Mpv is an open source and cross-platform media player, for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android, that originated as a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer. It is small, fast and has a minimalist user interface. By making use of scripts it is possible to add more functionality. Version 0.34.0 was recently released and the changelog for that release looks like this:
Features
Added
- player: allow vo to be switched at runtime
- input.conf syntax: support custom quotes in `XstringX` form & single quotes
- ao_oss: readd OSSv4 audio output, default on *BSD
- player: load cover art with the media filename
- vo_gpu: vulkan: implement a VkDisplayKHR backed context
- osc: seekbar hover/drag: display target chapter at the OSC title
- stats.lua: add page 4 with a list of active key bindings
- sub: add –sub-filter-jsre (JS regex)
- vo_rpi: restore fullscreen handling
- vo_tct: add resize capability
- ytdl_hook.lua: search for yt-dlp by default (preferred over youtube-dl)
Changed
- vo_sixel: many fixes and improvements
- filters: switch from scaletempo to scaletempo2, used for speed option
- audio/vo_pulse: fix various edge cases and issues
- stats.lua: move internal performance info from page 4 to page 0
- command: don’t hardcode command lists to be repeatable
Removed
- mac: drop build support for swift versions earlier than 4.1
- vo_gpu: drop support for libplacebo older than v3.104.0
Options and Commands
Added
- vo_sixel: add –vo-sixel-exit-clear
- player: add –screen-name and –fs-screen-name
- player/command: add albumart argument to video-add
- command: add pid (process id), display-width and display-height properties
- sub: add secondary-sub-text, -start, and -end properties; secondary-sub-visibility option
- vo_gpu: add –icc-force-contrast
- player: add append-play flag to loadlist
- command: add support for secondary subs to sub-seek and sub-step
- options: add watch-later-options to configure which options are saved
- player: add track-list/N/image sub-property
- input: add –no-input-builtin-bindings option
- drm_common: add –drm-device option
Changed
- vo_sixel: change default dither to “auto”
- vd_lavc: add VP8 to the default allowed hwdec codec list
- vo_gpu: lower default deband threshold to preserve more detail
- vo_gpu: adjust interpolation-threshold’s default
- demux: undeprecate –cache-secs
- options: add Uploader, Channel_URL to –display-tags defaults
- options: –audio-display determines cover priority
- command: make current-window-scale writeable
Deprecated
- win32: ignore and deprecate –fit-border
- drm_common: deprecate selecting by card number in –drm-connector
Removed
- vo_gpu: remove –icc-contrast
- stats.lua: remove script-opts for the main keys (i/I)
- vo_gpu: opengl: remove –opengl-restrict
Fixes and Minor Enhancements
- terminal: correctly process input when foregrounded
- vo_wlshm: support presentation time
- mac: fix a window positioning bug when exiting fullscreen
- csputils: add mappings for DCI-P3 (ST.431-2) and P3-D65 (ST.432-1)
- player: make resetting of track selection to “auto” work
- stream_lavf: support rtsps
- vo_wlshm: support big endian systems
- demux_mf: add support for more image codecs
- msg: fix really-quiet option to only affect terminal output
- mac: fix traditional fullscreen on macOS 11
- ao_pulse: fix misbehavior with PipeWire when setting volume or mute
- stats.lua: include a filter’s @label when displaying filters on page 1
- wayland, win32: support the display-hidpi-scale property
- win32: keep the window title-bar inside the screen
- filter_kernels: fix incorrect constant for quadric window
- command: add display-width/display-height property
- edl: add a way to add tags
- stream_file: disable readahead for remote files on macOS to fix stutter
- osxbundle: fix slow and wasteful memory allocation that caused stutter
- vo_gpu: fix extreme clipping with –gamut-clipping for HDR outputs
- af_scaletempo2: speed up using vector calculations
- recorder: fix muxing of certain codecs
- win32: support the focused property
- js: add mp.utils.append_file
- subs: fix missing subtitles on last frame
- stats.lua: show scaled resolution
- osc: expose osc-visibility via shared-script-properties
- terminal-unix: fix ^Z identification and ignore unknown CSI sequences
- context_drm_egl: allow autoprobe selection
- wayland: improve behavior with touch events
- command: make current-window-scale writeable
- vo_vdpau: don’t treat preemption as an error to fix VT switching
- wayland: read XCURSOR_THEME to get cursor theme
- demux_playlist: extend maximum line size (again) to 2M
- win32: call timeBeginPeriod on demand on Windows 10
- build: allow easier selection of lua version/package
- vo_gpu: fix distortion with certain rotated videos
- drm_common: skip non-primary devices during automatic choosing
- drm_common: support USB, SPI, Writeback and unknown connector types (future proofing)
| Version number | 0.34.0 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Android, Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 |
| Website | mpv |
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| License type | GPL |