Features

• Added

  • vo_gpu: make screenshots use the GL renderer

  • ytdl_hook: support native dash demuxer, if present

• Changed

  • 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

  • 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

  • ytdl_hook: parse youtube playlist urls to set start index if --ytdl-raw-option=yes-playlist= is specified

• Deprecated

  • af_lavrresample: deprecate this filter

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

  • options: add --http-proxy

  • options: add a builtin low-latency profile

  • video: add option to reduce latency by 1 or 2 frames

  • vo_gpu: introduce --target-peak

• Changed

  • command: change cycle-value command behavior

  • 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

  • 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

• 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

• TOOLS/autoload: Fix broken "disabled" option

• TOOLS/autoload: be more robust with slow directory listings

• 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

• display additional metadata tags during video playback

• gpu: prefer 16bit floating point FBO formats to 16bit integer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• vo_gpu: fix anamorphic screenshots

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

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

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

This release fixes CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

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

Features

• Added

  • csputils: Add support for Display P3 primaries

  • demux: support multiple seekable cached ranges, display cache ranges on OSC

  • demux_playlist: support .url files (#5107)

  • lua: integrate stats.lua script (bound to i/I by default)

  • vd_lavc: add support for nvdec hwaccel

  • 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

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)

• Removed

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

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• TOOLS/autoload.lua: add ogm, ogg and opus extensions

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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_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: reduce the --alpha=blend-tiles checkerboard intensity

• vo_gpu: win: remove exclusive-fullscreen detection hack

• vo_lavc: remove messy delayed subtitle rendering logic (#4689)

• 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)