We are excited to announce the release of mpv 0.40.0.

Key highlights:

• Console: Enhanced autocompletion and visual styling
• OSC: New selection menu accessible by right-clicking common buttons
• HDR is now natively supported when using direct rendering (DRM),
  as well as dmabuf-wayland on Linux
• Native clipboard access for scripts via new clipboard property
• New command menu, with common actions easily accessible
• Enhanced select.lua with new selection options for watch history, editions, DVD/Blu-Ray titles
• New positioning.lua script script for cursor-centric zooming and drag to pan
• Better stream support for Blu-ray, DVD and CDDA
• Track selection improvements and better metadata display
• Added osd-box / sub-box / box profiles to easily enable box styled OSD/OSC
• Windows support in umpv helper script

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

Features

New

• vf_d3d11vpp: add NVIDIA RTX Video HDR support
• context_drm_gl: add support for HDR metadata
• positioning.lua: add new script for video alignment and zooming
• umpv: add Windows support
• command: add clipboard property with native backends for Windows, macOS, and Wayland
• select.lua: add watch history, edition, DVD/Blu-Ray titles and more selection options
• input.conf: add cursor-centric zoom and drag-to-pan bindings
• wayland: add support for wp-color-management-v1 protocol
• console.lua: add persistent command history
• stats.lua: add timecode display
• options: add --playlist-exts and --archive-exts
• wayland_common: support IME usage via text-input-v3
• command: add multiple track metadata and properties
• vo_gpu_next: add chroma location and HDR metadata to shader parameters
• player/screenshot: support more formats for screenshot-raw command
• demux_mkv: add --demuxer-mkv-crop-compat option
• misc/language: parse hi/sdh/cc tags from external subtitle tracks
• wayland: support xdg-activation
• player: add mpv:// protocol

Changed

• meson: build libmpv by default
• command: enhance track and playlist display information
• input.conf: improve numpad key bindings
• osc.lua: add custom buttons support and improved mouse bindings
• console.lua: inherit OSD styles and colors
• options: default to --prefetch-playlist=yes
• osc.lua: add slimbottombar and slimtopbar layouts
• command: improve frame-step to go through multiple frames
• wayland: use wp-presentation v2 if available
• various: reorganize options into more logical groups
• vo_gpu_next: improve target colorspace handling
• options: disable --input-ime by default (enabled on demand)

Options and Commands

Added

• sd_ass: introduce sub-ass-prune-delay
• player: add an optional mute flag when framestepping
• command: add clipboard/text-primary property
• command: add current-clipboard-backend property
• command: add notify-property command
• options: add --script-opt alias for --script-opts-append
• options: add --osd-bar-marker-{size,style} options
• options: add --input-ime for improved text input
• options: add --video-recenter
• options: add --clipboard-backends
• options: add --wayland-internal-vsync
• options: add --sub-scale-signs

Changed

• options: rename --load-osd-console to --load-console
• player: improve track selection for multi-component languages
• options: improve frame-step command to handle multiple frames
• input.conf: make Alt+BS reset --video-align-{x,y}
• command: print track metadata when changing track
• command: print track-list with enhanced metadata

Deprecated

• options: deprecate --gamma-auto (use gamma-auto.lua script instead)
• options: deprecate undocumented --cdda-span-{a,b} options

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• f_hwtransfer: ensure that we convert to full range rgb with scale_vaapi
• win32: fix window size restore after maximize state
• build: fix dynamic generation of mpv.desktop file protocols
• player/sub: avoid pointlessly redecoding subs
• x11: remove nvidia blacklist logic from --x11-present=auto
• osc.lua: seek to the nearest chapter when right clicking the seekbar
• command: fix keybind command with sequence keys
• video/out/wayland_common: fix crash with multi-seat drag and drop
• demux: reclaim demux_packets to reduce memory allocator pressure
• demux_cue: only accept TRACK with AUDIO type
• player/loadfile: strip common filename part from external track title
• build: remove unused dvdread dependency
• wayland: fix vertical resizing and scaling issues
• console.lua: improve completion and visual appearance
• sub/osd: default to a semitransparent black back color
• player: improve playlist handling with prefetch
• drm: parse EDID using libdisplay-info (which is now a required dependency)
• win32: fix window size restore after maximize state
• hwdec_d3d11va: align image mapper dimensions to a multiple of 2
• wayland: fix DnD with focus follow mouse
• player: store external filenames as normalized
• player: properly handle secondary subtitles on the terminal
• demux_mkv: add support for chroma location
• vo_dmabuf_wayland: improve and fix format selection
• player: fix combination of --loop-playlist + --shuffle + --prefetch-playlist

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 v0.39.0..v0.40.0
in the git repository or by visiting v0.39.0...v0.40.0.