Full Changelog: https://github.com/spupuz/VibeNVR/compare/v1.21.0...v1.22.0

🚀 Release v1.22.0 — The WebCodecs Revolution

📝 Summary

This landmark update transforms VibeNVR's live viewing experience by introducing native WebCodecs H.264 Streaming. By moving away from legacy JPEG polling and embracing direct WebSocket-based hardware decoding, we've achieved ultra-low latency and significantly reduced CPU overhead. This release also ensures full compatibility with secure contexts and emphasizes robust fallback mechanisms for global reliability.

🛠️ Key Improvements

• 📺 Native WebCodecs H.264: High-performance, low-latency live streaming via WebSockets. Includes hardware-accelerated decoding (VideoDecoder API) and dynamic SPS profile detection.
• 🐍 Internal PyAV Engine: Migrated the core StreamReader to PyAV, moving away from legacy processing to direct, high-performance bitstream demuxing. This powers the new raw packet broadcasting system.
• ⚡ Reactive Health Sync: Re-engineered the live view to prioritize real-time backend health status. Ensures "Unauthorized" or "Unreachable" overlays appear instantly, bypassing stale local load states.
• 🔌 Reverse Proxy Ready: Optimized for secure HTTPS contexts; requiring WebSocket support (Connection: Upgrade) enabled in your proxy (Nginx, NPM, etc.) for the full experience.
• 🔄 Robust Fallback: Seamless, automatic transition to JPEG polling for insecure contexts, legacy browsers, or misconfigured proxies, ensuring 100% visual continuity.
• 🛡️ Engine Robustness & Safety: Precision RTSP URL sanitization for complex credentials and an automated 5-minute backoff guard to prevent camera IP bans during connection failures.
• 🏗️ Professional Automation: Standardized all internal workflows (Test, Audit, Release) in premium English with full system indexing support.
• 🎨 Visual Excellence: Crystal-clear stream rotation and synchronized overlays across all streaming methods. Fixed a critical UI bug where camera health status would occasionally desync in the grid view.