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mpv v0.26.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-07-18 // almost 7 years ago

  • VA-API/VDPAU hardware decoding now requires FFmpeg > 3.2.
    0️⃣ DVB support is disabled by default since it does not work with some older kernels.
    0️⃣ Built-in V4L TV support is disabled by default. av://v4l2 can be used instead.
    👌 Support for C plugins is now enabled by default (#4491).

    👀 Many more parts of the player are now licensed under LGPL, see Copyright file.
    Thanks to all contributors who have agreed to relicensing of their changes!
    👀 See #2033 for details.

    🔋 Features

    ➕ Added

    • 🏁 Universal Windows Plaform (UWP) support (libmpv only)
    • csputils: implement sony s-gamut
    • 👍 js: add javascript scripting support using MuJS
      👀 See DOCS/man/javascript.rst for more details
    • 0️⃣ vo_opengl: add new HDR tone mapping algorithm (mobius, now default)
    • vo_opengl: hwdec_cuda: Support separate decode and display devices
    • vo_opengl: implement sony s-log1 and s-log2 trc
    • 👍 vo_opengl: implement support for OOTFs and non-display referred content

    ✂ Removed

    • 🚚 vf_dlopen: remove this filter

    Options and Commands

    ➕ Added

    • vo_opengl: add --tone-mapping-desaturate
    • 👍 vo_opengl: support tone-mapping-param for clip
    • 📜 ytdl_hook: add option to exclude URLs from being parsed

    🔄 Changed

    • 👍 allow setting profile option with libmpv
    • 🚚 audio: move replaygain control to top-level options
    • 📜 external_files: parse ~ in --{sub,audio}-paths
    • 0️⃣ options: change --sub-fix-timing default to no (#4484)
    • options: expose string list actions for --sub-file option
    • 💅 options: slight cleanup of --sub-ass-style-override
      • signfs → scale
      • --sub-ass-style-override → --sub-ass-override
    • 📇 renamed the HDR TRCs st2084 and std-b67 to pq and hlg respectively
    • replace vf_format's peak suboption by sig-peak, which is relative to the reference white level instead of in cd/m2
    • 0️⃣ the following options change to append-by-default (and possibly separator):
      • --script
    • 0️⃣ video: change --video-aspect-method default value to container

    🗄 Deprecated

    • 🗄 m_option: deprecate multiple items for -add etc.
    • 🗄 player: deprecate "osd" command
    • --audio-file-paths => --audio-file-path
    • --sub-paths => --sub-file-path
    • --opengl-shaders => --opengl-shader
    • --sub-paths => --sub-file-paths
    • 🗄 the following options are deprecated for setting via API:
      • "script" (use "scripts")
      • "sub-file" (use "sub-files")
      • "audio-file" (use "audio-files")
      • "external-file" (use "external-files")
        🚀 (the compatibility hacks for this will be removed after this release)

    ✂ Removed

    • 🚚 chmap: remove misleading "downmix" channel layout name (#4545)
    • 🚚 demux_lavf: remove --demuxer-lavf-cryptokey option (#4579)
    • input.conf: drop TV/DVB bindings
    • 🚚 options: remove remaining deprecated audio device selection options
      • --alsa-device
      • --oss-device
      • --coreaudio-exclusive
      • --pulse-sink
      • --rsound-host/--rsound-port
      • --ao-sndio-device
      • --ao-wasapi-exclusive
      • --ao-wasapi-device
    • ✂ remove option --target-brightness
    • ✂ remove property "video-params/nom-peak"

    🛠 Fixes and Minor Enhancements

    • TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua: actually sort files case insensitive (#4398)
    • TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua: ignores all files starting with "."
    • ao_openal: kill off device listing (#4311)
    • ao_pulse: reorder format choice to prefer float and S32 over S16 as fallback format
    • ao_wasapi: try correct initial format (#4582)
    • command: add missing change notification for playlist-shuffle (#4573)
    • demux_disc: fix bluray subtitle language retrieval (#4611)
    • demux_mkv: fix alpha with vp9 + libvpx
    • 👍 demux_mkv: support FFmpeg A_MS/ACM extensions
    • ipc-unix: don’t truncate the message on EAGAIN (#4452)
    • ipc: raise json nesting limit (#4394)
    • 🍎 macOS: fix mpv-wrapper.sh when used with csh or tcsh shell
    • 🍎 macOS: properly unhide Dock when quitting during System fs animation
    • 🗄 mpv_identify: replace deprecated fps property (#4550)
    • options/path: fallback to USERPROFILE if HOME isn't set
    • player: close audio device on no audio track
    • player: fix potential segfault when playing dvd:// with DVD disabled (#4393)
    • 👀 player: prevent seek position to jump around adjacent keyframes, e.g. when dragging the OSC bar on short videos (#4183)
    • vo_opengl: bump up SHADER_MAX_HOOKS and MAX_TEXTURE_HOOKS to 64
    • vo_opengl: correct off-by-one in scale=oversample
    • vo_opengl: do not use vaapi-over-GLX (#4555)
    • vo_opengl: fall back to ordered dither instead of blowing up (#4519)
    • vo_opengl: tone map in linear XYZ instead of RGB
    • 👍 x11: add 128x128 sized icon support
    • 👍 ytdl_hook: add a header to support geo-bypass
    • ytdl_hook: don't override start time set by saved state
    • ytdl_hook: don't override user-set start time
    • ytdl_hook: treat single-entry playlists as a single video

    📄 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 v0.25.0..v0.26.0
    in the git repository or by visiting either
    v0.25.0...v0.26.0 or
    🌲 https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.25.0..v0.26.0