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