Python-mpv

A bug fix release for the 0.29 release branch.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

- af_rubberband: Fix for A-V drift on seeking.
- ao_alsa: Fixes to remove spam during pausing and end-of-file.
- ao_jack: Fix for mpv attempting to connect to non-standard devices such as MIDI.
- ao_openal: Drop support for Apple's bundled OpenAL due to lack of features to successfully build.
- ao_pulse: Fix for audio buffer length calculation.
- demux_lavf: Fix EDL playback of certain DASH streams.
- demux_lavf: Mark v4l streams as not seekable.
- demux_raw: Fix for gapless playback from raw audio input.
- drm_atomic: Fix to enable video output with devices without a video overlay plane.
- encode: Fix for crashes in case of failure to write to output.
- encode: Fix for encoding when utilizing lavfi-complex.
- Fix to strip HDR peak metadata if attached to SDR video (6111)
- macOS: Capability to fall back on SW rendering for testing purposes.
- macOS: Fix for issues with the main menu.
- macOS: Fix for side by side split view.
- macOS: Fixes for crashes, most notably those happening on 10.14 (5908, 6097, 6041, 6062).
- macOS: No longer let older, unsupported versions of the Swift build tools through configure.
- manpage: Misc fixups.
- stream_{smb,file}: Fix for partial writes to buffers.
- stream_libarchive: Fix hang when an out-of-bound seek happens.
- stream_smb: Fix for crashes due to libsmbclient and threading (5936).
- vo_gpu: Fix for corruption when multiple compute shaders override each others' block sizes (6083).
- ytdl_hook: Always load "ytdl://" URLs with ytdl_hook first.
- ytdl_hook: Fix audio streams not being picked up for some sites.

Options and Commands

Added

- `--cocoa-cb-sw-renderer` to control whether or not to fall back on software rendering on macOS.

This release requires FFmpeg 4.0 or newer.


Features

Added

- ao/openal: Add better sample format and channel layout selection
- ao/openal: Add support for direct channels output
- cocoa-cb: initial implementation via opengl-cb API
- context_drm_egl: Introduce 30bpp support (requires Mesa 18.0.0_rc4 or later)
- osx: add some more menu bar items as suggested by Apples's HIG
- vo_gpu: make screenshots use the GL renderer (5498, 5240)
- x11: support Shift+TAB as an input key bind (5849)
- ytdl_hook: support native dash demuxer, if present


Changed

- ao_alsa, ao_pulse: reduce requested buffer size
- audio: change format negotiation, remove channel remix fudging
- client API: deprecate opengl-cb API and introduce a replacement API
- demux: lower demuxer cache default sizes from 400MB/400MB to 50MB/150MB
- osx: always deactivate the early opengl flush on macOS
- scripting: change when/how player waits for scripts being loaded
- vo_gpu: various improvements to HDR peak detection
- vo_gpu: various improvements to HDR tone mapping
- wayland_common: update to stable xdg-shell
- ytdl_hook: parse youtube playlist urls to set start index if `--ytdl-raw-option=yes-playlist=` is specified

Deprecated

- af_lavrresample: deprecate this filter


Removed

- build: drop support for SDL1 (only applied to ao_sdl)


Options and Commands

Added

- add a number of --audio-resample-* options, which should from now on be used instead of --af-defaults=lavrresample:
- ao/openal: --openal-direct-channels
- command: add --osd-on-seek option defaulting to bar
- command: add a change-list command (5435)
- options: add --http-proxy
- options: add a builtin low-latency profile
- vaapi: add option to select a non-default device path with --vaapi-device (4320)
- video: add option to reduce latency by 1 or 2 frames
- vo_gpu: introduce --target-peak (5521)


Changed

- command: change cycle-value command behavior (5772)
- config: replace config dir lua-settings/ with dir script-opts/
- options: --lavfi-complex now requires uniquely named filter pads.
- options: --ytdl is now always enabled, even for libmpv
- options: make --deinterlace=yes always deinterlace (5219)
- options: slightly improve filter help output for lavfi bridge
- vo: rename --vo=opengl-cb to --vo=libmpv


Deprecated

- encoding: deprecate a bunch of obscure options (--ovoffset, --oaoffset, --ovfirst, --oafirst)
- options: deprecate --vf-defaults and --af-defaults
- osx: --gpu-context=cocoa with --gpu-api=opengl is now deprecated in favour of --vo=libmpv


Removed

- command: remove an old compatibility hack that allowed CLI aliases to be set as property, deprecated in 0.26.0
- input: remove legacy command handling for MPlayer commands that were deprecated in 2013
- options: drop --opensles-sample-rate, as --audio-samplerate should be used if desired
- options: drop deprecated --videotoolbox-format, --ff-aid, --ff-vid, --ff-sid, --ad-spdif-dtshd, --softvol options
- options: remove --video-stereo-mode
- options: remove deprecated ao/vo auto profiles
- options: 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


Fixes and Minor Enhancements

- HIDRemote: fix volume buttons on macOS 10.13 (5721)
- TOOLS/autoload: Fix broken "disabled" option
- TOOLS/autoload: be more robust with slow directory listings (5618)
- ao_sdl: fix default buffer size
- build: add static libraries to libmpv.pc
- build: bump waf to 2.0.9 (fixes Python 3.7 compatibility)
- build: manually add standard library search paths for linking (5791)
- common: round all integer times to milliseconds
- demux, player: fix playback of sparse video streams (w/ still images)
- demux: support for some kinds of timed metadata (e.g. ICY)
- demux_mkv: add V_AV1 identifier for AV1
- demux_mkv: support Meridian Lossless Packing in Matroska (5923)
- display additional metadata tags during video playback
- drm_atomic: Fix memory leaks in drm_atomic_create
- enable cache for FUSE filesystems on OpenBSD and FreeBSD
- gpu: prefer 16bit floating point FBO formats to 16bit integer ones
- hwdec_vaegl: Fix VAAPI EGL interop used with gpu-context=drm
- input.conf: use exact value for [ binding, which does the inverse of ]
- input: add a keybinding to toggle hardware decoding
- input: minor additions to default key bindings (973)
- osc: fix accidentally skipping files when seeking with slider
- player: fix strange behavior on edition switching
- player: fix track autoselection of external files yet again
- terminal-unix: stop trying to read when terminal disappears (5842)
- video: actually wait for last frame being rendered on EOF
- video: fix --video-rotate in some cases
- video: fix crash with vdpau when reinitializing rendering (5447)
- vo_gpu: fix anamorphic screenshots (5619)
- vo_vdpau: fix resizing and rotation problems


This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running `git log v0.28.2..v0.29.0`
in the git repository or by visiting either
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.28.2...v0.29.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.28.2..v0.29.0

This release contains an additional fix for CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements
----------------------------
- ytdl_hook: whitelist subtitle URLs as well (5456)

This release fixes CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements
----------------------------
- ytdl_hook: whitelist protocols from urls retrieved from youtube-dl (5456)

This release needs recent FFmpeg (newer than 3.4) due to major refactoring.
Required library versions:

* libavutil >= 56.6.100
* libavcodec >= 58.7.100
* libavformat >= 58.0.102
* libswscale >= 5.0.101
* libavfilter >= 7.0.101
* libswresample >= 3.0.100

The LGPL 2.1+ relicensing process is now mostly complete. The remaining GPL-only
code (see Copyright file) can be disabled at build time by using --enable-lgpl.

Features

Added

- Add DRM_PRIME Format Handling and Display for RockChip MPP decoders
- csputils: Add support for Display P3 primaries
- demux: support multiple seekable cached ranges, display cache ranges on OSC
- demux_playlist: support .url files (5107)
- dvb: Add multiple frontends support (up to 8)
- dvb: implement parsing of modulation for VDR-style channels config
- hwdec: add mediacodec hardware decoder for IMGFMT_MEDIACODEC frames,
rename mediacodec to mediacodec-copy
- lua: integrate stats.lua script (bound to i/I by default)
- vd_lavc: add support for nvdec hwaccel
- vo_gpu: add android opengl backend
- vo_gpu: initial d3d11 support
- vo_gpu: vulkan support


Removed

- af: remove deprecated audio filters (channels, equalizer, pan, volume;
replacements in lavfi)
- vf: remove most GPL video filters (crop, dsize, expand, flip, gradfun, mirror,
noformat, pullup, rotate, scale, stereo3d, yadif; replacements in lavfi)
- vf_buffer: remove this filter
- video: remove automatic stereo3d filter insertion
- vo_gpu: remove hwdec_vaglx interop
- vo_opengl: refactor into vo_gpu
- vo_wayland: remove


Options and Commands

Added

- demux: add option to create CC tracks eagerly (--sub-create-cc-track)
- options: add --start=none to reset previously set start time
- options: add --vlang switch


Changed

- cache: lower default size to 2*10MB
- demux: bump the demuxer cache readahead duration to 10 hours
- demux: use seekable cache for network by default, bump prefetch limit
- msg: make --msg-level affect --log-file too
- player/misc.c: allow both --length and --end to control play endpoint
- player: match subtitles with language tags with --sub-auto=exact
- rename --opengl-hwdec-interop to --gpu-hwdec-interop (now mostly useless)
- vd_lavc: prefer nvdec over vdpau with --hwdec=auto (better codec and surface
format support)
- vd_lavc: rename --hwdec=rpi to --hwdec=mmal


Removed

- options: remove --heartbeat-cmd and --heartbeat-interval
(incidentally fixes 4888)


Fixes and Minor Enhancements

- TOOLS/autoload.lua: add ogm, ogg and opus extensions
- Use /dev/tty instead of stdin for terminal input (4190)
- audio: add audio softvol processing to AO (replaces previously GPL’d code)
- audio: fix channel conversion with NA channels (e.g. with ALSA)
- audio: fix missing volume update on init and reinit
- csputils: Fix DCI P3 primaries white point
- demux: don't allow subtitles to mess up buffered time display
- demux: fix .cue files with audio files that contain attached pictures
- demux: fix accounting for seekable ranges on track switches (fixes missing
audio when cycling through audio tracks with e.g. EDL, --merge-files, ordered
chapters and youtube-dl pseudo DASH)
- demux: fix crash with cue/ordered chapter files (5027)
- demux: speed up cache seeking with a coarse index
- demux_lavf: always give libavformat the filename when probing
(helps with mp3 files)
- demux_mkv: add V_SNOW tag to mkv_video_tags
- dvb: Fix long channel switching: next/prev channel
- dvb: fixes for ATSC tuning
- lavc_conv: clamp timestamps to positive (5047)
- macOS: fix bundle on macOS High Sierra (10.13) (4926, 4866)
- mp_image: always copy color attributes on hw download (4804)
- mp_image: select an explicit fallback for chroma location (4804)
- msg: bump log level of --log-file to -v -v
- msg: reinterpret a bunch of message levels
- osc: fix rare stack overflow when changing visibility mode
- osdep/io: add android-related bullshit to fix files >2 GiB
- player/playloop.c: respect playback start time when using --loop-file
- player: allow seeking in cached parts of unseekable streams
- player: make track language matching case insensitive (5272)
- player: use start timestamp for ab-looping if --ab-loop-a is absent
- player: when loading external file, always add all track types (5132)
- restore-old-bindings.conf: add old macOS/Wayland AXIS bindings
- screenshot: create directories from template
- scripting: report dlerror() output
- sd_ass: accept RFC8081 font media types
- sd_ass: accept otc as fallback OpenType collection file extension
- stream_libarchive: work around various types of locale braindeath
(https://git.io/vbiFJ)
- subprocess-win: don't change the mouse cursor when creating processes
- video: add a hack to avoid missing subtitles with vf_sub (5194)
- video: fix alpha handling (4983)
- video: fix memory leaks (roughly 1 KB per decoded frame) with hwdec copy modes
- video: fix rotation and deinterlace auto filters
- video: properly pass through ICC data
- vo: add support for externally driven renderloop and make wayland use it
(partially fixes display-sync under wayland; disables rendering when window
is invisible)
- vo_gpu: change --tone-mapping-desaturate algorithm
- vo_gpu: enable 3DLUTs in dumb mode
- vo_gpu: fix gamma scale
- vo_gpu: fix mobius tone mapping compatibility to GLSL 120 (5069)
- vo_gpu: fix video sometimes not being rerendered on equalizer change
- vo_gpu: kill off FBOTEX_FUZZY (1814)
- vo_gpu: opengl: fix possible screenshot window crash (4905)
- vo_gpu: opengl: use GLX_MESA_swap_control where available
- vo_gpu: reduce the --alpha=blend-tiles checkerboard intensity
- vo_gpu: win: remove exclusive-fullscreen detection hack
- vo_lavc: remove messy delayed subtitle rendering logic (4689)
- wayland_common: implement output tracking, many cleanups and bugfixes
- Windows: skip window snapping if Windows handled it
- Windows: add more-POSIXy versions of open() and fstat() (4711)
- ytdl_hook: don't prepend ytdl:// to non-youtube links in playlists (5003)


This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history
of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history
of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running `git log v0.27.0..v0.28.0`
in the git repository or by visiting either
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.27.0...v0.28.0 or
https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.27.0..v0.28.0

This release contains an additional fix for CVE-2018-6360.

Fixes and Minor Enhancements
----------------------------
- ytdl_hook: whitelist subtitle URLs as well (5456)