v0.32.0

This release requires FFmpeg 4.0 or newer.

Features

Added

• stream_libarchive: enable RAR5 support
• bash completion: add initial implementation
• cocoa-cb: add support for forcing the dedicated GPU for rendering
• cocoa-cb: add pinch to resize window gesture
• w32_common: support minimizing/maximizing using osc window controls

Changed

• wayland: print warning on GNOME due to serious issues with their compositor
• player: write watch-later config even for unseekable streams

Removed

• vo_gpu: hwdec_vdpau: remove direct_mode
• vo_gpu: hwdec_vaegl: remove support for old-style interop

Options and Commands

Added

• command: add a playlist-unshuffle command
• command: add osd-dimensions property
• input: new PLAYONLY and PAUSEONLY keycodes

Changed

• options: change option parsing when using a single dash
  This adds a warning for -o file.mkv and disallows the use of
  --o file.mkv (use --o=file.mkv instead).

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• lua: fix mp.file_info for large files
• vo_gpu: fix crash if dither texture fails to allocate
• wayland: unscrew up cursors, fix various issues
• osc: usability improvements for osc window controls

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.31.0..v0.32.0
in the git repository or by visiting either
v0.31.0...v0.32.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.31.0..v0.32.0

v0.31.0

This release requires FFmpeg 4.0 or newer.

Features

Added

• vo_gpu/d3d11: allow configurable swapchain color space for native HDR output
• player: add mechanisms for better logging as preperation for console.lua
• audio: add ao_audiotrack for Android
• input: introduce a pseudo key name that grabs all text input
• wayland: add grab zone for resizing window with mouse
• osc: implement pseudo client side decorations via OSC
• vf_gpu: add video filter using vo_gpu's renderer
• added console.lua: interactive REPL for input commands
• osc: display Santa hat for idle logo in December
• vd_lavc: add option to autoselect known good hwdec implementations
• mac: replace old event tap for media key support with MediaPlayer

Changed

• input: disable gamepad code by default
• vo_gpu: allow vdpau usage under EGL
• stream, demux: redo origin policy

Removed

• mac: remove Apple Remote support
• client API: deprecate tick event

Options and Commands

Added

• vo_gpu/d3d11: add --d3d11-output-csp for configuring swap chain color space
• command: add command-list property
• command, input: add input-bindings property
• command: add --window-maximized and make --window-minimized settable
• command: add property returning hidpi scale
• command, lua: add a way to share data between scripts
• client API, lua: add new API for setting OSD overlays

Changed

• add a builtin "sw-fast" profile, which restores performance settings
  for software video conversion. These were switched to higher quality.
  This affects video outputs like vo_x11 and vo_drm, and screenshots.
• options: make --show-profile without parameters list all profiles
• wayland: support for --hidpi-window-scale option
• stream_lavf: set --network-timeout to 60 seconds by default
• x11: scale window-scale by DPI

Deprecated

• deprecate --input-file
• deprecate --video-sync=display-adrop
• deprecate all input section commands
• deprecate --display-fps, replaced by --override-display-fps

Removed

• remove deprecated --playlist-pos alias

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• vo_drm, vo_x11: allow use of zimg
• vo_sdl: Support mouse wheel input, Improve mouse button input
• video: fix track switching work for external images
• vo_gpu: fix infinite scaler reinit spam
• f_output_chain: fix possible crash when changing filters
• vo_gpu: opengl: add hack for ancient Mesa/GLX
• demux_lavf: export demuxer_id for more formats which have it
• lua: make later key bindings always have higher priority
• drm_common: fix display FPS estimation for interlaced modes
• vo_drm: fix incorrect pixel format possibly being picked for 30-bit
• zsh completion: fix pcre usage to really be optional
• options: increase consistency between list options and document them
• osc: reduce unnecesary CPU usage by using property notifications

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.30.0..v0.31.0
in the git repository or by visiting either
v0.30.0...v0.31.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.30.0..v0.31.0

v0.30.0

This release requires FFmpeg 4.0 or newer.
This release has replaced the internal Vulkan rendering abstraction
with libplacebo's more up-to-date implementation.

Features

Added

• vo_gpu: vulkan: hwdec_cuda: Add support for Vulkan interop
• command: support for async commands
• input: support for named arguments
• cocoa-cb: add support for mac 10.14 Dark mode and run time switching
• vo_gpu: switch to Vulkan API implementation based on libplacebo
• context_drm_egl: Add support for presentation feedback
• vo_gpu: implement error diffusion for dithering
• vo/gpu: hwdec_vdpau: Support direct mode for 4:4:4 content
• vo_gpu: hwdec_vaapi: Add Vulkan interop
• video, TOOLS: add vf_fingerprint and a skip-logo script
• vo_gpu: d3d11: add support for presentation feedback
• vo_drm: 30bpp support
• cocoa-cb: add support for 10bit opengl rendering
• video: add pure gamma TRC curves for 2.0, 2.4 and 2.6
• vo_drm: Implement N-buffering and presentation feedback
• Reintroduce vo_wayland as vo_wlshm
• video: add zimg wrapper
• wayland: add presentation time
• input: add gamepad support through SDL2

Changed

• cocoa-cb: use libmpv's advanced rendering control and timing
• vo_gpu: improve tone mapping desaturation
• vo_gpu: redesign peak detection algorithm
• vo_gpu: allow boosting dark scenes when tone mapping
• osc: improve look of seekranges
• vo_gpu: x11: remove special vdpau probing, use EGL by default
• demux: sort filenames naturally when playing a directory / archive
• stream_dvb: rewrite channel switching, remove old stream control
• filters: extend vf_format so that it can convert color parameters

Removed

• demux, stream: rip out the classic stream cache
• vo_gpu: removed internal Vulkan implementation
• Remove libdvdread support in favor of libdvdnav
• demux, stream: remove much of the optical disc support
• Remove classic Linux analog TV support, and DVB runtime controls
• demux, stream: remove old rar support in favor of libarchive
• vo_gpu: remove mali-fbdev
• vo_gpu: remove vdpau/GLX backend
• vf_vapourynth: remove Lua backend
• vo_gpu: remove hwdec_d3d11eglrgb

Options and Commands

Added

• command: add a subprocess command
• vo_gpu: added --tone-mapping-max-boost, --hdr-peak-decay-rate, --hdr-scene-threshold-low/high
• player: add --demuxer-cache-wait option
• Implement backwards playback
• demux: add a on-disk cache
• demux, command: add another stream recording mechanism, dump-cache command
• ao_pulse: add --pulse-allow-suspended
• command: add video-add/video-remove/video-reload commands
• demux_cue: added --demuxer-cue-codepage to select CUE sheet charset
• input: add keybind command
• command: add sub-start & sub-end properties
• video/d3d11: added --d3d11-adapter to select a rendering adapter by name
• vo_gpu/d3d11: added --d3d11-output-format for configuring swap chain format

Changed

• vo_gpu: split --linear-scaling into --linear-upscaling and --linear-downscaling
• vo_gpu: split --tone-mapping-desaturate into strength and exponent
• drm: rename --drm-osd-plane-id to --drm-draw-plane, --drm-video-plane-id to --drm-drmprime-video-plane, --drm-osd-size to --drm-draw-surface-size

Deprecated

• options: deprecate --video-aspect, replaced by --video-aspect-override
• options: deprecate --record-file, --spirv-compiler

Removed

• options: remove deprecated --chapter option
• demux: remove "program" property
• stream: remove "disc-titles", "disc-title", "disc-title-list", and "angle" properties
• cocoa-cb: remove --macos-title-bar-style, replaced by --macos-title-bar-material and --macos-title-bar-appearance
• spirv: remove support for --spirv-compiler=nvidia (shaderc is the only remaining option)

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• context_drm_egl: implement n-buffering
• cocoa-cb: add support for custom colored title bar
• vo_gpu: x11egl: support Mesa OML sync extension
• demux, demux_edl: add extension for tracks sourced from separate streams
• context_drm_egl: Use eglGetPlatformDisplayEXT if available
• vo_gpu: vulkan: add Android context
• wayland: use xdg-decoration if available
• vo_gpu: glx: use GLX_OML_sync_control for better vsync reporting
• demux: runtime option changing for cache and stream recording
• x11: fix ICC profiling for multiple monitors
• zsh completion: move generation to runtime and improve

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.29.1..v0.30.0
in the git repository or by visiting either
v0.29.1...v0.30.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.29.1..v0.30.0

v0.29.1

A bug fix release for the 0.29 release branch.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• af_rubberband: Fix for A-V drift on seeking.
• ao_alsa: Fixes to remove spam during pausing and end-of-file.
• ao_jack: Fix for mpv attempting to connect to non-standard devices such as MIDI.
• ao_openal: Drop support for Apple's bundled OpenAL due to lack of features to successfully build.
• ao_pulse: Fix for audio buffer length calculation.
• demux_lavf: Fix EDL playback of certain DASH streams.
• demux_lavf: Mark v4l streams as not seekable.
• demux_raw: Fix for gapless playback from raw audio input.
• drm_atomic: Fix to enable video output with devices without a video overlay plane.
• encode: Fix for crashes in case of failure to write to output.
• encode: Fix for encoding when utilizing lavfi-complex.
• Fix to strip HDR peak metadata if attached to SDR video (#6111)
• macOS: Capability to fall back on SW rendering for testing purposes.
• macOS: Fix for issues with the main menu.
• macOS: Fix for side by side split view.
• macOS: Fixes for crashes, most notably those happening on 10.14 (#5908, #6097, #6041, #6062).
• macOS: No longer let older, unsupported versions of the Swift build tools through configure.
• manpage: Misc fixups.
• stream_{smb,file}: Fix for partial writes to buffers.
• stream_libarchive: Fix hang when an out-of-bound seek happens.
• stream_smb: Fix for crashes due to libsmbclient and threading (#5936).
• vo_gpu: Fix for corruption when multiple compute shaders override each others' block sizes (#6083).
• ytdl_hook: Always load "ytdl://" URLs with ytdl_hook first.
• ytdl_hook: Fix audio streams not being picked up for some sites.

Options and Commands

Added

• --cocoa-cb-sw-renderer to control whether or not to fall back on software rendering on macOS.

v0.29.0

This release requires FFmpeg 4.0 or newer.

Features

Added

• ao/openal: Add better sample format and channel layout selection
• ao/openal: Add support for direct channels output
• cocoa-cb: initial implementation via opengl-cb API
• context_drm_egl: Introduce 30bpp support (requires Mesa 18.0.0_rc4 or later)
• osx: add some more menu bar items as suggested by Apples's HIG
• vo_gpu: make screenshots use the GL renderer (#5498, #5240)
• x11: support Shift+TAB as an input key bind (#5849)
• ytdl_hook: support native dash demuxer, if present

Changed

• ao_alsa, ao_pulse: reduce requested buffer size
• audio: change format negotiation, remove channel remix fudging
• client API: deprecate opengl-cb API and introduce a replacement API
• demux: lower demuxer cache default sizes from 400MB/400MB to 50MB/150MB
• osx: always deactivate the early opengl flush on macOS
• scripting: change when/how player waits for scripts being loaded
• vo_gpu: various improvements to HDR peak detection
• vo_gpu: various improvements to HDR tone mapping
• wayland_common: update to stable xdg-shell
• ytdl_hook: parse youtube playlist urls to set start index if --ytdl-raw-option=yes-playlist= is specified

Deprecated

• af_lavrresample: deprecate this filter

Removed

• build: drop support for SDL1 (only applied to ao_sdl)

Options and Commands

Added

• add a number of --audio-resample-* options, which should from now on be used instead of --af-defaults=lavrresample:
• ao/openal: --openal-direct-channels
• command: add --osd-on-seek option defaulting to bar
• command: add a change-list command (#5435)
• options: add --http-proxy
• options: add a builtin low-latency profile
• vaapi: add option to select a non-default device path with --vaapi-device (#4320)
• video: add option to reduce latency by 1 or 2 frames
• vo_gpu: introduce --target-peak (#5521)

Changed

• command: change cycle-value command behavior (#5772)
• config: replace config dir lua-settings/ with dir script-opts/
• options: --lavfi-complex now requires uniquely named filter pads.
• options: --ytdl is now always enabled, even for libmpv
• options: make --deinterlace=yes always deinterlace (#5219)
• options: slightly improve filter help output for lavfi bridge
• vo: rename --vo=opengl-cb to --vo=libmpv

Deprecated

• encoding: deprecate a bunch of obscure options (--ovoffset, --oaoffset, --ovfirst, --oafirst)
• options: deprecate --vf-defaults and --af-defaults
• osx: --gpu-context=cocoa with --gpu-api=opengl is now deprecated in favour of --vo=libmpv

Removed

• command: remove an old compatibility hack that allowed CLI aliases to be set as property, deprecated in 0.26.0
• input: remove legacy command handling for MPlayer commands that were deprecated in 2013
• options: drop --opensles-sample-rate, as --audio-samplerate should be used if desired
• options: drop deprecated --videotoolbox-format, --ff-aid, --ff-vid, --ff-sid, --ad-spdif-dtshd, --softvol options
• options: remove --video-stereo-mode
• options: remove deprecated ao/vo auto profiles
• options: remove the following encoding options: --ocopyts (now the default, old timestamp handling is gone), --oneverdrop (now default), --oharddup (you need to use --vf=fps=VALUE), --ofps, --oautofps, --omaxfps

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• HIDRemote: fix volume buttons on macOS 10.13 (#5721)
• TOOLS/autoload: Fix broken "disabled" option
• TOOLS/autoload: be more robust with slow directory listings (#5618)
• ao_sdl: fix default buffer size
• build: add static libraries to libmpv.pc
• build: bump waf to 2.0.9 (fixes Python 3.7 compatibility)
• build: manually add standard library search paths for linking (#5791)
• common: round all integer times to milliseconds
• demux, player: fix playback of sparse video streams (w/ still images)
• demux: support for some kinds of timed metadata (e.g. ICY)
• demux_mkv: add V_AV1 identifier for AV1
• demux_mkv: support Meridian Lossless Packing in Matroska (#5923)
• display additional metadata tags during video playback
• drm_atomic: Fix memory leaks in drm_atomic_create
• enable cache for FUSE filesystems on OpenBSD and FreeBSD
• gpu: prefer 16bit floating point FBO formats to 16bit integer ones
• hwdec_vaegl: Fix VAAPI EGL interop used with gpu-context=drm
• input.conf: use exact value for [ binding, which does the inverse of ]
• input: add a keybinding to toggle hardware decoding
• input: minor additions to default key bindings (#973)
• osc: fix accidentally skipping files when seeking with slider
• player: fix strange behavior on edition switching
• player: fix track autoselection of external files yet again
• terminal-unix: stop trying to read when terminal disappears (#5842)
• video: actually wait for last frame being rendered on EOF
• video: fix --video-rotate in some cases
• video: fix crash with vdpau when reinitializing rendering (#5447)
• vo_gpu: fix anamorphic screenshots (#5619)
• vo_vdpau: fix resizing and rotation problems

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.28.2..v0.29.0
in the git repository or by visiting either
v0.28.2...v0.29.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.28.2..v0.29.0

v0.28.2

This release contains an additional fix for CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• ytdl_hook: whitelist subtitle URLs as well (#5456)

v0.27.2

This release contains an additional fix for CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• ytdl_hook: whitelist subtitle URLs as well (#5456)

v0.28.1

This release fixes CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• ytdl_hook: whitelist protocols from urls retrieved from youtube-dl (#5456)

v0.27.1

This release fixes CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• ytdl_hook: whitelist protocols from urls retrieved from youtube-dl (#5456)

v0.28.0

This release needs recent FFmpeg (newer than 3.4) due to major refactoring.
Required library versions:

• libavutil >= 56.6.100
• libavcodec >= 58.7.100
• libavformat >= 58.0.102
• libswscale >= 5.0.101
• libavfilter >= 7.0.101
• libswresample >= 3.0.100

The LGPL 2.1+ relicensing process is now mostly complete. The remaining GPL-only
code (see Copyright file) can be disabled at build time by using --enable-lgpl.

Features

Added

• Add DRM_PRIME Format Handling and Display for RockChip MPP decoders
• csputils: Add support for Display P3 primaries
• demux: support multiple seekable cached ranges, display cache ranges on OSC
• demux_playlist: support .url files (#5107)
• dvb: Add multiple frontends support (up to 8)
• dvb: implement parsing of modulation for VDR-style channels config
• hwdec: add mediacodec hardware decoder for IMGFMT_MEDIACODEC frames,
  rename mediacodec to mediacodec-copy
• lua: integrate stats.lua script (bound to i/I by default)
• vd_lavc: add support for nvdec hwaccel
• vo_gpu: add android opengl backend
• vo_gpu: initial d3d11 support
• vo_gpu: vulkan support

Removed

• af: remove deprecated audio filters (channels, equalizer, pan, volume;
  replacements in lavfi)
• vf: remove most GPL video filters (crop, dsize, expand, flip, gradfun, mirror,
  noformat, pullup, rotate, scale, stereo3d, yadif; replacements in lavfi)
• vf_buffer: remove this filter
• video: remove automatic stereo3d filter insertion
• vo_gpu: remove hwdec_vaglx interop
• vo_opengl: refactor into vo_gpu
• vo_wayland: remove

Options and Commands

Added

• demux: add option to create CC tracks eagerly (--sub-create-cc-track)
• options: add --start=none to reset previously set start time
• options: add --vlang switch

Changed

• cache: lower default size to 2*10MB
• demux: bump the demuxer cache readahead duration to 10 hours
• demux: use seekable cache for network by default, bump prefetch limit
• msg: make --msg-level affect --log-file too
• player/misc.c: allow both --length and --end to control play endpoint
• player: match subtitles with language tags with --sub-auto=exact
• rename --opengl-hwdec-interop to --gpu-hwdec-interop (now mostly useless)
• vd_lavc: prefer nvdec over vdpau with --hwdec=auto (better codec and surface
  format support)
• vd_lavc: rename --hwdec=rpi to --hwdec=mmal

Removed

• options: remove --heartbeat-cmd and --heartbeat-interval
  (incidentally fixes #4888)

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• TOOLS/autoload.lua: add ogm, ogg and opus extensions
• Use /dev/tty instead of stdin for terminal input (#4190)
• audio: add audio softvol processing to AO (replaces previously GPL’d code)
• audio: fix channel conversion with NA channels (e.g. with ALSA)
• audio: fix missing volume update on init and reinit
• csputils: Fix DCI P3 primaries white point
• demux: don't allow subtitles to mess up buffered time display
• demux: fix .cue files with audio files that contain attached pictures
• demux: fix accounting for seekable ranges on track switches (fixes missing
  audio when cycling through audio tracks with e.g. EDL, --merge-files, ordered
  chapters and youtube-dl pseudo DASH)
• demux: fix crash with cue/ordered chapter files (#5027)
• demux: speed up cache seeking with a coarse index
• demux_lavf: always give libavformat the filename when probing
  (helps with mp3 files)
• demux_mkv: add V_SNOW tag to mkv_video_tags
• dvb: Fix long channel switching: next/prev channel
• dvb: fixes for ATSC tuning
• lavc_conv: clamp timestamps to positive (#5047)
• macOS: fix bundle on macOS High Sierra (10.13) (#4926, #4866)
• mp_image: always copy color attributes on hw download (#4804)
• mp_image: select an explicit fallback for chroma location (#4804)
• msg: bump log level of --log-file to -v -v
• msg: reinterpret a bunch of message levels
• osc: fix rare stack overflow when changing visibility mode
• osdep/io: add android-related bullshit to fix files >2 GiB
• player/playloop.c: respect playback start time when using --loop-file
• player: allow seeking in cached parts of unseekable streams
• player: make track language matching case insensitive (#5272)
• player: use start timestamp for ab-looping if --ab-loop-a is absent
• player: when loading external file, always add all track types (#5132)
• restore-old-bindings.conf: add old macOS/Wayland AXIS bindings
• screenshot: create directories from template
• scripting: report dlerror() output
• sd_ass: accept RFC8081 font media types
• sd_ass: accept otc as fallback OpenType collection file extension
• stream_libarchive: work around various types of locale braindeath
  (https://git.io/vbiFJ)
• subprocess-win: don't change the mouse cursor when creating processes
• video: add a hack to avoid missing subtitles with vf_sub (#5194)
• video: fix alpha handling (#4983)
• video: fix memory leaks (roughly 1 KB per decoded frame) with hwdec copy modes
• video: fix rotation and deinterlace auto filters
• video: properly pass through ICC data
• vo: add support for externally driven renderloop and make wayland use it
  (partially fixes display-sync under wayland; disables rendering when window
  is invisible)
• vo_gpu: change --tone-mapping-desaturate algorithm
• vo_gpu: enable 3DLUTs in dumb mode
• vo_gpu: fix gamma scale
• vo_gpu: fix mobius tone mapping compatibility to GLSL 120 (#5069)
• vo_gpu: fix video sometimes not being rerendered on equalizer change
• vo_gpu: kill off FBOTEX_FUZZY (#1814)
• vo_gpu: opengl: fix possible screenshot window crash (#4905)
• vo_gpu: opengl: use GLX_MESA_swap_control where available
• vo_gpu: reduce the --alpha=blend-tiles checkerboard intensity
• vo_gpu: win: remove exclusive-fullscreen detection hack
• vo_lavc: remove messy delayed subtitle rendering logic (#4689)
• wayland_common: implement output tracking, many cleanups and bugfixes
• Windows: skip window snapping if Windows handled it
• Windows: add more-POSIXy versions of open() and fstat() (#4711)
• ytdl_hook: don't prepend ytdl:// to non-youtube links in playlists (#5003)

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.27.0..v0.28.0
in the git repository or by visiting either
v0.27.0...v0.28.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.27.0..v0.28.0