After six months of development, version 0.40 of the popular cross-platform media player with open source code has been released. mpv.
Key Changes:
- improved autocompletion and visual design in the console;
- a new context menu has been added to the GUI, displayed when right-clicking on screen buttons;
- HDR is now natively supported when using direct rendering (DRM), as well as dmabuf-wayland on Linux;
- support for native clipboard access has been added to scripts;
- a new command menu with standard actions has been added;
- the select.lua script has been improved for navigation through the viewing history, edits, and DVD/Blu-Ray titles;
- a positioning.lua script has been added for scaling and panning videos;
- stream support for Blu-ray, DVD, and CDDA has been enhanced;
- track selection and metadata display have been improved;
- profiles osd-box, sub-box, box have been added to simplify enabling box-styled OSD/OSC;
- Windows support has been added in the auxiliary script umpv;
- this release requires FFmpeg 6.1 or newer, and libplacebo 6.338.2 or newer;
- Wayland support has been improved;
- the stats.lua script has been updated to display the timecode;
- support for more formats has been added to the screenshot-raw command;
- the mpv:// protocol has been added;
- the following options have been added:
- —playlist-exts and —archive-exts,
- —script-opt, as an equivalent to —script-opts-append,
- —osd-bar-marker-{size,style},
- —input-ime,
- —video-recenter,
- —clipboard-backends,
- —wayland-internal-vsync,
- —sub-scale-signs;
- the —load-osd-console option has been renamed to —load-console;
- the frame-step command has been improved for multi-frame operations;
- the —gamma-auto option has been deprecated (use gamma-auto.lua instead);
- undocumented options —cdda-span-{a,b} have been deprecated;
- fixed detected bugs;
- other changes.
Source: linux.org.ru
