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@Jessidhia Jessidhia released this 17 Feb 05:07
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Warning: for the first 4 hours of the release, the v0.8.0 tag pointed to git master instead of the release. This was fixed later.

Changes

Changes that may break users' config files have been annotated with a (!).

  • (!) vo_opengl_old has been removed. OpenGL rendering now requires hardware
    that can do at least OpenGL 2.1, the oldest version supported by vo_opengl.
  • (!) vf_pp has been removed. A version of it can still be accessed through
    lavfilter (e.g. --vf=lavfi=[pp...]), but it receives no QP information.
    Also, vf_dlopen no longer passes QP information to its loaded plugin either
    (it's always 0).
  • (!) vf_softpulldown, vf_swapuv, vf_phase, vf_divtc and vf_ilpack have all
    been removed. Ports or alternative versions of these filters are available
    through libavfilter (vf_lavfi).
  • vf_pullup and vf_noise now are simply wrappers to their libavfilter
    equivalents. Both are only currently available on FFmpeg (not Libav).
  • (!) ao_portaudio has been removed. There is good support for the native
    audio drivers of all major desktop platforms, as well as ao_sdl and
    ao_openal as fallbacks.
  • (!) vo_opengl's lscale suboption has been renamed to scale; lradius
    is now scale-radius, lparam1 and lparam2 are now respectively
    scale-param1 and scale-param2; lscale-down is now scale-down.
    The cscale suboption remains as is.
  • (!) Several of the vo_opengl radius-preset aliases supported by scale
    have been removed; use scale-radius to set if needed. For example, use
    --vo=opengl:scale=lanczos:scale-radius=2 instead of scale=lanczos2.
    The default radius is recommended for most filters.
  • (!) vo_opengl no longer supports the stereo suboption. The anaglyph
    effect can be reproduced with the stereo3d filter. The quadbuffer support,
    which requires expensive specialized hardware to begin with, is removed.
  • (!) The approx-gamma suboption to vo_opengl has been removed. The
    BT.1886 specification says that it's actually how it's supposed to be done
    so it is now the default when srgb or icc-profile are enabled. This does
    not include BT.1886's gamma drop.
  • (!) The no-scale-sep and indirect suboptions to vo_opengl have been
    removed. These are now autodetected and enabled whenever they would have
    benefit.
  • (!) The --lua and --lua-opts parameters / options are now called
    --script and --script-opts, respectively. The lua subdir of the mpv
    config dir is also now expected to be called scripts instead.
  • (!) The --fixed-vo option has been removed. It has been the default for
    a long time anyway, and disabling fixed-vo is not useful.
  • vo_opengl_hq has been updated to take into account new features.
    fancy-downscaling and sigmoid-upscaling are enabled,
    "mitchell" is now the default for scale-down.
  • The sub-visibility OSD message is now clearer about whether subtitles
    are hidden or just not available / selected.
  • The device IDs given to --audio-device for use with ao_coreaudio now use
    UIDs, so they don't change when devices are added/removed or after reboots.
  • --msg-level now also accepts ',' as separator.
  • (Client API) The client API now refuses to initialize if the LC_NUMERIC
    locale is not "C".
  • (Client API) The native type of the msg-level parameter is now a key-value
    list. Setting or reading it as a string still works.
  • (Slave API) The get_property command is now deprecated.
  • Documentation updates.
  • PDF documentation is now disabled by default due to rst2pdf being fickle,
    causing weird build errors.
  • Print desync messages with negative A/V sync as well. While rare, it could
    happen with some uses of --autosync.

Bug fixes

  • (Windows) Avoid resizing the video window when player is minimized, might
    address bug #1547.
  • (NetBSD) Fix build with v4l2.
  • (Linux) Attempt to address conflicts with the pulseaudio mixer. (bug #1578)
  • Multiple cdda:// fixes. (bugs #1555, #1560)
  • VP9 timestamps no longer cause "missing PTS" warnings with new enough FFmpeg
    builds.
  • Fix a crash when using H.264 hardware decoding on new enough libavcodecs.
    (bug #1587)

New features

  • vo_opengl now supports frame blending to eliminate stuttering when the video
    framerate does not nicely match the display framerate through the
    smoothmotion suboption. This is not meant to artificially increase the
    video's FPS, so there is no "soap opera effect" or difficulties with some
    video types (e.g. anime).
  • vo_opengl now supports sigmoidal upscaling (e.g. for fullscreen), which
    reduces ringing induced by upscaling, enabled through the
    sigmoid-upscaling suboption.
  • vo_opengl now supports ewa_lanczos (Jinc) scaling, which provides higher
    quality with less aliasing. It supports an experimental scale-antiringing
    parameter, which tries to further reduce video ringing.
  • vo_opengl now has a linear-scaling suboption, that makes the scalers work
    in linear light. Implied by the srgb, icc-profile or the new
    sigmoid-upscaling suboption.
  • vo_opengl has improved downscaling for higher downscale ratios when
    fancy-downscaling is enabled.
  • Add --keep-open=always to make --keep-open apply to all files instead of
    only the last.
  • mpv now filters the tags that are printed on the console to try to hide
    useless metadata. The filter works as a whitelist, and can be configured
    with the --display-tags option.
  • Add a --sub-scale-by-window option that, when set to 'no', prevents
    subtitles from changing their pixel size when the window changes sizes.
  • vo_opengl now technically has GLES 2 and 3 support (but not GLES 1). GLES 3
    support is only tested on Mesa's software emulation. GLES 2 has been tested
    on nvidia drivers. Both GLES modes are feature deficient and inefficient due
    to GLES limitations, so they should not be preferred over the standard
    OpenGL mode.
  • (X11) vo_opengl now supports the icc-profile-auto option on X11 hosts.
  • The 'A' key now by default cycles through a list of preset aspect ratios.
    Meant to be used to work around broken files.
  • There is now a "force" mode for --loop. Works like "inf", but tries to
    open files/streams even if there was an error on the previous attempt.
  • There is now a --log-file option to write mpv's log messages to a specifed
    file.
  • There is now a --audio-file-auto option to automatically load an external
    audio file with certain constraints. Will only load external audio if the
    playing file has a video stream. Set to "exact" by default. (bug #967)
  • There is now a --network-timeout option to specify a timeout in seconds
    for network access. If 0 (default), uses the libavformat default. If a
    protocol that doesn't support timeouts is used, this option is ignored.
  • (X11) The XF86 special keys are now all mappable in input.conf. All keys
    documented in XF86keysym.h are available, but only as their numeric codes.
  • (Linux) The DVB implementation now supports DVB-S2 through S2API.
  • (Linux) The VDR format for channels.conf is now supported and preferred.
    See http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Syntax_of_channels.conf for the
    syntax. Tuning to DVB-S2 channels requires the VDR-format channels.conf.
  • (Linux) There is now a --dvbin-full-transponder option for handling
    special broadcast cases where PIDs switch, or just to work around incomplete
    PID data.
  • (Client API) There is now an opengl_cb VO, which receives the OpenGL context
    from the libmpv client. This allows a client to render libmpv video directly
    to a provided OpenGL context without having to use --wid embedding.
  • (Client API) The aforementioned --wid parameter can now be set at any time,
    but has no effect if a file is already loaded.
  • (Client API) The list of DVD titles can now be queried.
  • (Client API) There is now a filtered-metadata property, containing only
    the tags allowed by --display-tags.
  • (Client API) There is now support for XEmbed --wid targets, such as a
    GtkSocket's gtk_socket_get_id().
  • (Client API) There is now a file-format property with a symbolic name
    for the file format. In some cases this might be a comma separated list
    of various different extensions due to libavformat idiosyncrasies.
  • (Client API) There is now a mouse command for generating mouse events
    over the video window.
  • (Client API) There is now a partially-seekable property that indicates
    whether a file is only considered seekable because of the stream cache,
    but would not be seekable otherwise (e.g. realtime stream, or HTTP with
    no resume support). Small relative seeks may be fine, but larger seeks
    will likely fail.
  • (Client API) There is now an MPV_EVENT_QUEUE_OVERFLOW event that is posted
    whenever events have to be dropped because the queue is full. No further
    events are posted until the MPV_EVENT_QUEUE_OVERFLOW is consumed to avoid
    duplicated posting.
  • (Client API) There is now a helper mpv_wait_async_requests() function
    that blocks until all known async requests have completed. (bug #1542)
  • (Client API) There is now a detected-hwdec property that returns the
    detected hardware decoder when one is successfully opened. This probably
    only returns a valid value after playback has started.
  • (Client API) There are now audio_add, audio_remove and audio_reload
    counterparts to the equivalent sub_ commands for handling external audio
    files.

This listing is not complete. A complete changelog can be seen by running
git log v0.7.0.. in the git repository.

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