared to 25.x when using a solid state drive/fast storage.
  • [3] It should be possible to eventually recover this lost performance. Either with multiprocessing, or multi-threading with GIL-free builds of Python.

Full Changelog: 25.3.1...26.0.0

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