Release 0.17.0

Note: The client API examples have moved to https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-examples

Build System Changes

• install symbolic SVG icon
• build: allow plain-gl build on OSX (#2980)
• build: disable encoding mode by default (uses deprecated FFmpeg APIs)

Features

New

• csputils: add DCI-P3 colorspace
• d3d11va hwdec
• demux: add null demuxer
• ipc: add Windows implementation with named pipes
• mediacodec decoder hwdec wrapper
• vo_opengl: add dxva2 interop to angle backend
• vo_opengl: generate 3DLUT against source and use full BT.1886 (#2815)

Options and Commands

Added

• command: add cache-speed property
• command: add keepaspect property
• command: add video-stereo-mode property (#2994)
• command: export canonical ffmpeg version identifier (ffmpeg-version)
• command: export lists of all codecs (decoder-list and encoder-list)
• osd: add italic font for osd (#3031)

Changed

• aspect: make video-zoom logarithmic (#3004)
• command: export more information under track-list
• ipc: rename --input-unix-socket to --input-ipc-server
• vo_opengl: decrease default superxbr-edge-strength
• vo_opengl: rename prescale to prescale-luma

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• TOOLS/zsh.pl: don't complete URLs by default unless no files match (#2892)
• ad_lavc, vd_lavc: support new Libav decoding API
• cache: disable useless "Cache is not responding" warning (#3019)
• demux: delay bitrate calculation on packets with unknown timestamps (#2903)
• demux_timeline: set correct seekable flags (#2898)
• input: accept plain text for drag and drop (#2945)
• input: do not force double-click emulation for artificial commands (#2899)
• lavc_conv: fix Libav srt subtitles (#2888)
• player: add missing audio reconfig events (#2929, #2920)
• player: add wv to list of external audio file extensions
• player: fix --stream-dump exit code (#2848)
• player: fix breakage when combining 3D and rotate auto-filters
• playlist: improve shuffle algorithm (better uniformity)
• sub: interpret "text" subtitles as srt
• vo_opengl, osd: allow osc.lua to react faster on resizes
• vo_opengl: GLX: try to create 3.3 core profile context (#2938)
• vo_opengl: draw transparency checkerboard after upscaling
• vo_opengl: fix operation without GL_ARB_texture_rg
• vo_opengl: improve superxbr algorithm
• vo_opengl: only open one OpenGL/DX interop handle when using dxva2 (fixes interop with AMD drivers)
• wayland: don't set fs mode on every configure (#2817)
• x11: do not set _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR by default (#2997)
• ytdl_hook: handle optional format_note

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 v0.16.0..v0.17.0 in the git repository or by visiting either https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.16.0...v0.17.0 or http://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.16.0..v0.17.0