GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

Devlog

• Version 9.7
  June 28, 2026 by Voylin

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  Small fixes Nothing major got updated, besides some requested fixes and an addition of headers. Change-log Full Changelog : https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gde_gozen/compare/v9.6…v9.7 Add h... Continue reading
• Version 9.6
  April 09, 2026 by Voylin

  “Maintenance” release This update does have a big feature, HTTPS support, but the biggest reason for this update are some fixes. Building the GDExtension can cause issues due to the new HTTPS supp... Continue reading
• Version 9.4 - Better support
  March 25, 2026 by Voylin

  Better support Biggest reason for this update is that now AV1, VP8, and VP9 support is more stable since it’s now statically compiled with FFmpeg so no more dynamic linking issues. Change-log PNG’... Continue reading
• Version 9.3
  March 06, 2026 by Voylin

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  Just some stuff The most important part of this update is the Android fix for the Play store’s 16kb page size issues which got mentioned by a member of the Discord server. This should be fixed with... Continue reading
• Version 9.2
  February 17, 2026 by Voylin

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  Bug fixes + SAF support Some bug fixes and extra functionality got added. Enjoy! Change-log Added modulate support to VideoPlayback node; Added audio to update_video() ; Android file management ; Upda... Continue reading
• Version 9.1
  January 20, 2026 by Voylin

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  #gozen

  Some additions and improvements It’s been 2 weeks, but some updates have been done to the GDExtension! This release is too small to create a release page on GitHub so just going to share the update... Continue reading
• Version 9.0
  January 06, 2026 by Voylin

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  Better performance + Alpha support! Those are the two biggest updates for this release, but of course there’s a lot more so here’s a quick change-log! I hope that this update helps some people who... Continue reading
• Version 8.5
  November 23, 2025 by Voylin

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  November update! Some PR’s have been merged, some bugs have been squashed, and some improvements have been made. That’s why there’s a new update with (again) more stability. Enjoy! Changes Full... Continue reading
• Version 8.4 - Now with more stability!
  November 06, 2025 by Voylin

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  Some much needed fixes are in this release which prevent crashing in certain situations such as on Android. Thanks to the bigger AVIO buffer size the speed at which audio loads also became slightly fa... Continue reading
• Small update
  September 22, 2025 by Voylin

  As the title suggest, this is a small update with some necessary fixes and an addition: Fix 4.5 video playback; Fix for OGV video files using UID paths; Test room got updated to Godot 4.5; Option to m... Continue reading
• Windows exporting fix
  August 03, 2025 by Voylin

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  Thanks to a comment here on Itch.io I was made aware of a small issue which was causing problems when exporting for Windows. This has been fixed in the 8.2 update. Nothing really changed except for 2... Continue reading
• Just a patch for exporting
  July 24, 2025 by Voylin

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  Exporting projects had issues due to some lines in gozen.gdextension and the files for av1 support not having been copied over. All regressions from the last fix to improve the overall size... Continue reading
• Version 8.0 - Use videos from your project!
  July 22, 2025 by Voylin

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  Now you can add video files to your “res://” folder and have playback working! It was easier to implement than I thought, but will have a big impact on how people use GDE GoZen! The previous metho... Continue reading
• Version 7.3
  July 12, 2025 by Voylin

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  Faster loading Thanks to a small adjustment we can now open videos a bit more quickly. There’s also a notification now if videos are too long for their audio to be gotten from the video file (since... Continue reading
• Version 7.2!
  July 09, 2025 by Voylin

  Now with more Android! Android support for armv7a (arm32) was not implemented yet in the previous update, this turned out to be something people also wanted so I went to work. In the meantime I update... Continue reading
• Version 7.1
  July 02, 2025 by Voylin

  A small update to fix some MacOS stuff and to fix some of the new de-interlacing code... Continue reading
• Version 7.0
  July 01, 2025 by Voylin

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  Now with Android After some work and testing, I’m proud to say that there’s now Android support. Besides that there is improved support for older video files, especially ones with non square pixel... Continue reading
• Version 6.2
  June 23, 2025 by Voylin

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  Playback additions + bug fixes This update has some nice stuff included, first of all, there’s GIF and AV1 playback support for all platforms now! Furthermore, some fixes got released for the MacOS... Continue reading
• MacOS Fix
  May 19, 2025 by Voylin

  I discovered that the MacOS version didn’t get build correctly, so here’s a fix for the people who need a working MacOS build. Other than that change, the test room audio scene got fixed... Continue reading
• Version 6.1.1
  May 09, 2025 by Voylin

  GDE GoZen 6.1 Now in a smaller size with more improvements! :smile: I’ve been able to greatly reduce the “footprint” of FFmpeg making the GDExtension take up less space without removing function... Continue reading
• Version 6.0
  April 21, 2025 by Voylin

  Now with MacOS support! Finally a new update and this one has something which some people might find useful. One of the biggest updates right now is the MacOS support! Android is still a WIP. What’s... Continue reading
• Version 5.0
  March 09, 2025 by Voylin#gozen, #5.0, #update, #major update

  Version 5 Initially I wanted to call this update 4.2, but there have been quite a lot of changes, and calling it 4.x was getting confusing due to the Godot version number as well. Updates Added playba... Continue reading
• Version 4.1 - Some fixes + some additions
  November 30, 2024 by Voylin

  GDE GoZen - Version 4.1 I don’t know how else to describe this update as “quite big”. Many changes have been made, many additions, the repo itself got better documentation, there is a GPL build... Continue reading
• Version 4.0: Now with less bugs and more performance
  November 16, 2024 by Voylin

  Version 4 for GDE GoZen has many many changes, it started out as wanting to implement hardware decoding but instead a ton of bugs got fixed, performance improved and overall it’s a better experience... Continue reading
• Version 3.2 - Now much faster
  October 16, 2024 by Voylin

  The previous releases had a problem with performance not being as fast as it could be. I tried implementing Hardware decoding, and although it is included in this build, I would advise not to use it f... Continue reading
• Version 3.1
  September 06, 2024 by Voylin

  Version 3.1 is out! SWScale is basically back, I wanted to switch over to the compute shaders as they are faster, but the problem is that I would need to write more compute shaders for all other forma... Continue reading
• First release!
  August 30, 2024 by Voylin

  The first release of GDE GoZen is finally live! Been working on getting video playback working nicely for the past year as a part of the video editor I’ve been working on. It’s only since beginnin... Continue reading