📦 UPDATE 3.0.0.20 (BETA)

⚡ MediaAPI — Playback engine (FFMediaPlayer)

• ⚙️ Added: AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_AMF (AMD) and AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_OHCODEC (OpenHarmony) to the hardware decoder candidates
• ⚙️ Changed: VULKAN restored as a last-resort generic GPU decoder (kept last in the candidate list, after D3D11/D3D12 and the platform decoders); OPENCL stays excluded
• ⚙️ Fixed: AV1 software decode — FFmpeg's native av1 decoder is hwaccel-only and emits zero frames without a GPU accelerator (video "ended" instantly); the software path now picks a real software decoder (libdav1d, else libaom-av1), on both the initial open and the HW→SW fallback
• ⚙️ Fixed: decoders with a reorder window (libdav1d, native av1) lost the tail of the stream / produced nothing on repeat — the video/audio decode loops now drain the decoder with a flush packet at a clean EOF, while an abort() teardown still drops the stale backlog
• ⚙️ Changed: a video stream that drains without ever emitting a frame now reports ERROR instead of ENDED — dead-decoder failures are visible and no longer retried forever by repeat()
• ⚙️ Added: PacketQueue#endOfFile() — distinguishes a clean end-of-stream from an abort() teardown so the decode threads know whether to drain or drop
• ⚙️ Removed: FFMediaPlayer#pollVideoFrame() / pollAudioFrame() — were public but internal-only (a second consumer was always a data race); inlined into the lifecycle consumption loop
• ⚙️ Changed: the resolved decoder is logged (libdav1d / libaom-av1 / native) and DEBUG logging was added across the lifecycle (start/stop/pause/seek/quality/speed/release); isHwAccel() documented

⚡ [NEW] PlatformsAPI — Search

• ⚙️ Added: PlatformAPI.search(String) / search(String, int limit) — asynchronous, client-side search across every registered platform; returns a live PlatformSearch immediately and fills it off-thread (platforms probed concurrently, hits land in completion order, ≤ limit per platform — default 2), a newer search supersedes the previous one
• ⚙️ Added: PlatformAPI.searchHistory() — snapshot of recent queries (newest first, ≤ 10)
• ⚙️ Added: PlatformSearch — live handle (query(), results() immutable growing snapshot, history(), done()); a superseded handle simply stops growing
• ⚙️ Added: PlatformResult(String platform, String title, URI thumbnail, URI url) record — one raw, unresolved hit; the URL is resolved through MRL/PlatformAPI.fetch(URI) only when the user picks it
• ⚙️ Added: IPlatform#search(String query, int limit) default method (returns an empty list) — source/binary compatible; overridden by YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Imgur
• ⚙️ Added: in-memory result cache — identical (limit, query) searches served from memory; bounded LRU (32 entries), whole-cache sweep every platforms.searchCacheCleanup minutes; only completed, non-empty searches are cached
• ⚙️ Added: config platforms.searchCacheCleanup (minutes, default 15; 0 disables caching)
• ⚙️ Changed: PlatformAPI#release() now cancels the active search and clears history + cache

⚡ PlatformsAPI — Web platforms

• ⚙️ Added: YtDlpPlatform — drives the bundled yt-dlp binary out-of-process and maps its JSON into DataSources; enables SoundCloud, Facebook, Instagram and Newgrounds (single videos + playlists, video/muxed/audio-only variants, audio-only sources, subtitles incl. auto-captions, thumbnails, metadata, mature-content gate, per-format headers/UA, URL expiry); hardened subprocess handling (hermetic, 120s timeout, both pipes drained)
• ⚙️ Added: YouTubePlatform — re-adds YouTube (removed with no replacement in a prior beta), backed by yt-dlp; separates video vs playlist links, and on the bot-check/age gate retries with a freshly minted po_token via the rustypipe-botguard binary; implements search() through yt-dlp ytsearchN: (--flat-playlist, playable videos only)
• ⚙️ Added: search support on Imgur (gallery search), Kick (channel search) and Twitch (inline GraphQL searchFor, no persisted hash)
• ⚙️ Changed: merged the old platform-extension module into WaterMedia — yt-dlp/botguard provisioning lives in libs/binaries, the platform integration here
• ⚙️ Changed: platform JSON parsing migrated to the shared JsonTool helpers (BiliBili, Odysee, TikTok, Twitch) — no behavior change

⚡ Packaging / licensing

• ⚙️ Changed: native libraries rebuilt — FFmpeg with AMD AMF, OpenHarmony codec support, x264/x265 encoders and Vulkan, and yt-dlp + rustypipe-botguard provisioning (libs/binaries, libs/tools)
• ⚙️ Added: META-INF/licenses/javacpp-LICENSE.txt — bundles the JavaCPP / JavaCPP-Presets-FFmpeg JNI-bindings license (Apache 2.0); README points at the bundled license texts under META-INF/licenses/

⚡ GENERAL

• ✨ Search videos by keyword across YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Imgur — results stream in as you type, no need to paste a link
• ✨ YouTube is back, and SoundCloud, Facebook, Instagram and Newgrounds now play too — all through yt-dlp, with automatic bot-check bypass on YouTube
• 🛠️ Hardware video decoding now covers AMD GPUs (AMF) and OpenHarmony devices, with Vulkan used as a last-resort GPU decoder
• 🐛 Fixed: AV1 videos that played for an instant and then "ended" (or showed nothing) when the GPU has no AV1 decoder — they now decode in software
• 🐛 Fixed: the last moment of some videos getting cut off, and looping/repeat freezing, on certain AV1 / threaded decoders