VA-API/VDPAU hardware decoding now requires FFmpeg > 3.2. DVB support is disabled by default since it does not work with some older kernels. Built-in V4L TV support is disabled by default. av://v4l2 can be used instead. Support for C plugins is now enabled by default (#4491).

Many more parts of the player are now licensed under LGPL, see Copyright file. Thanks to all contributors who have agreed to relicensing of their changes! See #2033 for details.

Features

Added

• Universal Windows Plaform (UWP) support (libmpv only)
• csputils: implement sony s-gamut
• js: add javascript scripting support using MuJS See DOCS/man/javascript.rst for more details
• vo_opengl: add new HDR tone mapping algorithm (mobius, now default)
• vo_opengl: hwdec_cuda: Support separate decode and display devices
• vo_opengl: implement sony s-log1 and s-log2 trc
• vo_opengl: implement support for OOTFs and non-display referred content

Removed

• vf_dlopen: remove this filter

Options and Commands

Added

• vo_opengl: add --tone-mapping-desaturate
• vo_opengl: support tone-mapping-param for clip
• ytdl_hook: add option to exclude URLs from being parsed

Changed

• allow setting profile option with libmpv
• audio: move replaygain control to top-level options
• external_files: parse ~ in --{sub,audio}-paths
• options: change --sub-fix-timing default to no (#4484)
• options: expose string list actions for --sub-file option
• options: slight cleanup of --sub-ass-style-override
  • signfs → scale
  • --sub-ass-style-override → --sub-ass-override
• renamed the HDR TRCs st2084 and std-b67 to pq and hlg respectively
• replace vf_format's peak suboption by sig-peak, which is relative to the reference white level instead of in cd/m^2
• the following options change to append-by-default (and possibly separator):
  • --script
• video: change --video-aspect-method default value to container

Deprecated

• m_option: deprecate multiple items for -add etc.
• player: deprecate "osd" command
• --audio-file-paths => --audio-file-path
• --sub-paths => --sub-file-path
• --opengl-shaders => --opengl-shader
• --sub-paths => --sub-file-paths
• the following options are deprecated for setting via API:
  • "script" (use "scripts")
  • "sub-file" (use "sub-files")
  • "audio-file" (use "audio-files")
  • "external-file" (use "external-files") (the compatibility hacks for this will be removed after this release)

Removed

• chmap: remove misleading "downmix" channel layout name (#4545)
• demux_lavf: remove --demuxer-lavf-cryptokey option (#4579)
• input.conf: drop TV/DVB bindings
• options: remove remaining deprecated audio device selection options
  • --alsa-device
  • --oss-device
  • --coreaudio-exclusive
  • --pulse-sink
  • --rsound-host/--rsound-port
  • --ao-sndio-device
  • --ao-wasapi-exclusive
  • --ao-wasapi-device
• remove option --target-brightness
• remove property "video-params/nom-peak"

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua: actually sort files case insensitive (#4398)
• TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua: ignores all files starting with "."
• ao_openal: kill off device listing (#4311)
• ao_pulse: reorder format choice to prefer float and S32 over S16 as fallback format
• ao_wasapi: try correct initial format (#4582)
• command: add missing change notification for playlist-shuffle (#4573)
• demux_disc: fix bluray subtitle language retrieval (#4611)
• demux_mkv: fix alpha with vp9 + libvpx
• demux_mkv: support FFmpeg A_MS/ACM extensions
• ipc-unix: don’t truncate the message on EAGAIN (#4452)
• ipc: raise json nesting limit (#4394)
• macOS: fix mpv-wrapper.sh when used with csh or tcsh shell
• macOS: properly unhide Dock when quitting during System fs animation
• mpv_identify: replace deprecated fps property (#4550)
• options/path: fallback to USERPROFILE if HOME isn't set
• player: close audio device on no audio track
• player: fix potential segfault when playing dvd:// with DVD disabled (#4393)
• player: prevent seek position to jump around adjacent keyframes, e.g. when dragging the OSC bar on short videos (#4183)
• vo_opengl: bump up SHADER_MAX_HOOKS and MAX_TEXTURE_HOOKS to 64
• vo_opengl: correct off-by-one in scale=oversample
• vo_opengl: do not use vaapi-over-GLX (#4555)
• vo_opengl: fall back to ordered dither instead of blowing up (#4519)
• vo_opengl: tone map in linear XYZ instead of RGB
• x11: add 128x128 sized icon support
• ytdl_hook: add a header to support geo-bypass
• ytdl_hook: don't override start time set by saved state
• ytdl_hook: don't override user-set start time
• ytdl_hook: treat single-entry playlists as a single video

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 v0.25.0..v0.26.0 in the git repository or by visiting either https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.25.0...v0.26.0 or https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.25.0..v0.26.0