DOCS/interface-changes.rst
mpv provides access to its internals via the following means:
The sum of these mechanisms is sometimes called command interface.
All of these are important for interfacing both with end users and API users (which include Lua scripts, libmpv, and the JSON IPC). As such, they constitute a large part of the user interface and APIs.
Also see compatibility.rst.
Prior to 0.40.0, only changes had to be listed here and not necessarily new additions. After 0.40.0, all changes and additions to options/commands/etc are listed here.
Never write to this file directly except when making releases. New changes are added in the interface-changes directory instead. See contribute.md for more details.
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--- mpv 0.42.0 ---
--- mpv 0.41.0 ---
- the value of --tls-ca-file is now expanded as a path
- the value of --tls-cert-file is now expanded as a path
- the value of --tls-key-file is now expanded as a path
- the --sub-sdh-enclosures option is now a string list option
- rename console-selected_color script-opt to console-focused_color
- rename console-selected_back_color script-opt to console- focused_back_color
- mediacodec_embed is no longer the default vo on Android. Set the option
explicitly if you want to use it and are aware of the limitations.
- change --target-colorspace-hint to auto by default. Auto mode will
also enable hint for SDR formats if target metadata is reported by current
output context.
- change --prefetch-playlist default to no
- add --clipboard-xwayland option
- add video-params/prim-* properties
- add stats-plot_cache script-opt
- disable stats-plot_{perfdata,vsync_ratio,vsync_jitter} by default
- add scaled and osd flags to screenshot commands
- add forced flag to track add commands
- add default flag to track add commands
- add console-monospace_font script-opt
- remove console-font script-opt
- add console-gap script-opt
- add console-exact_match script-opt
- make console-case_sensitive only affect exact searches and change the to
default to no on platforms other than Windows
- add commands-remember_input script-opt
- add --wid=0 support for win32
- add --vo-kitty-auto-multiplexer-passthrough=<yes|no>
- add --vf=format=transfer alias
- add --vf=format=min-luma
- add --vf=format=max-luma
- add --vf=format=max-cll
- add --vf=format=max-fall
- add --treat-srgb-as-power22
- add --sdr-adjust-gamma
- add --target-colorspace-hint-strict option
- add --target-colorspace-hint-mode option
- add --sub-hdr-peak option
- add --sub-fix-timing-threshold
- add --sub-fix-timing-keep
- add --register and --unregister
- add --osd-prune-delay
- add --osd-glyph-limit
- add --osd-bitmap-max-size
- add --sub-glyph-limit
- add --sub-bitmap-max-size
- add --osd-shaper
- add --input-tablet-emulate-mouse option
- add --image-subs-hdr-peak option
- add --hwdec-threads
- add --hdr-reference-white
- add --d3d11-output-mode enable use specific output mode for creating the
D3D11 swapchain
- add --d3d11-composition-size=<WxH> support for d3d11 composition mode
- add --border-background=blur
- add --background-blur-radius
- add --bluray-angle
- add --background-tile-size option
- add --background-tile-color-0 and --background-tile-color-1 options
- add --audio-set-media-role, disabled by default. This effectively changes
the behavior for ao_pipewire
- encoding-profiles.conf is no longer installed by default into the system
configuration directory and is instead installed in the data directory
--- mpv 0.40.0 ---
- undeprecate list option suffixes that work with multiple items
- add -del to string list and keyvalue list options
- add -clr to keyvalue list options
- undeprecate --gamma-factor
- the path and track-list/N/external-filename properties now always
return a full, absolute path
- rename --vd-lavc-software-fallback to --hwdec-software-fallback
- rename --sub-ass-line-spacing to --sub-line-spacing
- rename --sub-ass-shaper to --sub-shaper
- rename --sub-ass-hinting to --sub-hinting
- rename --load-osd-console to --load-console
- remove stats-term_width_limit script-opt
- add stats-term_clip script-opt
- remove stats-term_height_limit script-opt
- remove player argument form --media-controls, it's handled internally
now.
- make script-binding command scalable; add nonscalable command prefix
to restore the old behavior
- deprecate osc-message script message in favor of show-text command
- deprecate osc-chapterlist script message in favor of show-text ${chapter-list}
- deprecate osc-playlist script message in favor of show-text ${playlist}
- deprecate osc-tracklist script message in favor of show-text ${track- list}
- add visibility_modes script-opt to osc
- deprecate --wayland-disable-vsync
- add --wayland-internal-vsync as a replacement for --wayland-disable- vsync
- deprecate --cdda-span-a and --cdda-span-b
- commands.lua is split out of console.lua. commands.lua runs and completes
commands and adds mpv's log entries to the console's log, while
console.lua handles the UI for other scripts
- add --load-commands option
- script-binding console/enable becomes script-binding commands/open,
though the console one is kept as an alias
- script-message-to console type becomes script-message-to commands type, though the console one is kept as an alias. This also now
automatically closes the console after running the command.
- change the underlying type of the aspect, par, and sar sub-
properties to double from float
- add --video-aspect-method=ignore
- change --video-aspect-override=no to respect --video-aspect-method
option
- deprecate setting --video-aspect-override to 0 and -1
- change several OSC mouse bindings to select.lua functions
- add script-opts to configure what OSC buttons do when clicked
- remove osc-playlist_osd script-opt and behave as if it was off by
default; playlist_osd=yes can be replicated with osc- playlist_prev_mbtn_left_command=playlist-prev; show-text ${playlist} 3000
and osc-playlist_next_mbtn_left_command=playlist-next; show-text ${playlist} 3000
- remove osc-chapters_osd script-opt and behave as if it was off by
default; chapter_osd=yes can be replicated with osc- chapter_prev_mbtn_left_command=no-osd add chapter -1; show-text ${chapter- list} 3000 and osc-chapter_next_mbtn_left_command=no-osd add chapter 1; show-text ${chapter-list} 3000
- add script-opts to define custom buttons
- change --prefetch-playlist's default to yes
- change --osd-back-color and --sub-back-color defaults to #AF000000
- change --geometry so that it no longer unconditionally moves the window
on platforms where that is possible. Use --force-window-position or add
+50%+50% to your geometry command to get the old behavior back.
- all options that take filepaths as values are now properly expanded (i.e.
~/ -> /home/$USER)
- all commands that take filepaths as arguments are now properly expanded
(i.e. ~/ -> /home/$USER)
- add ytdl_hook-include script-opt
- add video-frame-info/gop-timecode, video-frame-info/smpte-timecode and
video-frame-info/estimated-smpte-timecode
- add term-clip-cc
- add sub-ass-prune-delay option to control libass automatic pruning of
past
- events
- add slimbottombar and slimtopbar OSC layouts optimized for viewing
images
- add osc-fadein script-opt
- add mpv:// protocol
- add metadata sub-property for track-list
- add keep_open flag to mp.input.get() and mp.input.select()
- mp.input.get() now closes automatically on submit, pass keep_open = true to restore the old behavior
- add autoselect_completion flag to mp.input.get()
- add history_path key to mp.input.get()
- add hearing-impaired, visual-impaired and attached-picture flags to
track add command
- add format argument to screenshot-raw command
- add display-page-n-toggle script bindings to stats.lua, where n is a
page number
- add demuxer-mkv-crop-compat option
- add current-watch-later-dir property
- add console-scale_with_window script-opt
- add console-margin-x and console-margin-y script-opts
- add console-background_alpha console-menu_outline_size console- menu_outline_color console-corner_radius console-selected_color and
console-selected_back_color script-opts
- add --video-recenter option
- add nvidia-true-hdr mode to vf_d3d11vpp
- add --sub-scale-signs to allow --sub-scale to also scale events
detected to be signs by libass
- add --script-opt alias for --script-opts-append
- add --save-watch-history and --watch-history-path options
- add --osd-selected-color and --osd-selected-outline-color options
- add --osd-bar-marker-scale and --osd-bar-marker-min-size options
- add --osd-bar-marker-style option
- add --input-ime to enable or disable the IME on supported VOs (Windows,
Wayland)
- add --clipboard-monitor option
- add clipboard property
- add current-clipboard-backend property
- add --clipboard-backends option
- add --archive-exts
- add archive to --directory-filter-types' default
- add --playlist-exts
- add playlist to --directory-filter-types' default
- add --audio-exclusive option support for ao=audiounit and make non-
exclusive the new default
- sub-blur is now applied by sub-ass-override=force with new enough
libass
- stats-font_size, stats-border_size, stats-shadow_x_offset, stats- shadow_y_offset and stats-plot_bg_border_width script-opt values result
in 2.5 times smaller sizes in order to have the same sizes as the values
of equivalent OSD options like --osd-font-size. If you customized these
sizes, multiply them by 2.5 to get the previous sizes.
- glsl-shader-opts now has predefined parameters that can be used. See
the documentation for available values.
- --hwdec=auto now behaves like --hwdec=auto-safe; use --hwdec=auto- unsafe to get the old behavior back
- Change auto profiles hook priority from 50 to 5
- add optional frames and flags arguments to frame-step command
controlling the direction and amount of frames mpv steps through
- add optional mute flag to frame-step command which mutes the player
during the duration of the frame step
--- mpv 0.39.0 ---
- turn --cover-art-whitelist into a list option
- reserve user-data/osc and user-data/mpv sub-paths for internal use
- remove deprecated packet-video-bitrate packet-audio-bitrate and
packet-sub-bitrate properties
- remove deprecated --cache-dir option alias
- remove deprecated --cache-unlink-files option alias
- remove deprecated --demuxer-cue-codepage option alias
- remove deprecated --fps option alias
- remove deprecated --cdrom-device option alias
- remove deprecated --sub-forced-only option alias
- remove deprecated --vo-sixel-exit-clear option alias
- remove deprecated --cdda-toc-bias option
- remove deprecated --drm-atomic option
- remove sub-ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat: use sub-ass-use-video-data=none
for disabling aspect compat
- remove sub-ass-vsfilter-blur-compat: use sub-ass-use-video-data=aspect- ratio for disabling blur compat
- add sub-ass-use-video-data
- add sub-ass-video-aspect-override
- change default V keybind to cycle sub-ass-use-video-data instead of the
now removed sub-ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat
- remove console-scale script-opt
- remap numpad + - * / keys to KP_ADD/KP_SUBTRACT/KP_MULTIPLY/KP_DIVIDE;
keybinds which require these numpad keys to function need to use the new
names instead
- numerical values of --loop-file no longer decrease on each iteration
- add remaining-file-loops property as a replacement to get the remaining
loop count
- numerical values of --ab-loop-count no longer decrease on each iteration
- add remaining-ab-loops property as a replacement to get the remaining
loop count
- move 'scale' above 'force' for sub-ass-override in documentation as well
as code. This more accurately reflects destructiveness of these options.
- change sub-ass-override default from 'yes' to 'scale'. This should
result in no effective changes because 'yes' used to unintentionally do
what 'scale' should've done.
- change 'u' binding to cycle between 'force' and 'scale', instead of
'force' and 'yes'
- deprecate sub-text-ass property; add sub-text/ass sub-property
- change type of sub-start and sub-end properties to time
- change vidscale script option type to string for osc.lua
- change vidscale script option type to string for stats.lua
- change vidscale default from yes to auto for osc.lua and stats.lua
- change mp.add_key_binding so that by default, the callback is not
invoked if the event is canceled; clients should now use the complex
option to detect this situation
- add canceled entry to mp.add_key_binding callback argument
- add the normalize-path command
- add user-data/mpv/ytdl/path and user-data/mpv/ytdl/json-subprocess- result properties
- add track-list/N/dolby-vision-profile and track-list/N/dolby-vision- level
- add track-list/N/decoder
- add sub-text/ass-full sub-property
- add osc-show script message
- add nonrepeatable input command prefix
- add mp.input.select()
- add --wasapi-exclusive-buffer option
- add --vf=d3d11vpp=scaling-mode
- add --vf=d3d11vpp=scale
- add --sub-border-style and --osd-border-style options
- the border style does not depend on --(sub/osd)-border-color and
--(sub/osd)-shadow-color; now it depends solely on --(sub/osd)-border- style
- make --(sub/osd)-border-color an alias of --(sub/osd)-outline-color
- make --(sub/osd)-border-size an alias of --(sub/osd)-outline-size
- make --(sub/osd)-shadow-color an alias of --(sub/osd)-back-color; they
cannot both be set now
- make --osd-bar-border-size an alias of --osd-bar-outline-size
- add --show-in-taskbar option
- add --pitch option
- add --osd-playlist-entry option
- remove osc-playlist_media_title script-opt
- add --native-touch option
- add --input-touch-emulate-mouse option
- add touch-pos property
- add --media-controls option
- add --input-dragging-deadzone option
- add --input-builtin-dragging option
- add --egl-config-id option
- add --egl-output-format option
- add --directory-filter-types
- By default, opening a directory will create a playlist with only the media
types "video, audio, image". To restore the previous behavior, use
--directory-filter-types-clr.
- add --autocreate-playlist
- add --video-exts
- add --audio-exts
- add --image-exts
- add option-info/<name>/expects-file sub-property
- Bump dependency of VapourSynth to utilize its API version 4. New minimum
VapourSynth version for runtime is R56. Some functions and plugins are
changed or removed. For details, refer to VapourSynth documentation
http://www.vapoursynth.com/2021/09/r55-audio-support-and-improved-performance/ and
https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth/blob/R68/APIV4%20changes.txt
--- mpv 0.38.0 ---
- add term-size property
- add the escape-ass command
- add > for fixed precision floating-point property expansion
- add --input-comands option
- change --pulse-latency-hacks default to yes
- add context-menu command
- add menu-data property
- add --vo-tct-buffering option
- add begin-vo-dragging command
- add --deinterlace-field-parity option
- add --volume-gain, --volume-gain-min, and --volume-gain-max options
- add current-gpu-context property
- add --secondary-sub-ass-override option
- add --input-preprocess-wheel option
- remove shared-script-properties (user-data is a replacement)
- add --secondary-sub-delay, decouple secondary subtitles from
--sub-delay
- add the --osd-bar-border-size option
- --screenshot-avif-pixfmt no longer defaults to yuv420p
- --screenshot-avif-opts defaults to lossless screenshot
- rename key MP_KEY_BACK to MP_KEY_GO_BACK
- add --sub-filter-sdh-enclosures option
- added the mp.input scripting API to query the user for textual input
- add forced choice to subs-with-matching-audio
- remove --term-remaining-playtime option
- change fallback deinterlace to bwdif
- add the command load-config-file
- add the command load-input-conf
- remove --vo=rpi, --gpu-context=rpi, and --hwdec=mmal
- add auto choice to --deinterlace
- change --teletext-page default from 100 to 0 ("subtitle" in lavc)
- change --hidpi-window-scale default to no
- add insert-next, insert-next-play, insert-at, and insert-at-play
actions to loadfile and loadlist commands
- add index argument to loadlist command
- add index argument to loadfile command. This breaks all existing
uses of this command which make use of the argument to include the list of
options to be set while the file is playing. To address this problem, the
third argument now needs to be set to -1 if the fourth argument needs to be used.
- move the options argument of the loadfile command from the third
parameter to the fourth (after index)
- add --drag-and-drop=insert-next option
- rename --background to --background-color
- remove --alpha and reintroduce --background option for better control
over blending alpha components into specific background types
- add --border-background option
- add video-target-params property
- add hdr10plus sub-parameter to format video filter
- remove --focus-on-open and add replacement --focus-on
- remove debanding from the high-quality profile
--- mpv 0.37.0 ---
- --save-position-on-quit and its associated commands now store state files
in %LOCALAPPDATA% instead of %APPDATA% directory by default on Windows.
- change --subs-with-matching-audio default from no to yes
- change --subs-fallback default from no to default
- add the --hdr-peak-percentile option
- include --hdr-peak-percentile in the gpu-hq profile
- change --audiotrack-pcm-float default from no to yes
- add video-params/aspect-name
- change type of --sub-pos to float
- The remaining time printed in the terminal is now adjusted for speed by default.
You can disable this with --no-term-remaining-playtime.
- add playlist-path and playlist/N/playlist-path properties
- add --x11-wid-title option
- add --libplacebo-opts option
- add --audio-file-exts, --cover-art-auto-exts, and --sub-auto-exts
- change slang default back to NULL
- remove special handling of the auto value from --alang/slang/vlang options
- add --subs-match-os-language as a replacement for --slang=auto
- add always option to --subs-fallback-forced
- remove auto choice from --sub-forced-only
- remove auto-forced-only property
- rename --sub-forced-only to --sub-forced-events-only
- remove sub-forced-only-cur property (--sub-forced-events-only is a replacement)
- remove deprecated video-aspect property
- add --video-crop
- add video-params/crop-[w,h,x,y]
- remove --tone-mapping-mode
- change --subs-fallback-forced so that it works alongside --slang
- add --icc-3dlut-size=auto and make it the default
- add --scale=ewa_lanczos4sharpest
- remove --scale-wblur, --cscale-wblur, --dscale-wblur, --tscale-wblur
- remove bcspline filter (bicubic is now the same as bcspline)
- rename --cache-dir and --cache-unlink-files to --demuxer-cache-dir and
--demuxer-cache-unlink-files
- enable --correct-downscaling, --linear-downscaling, --sigmoid-upscaling
- --cscale defaults to --scale if not defined
- change --tscale default to oversample
- change --dither-depth to auto
- deprecate --profile=gpu-hq, add --profile=<fast|high-quality>
- change --dscale default to hermite
- update defaults to --hdr-peak-decay-rate=20, --hdr-scene-threshold-low=1.0,
--hdr-scene-threshold-high=3.0
- update defaults to --deband-threshold=48, --deband-grain=32
- add --directory-mode=auto and make it the default
- remove deprecated --profile=opengl-hq
- remove several legacy fallbacks for old deprecated options (now they will just
error out like normal)
- remove deprecated drop-frame-count and vo-drop-frame-count property aliases
- remove the ability to write to the display-fps property (use override-display-fps
instead)
- writing the current value to playlist-pos will no longer restart playback (use
playlist-play-index instead)
- remove deprecated --oaoffset, --oafirst, --ovoffset, --ovfirst,
--demuxer-force-retry-on-eof, --fit-border options
- remove deprecated --record-file option
- remove deprecated --vf-defaults and --af-defaults options
- --drm-connector no longer allows selecting the card number (use --drm-device
instead)
- add --title-bar option
- add --window-corners option
- rename --cdrom-device to --cdda-device
- remove --scale-cutoff, --cscale-cutoff, --dscale-cutoff, --tscale-cutoff
- remove --scaler-lut-size
- deprecate shared-script-properties (user-data is a replacement)
- add --backdrop-type option
- add --window-affinity option
- --config-dir no longer forces cache and state files to also reside in there
- deprecate --demuxer-cue-codepage in favor of --metadata-codepage
- change the default of metadata-codepage to auto
- add playlist-next-playlist and playlist-prev-playlist commands
- change video-codec to show description or name, not both
- deprecate --cdda-toc-bias option, offsets are always checked now
- disable --allow-delayed-peak-detect by default
- rename --fps to --container-fps-override
- rename --override-display-fps to --display-fps-override
- rename --sub-ass-force-style to --sub-ass-style-overrides
- alias --screenshot-directory to --screenshot-dir
- alias --watch-later-directory to --watch-later-dir
- rename --play-dir to --play-direction
- --js-memory-report is now used for enabling memory reporting for javascript
scripts
- drop support for -del syntax for list options
- --demuxer-hysteresis-secs now respects --cache-secs and/or
--demuxer-readahead-secs as well
- add hdr metadata to video-params property
- add --target-gamut
- change the way display names are retrieved on macOS, usage of options and properties
--fs-screen-name, --screen-name and display-names needs to be adjusted
- remove OpenGL cocoa backend that was deprecated in 0.29
- remove border, fullscreen, ontop, osd-level and pause
from default --watch-later-options
- add video-* and secondary-sub-visibility to default --watch-later-options
--- mpv 0.36.0 ---
- add --target-contrast
- Target luminance value is now also applied when ICC profile is used.
--icc-use-luma has been added to use ICC profile luminance value.
If target luminance and ICC luminance is not used, old behavior apply,
defaulting to 203 nits. (Only applies for --vo=gpu-next)
- playlist/N/title gets set upon opening the file if it wasn't already set
and a title is available.
- add the --vo=kitty video output driver, as well as the options
--vo-kitty-cols, --vo-kitty-rows, --vo-kitty-width,
--vo-kitty-height, --vo-kitty-left, --vo-kitty-top,
--vo-kitty-config-clear, --vo-kitty-alt-screen and
--vo-kitty-use-shm
- add --force-render
- add --vo-sixel-config-clear, --vo-sixel-alt-screen and
--vo-sixel-buffered
- add --wayland-content-type
- deprecate --vo-sixel-exit-clear and alias it to
--vo-sixel-alt-screen
- deprecate --drm-atomic
- add --demuxer-hysteresis-secs
- add --video-sync=display-tempo
- the start option is no longer unconditionally written by
watch-later. It is still written by default but you may
need to explicitly add start depending on how you have
--watch-later-options configured.
- add --vd-lavc-dr=auto and make it the default
- add support for the fractional scale protocol in wayland
- in wayland, hidpi window scaling now scales the window by the compositor's
dpi scale factor by default (can be disabled with --no-hidpi-window-scale
if fractional scaling support exists).
- change --screenshot-tag-colorspace default value from no to yes
- undeprecate vf_sub
- add --tone-mapping=st2094-40 and --tone-mapping=st2094-10
- change --screenshot-jxl-effort default from 3 to 4.
- add --tone-mapping-visualize
- change type of --brightness, --saturation, --contrast, --hue and
--gamma to float.
- add platform property
- add --auto-window-resize
- --save-position-on-quit and its associated commands now store state files in
the XDG_STATE_HOME directory by default. This only has an effect on linux/bsd
systems.
- mpv now implicitly saves cache files in XDG_CACHE_HOME by default. This only has
an effect if the user enables options that would lead to cache being stored and
only makes a difference on linux/bsd systems.
- --cache-on-disk no longer requires explicitly setting the --cache-dir option
- add --icc-cache and --gpu-shader-cache options to control whether or not to
save cache files for these features; explicitly setting --icc-cache-dir and
--gpu-shader-cache is no longer required
- remove the --tone-mapping-crosstalk option
- add --gamut-mapping-mode=perceptual|relative|saturation|absolute|linear
- add --corner-rounding option
- change --subs-with-matching-audio default from yes to no
- change --slang default from blank to auto
- add --input-cursor-passthrough option to allow pointer events to completely
passthrough the mpv window
- icc and gpu-shader cache are now saved by default (use --no-icc-shader-cache and
--no-gpu-shader-cache to disable)
- add --directory-mode=recursive|lazy|ignore
- --hwdec=yes is now mapped to auto-safe rather than auto (also used
by ctrl+h keybind)
- add --hdr-contrast-recovery and --hdr-contrast-smoothness
- include --hdr-contrast-recovery in the gpu-hq profile
--- mpv 0.35.0 ---
- add the --vo=gpu-next video output driver, as well as the options
--allow-delayed-peak-detect, --builtin-scalers,
--interpolation-preserve --lut, --lut-type, --image-lut,
--image-lut-type and --target-lut along with it.
- add --target-colorspace-hint
- add --tone-mapping-crosstalk
- add --tone-mapping options auto, spline and bt.2446a
- add --inverse-tone-mapping
- add --gamut-mapping-mode, replacing --gamut-clipping and --gamut-warning
- add --tone-mapping-mode, replacing --tone-mapping-desaturate and
--tone-mapping-desaturate-exponent.
- add dolbyvision sub-parameter to format video filter
- --sub-visibility no longer has any effect on secondary subtitles
- add film-grain sub-parameter to format video filter
- add experimental --vo=dmabuf-wayland video output driver
- add --x11-present for controlling whether to use xorg's present extension
- add engine option to the rubberband audio filter to support the new
engine introduced in rubberband 3.0.0. Defaults to finer (new engine).
- add --wayland-configure-bounds option
- deprecate --gamma-factor
- deprecate --gamma-auto
- remove --vulkan-disable-events
- add --glsl-shader-opts
--- mpv 0.34.0 ---
- deprecate selecting by card number with --drm-connector, add
--drm-device which can be used instead
- add --screen-name and --fs-screen-name flags to allow selecting the
screen by its name instead of the index
- add --macos-geometry-calculation to change the rectangle used for screen
position and size calculation. the old behavior used the whole screen,
which didn't take the menu bar and Dock into account. The new default
behaviour includes both. To revert to the old behavior set this to
whole.
- add an additional optional albumart argument to the video-add command,
which tells mpv to load the given video as album art.
- undeprecate --cache-secs option
- remove --icc-contrast and introduce --icc-force-contrast. The latter
defaults to the equivalent of the old --icc-contrast=inf, and can
instead be used to specifically set the contrast to any value.
- add a --watch-later-options option to allow configuring which
options quit-watch-later saves
- make current-window-scale writeable and use it in the default input.conf
- add --input-builtin-bindings flag to control loading of built-in key
bindings during start-up (default: yes).
- add track-list/N/image sub-property
- remove --opengl-restrict option
- js custom-init: use filename ~~/init.js instead of ~~/.init.js (dot)
--- mpv 0.33.0 ---
- add --d3d11-exclusive-fs flag to enable D3D11 exclusive fullscreen mode
when the player enters fullscreen.
- directories in ~/.mpv/scripts/ (or equivalent) now have special semantics
(see mpv Lua scripting docs)
- names starting with "." in /.mpv/scripts/ (or equivalent) are now ignored
- js modules: ~~/scripts/modules.js/ is no longer used, global paths can be
set with custom init (see docs), dir-scripts first look at <dir>/modules/
- the macOS bundle now logs to "/Library/Logs/mpv.log" by default
- deprecate the --cache-secs option (once removed, the cache cannot be
limited by time anymore)
- remove deprecated legacy hook API ("hook-add", "hook-ack"). Use either the
libmpv API (mpv_hook_add(), mpv_hook_continue()), or the Lua scripting
wrappers (mp.add_hook()).
- improve how property change notifications are delivered on events and on
hooks. In particular, a hook event is only returned to a client after all
changes initiated before the hook point were delivered to the same client.
In addition, it should no longer happen that events and property change
notifications were interleaved in bad ways (it could happen that a
property notification delivered after an event contained a value that was
valid only before the event happened).
- the playlist-pos and playlist-pos-1 properties now can return and accept
-1, and are never unavailable. Out of range indexes are now accepted, but
behave like writing -1.
- the playlist-pos and playlist-pos-1 properties deprecate the current
behavior when writing back the current value to the property: currently,
this restarts playback, but in the future, it will do nothing.
Using the "playlist-play-index" command is recommended instead.
- add "playlist-play-index" command
- add playlist-current-pos, playlist-playing-pos properties
- Lua end-file events set the "error" field; this is deprecated; use the
"file_error" instead for this specific event. Scripts relying on the
"error" field for end-file will silently break at some point in the
future.
- remove deprecated --input-file option, add --input-ipc-client, which is
vaguely a replacement of the removed option, but not the same
- change another detail for track selection options (see --aid manpage
entry)
- reading loop-file property as native property or mpv_node will now return
"inf" instead of boolean true (also affects loop option)
- remove some --vo-direct3d-... options (it got dumbed down; use --vo=gpu)
- remove video-params/plane-depth property (was too vaguely defined)
- remove --video-sync-adrop-size option (implementation was changed, no
replacement for what this option did)
- undeprecate --video-sync=display-adrop
- deprecate legacy auto profiles (profiles starting with "extension." and
"protocol."). Use conditional auto profiles instead.
- the "subprocess" command does not connect spawned processes' stdin to
mpv's stdin anymore. Instead, stdin is connected to /dev/null by default.
To get the old behavior, set the "passthrough_stdin" argument to true.
- key/value list options do not accept ":" as item separator anymore,
only ",". This means ":" is always considered part of the value.
- remove deprecated --vo-vdpau-deint option
- add delete-watch-later-config command to complement
write-watch-later-config
--- mpv 0.32.0 ---
- change behavior when using legacy option syntax with options that start
with two dashes (-- instead of a -). Now, using the recommended
syntax is required for options starting with --, which means an option
value must be strictly passed after a =, instead of as separate
argument. For example, --log-file f.txt was previously accepted and
behaved like --log-file=f.txt, but now causes an error. Use of legacy
syntax that is still supported now prints a deprecation warning.
--- mpv 0.31.0 ---
- add --resume-playback-check-mtime to check consistent mtime when
restoring playback state.
- add --d3d11-output-csp to enable explicit selection of a D3D11
swap chain color space.
- the --sws- options and similar now affect vo_image and screenshot
conversion (does not matter as much for vo_gpu, which does most of this
with shaders)
- add a builtin "sw-fast" profile, which restores performance settings
for software video conversion. These were switched to higher quality since
mpv 0.30.0 (related to the previous changelog entry). This affects video
outputs like vo_x11 and vo_drm, and screenshots, but not much else.
- deprecate --input-file (there are no plans to remove this short-term,
but it will probably eventually go away <- that was a lie)
- deprecate --video-sync=display-adrop (might be removed if it's in the way;
undeprecated or re-added if it's not too much of a problem)
- deprecate all input section commands (these will be changed/removed, as
soon as mpv internals do not require them anymore)
- remove deprecated --playlist-pos alias (use --playlist-start)
- deprecate --display-fps, introduce --override-display-fps. The display-fps
property now is unavailable if no VO exists (or the VO did not return a
display FPS), instead of returning the option value in this case. The
property will keep existing, but writing to it is deprecated.
- the vf/af properties now do not reject the set value anymore, even if
filter chain initialization fails. Instead, the vf/af options are always
set to the user's value, even if it does not reflect the "runtime" vf/af
chain.
- the vid/aid/sid/secondary-sid properties (and their aliases: "audio",
"video", "sub") will now allow setting any track ID; before this change,
only IDs of actually existing tracks could be set (the restriction was
active the MPV_EVENT_FILE_LOADED/"file-loaded" event was sent). Setting
an ID for which no track exists is equivalent to disabling it. Note that
setting the properties to non-existing tracks may report it as selected
track for a small time window, until it's forced back to "no". The exact
details how this is handled may change in the future.
- remove old Apple Remote support, including --input-appleremote
- add MediaPlayer support and remove the old Media Key event tap on macOS.
this possibly also re-adds the Apple Remote support
- the "edition" property now strictly returns the value of the option,
instead of the runtime value. The new "current-edition" property needs to
be queried to read the runtime-chosen edition. This is a breaking change
for any users which expected "edition" to return the runtime-chosen
edition at default settings (--edition=auto).
- the "window-scale" property now strictly returns the value of the option,
instead of the actual size of the window. The new "current-window-scale"
property needs to be queried to read the value as indicated by the current
window size. This is a breaking change.
- explicitly deprecate passing more than 1 item to "-add" suffix in key/value
options (for example --script-opts-add). This was actually always
deprecated, like with other list options, but the option parser did not
print a warning in this particular case.
- deprecate -del for list options (use -remove instead, which is by content
instead of by integer index)
- if --fs is used but --fs-screen is not set, mpv will now use --screen
instead.
- change the default of --hwdec to "no" on RPI. The default used to be "mmal"
specifically if 'Raspberry Pi support' was enabled at configure time
(equivalent to --enable-rpi). Use --hwdec=mmal to get the old behavior.
--- mpv 0.30.0 ---
- add --d3d11-output-format to enable explicit selection of a D3D11
swap chain format.
- rewrite DVB channel switching to use an integer value
--dvbin-channel-switch-offset for switching instead of the old
stream controls which are now gone. Cycling this property up or down will
change the offset to the channel which was initially tuned to.
Example for input.conf: H cycle dvbin-channel-switch-offset up,
K cycle dvbin-channel-switch-offset down.
- adapt stream_dvb to support writing to dvbin-prog at runtime
and also to consistently use dvbin-configuration over URI parameters
when provided
- add --d3d11-adapter to enable explicit selection of a D3D11 rendering
adapter by name.
- rename --drm-osd-plane-id to --drm-draw-plane, --drm-video-plane-id to
--drm-drmprime-video-plane and --drm-osd-size to --drm-draw-surface-size
to better reflect what the options actually control, that the values they
accept aren't actually internal DRM ID's (like with similar options in
ffmpeg's KMS support), and that the video plane is only used when the drmprime
overlay hwdec interop is active, with the video being drawn to the draw plane
otherwise.
- in addition to the above, the --drm-draw-plane and --drm-drmprime-video-plane
options now accept either an integer index, or the values primary or overlay.
--drm-draw-plane now defaults to primary and --drm-drmprime-video-plane
defaults to overlay. This should be similar to previous behavior on most drivers
due to how planes are usually sorted.
- rename --opensles-frames-per-buffer to --opensles-frames-per-enqueue to
better reflect its purpose. In the past it overrides the buffer size the AO
requests (but not the default/value of the generic --audio-buffer option).
Now it only guarantees that the soft buffer size will not be smaller than
itself while setting the size per Enqueue.
- add --opensles-buffer-size-in-ms, allowing user to tune the soft buffer size.
It overrides the --audio-buffer option unless it's set to 0 (with the default
being 250).
- remove --linear-scaling, replaced by --linear-upscaling and
--linear-downscaling. This means that --sigmoid-upscaling no longer
implies linear light downscaling as well, which was confusing.
- the built-in gpu-hq profile now includes --linear-downscaling.
- support for --spirv-compiler=nvidia has been removed, leaving shaderc
as the only option. The --spirv-compiler option itself has been marked
as deprecated, and may be removed in the future.
- split up --tone-mapping-desaturate`` into strength + exponent, instead of only using a single value (which previously just controlled the exponent). The strength now linearly blends between the linear and nonlinear tone mapped versions of a color. - add --hdr-peak-decay-rate and --hdr-scene-threshold-low/high - add --tone-mapping-max-boost - ipc: require that "request_id" fields are integers. Other types are still accepted for compatibility, but this will stop in the future. Also, if no request_id is provided, 0 will be assumed. - mpv_command_node() and mp.command_native() now support named arguments (see manpage). If you want to use them, use a new version of the manpage as reference, which lists the definitive names. - edition and disc title switching will now fully reload playback (may have consequences for scripts, client API, or when using file-local options) - with the removal of the stream cache, the following properties and options were dropped: cache, cache-size, cache-free, cache-used, --cache-default, --cache-initial, --cache-seek-min, --cache-backbuffer, --cache-file, --cache-file-size - the --cache option does not take a number value anymore - remove async playback abort hack. This may make it impossible to abort playback if --demuxer-thread=no is forced. - remove--macos-title-bar-style, replaced by --macos-title-bar-material and--macos-title-bar-appearance. - The default for --vulkan-async-computehas changed toyesfromno with the move to libplacebo as the back-end for vulkan rendering. - Remove "disc-titles", "disc-title", "disc-title-list", and "angle" properties. dvd:// does not support title ranges anymore. - Remove all "tv-..." options and properties, along with the classic Linux analog TV support. - remove "program" property (no replacement) - always prefer EGL over GLX, which helps with AMD/vaapi, but will break vdpau with --vo=gpu - use --gpu-context=x11 to be able to use vdpau. This does not affect --vo=vdpau or --hwdec=vdpau-copy. - remove deprecated --chapter option - deprecate --record-file - add--demuxer-cue-codepage - add ``track-list/N/demux-bitrate``, ``track-list/N/demux-rotation`` and ``track-list/N/demux-par`` property - Deprecate ``--video-aspect`` and add ``--video-aspect-override`` to replace it. (Thevideo-aspectoption remains unchanged.) --- mpv 0.29.0 --- - drop --opensles-sample-rate, as --audio-samplerate should be used if desired - drop deprecated --videotoolbox-format, --ff-aid, --ff-vid, --ff-sid, --ad-spdif-dtshd, --softvol options - fix --external-files: strictly never select any tracks from them, unless explicitly selected (this may or may not be expected) - --ytdl is now always enabled, even for libmpv - add a number of --audio-resample-* options, which should from now on be used instead of --af-defaults=lavrresample:... - deprecate --vf-defaults and --af-defaults. These didn't work with the lavfi bridge, so they have very little use left. The only potential use is with af_lavrresample (going to be deprecated, --audio-resample-... set its defaults), and various hw deinterlacing filters (like vf_vavpp), for which you will have to stop using --deinterlace=yes, and instead use the vf toggle commands and the filter enable/disable flag to customize it. - deprecate --af=lavrresample. Use the ``--audio-resample-...`` options to customize resampling, or the libavfilter ``--af=aresample`` filter. - add --osd-on-seek - remove outfmt sub-parameter from "format" video filter (no replacement) - some behavior changes in the video filter chain, including: - before, using an incompatible filter with hwdec would disable hwdec; now it disables the filter at runtime instead - inserting an incompatible filter with hwdec at runtime would refuse to insert the filter; now it will add it successfully, but disables the filter slightly later - some behavior changes in the audio filter chain, including: - a manually inserted lavrresample filter is not necessarily used for sample format conversion anymore, so it's pretty useless - changing playback speed will not respect --af-defaults anymore - having libavfilter based filters after the scaletempo or rubberband filters is not supported anymore, and may desync if playback speed is changed (libavfilter does not support the metadata for playback speed) - the lavcac3enc filter does not auto detach itself anymore; instead it passes through the data after converting it to the sample rate and channel configuration the ac3 encoder expects; also, if the audio format changes midstream in a way that causes the filter to switch between PCM and AC3 output, the audio output won't be reconfigured, and audio playback will fail due to libswresample being unable to convert between PCM and AC3 (Note: the responsible developer didn't give a shit. Later changes might have improved or worsened this.) - inserting a filter that changes the output sample format will not reconfigure the AO - you need to run an additional "ao-reload" command to force this if you want that - using "strong" gapless audio (--gapless-audio=yes) can fail if the audio formats are not convertible (such as switching between PCM and AC3 passthrough) - if filters do not pass through PTS values correctly, A/V sync can result over time. Some libavfilter filters are known to be affected by this, such as af_loudnorm, which can desync over time, depending on how the audio track was muxed (af_lavfi's fix-pts suboption can help). - remove out-format sub-parameter from "format" audio filter (no replacement) - --lavfi-complex now requires uniquely named filter pads. In addition, unconnected filter pads are not allowed anymore (that means every filter pad must be connected either to another filter, or to a video/audio track or video/audio output). If they are disconnected at runtime, the stream will probably stall. - rename --vo=opengl-cb to --vo=libmpv (goes in hand with the opengl-cb API deprecation, see client-api-changes.rst) - deprecate the OpenGL cocoa backend, option choice --gpu-context=cocoa when used with --gpu-api=opengl (use --vo=libmpv) - make --deinterlace=yes always deinterlace, instead of trying to check certain unreliable video metadata. Also flip the defaults of all builtin HW deinterlace filters to always deinterlace. - change vf_vavpp default to use the best deinterlace algorithm by default - remove a compatibility hack that allowed CLI aliases to be set as property (such as "sub-file"), deprecated in mpv 0.26.0 - deprecate the old command based hook API, and introduce a proper C API (the high level Lua API for this does not change) - rename the the lua-settings/ config directory to script-opts/ - the way the player waits for scripts getting loaded changes slightly. Now scripts are loaded in parallel, and block the player from continuing playback only in the player initialization phase. It could change again in the future. (This kind of waiting was always a feature to prevent that playback is started while scripts are only half-loaded.) - deprecate --ovoffset, --oaoffset, --ovfirst, --oafirst - 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 - remove --video-stereo-mode. This option was broken out of laziness, and nobody wants to fix it. Automatic 3D down-conversion to 2D is also broken, although you can just insert the stereo3d filter manually. The obscurity of 3D content doesn't justify such an option anyway. - change cycle-values command to use the current value, instead of an internal counter that remembered the current position. - remove deprecated ao/vo auto profiles. Consider using scripts like auto-profiles.lua instead. - --[c]scale-[w]param[1|2] and --tone-mapping-param now accept "default", and if set to that value, reading them as property will also return "default", instead of float nan as in previous versions --- mpv 0.28.0 --- - rename --hwdec=mediacodec option to mediacodec-copy, to reflect conventions followed by other hardware video decoding APIs - drop previously deprecated --heartbeat-cmd and --heartbeat--interval options - rename --vo=opengl to --vo=gpu - rename --opengl-backend to --gpu-context - rename --opengl-shaders to --glsl-shaders - rename --opengl-shader-cache-dir to --gpu-shader-cache-dir - rename --opengl-tex-pad-x/y to --gpu-tex-pad-x/y - rename --opengl-fbo-format to --fbo-format - rename --opengl-gamma to --gamma-factor - rename --opengl-debug to --gpu-debug - rename --opengl-sw to --gpu-sw - rename --opengl-vsync-fences to --swapchain-depth, and the interpretation slightly changed. Now defaults to 3. - rename the built-in profileopengl-hqtogpu-hq - the semantics of --opengl-es=yes are slightly changed -> now requires GLES - remove the (deprecated) alias --gpu-context=drm-egl - remove the (deprecated) --vo=opengl-hq - remove --opengl-es=force2 (use --opengl-es=yes --opengl-restrict=300) - the --msg-level option now affects --log-file - drop "audio-out-detected-device" property - this was unavailable on all audio output drivers for quite a while (coreaudio used to provide it) - deprecate --videotoolbox-format (use --hwdec-image-format, which affects most other hwaccels) - remove deprecated --demuxer-max-packets - remove most of the deprecated audio and video filters - remove the deprecated --balance option/property - rename the --opengl-hwdec-interop option to --gpu-hwdec-interop, and change some of its semantics: extend it take the strings "auto" and "all". "all" loads all backends. "auto" behaves like "all" for vo_opengl_cb, while on vo_gpu it loads nothing, but allows on demand loading by the decoder. The empty string as option value behaves like "auto". Old --hwdec values do not work anymore. This option is hereby declared as unstable and may change any time - its old use is deprecated, and it has very little use outside of debugging now. - change the --hwdec option from a choice to a plain string (affects introspection of the option/property), also affects some properties - rename --hwdec=rpi to --hwdec=mmal, same for the -copy variant (no backwards compatibility) - deprecate the --ff-aid, --ff-vid, --ff-sid options and properties (there is no replacement, but you can manually query the track property and use the "ff-index" field to find the mpv track ID to imitate this behavior) - rename --no-ometadata to --no-ocopy-metadata --- mpv 0.27.0 --- - drop previously deprecated --field-dominance option - drop previously deprecated "osd" command - remove client API compatibility handling for "script", "sub-file", "audio-file", "external-file" (these cases used to log a deprecation warning) - drop deprecated --video-aspect-method=hybrid option choice - rename --hdr-tone-mapping to --tone-mapping (and generalize it) - --opengl-fbo-format changes from a choice to a string. Also, its value will be checked only on renderer initialization, rather than when the option is set. - Using opengl-cb now always assumes 8 bit per component depth, and dithers to this size. Before, it tried to figure out the depth of the first framebuffer that was ever passed to the renderer. Having GL framebuffers with a size larger than 8 bit per component is quite rare. If you need it, set the --dither-depth option instead. - --lavfi-complex can now be set during runtime. If you set this in expectation it would be applied only after a reload, you might observe weird behavior. - add --track-auto-selection to help with scripts/applications that make exclusive use of --lavfi-complex. - undeprecate --loop, and map it from --loop-playlist to --loop-file (the deprecation was to make sure no API user gets broken by a sudden behavior change) - remove previously deprecated vf_eq - remove that hardware deinterlace filters (vavpp, d3d11vpp, vdpaupp) changed their deinterlacing-enabled setting depending on what the --deinterlace option or property was set to. Now, a filter always does what its filter options and defaults imply. The --deinterlace option and property strictly add/remove its own filters. For example, if you run "mpv --vf=vavpp --deinterlace=yes", this will insert another, redundant filter, which is probably not what you want. For toggling a deinterlace filter manually, use the "vf toggle" command, and do not set the deinterlace option/property. To customize the filter that will be inserted automatically, use --vf-defaults. Details how this works will probably change in the future. - remove deinterlace=auto (this was not deprecated, but had only a very obscure use that stopped working with the change above. It was also prone to be confused with a feature not implemented by it: auto did _not_ mean that deinterlacing was enabled on demand.) - add shortened mnemonic names for mouse button bindings, eg. mbtn_left the old numeric names (mouse_btn0) are deprecated - remove mouse_btn3_dbl and up, since they are only generated for buttons 0-2 (these now print an error when sent from the 'mouse' command) - rename the axis bindings to wheel_up/down/etc. axis scrolling and mouse wheel scrolling are now conceptually the same thing the old axis_up/down names remain as deprecated aliases --- mpv 0.26.0 --- - remove remaining deprecated audio device options, like --alsa-device Some of them were removed in earlier releases. - introduce --replaygain... options, which replace the same functionality provided by the deprecated --af=volume:replaygain... mechanism. - drop the internal "mp-rawvideo" codec (used by --demuxer=rawvideo) - rename --sub-ass-style-override to --sub-ass-override, and rename the --sub-ass-override=signfssetting to--sub-ass-override=scale. - change default of --video-aspect-method to "bitstream". The "hybrid" method (old default) is deprecated. - remove property "video-params/nom-peak" - remove option --target-brightness - replace vf_format's peaksuboption bysig-peak, which is relative to the reference white level instead of in cd/m^2 - renamed the TRCs st2084andstd-b67topqandhlgrespectively - the "osd" command is deprecated (use "cycle osd-level") - --field-dominance is deprecated (use --vf=setfield=bff or tff) - --really-quiet subtle behavior change - the deprecated handling of setting "no-" options via client API is dropped - the following options change to append-by-default (and possibly separator): --script also, the following options are deprecated: --sub-paths => --sub-file-paths the following options are deprecated for setting via API: "script" (use "scripts") "sub-file" (use "sub-files") "audio-file" (use "audio-files") "external-file" (use "external-files") (the compatibility hacks for this will be removed after this release) - remove propertyvo-performance, and add vo-passesas a more general replacement - deprecate passing multiple arguments to -add/-pre options (affects the vf/af commands too) - remove --demuxer-lavf-cryptokey. Use --demux-lavf-o=cryptokey=<hex> or --demux-lavf-o=decryption_key=<hex> instead (whatever fits your situation). - rename --opengl-dumb-mode=no to --opengl-dumb-mode=auto, and makeno always disable it (unless forced on by hardware limitation). - generalize --scale-clamp, --cscale-clamp etc. to accept a float between 0.0 and 1.0 instead of just being a flag. A value of 1.0 corresponds to the oldyes, and a value of 0.0 corresponds to the old no`.
--- mpv 0.25.0 ---
- remove opengl-cb dxva2 dummy hwdec interop
(see git "vo_opengl: remove dxva2 dummy hwdec backend")
- remove ppm, pgm, pgmyuv, tga choices from the --screenshot-format and
--vo-image-format options
- the "jpeg" choice in the option above now leads to a ".jpg" file extension
- --af=drc is gone (you can use e.g. lavfi/acompressor instead)
- remove image_size predefined uniform from OpenGL user shaders. Use
input_size instead
- add --sub-filter-sdh
- add --sub-filter-sdh-harder
- remove --input-app-events option (macOS)
- deprecate most --vf and --af filters. Only some filters not in libavfilter
will be kept.
Also, you can use libavfilter filters directly (e.g. you can use
--vf=name=opts instead of --vf=lavfi=[name=opts]), as long as the
libavfilter filter's name doesn't clash with a mpv builtin filter.
In the long term, --vf/--af syntax might change again, but if it does, it
will switch to libavfilter's native syntax. (The above mentioned direct
support for lavfi filters still has some differences, such as how strings
are escaped.) If this happens, the non-deprecated builtin filters might be
moved to "somewhere else" syntax-wise.
- deprecate --loop - after a deprecation period, it will be undeprecated,
but changed to alias --loop-file
- add --keep-open-pause=no
- deprecate --demuxer-max-packets
- change --audio-file-auto default from "exact" to "no" (mpv won't load
files with the same filename as the video, but different extension, as
audio track anymore)
--- mpv 0.24.0 ---
- deprecate --hwdec-api and replace it with --opengl-hwdec-interop.
The new option accepts both --hwdec values, as well as named backends.
A minor difference is that --hwdec-api=no (which used to be the default)
now actually does not preload any interop layer, while the new default
("") uses the value of --hwdec.
- drop deprecated --ad/--vd features
- drop deprecated --sub-codepage syntax
- rename properties:
- "drop-frame-count" to "decoder-frame-drop-count"
- "vo-drop-frame-count" to "frame-drop-count"
The old names still work, but are deprecated.
- remove the --stream-capture option and property. No replacement.
(--record-file might serve as alternative)
- add --sub-justify
- add --sub-ass-justify
- internally there's a different way to enable the demuxer cache now
it can be auto-enabled even if the stream cache remains disabled
--- mpv 0.23.0 ---
- remove deprecated vf_vdpaurb (use "--hwdec=vdpau-copy" instead)
- the following properties now have new semantics:
- "demuxer" (use "current-demuxer")
- "fps" (use "container-fps")
- "idle" (use "idle-active")
- "cache" (use "cache-percent")
- "audio-samplerate" (use "audio-params/samplerate")
- "audio-channels" (use "audio-params/channel-count")
- "audio-format" (use "audio-codec-name")
(the properties equivalent to the old semantics are in parentheses)
- remove deprecated --vo and --ao sub-options (like --vo=opengl:...), and
replace them with global options. A somewhat complete list can be found
here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Option-replacement-list#mpv-0210
- remove --vo-defaults and --ao-defaults as well
- remove deprecated global sub-options (like -demuxer-rawaudio format=...),
use flat options (like --demuxer-rawaudio-format=...)
- the --sub-codepage option changes in incompatible ways:
- detector-selection and fallback syntax is deprecated
- enca/libguess are removed and deprecated (behaves as if they hadn't
been compiled-in)
- --sub-codepage=<codepage> does not force the codepage anymore
(this requires different and new syntax)
- remove --fs-black-out-screens option for macOS
- change how spdif codecs are selected. You can't enable spdif passthrough
with --ad anymore. This was deprecated; use --audio-spdif instead.
- deprecate the "family" selection with --ad/--vd
forcing/excluding codecs with "+", "-", "-" is deprecated as well
- explicitly mark --ad-spdif-dtshd as deprecated (it was done so a long time
ago, but it didn't complain when using the option)
--- mpv 0.22.0 ---
- the "audio-device-list" property now sets empty device description to the
device name as a fallback
- add --hidpi-window-scale option for macOS
- add audiounit audio output for iOS
- make --start-time work with --rebase-start-time=no
- add --opengl-early-flush=auto mode
- add --hwdec=vdpau-copy, deprecate vf_vdpaurb
- add tct video output for true-color and 256-color terminals
--- mpv 0.21.0 ---
- unlike in older versions, setting options at runtime will now take effect
immediately (see for example issue #3281). On the other hand, it will also
do runtime verification and reject option changes that do not work
(example: setting the "vf" option to a filter during playback, which fails
to initialize - the option value will remain at its old value). In general,
"set name value" should be mostly equivalent to "set options/name value"
in cases where the "name" property is not deprecated and "options/name"
exists - deviations from this are either bugs, or documented as caveats
in the "Inconsistencies between options and properties" manpage section.
- deprecate all --vo and --ao suboptions. Generally, all suboptions are
replaced by global options, which do exactly the same. For example,
"--vo=opengl:scale=nearest" turns into "--scale=nearest". In some cases,
the global option is prefixed, e.g. "--vo=opengl:pbo" turns into
"--opengl-pbo".
Most of the exact replacements are documented here:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Option-replacement-list
- remove --vo=opengl-hq. Set --profile=opengl-hq instead. Note that this
profile does not force the VO. This means if you use the --vo option to
set another VO, it won't work. But this also means it can be used with
opengl-cb.
- remove the --vo=opengl "pre-shaders", "post-shaders" and "scale-shader"
sub-options: they were deprecated in favor of "user-shaders"
- deprecate --vo-defaults (no replacement)
- remove the vo-cmdline command. You can set OpenGL renderer options
directly via properties instead.
- deprecate the device/sink options on all AOs. Use --audio-device instead.
- deprecate "--ao=wasapi:exclusive" and "--ao=coreaudio:exclusive",
use --audio-exclusive instead.
- subtle changes in how "--no-..." options are treated mean that they are
not accessible under "options/..." anymore (instead, these are resolved
at parsing time). This does not affect options which start with "--no-",
but do not use the mechanism for negation options.
(Also see client API change for API version 1.23.)
- rename the following properties
- "demuxer" -> "current-demuxer"
- "fps" -> "container-fps"
- "idle" -> "idle-active"
- "cache" -> "cache-percent"
the old names are deprecated and will change behavior in mpv 0.23.0.
- remove deprecated "hwdec-active" and "hwdec-detected" properties
- deprecate the ao and vo auto-profiles (they never made any sense)
- deprecate "--vo=direct3d_shaders" - use "--vo=direct3d" instead.
Change "--vo=direct3d" to always use shaders by default.
- deprecate --playlist-pos option, renamed to --playlist-start
- deprecate the --chapter option, as it is redundant with --start/--end,
and conflicts with the semantics of the "chapter" property
- rename --sub-text-* to --sub-* and --ass-* to --sub-ass-* (old options
deprecated)
- incompatible change to cdda:// protocol options: the part after cdda://
now always sets the device, not the span or speed to be played. No
separating extra "/" is needed. The hidden --cdda-device options is also
deleted (it was redundant with the documented --cdrom-device).
- deprecate --vo=rpi. It will be removed in mpv 0.23.0. Its functionality
was folded into --vo=opengl, which now uses RPI hardware decoding by
treating it as a hardware overlay (without applying GL filtering). Also
to be changed in 0.23.0: the --fs flag will be reset to "no" by default
(like on the other platforms).
- deprecate --mute=auto (informally has been since 0.18.1)
- deprecate "resume" and "suspend" IPC commands. They will be completely
removed in 0.23.0.
- deprecate mp.suspend(), mp.resume(), mp.resume_all() Lua scripting
commands, as well as setting mp.use_suspend. They will be completely
removed in 0.23.0.
- the "seek" command's absolute seek mode will now interpret negative
seek times as relative from the end of the file (and clamps seeks that
still go before 0)
- add almost all options to the property list, meaning you can change
options without adding "options/" to the property name (a new section
has been added to the manpage describing some conflicting behavior
between options and properties)
- implement changing sub-speed during playback
- make many previously fixed options changeable at runtime (for example
--terminal, --osc, --ytdl, can all be enable/disabled after
mpv_initialize() - this can be extended to other still fixed options
on user requests)
--- mpv 0.20.0 ---
- add --image-display-duration option - this also means that image duration
is not influenced by --mf-fps anymore in the general case (this is an
incompatible change)
--- mpv 0.19.0 ---
- deprecate "balance" option/property (no replacement)
--- mpv 0.18.1 ---
- deprecate --heartbeat-cmd
- remove --softvol=no capability:
- deprecate --softvol, it now does nothing
- --volume, --mute, and the corresponding properties now always control
softvol, and behave as expected without surprises (e.g. you can set
them normally while no audio is initialized)
- rename --softvol-max to --volume-max (deprecated alias is added)
- the --volume-restore-data option and property are removed without
replacement. They were always internal, and used for watch-later
resume/restore. Now --volume/--mute are saved directly instead.
- the previous point means resuming files with older watch-later configs
will print an error about missing --volume-restore-data (which you can
ignore), and will not restore the previous value
- as a consequence, volume controls will no longer control PulseAudio
per-application value, or use the system mixer's per-application
volume processing
- system or per-application volume can still be controlled with the
ao-volume and ao-mute properties (there are no command line options)
--- mpv 0.18.0 ---
- now ab-loops are active even if one of the "ab-loop-a"/"-b" properties is
unset ("no"), in which case the start of the file is used if the A loop
point is unset, and the end of the file for an unset B loop point
- deprecate --sub-ass=no option by --ass-style-override=strip
(also needs --embeddedfonts=no)
- add "hwdec-interop" and "hwdec-current" properties
- deprecated "hwdec-active" and "hwdec-detected" properties (to be removed
in mpv 0.20.0)
- choice option/property values that are "yes" or "no" will now be returned
as booleans when using the mpv_node functions in the client API, the
"native" property accessors in Lua, and the JSON API. They can be set as
such as well.
- the VO opengl fbo-format sub-option does not accept "rgb" or "rgba"
anymore
- all VO opengl prescalers have been removed (replaced by user scripts)
--- mpv 0.17.0 ---
- deprecate "track-list/N/audio-channels" property (use
"track-list/N/demux-channel-count" instead)
- remove write access to "stream-pos", and change semantics for read access
- Lua scripts now don't suspend mpv by default while script code is run
- add "cache-speed" property
- rename --input-unix-socket to --input-ipc-server, and make it work on
Windows too
- change the exact behavior of the "video-zoom" property
- --video-unscaled no longer disables --video-zoom and --video-aspect
To force the old behavior, set --video-zoom=0 and --video-aspect=0
--- mpv 0.16.0 ---
- change --audio-channels default to stereo (use --audio-channels=auto to
get the old default)
- add --audio-normalize-downmix
- change the default downmix behavior (--audio-normalize-downmix=yes to get
the old default)
- VO opengl custom shaders must now use "sample_pixel" as function name,
instead of "sample"
- change VO opengl scaler-resizes-only default to enabled
- add VO opengl "interpolation-threshold" suboption (introduces new default
behavior, which can change e.g. --video-sync=display-vdrop to the
worse, but is usually what you want)
- make "volume" and "mute" properties changeable even if no audio output is
active (this gives not-ideal behavior if --softvol=no is used)
- add "volume-max" and "mixer-active" properties
- ignore --input-cursor option for events injected by input commands like
"mouse", "keydown", etc.
--- mpv 0.15.0 ---
- change "yadif" video filter defaults
--- mpv 0.14.0 ---
- vo_opengl interpolation now requires --video-sync=display-... to be set
- change some vo_opengl defaults (including changing tscale)
- add "vsync-ratio", "estimated-display-fps" properties
- add --rebase-start-time option
This is a breaking change to start time handling. Instead of making start
time handling an aspect of different options and properties (like
"time-pos" vs. "playback-time"), make it dependent on the new option. For
compatibility, the "time-start" property now always returns 0, so code
which attempted to handle rebasing manually will not break.
--- mpv 0.13.0 ---
- remove VO opengl-cb frame queue suboptions (no replacement)
--- mpv 0.12.0 ---
- remove --use-text-osd (useless; fontconfig isn't a requirement anymore,
and text rendering is also lazily initialized)
- some time properties (at least "playback-time", "time-pos",
"time-remaining", "playtime-remaining") now are unavailable if the time
is unknown, instead of just assuming that the internal playback position
is 0
- add --audio-fallback-to-null option
- replace vf_format outputlevels suboption with "video-output-levels" global
property/option; also remove "colormatrix-output-range" property
- vo_opengl: remove sharpen3/sharpen5 scale filters, add sharpen sub-option
--- mpv 0.11.0 ---
- add "af-metadata" property
--- mpv 0.10.0 ---
- add --video-aspect-method option
- add --playlist-pos option
- add --video-sync* options
"display-sync-active" property
"vo-missed-frame-count" property
"audio-speed-correction" and "video-speed-correction" properties
- remove --demuxer-readahead-packets and --demuxer-readahead-bytes
add --demuxer-max-packets and --demuxer-max-bytes
(the new options are not replacement and have very different semantics)
- change "video-aspect" property: always settable, even if no video is
running; always return the override - if no override is set, return
the video's aspect ratio
- remove disc-nav (DVD, BD) related properties and commands
- add "option-info/<name>/set-locally" property
- add --cache-backbuffer; change --cache-default default to 75MB
the new total cache size is the sum of backbuffer and the cache size
specified by --cache-default or --cache
- add track-list/N/audio-channels property
- change --screenshot-tag-colorspace default value
- add --stretch-image-subs-to-screen
- add "playlist/N/title" property
- add --video-stereo-mode=no to disable auto-conversions
- add --force-seekable, and change default seekability in some cases
- add vf yadif/vavpp/vdpaupp interlaced-only suboptions
Also, the option is enabled by default (Except vf_yadif, which has
it enabled only if it's inserted by the deinterlace property.)
- add --hwdec-preload
- add ao coreaudio exclusive suboption
- add track-list/N/forced property
- add audio-params/channel-count and ``audio-params-out/channel-count props.
- add af volume replaygain-fallback suboption
- add video-params/stereo-in property
- add "keypress", "keydown", and "keyup" commands
- deprecate --ad-spdif-dtshd and enabling passthrough via --ad
add --audio-spdif as replacement
- remove "get_property" command
- remove --slave-broken
- add vo opengl custom shader suboptions (source-shader, scale-shader,
pre-shaders, post-shaders)
- completely change how the hwdec properties work:
- "hwdec" now reflects the --hwdec option
- "hwdec-detected" does partially what the old "hwdec" property did
(and also, "detected-hwdec" is removed)
- "hwdec-active" is added
- add protocol-list property
- deprecate audio-samplerate and audio-channels properties
(audio-params sub-properties are the replacement)
- add audio-params and audio-out-params properties
- deprecate "audio-format" property, replaced with "audio-codec-name"
- deprecate --media-title, replaced with --force-media-title
- deprecate "length" property, replaced with "duration"
- change volume property:
- the value 100 is now always "unchanged volume" - with softvol, the
range is 0 to --softvol-max, without it is 0-100
- the minimum value of --softvol-max is raised to 100
- remove vo opengl npot suboption
- add relative seeking by percentage to "seek" command
- add playlist_shuffle command
- add --force-window=immediate
- add ao coreaudio change-physical-format suboption
- remove vo opengl icc-cache suboption, add icc-cache-dir suboption
- add --screenshot-directory
- add --screenshot-high-bit-depth
- add --screenshot-jpeg-source-chroma
- default action for "rescan_external_files" command changes
--- mpv 0.9.0 ---