abhiTronix/vidgear: VidGear Stable v0.2.6

📓 Complete Release Notes can be found here ↗️

• Docs:
  • Added new bonus example for RSTP/RTP Live-Streaming using WriteGear's Compression Mode.
  • Added "How to resolve zmq.error.ZMQError" FAQ for NetGear API.(PR by @iandol)
• Maintenance:
  • Added new patterns to .gitignore to ignore pypi's build directory and egg-info files.
• CI:
  • Switched to new Issue GitHub's form schema using YAMLs.

• Setup.py:
  • Replaced >= comparsion operator with more flexible ~=.
  • Replaced distutils.version.LooseVersion with pkg_resources.parse_version.
• Docs:
  • Updated Site Navigation.
    • Added new notices to inform users more effectively about bonus examples.
    • Added new Bonus section to navigation and moved suitable pages under it.
  • Redesigned and Rewritten Donation and Contribution section to README.md.
• API:
  • Updated depreciated tostring() to tobytes() for the purposes for clarity in Python 3.2.
• CI:
  • Added more paths and files to skip commits.

• -input_framerate parameter now accepts any positive value for WriteGear and StreamGear APIs.

• API: Fixed -input_framerate less than 5 does not get used in WriteGear and StreamGear APIs.(PR by @freol35241)
• CamGear: Fixed Yt-dlp generated HTTP DASH Segments URLs not supported by OpenCV's VideoCapture(PR by @DynamiteC)
• StreamGear:
  • Fixed hls_segment_type not working bug. (PR by @enarche-ahn)
  • Fixed critical logging parameter bug
    • Fixed debug logs even when logging=False in StreamGear's Real-time Mode. (patch suggested by @enarche-ahn)
    • Added length check to -video_source attribute to correctly infers it as empty(or invalid).
• CI:
  • Fixed pinned version syntax bug in docs_deployer workflow.
  • Fixed typos in Github forms and its context.
• Docs:
  • Fixed jinja2 3.1.0 or above breaks mkdocs.
    • jinja2>=3.1.0 breaks mkdocs (mkdocs/mkdocs#2799), therefore pinned jinja2 version to <3.1.0.
  • Fixed support for new mkdocstring versions
  • Fixed Netgear+Webgear bonus example code bugs.(PR by @iandol)
  • Fixed external bug that causing "Home" tab not responsive randomly when accessed from other tabs.