This release drops support for OS X 10.7 and earlier. Support for some optical media functionality (DVD/CD) is now disabled by default.

More parts of the player are now licensed under LGPL. In particular:

• OSD symbol font
• ass_mp, sd_ass
• common.h
• demux/packet
• demux_mkv (with minor exceptions), ebml, matroska.h
• sd_lavc
• sub/osd

Thanks to all contributors who have agreed to relicensing of their changes! See #2033 for details.

Starting with this release, releases will be tagged on the master branch. The release/current branch is thus abandoned.

Features

Added

• TOOLS: add acompressor.lua script for runtime acompressor ffmpeg filter control
• dvb: add support for DVB-T2
• lavfi: support hwdec filters for --lavfi-complex
• macOS: initial Touch Bar support
• osc: add volume button (mouse wheel to change volume)
• sub: add SDH subtitle filter
• vo_opengl: add experimental vdpauglx backend
• vo_opengl: implement videotoolbox hwdec on iOS

Removed

• image_writer: remove useless formats (PPM, PGM, TGA)
• af_drc: remove (use --af=acompressor instead; higher quality)

Options and Commands

Added

• --demuxer-lavf-probe-info
• --sub-filter-sdh, --sub-filter-sdh-harder
• add automatic libavfilter bridges to option parsing
• command: add better runtime filter toggling method
• command: add demux-start-time property
• command: add property notifications for hwdec properties (#4289)
• input: add "async" flag
• osc: add user_opts.boxmaxchars for box layout title limit
• player: add --keep-open-pause=no option
• va_vavpp: reversal-bug=no
• vo_opengl: --opengl-es=force2
• vo_opengl: add --opengl-shader-cache-dir option for caching shaders on disk (mostly for ANGLE)
• vo_opengl: angle: add --angle-flip to set the ANGLE present model

Changed

• command: update sub-fps etc. options on runtime changes
• vo_opengl: prefer X11 backends over Wayland backends
• options: change --audio-file-auto default to not to load any files

Deprecated

• audio: deprecate most non-lavfi audio filters (channels, equalizer, pan, volume)
• video: deprecate almost all non-lavfi video filters (buffer, crop, dlopen, dsize, eq, expand, flip, gradfun, mirror, noformat, pullup, rotate, scale, stereo3d, sub, yadif)
• options: deprecate --loop semantics (planned alias to --loop-file)

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• Windows: demux_cue: fix UTF-8 paths
• Windows: fix mismatched free/talloc_free (#4315)
• Windows: fix undefined behaviour when toggling fullscreen
• ao_alsa: close lost audio devices (#4189)
• ao_alsa: filter fewer devices
• ao_alsa: fix an error check (#4188)
• ao_jack: update latency on buffer_size/graph change
• ao_wasapi: do not pass nonsense to drivers with double precision formats
• ass_mp: reallocate cached subtitle image data on format changes (#4325)
• build: decouple dvdnav check from dvdread (#4290)
• build: encode_lavc: fix build failure after libavcodec major bump
• build: fix build with HAVE_GL==0
• build: replace android-gl check with a standard GLES3 check
• build: update bundled waf to 1.9.8
• build: vd_lavc: fix potential build failure with vaapi
• demux_lavf: disable half-working mp4 edit list support in libavcodec
• demux_lavf: skip avformat_find_stream_info() for some formats (hls, mp4, mkv by default)
• etc/encoding_profiles.conf: update and remove deprecated stuff
• etc/mpv.conf: remove deprecated options
• external_files: actually try to autoload from fallback paths
• external_files: enable autoloading with URLs (#3264)
• image_writer: make it work with libavcodec's jpg encoder
• macOS: add --ontop-level option for modifying ontop window level (#2376, #3974)
• macOS: add key mappings for previous and next Media Keys (#4204)
• macOS: add option to force dedicated GPU (#3242)
• macOS: fix autofit options on HiDPI resolutions without HiDPI scaling (#4194)
• macOS: fix black edges on live resize
• macOS: fix cursor hiding in the Dock area and top of the screen
• macOS: fix event propagation of menu bar item key shortcuts
• macOS: fix first responder when borderless window is used
• macOS: fix key input in certain circumstances
• macOS: fix retrieval of non-fullscreen window size, also while animating (#4323)
• macOS: fix scroll wheel input with Shift modifier (#3506)
• macOS: improve bundle environment variable handling (#2061)
• macOS: make window draggable on init
• macOS: only move window into screen bounds when changing screens (#4178)
• macOS: only report mouse movements when window is not being dragged (might have triggered OSC and other scripts)
• macOS: properly restore shell state when quitting from the Dock's context menu
• macOS: refactor mouse events and cursor visibility (#1817, #3856, #4147)
• macOS: set background of the title bar from black to white
• osc: bottom/topbar: add fullscreen button
• osc: bottom/topbar: don't clip title vertically
• osc: bottom/topbar: increase timecodes width a bit (#3952)
• osc: fix PlayResX undefined warning when aspect is 0
• osc: fix window dragging with showwindowed=no (#1819)
• osc: make title configurable and use property expansion on it (#4221)
• osc: refactor osc message scaling (#4081, #4083, #4102)
• player: don't block playback stop when seeking
• player: enable "buffering" pausing for DASH streams too
• player: fix core-idle and eof-reached update notifcations
• player: make screenshot commands honor the async flag (#4250)
• player: reduce blocking on VO when switching pause (#4152)
• sd_ass: disable --sub-fix-timing if sub style override is fully disabled
• stream/stream_dvdnav: don't ignore setting title (#4283)
• stream_dvd: fix subs/audio detection on DVDs containing multi-PGC titles
• vf_vavpp: add advanced deint bug compatibility for Intel vaapi drivers
• vf_vavpp: fix first-field mode
• vo_opengl: fix crash with temporal dithering in dumb mode
• vo_opengl: hwdec_d3d11egl: make it work with some ANGLE DLL versions
• vo_x11: reduce flickering on playlist navigation
• wayland: correctly map mouse buttons

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 v0.24.0..v0.25.0 in the git repository or by visiting either https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.24.0...v0.25.0 or https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.24.0..v0.25.0