Features

Added

• audio/out: add AudioUnit output driver for iOS
• demux_mkv: parse Matroska colorimetry metadata
• filter_kernels: add ability to taper kernels/windows, add tukey window
• osc: add seekbarstyle=knob (#2365)
• video/out: add tct as modern caca alternative for true-color and 256-color terminals
• video: add --hwdec=vdpau-copy mode

Deprecated

• vf_vdpaurb: deprecated in favor of --hwdec=vdpau-copy

Options and Commands

Added

• --opengl-early-flush=auto
• --scale-taper, --scale-wtaper
• --scale-wblur
• macOS: --hidpi-window-scale (#3716)
• osc: add script message handlers for chapter/track/playlists

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• Apply --autofit-larger after --autofit-smaller (#3753)
• Set subtitle track title to indicate hearing/visual impaired tracks
• ao_alsa: disable chmap API use for mono/stereo (#2905, #3045)
• build: add required failure message for libavfilter check (#3692)
• build: fix compilation with mingw-w64/Clang (#3800)
• build: make VideoToolbox available on iOS
• command: fix reset-on-next-file=all and tv-freq option (#3708)
• command: if window-scale can't be set properly, set it as option (#3724)
• demux_mkv: don't recursively resolve timeline for opened reference files
• demux_mkv: fix ordered chapter sources with ordered editions
• opengl: compile against iOS OpenGLES implementation
• options: handle legacy no-* sub-options
• osc: add alpha animation to tooltip (fix lingering tooltip)
• osc: change default deadzonesize to 0.5
• osc: don't wrap the title
• osc: fix crash after reaching a certain position in limited lists (#3691)
• osc: fix crash with no chapters
• osc: fix crashes when dragging seekbar across file changes (#3210)
• osc: fix displaying only half of the entries when at the end of a list
• osc: fix missing chapter ticks with seekbarstyle=bar
• osc: slimbox: fix clipping with seekbarstyle=bar (#3737)
• osc: top/bottombar: also scale when min-width is reached to match box/slimbox behavior
• osc: top/bottombar: dynamically size timecodes according to timems
• osc: top/bottombar: rescale layout to same size with scale=1
• osc: top/bottombar: scale title if too large like box
• player: consistently initialize screensaver state with --force-window
• player: enable no-video subtitle display on coverart too
• player: make --start-time work with --rebase-start-time=no
• player: make sure non-video subtitle rendering is reset if video resumes (#3770)
• player: removing last playlist entry while looping should not stop (#3808)
• player: show subtitles on VO if --force-window is used (#3684)
• player: speed up audio/video re-sync when there is a huge delay
• vdpau: fix hwdec uninit (#3788)
• vo_opengl: blend against background color for --alpha=blend
• vo_opengl: context_rpi: fix stdatomic usage (#3699)
• vo_opengl: fix --blend-subtitles handling (#3773)
• vo_opengl: fix redrawing with hardware decoding (#3773)
• vo_opengl: partially re-enable glFlush() calls (#3670)
• ytdl_hook: sort chapters by time

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 v0.21.0..v0.22.0 in the git repository or by visiting either https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.21.0...v0.22.0 or https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.21.0..v0.22.0