VidGear Stable v0.3.2

📓 Complete Release Notes can be found here ↗️

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New Features ✨

• NetGear:
  • Added new kill parameter to close() method to forcefully kill ZMQ context instead of graceful exit only in the receive mode.
  • Added new subscriber_timeout integer optional parameter to support timeout with pattern=2 (or Publisher-Subscriber) pattern.
    • Receiver will exit safely if timeout defined(any value(in milliseconds) > 0), and timeout occurs in Receiver Mode with pattern=2.
    • 💬 Note: Default behavior still is to block the thread till infinite time.
• WriteGear:
  • Added new -disable_ffmpeg_window optional Boolean flag to enable patch that prevents FFmpeg creation window from opening when building .exe files on Windows OS. (PR by @ibtsam3301)
    • 💬 Note: -disable_ffmpeg_window optional Boolean flag is only available on Windows OS with logging disabled(logging=False) in compression mode.
    • 💬 Use Case: This flag can be useful while creating an .exe file for a python script that uses WriteGear API. On windows even after creating the .exe file in windowed mode or no-console mode, the ffmpeg.exe command line window would pop up while its being used by WriteGear API.
• Setup.py
  • Added official support for python 3.11.x legacies.

Updates/Improvements ⚡️

• Asyncio:
  • Formatted TemplateResponse class parameters w.r.t new changes in backend Starlette API.
• Setup.py:
  • Readded latest patch to uvicorn, starlette, pyzmq dependencies.
  • Removed 3.7 legacy from Programming Language metadata.
• Maintenance:
  • Added GitHub sponsors and dropped liberapay from Funding.yml.
• Docs:
  • Updated information related to Supported Dimensional Attributes in ScreenGear docs.
  • Updated minimum python to version 3.8 while installing vidgear in docs.
  • Updated API-specific dependencies in docs.

Breaking Updates/Changes 💥

• Setup.py:
  • 💣 Removed support for python-3.7 legacies
    • 💬 Raised python_requires to >=3.8. Thereby python 3.7 and any before legacy are no longer supported.

Bug-fixes 🐛

• ScreenGear:
  • Fixed swapped region dimensions bug with dxcam backend.
  • Fixed "mss" backend disabled when monitor parameter is not defined.
• Docs:
  • Fixed missing compression_mode flags in WriteGear API docs.