MPV Player 0.36.0 (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

Features:
New:
- player: add window-id property
- vo_kitty: introduce modern sixel alternative
- wayland: add wp-fractional-scale-v1 support
- player/command: add user-data property (replacement for shared-script-properties)
- vo_gpu_next: support mapping HDR10+ dynamic metadata
- vo_gpu_next: allow screenshots in native colorspace
- vo_gpu_next: parse Dolby Vision metadata for dynamic scene brightness
- video: allow csp equalizer adjustments with floating point precision
- command: add platform property
- demux_mkv: support ARIB captions
- hwdec_vulkan: add support for Vulkan-based hardware decoding
- player: better handling of forced-only subtitles and a toggle in the OSC
- vo_dmabuf_wayland: add osd support

Changed:
- TOOLS/umpv: prefer $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
- ffmpeg: increase minimum required version to 4.4
- player: choose speed of smallest acceptable factor for display sync
- player: don't force saving start in watch-later-options
- build: officially deprecate waf
- vf_sub: undeprecate
- player: set playlist title to media title if not set already
- player: use and respect XDG_STATE_HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME by default
- wayland: bump required version to 1.20 and wayland-protocols to 1.25
- ao_pipewire: require at least libpipewire 0.3.48
- vo: hwdec: prioritise drmprime over drmprime_overlay
- vo_gpu/vo_gpu_next: enable gpu shader and icc cache by default

Removed:
- drm: remove support for legacy (non-atomic) API
- stream/dvb: drop support for DVB API before Linux 3.7
- hwdec_cuda: drop support for PL_HANDLE_WIN32_KMT (Windows 7 only)
- vo_dmabuf_wayland: drop linux-dmabuf-v2 support

Options and Commands:
Added:
- player: add --force-render option
- demux: add --demuxer-hysteresis-secs option to save power with caching
- ao_pipewire: allow usage of global volume control via --pipewire-volume-mode
- vo_gpu_next: add --tone-mapping-visualize
- sub: add --sub-fonts-dir and --osd-fonts-dir options
- player: add --auto-window-resize
- console.lua: add a script-opt for the border size
- player: add --drag-and-drop option
- vo_gpu_next: add --corner-rounding option
- player: add more precise sub fallback options --subs-fallback and --subs-fallback-forced
- player: add --input-cursor-passthrough option
- TOOLS/lua/autoload: allow extending ext sets from script-opts
- demux_playlist: add --directory-mode option to control recursive directory loading
- vo_gpu_next: add --target-contrast and --hdr-contrast-recovery/smoothness

Changed:
- vd_lavc: add "auto" choice for --vd-lavc-dr and make it the default
- (notably this change was also backported to v0.35.1)
- wayland: add auto choice to --wayland-configure-bounds
- image_writer: change --screenshot-tag-colorspace default to yes
- vo_gpu_next: expose --tone-mapping=st2094-40 and st2094-10
- wayland: make --wayland-edge-pixels-pointer default to 16
- options: enable scripts related opts also with cplugins
- player/screenshot: add filename return field
- options: set --subs-with-matching-audio to off by default
- options: default --slang to auto, which uses the settings of the user's OS
- vd_lavc: allow user to specify a priority list in --hwdec
- vd_lavc: map hwdec=yes to hwdec=auto-safe and change ctrl+h to use auto-safe

Deprecated:
- drm: deprecate --drm-atomic (now always enabled)

Removed:
- vo_gpu_next: remove --tone-mapping-crosstalk

Fixes and Minor Enhancements:
- ao_pipewire: log version and other useful debug info
- wayland: error out if essential protocol support is missing
- wayland: add support for content-type protocol
- wayland: also log refresh rate on surface entrance
- vo_gpu_next: fix undefined behavior on alpha-first formats
- meson: prepend MPV_CONFDIR path with prefix
- meson: unbreak dl check on BSDs without libdl
- lcms: fix crash with lcms2-related options if lcms is disabled
- meson: fix stdatomic detection on bsd
- osc: don't spam window-controls bindings on every render
- wayland: check for resize/move in touch event first
- ao_coreaudio: use device's nominal sample rate for latency properties
- hwdec_drmprime: support yuv420p format
- ao_pipewire: properly clean up resources
- vo/{sixel,tct}: use the alternate buffer to restore terminal
- vo_sixel: add option to skip clear while drawing
- filter_kernels: fix kaiser
- hwdec/d3d11va: fix a possible memory leak
- external_files: set log level for potential files to trace
- external_files: recognize webp files as cover art
- vo_opengl: do not blindly reject all Microsoft's OpenGL implementations
- ao_coreaudio: use AudioUnitReset as ao_driver.reset to prevent long restart
- hwdec_drmprime: fix memory leak
- vo: hwdec: fix libdrm-related memory leak
- draw_bmp: ensure last slice width is less than total width
- demux: boost read EBU R128 gain values to ReplayGain's reference level
- version.py: bump copyright year
- TOOLS/umpv: support shell-quotes in $MPV
- vulkan: fix build error for 32bit builds with clang
- TOOLS/lua/autoload: improve and optimize the natural sorting
- vo_wlshm: properly support video panscan
- vo_dmabuf_wayland: support panscan and panning
- ra_d3d11: fix incorrect type
- meson: also search for rst2html with .py extension
- audio: fix crash during uninit with ao_lavc
- wayland: only warn about GNOME when actually missing idle inhibit support
- mp_image: fix XYZ primaries default
- msg: preserve early messages when log-file is set in mpv.conf
- x11: fix issue with xpresent timing feedback
- meson: reuse libmpv objects for cplayer to save 50% of compile steps
- player/client: support observing sub-properties
- m_property: implement new deletion operation on properties
- vo_lavc: set frame rate on encoder to fix non-conforming outputs
- player/video: don't resync audio if video is an image
- stream: accept webdav:// and webdavs:// urls
- video/image_writer: avoid stripping colorspace info when writing image
- stats.lua: display HDR peak in nits
- image_pool: fix memory leak with frames
- options: transition from OPT_FLAG to OPT_BOOL
- vd_lavc: sort hwdecs without hwdevices last for autoprobing
- ytdl_hook: don't overwrite force-media-title
- lua: use user-data for interop between osc.lua and console.lua
- vo: fix race condition with redraw requests
- various: more fixes to ensure correct playback of XYZ colorspace
- ytdl_hook: fix fragment-related issue that broke YouTube DASH playback
- command: expose hls-bitrate and program-id as track-list subproperties
- ao_pipewire: use realtime scheduling for data thread
- auto_profiles: check for non-existent properties
- d3d11: retry device creation without debug, if SDK is not available
- win32: follow Windows settings and update dark mode state
- ytdl_hook.lua: fix clip start and end
- hwdec_drmprime: support custom rpi4_8 and rpi4_10 formats
- sub: fix UPDATE_SUB_HARD for converted and external subtitles
- charset_conv: fix memory corruption in mp_iconv_to_utf8
- options: read config file as stream
- wayland: improve guessing when mpv is focused
- player: always try to detect subtitle language from file name
- vo: fix mp_frame_perf thread safety
- lua: read_options: find script-opts prefix at index 1 exactly
- path: handle URLs consistently in mp_basename
- ao_wasapi: remove infinite loop hack in AOCONTROL_UPDATE_STREAM_TITLE
- ao_wasapi: use client name instead of hardcoded string
- vd_lavc: fix crash if hwdec devices fail to create
- vo_drm: fix null dereference and using closed fd
- image_writer: respect jpeg-quality when using ffmpeg for writing
- image_writer: add support for AVIF
- TOOLS/lua/autoload: avoid unnecessary playlist manipulation, performance
- various: correctly ignore cache files with --no-config
- terminal-unix: better error detection logic
- json: raise parse depth to 50 for the sake of utils.parse_json()
- player: delete watch_later file only after successful load
- wayland: fix memory leak with multiple monitors
- vd_lavc: prefer d3d11va-copy over dxva2-copy
- vd_lavc: fix hwdec for videos with less than less than 3 frames
- wayland: add support for suspended toplevel state
- draw_bmp: ensure last slice is less than total width (again)
- console.lua: sort the output from the help command
- vd_lavc: try other hwdecs when falling back after an hwdec failure
- sd_ass: don't reconfigure ass on every frame (performance regression)
- sd_ass: fix converted subtitles having too-wide borders
- loadfile: compute audio language for sub selection when using lavfi-complex
- wayland: fix modifier keys in certain situations
- vd_lavc: corrections towards hwdec and swdec fallback
- zimg: fix broken sig_peak (HDR) handling
- screenshot: implement screenshot window in sw for most VOs
- osc: don't add margins to osc-deadzonesize
- vo_vaapi: fix segfault in draw_osd
- vo_dmabuf_wayland: correctly handle force-window
- ao_pipewire: fix error with pipewire 0.3.75 or later