14 DAY TRIAL // The popular, open-source, and cross-platform MPV video player software has received a new update, version 0.20.0, which comes only two weeks after the previous 0.19.0 maintenance release.
MPV 0.20.0 is not a major update, and according to the release notes, it only implements a couple of new options and commands, such as "--video-unscaled=downscale-big" for changing the aspect ratio.
Additionally, the MPlayer-based video playback application also gets the "--image-display-duration" option for controlling the duration of image display and a new "dcomposition" flag for controlling DirectComposition.
Bug fixes and minor improvements
As mentioned before, MPV 0.20.0 is all about bug fixes than new features, so its maintainers have managed to improve the recreation of the af_lavrresample resampler, allow arbitrary rotation in vf_rotate, disable the stream cache for the stream_memory, as well as to add support for refreshing very low framerate videos on filter changes.
Moreover, looping has been made slightly more seamless, the O(n^2) behavior is no longer allowed for the playlist property, underlying streams are now automatically closed after they're fully read, and the "--audio-channels" option is no longer applied when S/PDIF passthrough is in use.
Last but not least, MPV 0.20.0 comes with better handling of OGG metadata, adds a workaround for a full-screen issue on GNU/Linux operating system where the Mutter window and compositing manager are used, and makes use of new hooks for detecting parent window resize on Microsoft Windows platforms.
If you're curious to know what exactly has been changed since MPV 0.19.0, we recommend that you check out the changelog attached below. In the meantime, you can download MPV 0.20.0 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via our website.