Download mpv 0.34.0

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)