MFlow v0.4.1 — User-Local Installation

MFlow v0.4.1 — User-Local Installation

MFlow v0.4.1 introduces the first complete user-local installation system for MFlow.

✨ Highlights

• User-local installation on Windows
• User-local installation on Linux
• mflow available from any terminal and directory
• Automatic Windows user PATH configuration
• Linux ~/.local/bin installation support
• Version updated to 0.4.1
• No external multimedia executable is required

🛠️ Installation

Windows

Run:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\install-windows.ps1

Then open a new terminal and run:

mflow version
mflow info

Linux

Run:

chmod +x ./scripts/install-linux.sh
./scripts/install-linux.sh

Then:

mflow version
mflow info

📦 Current capabilities

MFlow currently provides the native media foundation required for future multimedia processing:

• Packet model
• Stream model
• Timestamps
• Thread-safe packet queues
• Media contexts
• Native file operations
• Native media probing foundation
• Scheduler and pipeline infrastructure
• Cross-platform C++20 architecture

🚧 Current limitations

Native codec decoding/encoding, full demuxing/muxing and advanced media transformations are still under development.

MFlow does not delegate multimedia processing to FFmpeg or another external multimedia executable.

🔜 Next

The v0.4.x series will continue building the native media engine, including improved packet queues, media contexts and the first native container components.

Previous release: v0.4.0 — Packet & Stream Foundation