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## mpv
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* [Overview](#overview)
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* [Downloads](#downloads)
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* [Changelog](#changelog)
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* [Compilation](#compilation)
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* [FFmpeg vs. Libav](#ffmpeg-vs-libav)
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* [Release cycle](#release-cycle)
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* [Bug reports](#bug-reports)
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* [Contributing](#contributing)
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* [Relation to MPlayer and mplayer2](#relation-to-mplayer-and-mplayer2)
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* [Wiki](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki)
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* [FAQ](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ)
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* [Man pages](http://mpv.io/manual/master/)
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* [Contact](#contact)
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* [License](#license)
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## Overview
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**mpv** is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide
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variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
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Releases can be found on the [release list][releases].
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## System requirements
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- A not too ancient Linux, or Windows Vista or later, or OSX 10.8 or later.
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- A somewhat capable CPU. Hardware decoding might sometimes help if the CPU
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is too slow to decode video realtime, but must be explicitly enabled with
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the `--hwdec` option.
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- A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are
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many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter,
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etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are
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current. In some cases, ancient fallback video output methods can help
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(such as `--vo=xv` on Linux), but this use is not recommended or supported.
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## Downloads
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For semi-official builds and third-party packages please see
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[mpv.io](http://mpv.io/installation/).
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## Changelog
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There is no completely changelog, however changes to the player core interface
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are listed in the [interface changelog][interface-changes].
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Changes to the C API are documented in the [client API changelog][api-changes].
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The [release list][releases] has a summary of most of the important changes
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on every release.
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Changes to the default key bindings are inidcated in
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[restore-old-bindings.conf][restore-old-bindings].
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## Compilation
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Compiling with full features requires development files for several
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external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements.
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The mpv build system uses *waf* but we don't store it in your source tree. The
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script './bootstrap.py' will download the latest version of waf that was tested
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with the build system.
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For a list of the available build options use `./waf configure --help`. If
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you think you have support for some feature installed but configure fails to
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detect it, the file `build/config.log` may contain information about the
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reasons for the failure.
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NOTE: To avoid cluttering the output with unreadable spam, `--help` only shows
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one of the two switches for each option. If the option is autodetected by
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default, the `--disable-***` switch is printed; if the option is disabled by
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default, the `--enable-***` switch is printed. Either way, you can use
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`--enable-***` or `--disable-**` regardless of what is printed by `--help`.
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To build the software you can use `./waf build`: the result of the compilation
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will be located in `build/mpv`. You can use `./waf install` to install mpv
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to the *prefix* after it is compiled.
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Essential dependencies (incomplete list):
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- gcc or clang
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- X development headers (xlib, xrandr, xext, xscrnsaver, xinerama, libvdpau,
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libGL, GLX, EGL, xv, ...)
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- Audio output development headers (libasound/ALSA, pulseaudio)
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- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavfilter
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and either libswresample or libavresample)
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At least FFmpeg 3.2.2 or Libav 12 is required.
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For hardware decoding with vaapi and vdpau, FFmpeg 3.3 or Libav git is
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required.
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- zlib
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- iconv (normally provided by the system libc)
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- libass (OSD, OSC, text subtitles)
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- Lua (optional, required for the OSC pseudo-GUI and youtube-dl integration)
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- libjpeg (optional, used for screenshots only)
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- uchardet (optional, for subtitle charset detection)
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- vdpau and vaapi libraries for hardware decoding on Linux (optional)
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(FFmpeg 3.3 or Libav git is also required.)
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Libass dependencies:
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- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
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- fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
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- harfbuzz (optional, required for correct rendering of combining characters,
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particularly for correct rendering of non-English text on OSX, and
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Arabic/Indic scripts on any platform)
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FFmpeg dependencies:
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- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
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- OpenSSL (has to be explicitly enabled when compiling ffmpeg)
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- libx264/libmp3lame/libfdk-aac if you want to use encoding (has to be
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explicitly enabled when compiling ffmpeg)
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- Libav also works, but some features will not work. (See section below.)
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Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal
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Linux distributions. However FFmpeg is an exception (distro versions may be
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too old to work at all or work well). For that reason you may want to use
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the separately available build wrapper ([mpv-build][mpv-build]) that first
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compiles FFmpeg libraries and libass, and then compiles the player statically
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linked against those.
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If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW,
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or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See
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[Windows compilation][windows_compilation].
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## FFmpeg vs. Libav
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Generally, mpv should work with the latest release as well as the git version
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of both FFmpeg and Libav. But FFmpeg is preferred, and some mpv features work
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with FFmpeg only (subtitle formats in particular).
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## Preferred FFmpeg version
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Using the latest FFmpeg release (or FFmpeg git master) is strongly recommended.
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Older versions are unsupported, even if the build system still happens to
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accept them. The main reason mpv still builds with older FFmpeg versions is to
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evade arguing with people (users, distros) who insist on using older FFmpeg
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versions for no rational reason.
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If you want to use a stable FFmpeg release, use the latest release, which has
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most likely the best maintenance out of all stable releases. Older releases
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are for distros, and at best receive basic changes like fixing critical security
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issues or build fixes, and at worst are completely abandoned.
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## FFmpeg ABI compatibility
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mpv does not support linking against FFmpeg versions it was not built with, even
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if the linked version is supposedly ABI-compatible with the version it was
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compiled against. Expect malfunctions, crashes, and security issues if you
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do it anyway.
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The reason for not supporting this is because it creates far too much complexity
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with little to no benefit, coupled with absurd and unusable FFmpeg API
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artifacts.
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Newer mpv versions will refuse to start if runtime and compile time FFmpeg
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library versions mismatch.
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## Release cycle
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Every other month, an arbitrary git snapshot is made, and is assigned
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a 0.X.0 version number. No further maintenance is done.
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The goal of releases is to make Linux distributions happy. Linux distributions
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are also expected to apply their own patches in case of bugs and security
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issues.
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Releases other than the latest release are unsupported and unmaintained.
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See the [release policy document][release-policy] for more information.
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## Bug reports
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Please use the [issue tracker][issue-tracker] provided by GitHub to send us bug
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reports or feature requests.
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## Contributing
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For small changes you can just send us pull requests through GitHub. For bigger
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changes come and talk to us on IRC before you start working on them. It will
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make code review easier for both parties later on.
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## Relation to MPlayer and mplayer2
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mpv is based on mplayer2, which in turn is based on the original MPlayer
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(also called mplayer, mplayer-svn, mplayer1). Many changes have been made, a
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large part of which is incompatible or completely changes how the player
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behaves. Although there are still many similarities to its ancestors, mpv
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should generally be treated as a completely different program.
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mpv was forked because we wanted to modernize MPlayer. This includes
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removing cruft (including features which stopped making sense 10 years ago),
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and of course adding modern features. Such huge and intrusive changes made it
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infeasible to work directly with MPlayer, which is mostly focused on
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preservation, so a fork had to be made. (Actually, mpv is based on mplayer2,
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which already started this process of removing cruft.)
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In general, mpv should be considered a completely new program, rather than a
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MPlayer drop-in replacement.
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If you are wondering what's different from mplayer2 and MPlayer, an incomplete
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and now unmaintained list of changes is located [here][mplayer-changes].
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## Contact
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Most activity happens on the IRC channel and the github issue tracker. The
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mailing lists are mostly unused.
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- **GitHub issue tracker**: [issue tracker][issue-tracker] (report bugs here)
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- **User IRC Channel**: `#mpv` on `irc.freenode.net`
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- **Developer IRC Channel**: `#mpv-devel` on `irc.freenode.net`
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To contact the `mpv` team in private write to `mpv-team@googlegroups.com`. Use
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only if discretion is required.
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[releases]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases
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[mpv-build]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build
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[homebrew-mpv]: https://github.com/mpv-player/homebrew-mpv
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[issue-tracker]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues
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[ffmpeg_vs_libav]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav
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[release-policy]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/release-policy.md
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[windows_compilation]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/compile-windows.md
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[mplayer-changes]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/mplayer-changes.rst
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[interface-changes]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/interface-changes.rst
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[api-changes]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/client-api-changes.rst
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[restore-old-bindings]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/restore-old-bindings.conf
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## License
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Mostly GPLv2 or later. See [details.](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/Copyright)
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