RFR: 8273096: Add support for H.265/HEVC to JavaFX Media [v2]

[Kevin Rushforth]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:24:11 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 [v3]

The recent changes for Linux look good to me. And thanks for confirming that it already works as expected for Windows and macOS.

I'll put this back on my queue to review and test.

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