v0.39.0

[sfan5]

We are excited to announce the release of mpv 0.39.0, with more than 5 months of development since the last version. This release brings numerous improvements and fixes across nearly all components.

Key highlights:

• A new select.lua script, allowing users to easily choose files from playlists, tracks, chapters, output devices, and more.
• A native replacement for autoload.lua has been implemented. See --autocreate-playlist in the manual.
• NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR scaling are now supported via the d3d11va filter.
• Media controls are now supported on Windows.
• Track selection has been improved, especially for multi-component languages like fr-CA.
• A new fifth page has been added to stats.lua, displaying track information.
• Compatibility with dmabuf-wayland has been significantly enhanced.
• Multi-touch support has been introduced.

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This release requires FFmpeg 6.1 or newer and libplacebo 6.338.2 or newer.

Features

New

• vf_d3d11vpp: add support for Intel VSR and NVIDIA RTX scaling modes
• demux: add --autocreate-playlist
• audio: add pitch-shifting feature
• win32: add Media Control support
• various: allow changing GPU API options at runtime
• vo_gpu_next: support --gamma-factor
• vf_vapoursynth: upgrade to VapourSynth API v4
• select.lua: add this script
• console.lua: implement a command parser to complete more things
• demux_mkv: demux Block Additional Mappings
• cocoa-cb: add support for macOS color space transformation (EDR/HDR)
• powershell-completion: add PowerShell command line completion
• input: implement VO dragging deadzone
• win32: support multitouch
• wayland_common: support multitouch
• demux/packet: add support for ITU T.35 metadata in Matroska
• demux: support VVC Matroska demux
• terminal-win: support mouse input events
• x11_common: detect wm support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

Changed

• loadfile: improve the format of terminal track information
• options: add secondary-{sid,sub-delay} to watch_later_options
• input: map Num 5 to distinct value when numlock is off
• input.conf: make Alt+BS reset panscan
• msg: don't use bold colors and instead use bright ones

Options and Commands

Added

• sub: add ass-video-aspect-override option
• input/keycodes: add KP_ADD/SUBTRACT/MULTIPLY/DIVIDE keycodes
• demux_playlist: use --directory-filter-types for --autocreate-playlist
• options: add --{video,audio,image}-exts
• player: don't decrement --ab-loop-count=N and add remaining-ab-loops
• player: don't decrement --loop-file=N and add remaining-file-loops
• sub: add (sub/osd)-border-style; renaming sub options
• input.conf: add zoom, pan, scale and rotate keybinds for numpad
• wayland: add a --wayland-present option
• mac/menu: add option to disable default shortcuts
• stats.lua: display file tags
• osc.lua: add option to use display fps for update interval
• osc.lua: add option to make rendering smoother
• opengl: add --egl-output-format, --egl-config-id
• vf_vapoursynth: add parameter to pass arbitrary string to script
• options: add --osd-playlist-entry
• {osc,stats}.lua: add 'auto' value to vidscale option
• input/cmd: add nonrepeatable prefix
• player: add option-info/<name>/expects-file
• command: add dolby-vision-profile and dolby-vision-level to track-list
• scripting: add mp.input.select()
• command: add normalize-path command
• OSC: implemented user configurable colors
• ao_wasapi: add --wasapi-exclusive-buffer option
• stats.lua: add option to disable scale with video size
• stats.lua: add option to control plot border width
• player/command: add track-list/N/decoder
• sd_ass: add sub-vsfilter-bidi-compat to enable vsfilter bidi compat
• {x11,w32}_common: implement --show-in-taskbar option

Changed

• sub: merge vsfilter-aspect and vsfilter-blur-compat options
• input.conf: swap the positions of values for ctrl+h binding
• video/csputils: remove space from choice option for chroma loc
• input.conf: add KP_DIVIDE/KP_MULTIPLY key bindings
• external_files: allow specifying --cover-art-whitelist filenames
• x11_common: handle runtime keepaspect/keepaspect-window change
• video/out/gpu/context: convert --gpu-api to object settings list
• playlist: let playlist-next go to first item if player is idle
• playlist: let playlist-prev go to last item in playlist
• options: remove deprecated auto choice for --mute
• player/command: alias playback-time to time-pos
• input.conf: change 'u' binding to cycle between 'force' and default
• options: make sub-ass-override default to 'scale'
• sd_ass: only set sub-scale for 'scale', 'force' or 'strip'
• player/command: mark sub-text-ass as deprecated
• player/command: add sub-text/ass-full sub-property
• player/command: move sub-text-ass to a sub-property

Removed

• command: remove deprecated packet-*-bitrate properties
• console.lua: remove the scale script-opt
• osc.lua: remove scaleforcedwindow

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• wayland: fix vertical resizing
• stats.lua: don't use ASS tags when use_ass is false
• video/out/wayland_common: set key state only on keyboard_enter keys
• input: add MP_KEY_STATE_SET_ONLY
• vo_gpu: use fallback colorspace for Dolby Vision
• video/out/wayland_common: don't pass mouse inputs on resizing edges
• hwdec_vulkan: allow using multiple decoding family queues
• hwdec_vulkan: update to new libavutil queue family API
• drm_prime: fix use of formats with modifiers
• build: bump minimum Windows version to 10
• input/ipc-win: support fd:// for --input-ipc-client
• player/command: fix --force-window=yes acting like immediate
• sd_ass: fix margin y scale with font size
• sd_ass: fix sub scale with window when use_margins is enabled
• loadfile,select.lua: print bitrates of tracks
• wayland: avoid potential floating point errors while scaling
• vo_dmabuf_wayland: don't use -ve margins in window size calculation
• ytdl_hook.lua: allow changing try_ytdl_first during runtime
• wayland: fix missed int -> double conversion for cursor scaling
• player/loadfile: enable streams in order of types when loading file
• misc/natural_sort: avoid implementation-defined behavior in comparison
• demux: allow refresh seek for non-video streams
• demux_edl: fix infinite loop on empty EDL files
• d3d11: return minimum bitdepth for display output and swapchain
• stats.lua: add page 5 for currently selected tracks information
• autoload.lua: fix options update
• input: prevent MBTN_LEFT conflict with VO dragging
• TOOLS/autoload.lua: fix directory_mode and ext options
• player/video: fix incorrect VO frame duration and frame drops
• x11: correct position coordinates if mpv was launched with --fs
• vo_vaapi: fix use-after-free when quitting
• vo_vaapi: fix use-after-free of current frame
• playloop: don't loop when seeking to the end of cover art while paused
• build: dynamically generate mpv.desktop file protocols
• wayland: use wl->callback_surface for idle inhibitor creation
• wayland: cap xdg_wm_base at 4 if wm_capabilities aren't supported
• {options,player}: fix stream leaks
• console.lua: increase margins from the bottom-left corner
• external_files: detect language tags with hyphens
• player/loadfile: match language and subcodes
• player: normalize paths for resuming playback
• demux_mkv: fix image detection
• demux_mkv: make V_QUICKTIME codec detection generic
• osd: show left arrow when playing backwards
• wayland: set wl->scaling if there is no wl->current_output yet
• sub/osd: fix rounding when rescaling bitmap subtitle rects
• zsh-completion: complete --gpu-context
• stats.lua: show osd-dimensions property
• sub/lavc_conv: don't override style of converted teletext pages
• mac: make display-names unique to allow specific selection
• vo_dmabuf_wayland: use wl_fixed_from_int when setting viewport source
• vo_dmabuf_wayland: fix scaling for subsurface positioning
• demux: also read "CUESHEET" tag from stream metadata
• stats.lua: filter input bindings by typing them
• vo_{tct,sixel,kitty}: implement mouse support
• terminal-unix: ignore unhandled mouse CSI sequences
• terminal-unix: support mouse escape codes
• sd_ass: fix margins for all styles when overriding PlayResX
• stats.lua: inherit OSD styles
• options: fix runtime update of teletext-page
• ytdl_hook: add some more yt-dlp tags
• vulkan: don't tolerate suboptimal swapchain configurations
• vd_lavc: add Vulkan hardware decoding to autoprobe
• sub/osd: add log if osd rendering takes too long time
• vo_gpu_next: allow setting antiring value for cscale
• f_auto_filters: don't set interlaced-only for userdeint
• vo_dmabuf_wayland: reject formats not supported by the GPU
• ytdl_hook: make path and json available to other scripts

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 v0.38.0..v0.39.0
in the git repository or by visiting
v0.38.0...v0.39.0.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.39.0.

[Samillion]

This is wonderful, great job on this feature release.

For those lazy enough like me and just want to copy/paste the new autocreate-playlist in .conf: (Adjust to your taste)

### Playlist 
autocreate-playlist=filter
directory-filter-types=video,image
directory-mode=ignore
video-exts=3g2,3gp,avi,flv,m2ts,m4v,mj2,mkv,mov,mp4,mpeg,mpg,ogv,rmvb,ts,webm,wmv,y4m
image-exts=avif,bmp,gif,j2k,jp2,jpeg,jpg,jxl,png,svg,tga,tif,tiff,webp
audio-exts=aiff,ape,au,flac,m4a,mka,mp3,oga,ogg,ogm,opus,wav,wma

[candrapersada]

Is there a feature to detect newly added videos from downloads to load them when the next file loads?

[geextahslex]

where can you download the latest build?

[kasper93]

GitHub Actions => Download

Or wait for your regular package providers.

[geextahslex]

ok thank you :)

[srk24]

When setting autocreate-playlist=same instead of using autoload.lua, I find the sibling folder of the current file in the playlist, is this expected?

[hooke007]

https://mpv.io/manual/master/#options-directory-mode

[lamyergeier]

• A new select.lua script, allowing users to easily choose files from playlists, tracks, chapters, output devices, and more.

Can someone please explain how can one make use of this when running a playlist or running a video with several chapters? I could not find any description of what key I need to press, in order to make use of these functions. I am using mpv v0.39 on Fedora 40.

[Samillion]

We wanted to the text scaled with output size, which would make it bigger, but it was rejected too.

@kasper93 May I ask the reason for rejection? Not to argue against it, I'm merely curious on the decision.

Edit: Just noticed guidocella's PR link. Interesting.

[hooke007]

Why would the console work after disabling it

I always thought it was a standone script.
And manual never record that it depends on console script.

[guidocella]

May I ask the reason for rejection? Not to argue against it, I'm merely curious on the decision.

#14114

And manual never record that it depends on console script.

It does: "The following keybindings open a selector in the console that lets you choose from a list of items by typing part of the desired item and/or by navigating them with keybindings"

[hooke007]

Well, I never thought they were the same console...

[Samillion]

We wanted to the text scaled with output size, which would make it bigger, but it was rejected too.

Just had my first conversation for my osc fork about this very issue, since I already use select for buttons. I expect once the select/osc PR is pushed, it will be asked every now and then.

[liuhq]

powershell-completion: add PowerShell command line completion

where can I get the pwsh completion file, or how should I to open pwsh completion?

[liuhq]

oh, I found it in /etc. fine 😂