This release should work with FFmpeg 2.0 and Libav 9.8. It probably also works with FFmpeg 1.2, 1.1 and (if libavresample is enabled) FFmpeg 1.0. git version of FFmpeg and Libav work too, however it could be that later git versions of them introduce breaking API changes. libass 0.10.2 or later is recommended.
Brief list of major changes since 0.1.x:
- New icon.
- Add an On Screen Controller (OSC). This is a minimal GUI for use with the mouse. You should never see it if you use the keyboard only. It can be disabled entirely with `echo osc=no >> ~/.mpv/config`.
- Subtitles: make automatic charset detection the default.
- More intuitive chapter seeking behavior (in some cases, seeking to the previous chapter went to the start of the previous chapter, instead of the end of it).
- Add a command that allows seeking to next/previous subtitle (sub_seek).
- OSX: native VDA support (2-2.5x reduction in CPU usage over the previous VDA decoder).
- OSX: Cocoa fixes and improvements.
- Linux: support for VA-API hardware decoding and display.
- Wayland: fixes and improvements.
- OpenBSD: Add sndio audio output.
- Preliminary Lua scripting support. It's not done yet, it's not documented, and it sucks. It is needed for the OSC though.
- Switch to GPL version 2 or later for mpv as a whole (see Copyright file for details).
- Many more bug fixes and features. The full list of changes can be viewed with `git log v0.1.0..v0.2.0`.
Support for the 0.1.x releases is discontinued. Further 0.2.x releases will be bug fixes only.