v0.10.0

Features

New

• uchardet support (#908)
• Matroska: reading cue sheets embedded in tags (#1957)
• Support for VideoToolbox hardware decoding
• Display sync mode (--display-sync)
• --force-window=immediate mode
• fd:// protocol
• libarchive wrapper for reading compressed archives
• TOOLS/lua: zones.lua
• Support for the "new" libavcodec VDPAU API
• vf_vdpaurb, a new filter for reading back VDPAU decoded frames
• DXVA2: HEVC support
• Enabled HEVC profiles with VA API
• HEVC added to whitelist of hwdec codecs
• vo_null: framerate emulation
• vo_opengl: support for custom shaders
• vo_opengl: temporal-dither-period option
• vo_opengl: tscale-clamp option
• vo_opengl: option to attach target-prim/target-csp to window screenshots
• vo_opengl_cb: "block" framedrop mode (now default)
• vo_opengl_cb: support for interpolation
• vo_vdpau: rotation support
• ytdl_hook: support for 'multi_video' results (#2027)

Removed

• af_convert24 (af_lavrresample does this now)
• af_dummy
• audio: S8, U16, U24, U32 formats
• DVD and BD menu support
• TOOLS: youtube-starttime.lua
• VA API: compatibility crap (< 0.34.0) and vo_vaapi deinterlacer
• vo_x11

Deprecated

• vf_dlopen

Behavior

• audio: softvol scale is now cubic
• cache: readahead size is limited to half the cache size at the beginning (#2000)
• charset_conv: "auto" encoding detection now prefers uchardet
• demux_playlist: skip hidden directories
• input.conf: O toggles between 2 states only
• input.conf: Ctrl+s key binding for window screenshots
• input.conf: mouse volume control (horizontal scrolling) inverted
• input.conf: L to toggle infinite looping
• input.conf: remap d/D keys (dropped framedrop cycle, replaced with deinterlacing toggle) (#973)
• player: disabled seeking on unseekable streams even if the cache is enabled
• player: parses and exposes m3u playlist titles (#2100)
• player: --term-playing-msg is now in a separate log category (#1983)
• player: removed automatic DVB channel advancement on no data
• player: now restores video-aspect on playback resume
• player: now uses exit code 0 by default for quit, 4 for signals, etc. (#2029)
• player: warns against using HLS URLs with --playlist
• screenshots: changed the default directory in pseudo-gui mode to desktop
• screenshots: screenshot directory is now created automatically
• screenshots: default template is now prefixed with "mpv-"
• TOOLS/lua/autoload: adds all files on start (#2219)
• vo: vo_wayland moved up in autoprobe list
• vo_opengl: enabled pbo by default with opengl-hq
• vo_opengl: cache dir for ICC profiles is now created automatically
• w32: shift drag and drop appends
• x11: shift drag and drop appends

Options and Commands

Added

• af_volume: replaygain-fallback option
• ao_coreaudio: change-physical-format option
• ao_coreaudio: exclusive option
• ao_null: channel-layouts option for testing channel layout selection
• audio: --audio-spdif as new method for enabling passthrough
• cache: --cache-backbuffer to configure cache backbuffer size
• command: define-section command for defining input bindings
• command: audio-params and audio-out-params properties
• command: keypress, keydown, and keyup commands
• command: playlist_shuffle command (#965)
• command: option-info/N/set-locally property indicating per-file options (#2165)
• command: protocol-list property (#1972)
• command: track-list/N/audio-channels property
• demux: --demuxer-max-packets and --demuxer-max-bytes options to control maximum queue size
• input: relative percentage seek (#1950)
• osc: time display configuration options
• player: --playlist-pos option
• screenshots: --screenshot-jpeg-source-chroma option to disable JPEG 4:4:4 output
• screenshots: --screenshot-high-bit-depth option to allow or disallow 16 bit output
• screenshots: --screenshot-directory option
• sub: --stretch-image-subs-to-screen option for stretching image subtitles to screen (#2098)
• TOOLS/stats-conv: allow passing regex via command line
• video: --video-aspect-method option to configure container vs. bitstream aspect ratio (#2259)
• vo_drm: mode suboption to set the mode ID to use
• vo_opengl_cb, vo_opengl: --hwdec-preload option for preloading hwdec context
• vo_rpi: background disabled by default
• vo_xv: buffers suboption to configure number of buffers
• win32: portable config mode (#2042)

Changed

• audio: changed the range of the volume option/property (0 is still silence, and 100 now always means unchanged volume)
• command: allow changing deinterlace property any time
• command: allow changing track properties while no file is loaded
• command: always make video-aspect property accessible
• command: better choice when to allow playback-related commands
• command: change OSD symbol for absolute perc. seek
• command: change the default action for rescan_external_files
• command: change the hwdec properties
• command: define-section with empty contents removes a section
• command: export stereo 3D tags (#2066)
• command: make auto-deinterlacing output at field rate
• command: make deinterlace property use interlaced-only yadif mode
• command: make property event mask matching more restrictive
• command: make the playback-time property writable
• input: allow - as separator between commands, instead of _
• options: --loop without argument means looping forever (#1970)
• options: make keyvalue list parsing less strict
• player: extend --hls-bitrate option (#2116)
• vf_yadif: expose interlaced frame mode
• video: --video-stereo-mode=no to disable automatic stereo conversion (#2111)
• vo_opengl_cb, vo_opengl: --hwdec-preload for preloading hwdec context
• vo_opengl: replace icc-cache with icc-cache-dir
• vo_opengl: icc-profile overrides icc-profile-auto

Renamed

• command: rename audio-format property to audio-codec-name
• options: rename --media-title option to --force-media-title
• vo_opengl: rename use_full_range to use_normalized_range

Deprecated

• --ad-spdif-dtshd (use --audio-spdif=dts-hd)
• audio-samplerate property
• length property

Removed

• get_property command
• --demuxer-readahead-packets and --demuxer-readahead-bytes
• image_writer: don't use jpeg baseline, and remove useless jpeg-optimize and jpeg-baseline options
• --leak-report
• --slave-broken
• vo_opengl: npot suboption

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• ad_spdif: use DTS-HD passthrough only if the audio is really DTS-HD (#1949)
• af: fix behavior with filter chains that require a large number of auto-inserted conversion filters
• af_lavcac3enc: fix A/V sync
• ao_alsa: accept 7.1 over HDMI
• ao_alsa: refuse to use spdif if AES flags can't be set
• ao_wasapi: fix crash on hotplug init error
• audio: avoid wasting CPU due to continuous wakeup (#1958)
• audio: do not exit when loading small files in paused mode
• audio: fix channel map fallback selection
• audio: fix crash on uninit
• audio: fix --end handling (#2189)
• audio: fix EOF state with --keep-open (#2167)
• audio: fix restoring volume
• charset_conv: fix switched parameters (#2186)
• charset_conv: use our own UTF-8 check with ENCA only (#2195)
• cocoa: don't load hardcoded icon if running from bundle
• cocoa: hide cursor using a blank image instead of a system-wide API (#503)
• command: do not exit playback if the B point of A-B loop is past EOF (#2046)
• command: fix audio-out-detected-device property
• command: fix track property when no file is loaded
• command: fix video-aspect property update notification (#2194)
• command: let track properties return option value in idle mode
• demux: don't get stuck on some cases of timestamp resets
• demux: handle Matroska-style replaygain tags as well (#2128)
• demux_lavf: do a better job at guessing the vobsub .sub filename
• demux_mkv: disable ordered chapters if ChapterTimeEnd is missing
• demux_mkv: discard broken index
• demux_mkv: fix mpeg2 mapping
• demux_mkv: ignore deprecated FrameRate, do not assume PAL
• demux_mkv: improve video duration detection heuristic
• demux_mkv: parse FLAC channel layouts
• demux_playlist: make mime type comparison case-insensitive
• dxva2: fix handling of cropped video
• idet.sh: Support larger files
• mp_image: fix vf_vdpaupp references (#2115)
• options: fix conversion of flags to strings
• options: move program name to end of window title (#2188)
• options: remove the period at the end of "No file."
• osc: completely disable if no VO window exists
• osc: exit tick immediately if disabled
• osc: reinit on playlist changes
• osx: add NULL check for input context in a missing case
• player: fix crashes when adding external tracks before loading main file (#1984)
• player: increase tick event update frequency
• player: make decoding cover art more robust (#2056)
• player: raise maximum idle time
• player: return better guess for playback time during seeks
• player: show larger cache sizes in MB on status line
• player: slim down A/V desync warning
• sd_ass: assume negative durations are unknown durations, and handle them (#2244)
• terminal: disable terminal foreground state polling
• terminal-unix: set terminal mode on init
• timer: fix a corner case on clock changes
• TOOLS: make autodeint detect telecine in parallel
• TOOLS/zsh.pl: die loudly if mpv fails to run
• vaapi: prefer direct display over copy-back
• vaapi: fix some videos only showing up green (#2123)
• vaapi: treat cropped decoder output slightly more correctly
• vda: add support for nv12 image formats
• vd_lavc: fix a hw decoding fallback case
• vf_stereo3d: drop internal implementation
• vf_vavpp: don't attempt to deinterlace progressive frames
• vf_vavpp: fix bob deinterlacing for bottom field first videos
• vf_vdpaupp: Don't crash when evaluating interlacing of NULL mpi
• video: always re-probe auto deint filter on filter reconfig
• video: better heuristic for timestamp resets
• video: fix panscan in vertical case
• video: fix VideoToolbox/VDA autodetection
• video: unbreak EOF with video-only files that have timestamp resets
• vo_direct3d: fix broken pseudo GUI drag and drop hint (#2184)
• vo_drm: fix centering with regard to stride
• vo_drm: fix crashes with --profile=pseudo-gui
• vo_drm: fix resolution not restored after exiting
• vo_drm: fix stride problem for certain devices
• vo_drm: make VT switching non mandatory
• vo: free frames before killing VO
• vo_opengl: avoid broken shader if hwdec fails to provide textures
• vo_opengl_cb: drop frames eagerly if frames are not rendered
• vo_opengl: CMS no longer implies linear scaling
• vo_opengl: fix alpha video in one case
• vo_opengl: fix dangling pointers with vo_cmdline (#2035)
• vo_opengl: fix framestepping/pausing + interpolation
• vo_opengl: fix "freezes" after seeking with interpolation on (#2097)
• vo_opengl: fix scale=oversample's threshold calculations
• vo_opengl: framebuffers work under GLES 2
• vo_opengl: improve robustness against PBO failure
• vo_opengl: reimplement tscale=oversample (#2102)
• vo_opengl: reject future images in different formats
• vo_opengl: X11: don't leak when GL init fails
• vo: restore frame-drop logic for high-fps clips
• vo_rpi: fix blackscreen before the first subtitle/OSD is rendered
• vo_rpi, vo_opengl: do not globally terminate EGL on VO uninit
• vo_sdl: fix glaring memory leak
• vo_vdpau: check maximum video size
• vo_vdpau: limit output surfaces to allowed maximum dimensions
• win32: fix window resize logic
• win32: fix crashes when changing system time
• x11: Handle external fullscreen toggles (#2081)
• ytdl: catch bogus extractor info (#2254)
• ytdl: do not use deprecated media-title option
• ytdl: don't print failure warning when youtube-dl was killed by us
• ytdl: get start_time

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API. A complete changelog can be seen by running
git log v0.9.2..v0.10.0 in the git repository or by visiting
v0.9.2...v0.10.0.