Release 0.7.1

Changes

• Don't show the volume neutral marker on the OSD if softvol is disabled.
• Don't select a subtitle track when executing the sub_add input command in "auto" mode.

Bug fixes

• Fix busy loop when seeking while paused (this fixes a problem with pulseaudio that caused mpv and the pulseaudio daemon to use 100% CPU).
• Fix Lua function utils.subprocess() in Windows versions older than Vista.
• Avoid creating a window bigger than the screen on Windows.
• Don't ignore the last line in m3u playlists.
• Don't crash if a codec could not be opened.
• Dynamically allocate audio channel map entries (this should fix a crash in the alsa and coreaudio AOs with audio devices that support more than 20 channel maps).
• Ignore the "srgb" option in the opengl VO if hardware decoding is enabled.
• Linearize non-RGB sRGB files correctly (eg. JPEG).
• Fix opening reference URLs (.file/id=) on OS X.

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 8d8b36d..6583ad6 in the git repository.

Release 0.7.0

Changes

• Buffer partial log messages in the client API (the client API will now only pass full log messages to clients).
• Remove ncurses/terminfo/termcap support (it was disabled by default and replaced by new code since v0.6.0).
• Enable cdda:// support by default again (it was disabled since v0.6.0).
• Cascade-load input.conf (if there are several input.confs in the set of valid config paths, load them all).
• Draw the OSD twice in 3D mode (this fixes subtitles display in 3D mode).
• Make wasapi the default AO on Windows again since many of its problems have been solved.
• Use "site-functions" subdir to install the zsh completion script instead of the Debian-specific "vendor-completions" (also provide the --zshdir waf configure option for changing this value).
• Improve synchronization between the Cocoa GUI and the player (this fixes some long standing deadlock issues on Mac OS X).
• Remove --fs-missioncontrol option (only relevant to Mac OS X).

New features

• Enable pitch correction by default when playing at higher speeds (this can be controlled with the --audio-pitch-correction option).
• Open stream and demuxer asynchronously (this should avoid having the player get blocked on network streams).
• Add cache-buffering-state property for querying the cache fill status until the player unpauses.
• Add support for listing and selecting the audio device (note that it is not implemented for all AOs, see the --audio-device option for more information).
• Add support for a JSON-based IPC mechanism (note that this is not currently supported on Windows, see the JSON IPC section in the manpage for more information).
• Add Lua utility function for starting processes (see utils.subprocess() in the manpage).
• Add Lua utility function for parsing JSON (see utils.parse_json() in the manpage).
• Add field-dominance property (see --field-dominance option).
• Add video-rotate property (see --video-rotate option).
• Add playback-abort property for querying whether playback is stopped or is to be stopped.
• Add cursor-autohide property (see --cursor-autohide option).
• Add vo-configured property for querying whether a window is created.
• Add support for dxva2 hardware acceleration on Windows.
• Drop libquvi support (this has been replaced by a built-in Lua script that invokes the youtube-dl tool, which needs to be installed, see the --ytdl option).
• Add support for loading chapters from an external file (see the --chapters-file option).
• Add window-minimized property for querying whether the window is minimized (works for X11 only).
• Make it possible to configure the OSC seekbar style (see the "seekbarstyle" OSC option).
• Add support for libmpv on Mac OS X (it used to be broken, now it's fully functional and also provides support for embedding the mpv window inside a Cocoa/Qt application).
• Try to use the audio channel map reported by ALSA in the alsa AO.
• Add option to disable text OSD rendering completely (useful for working around certain fontconfig issues, see the --use-text-osd option).

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 7759c18..9479daa in the git repository.

Release 0.6.2

Changes

• The --ass-style-override option now requires a newer version of libass.

Bug fixes

• Correctly signal EOF when using --frames.
• Strictly endorce the limit imposed by --frames (i.e. avoid producing an extra frame at the end).
• Fix \x-style escaping when parsing commands.
• Correctly handle ^h key on the terminal (this should fix the when inserted from Backspace key on new versions of xterm).
• Don't put the player to sleep after audio reinit.
• Properly exit if both audio and video fail to initialize.

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log a6eb071..0a40fb0 in the git repository.

Release 0.6.1

Changes

• Don't show message on "osd" command by default (this essentially reverts a change introduced in the last release).
• Add an alternative input configuration that reverts the key binding changes introduced by previous releases (see etc/restore-old-bindings.conf in the sources).
• Automatically install example input configuration files.

Bug fixes

• Fix stream languages with Bluray
• Don't try to create surfaces of size 0 in the VDPAU vo.
• Don't print audio/video init failure message twice.
• Fix playback on the root window on X11 (i.e. when using --wid=0).
• Fix the autodetection of the input format in the vf_stereo3d filter when mpv is built against libav (this makes --video-stereo-mode work with libav as well).
• Fix compilation with PulseAudio 1.0.
• Fix compilation with clang.
• Try harder to decode cover art picture only once.
• Fix cursor autohide (--cursor-autohide) with audio-only files on file change (e.g. when skipping to the next playlist file).

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 061f509..2ffdc0d in the git repository.

Release 0.6.0

Changes

• Map ESC to exiting fullscreen.
• Run the vo inside its own thread.
• Enable the demuxer thread by default.
• Prefer the opengl vo over the vdpau one.
• Complete profile names in the zsh completion script.
• Raise dsound ao buffer size to 200ms and make it configurable.
• Bind ctrl+c to quit, so that it works both in the terminal and the player window.
• Automatically load playlists without needing --load-unsafe-playlists or --playlist. Unsafe URLs are still rejected (e.g. remote playlists can't load local files).
• Remove quvi-format property (which never really worked).
• Wait until all Lua scripts are loaded on start.
• Use separate threads for input sources (terminal, lirc, joystick) instead of using a central I/O loop.
• Complete values for options that take file names in the zsh completion script.
• Use libwaio for pipe input on Windows (if you want --input-file to work on Windows you need libwaio as an additional dependency).
• Remove the --volstep option (users should change the argument to the "add" function in input.conf instead).
• Always show the OSD message when changing volume, gamma, panscan, etc along with the OSD bar.
• When changing a property always show it on the OSD (except for "pause" and "fullscreen").
• Prefer the libavcodec decoder over libmpg123 for mp3 decoding (ffmpeg/libav support for gapless audio works better for mpv's use-case).
• Allow passing number of loops to --loop-file.
• Change --keep-open option semantics to not terminate the player when playing or seeking past the end of the file and there's no next file to be played.
• Disable the sndio ao by default and prefer other outputs even if it's enabled.

New features

• Add new framedrop mode that limits the frequency of new video frames displayed based on the display framerate (this is enabled by default, the old decoder-based mode can be enabled with --framedrop=decoder).
• Add --demuxer-readahead-secs option to control the readahead buffer using a duration value.
• Add estimated-frame-count and estimated-frame-number properties.
• Add --cache-secs option which overrides the value of --demuxer-readahead-secs if the stream cache is active.
• Add demuxer-cache-duration and demuxer-cache-idle properties.
• Make --cache-file create a temporary file if the string "TMP" is passed instead of a file name.
• Add support for Matroska 3D (if a file is marked as 3D using the StereoMode element, an automatic conversion filter is added).
• Add --osd-playing-msg option to show a message on the OSD when the playback starts.
• Add --media-title option to force the content of the media-title property.
• Add --osd-msg1, --osd-msg2 and --osd-msg3 options to override the OSD message for the corresponding OSD level (before only level 3 could be overridden with --osd-status-message).
• Add support for digital passthrough in the pulse ao.
• Add support for opening DVD and Blu-ray directories directly.
• Add --input-x11-keyboard option to control whether keyboard input should be enabled on the X11 window ot not (this is disabled by default when using the libmpv library).

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log a1be3cf..61ebe61 in the git repository.

Release 0.5.4

Bug fixes

• Fix generation of watch later config file for multiline file names when --write-filename-in-watch-later-config is used (avoid writing the new lines in the config, which would make it possible for the filename to set options).
• Fix random crashes on audio uninit.

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 6f7f7c3..1a7b6f1 in the git repository.

Release 0.5.3

Bug fixes

• Fix build failure introduced by the previous release.

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 41f2ad3..41f2ad3 in the git repository.

Release 0.5.2

Warning

This release was accidentally broken and fails to build. Please use 0.5.3.

Changes

• Inherit event flags from parent X11 window when using --wid.
• Properly resume playlists loaded at runtime (this makes mpv try to resume a playlist when loaded like "mpv playlist.m3u").
• Don't honor $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS anymore for global paths (this fixes a regression on systems that set the variable by default to somewhere else then /etc, making mpv skip previously created config files).
• Allow up to 256 MB of extradata to make broken files work.

Bug fixes

• Restore old speed change behavior (this fixes a temporary lack of sound after restoring normal speed e.g. when pressing Backspace).
• Fix quit handling when seeking past EOF while paused.
• Prevent burning CPU when seeking while paused.
• Don't add the playlist base path twice when using --playlist.
• Fix a crash when the initialization of the EGL context fails on Wayland.
• Make EOF handling properly event-based (this fixes a bug that made mpv hang when changing from one file to the next with --gapless-audio=no).
• Assume icy title data is terminated with ';' (this fixes handling of streams with metadata containing apostrophes).

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 0f1d6c0..e3d3a47 in the git repository.

Release 0.5.1

Changes

• Add audio/flac to the MIME type list in mpv.desktop.
• The --slave-broken option has been reintroduced and is equivalent to using --input-file=/dev/stdin and --input-terminal=no.

Bug fixes

• Fix screenshots with anamorphic videos in the vdpau vo.
• Fix a crash happening when mpv fails to create a vdpau mixer in the vdpau vo.
• Don't quit when the --loop-file option is used.
• Always load the cursor theme in the wayland vo (this fixes a crash caused by moving the mouse cursor over the video).
• Properly return non-zero from the zsh completion script when no matches are found (this fixes the use of user-defined zsh completion matchers).
• Fix the description of the opengl-hq vo default options in the manpage.
• Remove duplicated content from the manpage that was accidentally added in the manpage reorganization from the previous release.
• Avoid clobbering playback position on video end (when both audio and video streams reached the end, the playback poisition was briefly set at 0).
• Avoid overwriting user input in the coreaudio_device ao.

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log 6729e39..fdd648b in the git repository.

Release 0.5.0

Changes

• Support setting the start time relative to the start PTS with --start.
• Use /dev/sr0 as default cdrom/dvd device on Linux.
• Change "cache" property representation to float.
• Split the ao_coreaudio audio output into ao_coreaudio (which uses the AudioUnits and the CoreAudio sound server) and ao_coreaudio_device (which uses direct device access).
• Complete supported URL schemes in the zsh completion script.
• Enable compiler optimizations (-O2) during build.
• Allow precise seeking with percent-based seeks too.
• Do precise seeks when clicking on the OSC seekbar.
• Remove support for older VDA hwaccel versions on Mac OS X (requires recent versions of ffmpeg/libav).
• Remove the last remains of slave mode (--slave-broken option). Support for reading input commands from stdin can be emulated using: --input-terminal=no --input-file=/dev/stdin.
• Some key binding were remapped or removed:
  • "LEFT" and "RIGHT" have been remapped to seek 5 seconds instead of 10.
  • "c" for changing the YUV color space was unmapped.
  • OSD level cycling has been remapped from "o" to "O".
  • "o" is now mapped to the show_progress command (like "P").
  • "PGUP" and "PGDWN" have been remapped to chapter-based seeks (the old bindings "@" and "!" are still available). The old behvaiour has been remapped to "Shift+PGUP" and "Shift+PGDWM".
  • Increasing/decreasing audio delay have been remapped from "+" and "-" to "Ctrl++" and "Ctrl+-".
  • "(" and ")" for adjusting audio balance have been unmapped.
  • "F" for toggling the "sub-forced-only" option has been unmapped.
  • "TAB" for cycling TS programs has been unmapped.
  • "A" for cycling DVD angle has been unmapped.
  • "U" for stopping playback has been unmapped.
  • "l" and "L" for cycling quvi format have been unmapped.
• Make it possible to build the client API (libmpv) on Mac OS X.
• Do necessary checks for nested Wayland compositors which only have limited interfaces.
• The options in the manpage have been re-organized into sections and ordered by usage to make it easier to navigate.
• The "hard" framedrop mode has been removed (this behaviour is still available via the --vd-lavc-framedrop option).
• Show the basename of a subtitle file only (without the directory part).

Bug fixes

• Use a default color space for files with no video (this fixes color managed OSD messages when no video channel is present).
• Fix key equivalent dispatching for Cocoa on Mac OS X.
• Disable non-interleaved audio formats by default with ao_alsa, since some ALSA plugins don't cope well with them (non-interleaved formats can still be enabled using the "non-interleaved" ao_alsa option).
• Fix deadlock in the client API when calling mpv_terminate_destroy() before mpv_initialize().
• Fix flushing of filter chain (this fixes a bug where the last frames would get dropped on EOF, if buffered by filters).
• Actually use the channels.conf configuration file for DVB.
• Restore the --dvbin-file option.
• Fix off by one error in the command parser which caused a segfault when using the mp.commandv() Lua function with 10 or more arguments.

New features

• Search for config files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS in addition to ~/.mpv. The config file has also been renamed to mpv.conf (although the old file still works and will be loaded even if the new one exists).
• Add "playback-time" property that returns the current playback time always starting at 0. This is now used to show the playback time in the OSD and the status line, fixing the shown playback time for transport streams that start at a completely random timestamp.
• Add cache-related "cache-free", "cache-used" and "cache-idle" properties.
• Add option to list supported protocols (--list-protocols).
• Allow setting libavformat stream options with the --stream-lavf-o option.
• Support running the demuxer in a separate thread and prefetch packets (this can be enabled using the --demuxer-thread option).

This listing is not complete. There are many more bug fixes and changes. The complete change log can be viewed by running git log cb250d4..52f2f67 in the git repository.