0.37.0 uses more computationally expensive shaders by default,
which can cause high GPU usage and frame drops even for modern
integrated GPUs, especially with 4K and high fps contents.
Recommend --profile=fast for them.
macOS didn't support clock_gettime until 10.12 which was released
roughly 7 years ago. Since we're breaking support for ancient OSes
anyway, we might as well break some old macOS versions for fun. This
makes 10.12 the minimum supported macOS version.
The README says Windows 7 and up, but the reality is that Windows
development is not done with 7 in mind and there are several known
issues that nobody is going to fix. Change this to 10 to reflect
reality. Also add a small paragraph explaining that we don't
intentionally break old systems, but don't expect them to always work.
Also change OSX to macOS.
200992f90c stopped linking mpv to
libXinerama so this library isn't needed anymore. However, we do use
xpresent so mention that instead since all the other needed xorg
libraries are listed as well.
Remove waf entirely in favor of meson as the only supported build
system. Waf was officially deprecated in 0.36.0, and has not been
preferred over meson since 0.35.0.
While the waf build has served us well for many years, it's time to
officially consider it deprecated. The meson build was added fully with
the intention to eventually replace waf and its current state is more
than good enough to do that. Let's start the deprecation period now to
give users a heads up to switch before we remove waf for good.
The old "meson build" build command was actually deprecated a few months
ago*. It turns out that you're supposed to use "meson setup build"
instead which has been around for years. Go ahead and be a good citizen
and update this in the CI. Also replace any mention of "meson build"
with "meson setup build" in the documentation as well and change the one
random hardcoded string we have in meson.build to "meson configure
build" (might as well).
*: 3c7ab542c0
This brings enabled features on the same level as disabled and
auto-detected features by having both alternatives available.
Looking at the commit message of 652895abdc
this seems to have been the intent from the start, but this specific
definition was missing from the option creation in Features.
Discovered with:
find . -type f \( -name '*.md' -o -name '*.rst' \) -exec grep -n 'http://' {} +
All links to mpv.io or github.com/mpv-player that were http were
converted to https.
I guess this qualifies as trolling. It's becoming increasingly clear
that Microsoft will not be able to deliver on this promise, at least not
in the way they made it seem at first. I'm not sure if Microsoft was the
one who did the trolling, or me. I actually expected that we'd get full
GUI integration of Linux applications including accelerated graphics,
but it was always clear that it wasn't going to work as well as
natively.
In any case, there is no need to frighten any users. The time when you
can run only "Windows Store Apps" on Windows (== the end for mpv and
many other applications on Windows) will come soon enough.
The "faster than native" statement is based on other people's real
experience of software running faster in Linux VMs than native windows
ports, by the way.
MPlayer isn't all too well-known anymore. It does not make sense to
"advertise" with it (and it actually never did).
The GPU comment needed clarification. I think originally, it was just to
signal that you'll have a bad time with Intel. Make that broader.
I don't think MPlayer/mplayer2 and Libav are well-known enough anymore
to warrant such a prominent place in the top-level README file of this
project. It's just useless noise to most users. So I've moved these
things to the FAQ.
Update some other minor things.
I think DASH playback tends to work much better with FFmpeg's DASH
demuxer, which requires libxml2.
For nvdec, FFmpeg git master now requires the external nvidia headers,
since the builtin ones were removed.
Apparently some people want this. Actually making it compile is still
their problem, though, and I expect that build with FFmpeg upstream will
occasionally be broken (as it is right now). This is because mpv also
relies on API provided by Libav, and if FFmpeg hasn't merged that yet,
it's not our problem - we provide a version of FFmpeg upstream with
those changes merged, and it's called ffmpeg-mpv.
Also adjust the README which still talked about FFmpeg releases.
Unfortunately I'm also adding the full text of the LGPL license text,
because the GPL one was already present in this repository, and I don't
want to imply that the GPL somehow has priority.
Now you need FFmpeg git, or something.
This also gets rid of the last real use of gpu_memcpy(). libavutil does
that itself. (vaapi.c still used it, but it was essentially unused,
because the code path isn't really in use anymore. It wasn't even
included due to the d3d-hwaccel dependency in wscript.)
This broke screensaver/powersave inhibition with at least KDE and
LXDE. This is a release blocker.
Since fdo, KDE and GNOME idiots seem to be unable to reach
a consensus on a simple protocol, this seems unlikely to get
fixed upstream this year, so revert this change.
Fixes#4752.
Breaks #4706 but I don’t give a damn.
This reverts commit 3f75b3c343.
It's an ancient X11 protocol extension that apparently nobody uses
anymore (desktop environments in particular have replaced it with
equally bad protocols that require tons of dependencies). Users keep
complaining about it being a required dependency.
The impact is likely minimal to none.
Fixes#4706 and other annoying people.
