RFR: 8273096: Add support for H.265/HEVC to JavaFX Media [v4]

[Johan Vos]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:27:50 GMT, Alexander Matveev <almatvee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> - Added support for H.265/HEVC for all 3 platforms.
>>  - Support is added only for .mp4 files over FILE/HTTP/HTTPS protocols. HTTP Live Streaming with H.265/HEVC is not supported.
>>  - On Windows mfwrapper was introduced which uses Media Foundation APIs to decode HEVC.
>>  - 10 and 12-bit HEVC was tested and also supported, however due to graphics pipeline not supporting 10-bit YUV rendering we will use color converter to convert video frame to 8-bit before sending it for rendering.
>>  - Resolution upto 4k is supported.
>> 
>> Additional runtime dependency requirements:
>> Windows: Windows 10 with HEVC Video Extensions installed.
>> macOS: macOS High Sierra and later
>> Linux: at least libavcodec56 and libswscale5
>> 
>> Additional build dependency:
>> Linux: libswscale-dev
>
> Alexander Matveev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8273096: Add support for H.265/HEVC to JavaFX Media [v5]

We're building it now, and will do additional tests once building works fine (we might need a small change in the CI due to the additional Linux dependency)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/649