The watch-later mechanism has always unconditionally wrote start to files to save the playback position. When this was later expanded to watch-later-options, this logic was kept in place. But we don't actually have to unconditionally write this and can allow users to remove the option from the list if they want to. The start value still requires some special handling; it should always be written if possible regardless of the value changing. However, we can just place it within the default set of options for watch-later-options so it can be removed like any other.
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| 41 | 41 | - deprecate `--drm-atomic` |
| 42 | 42 | - add `--demuxer-hysteresis-secs` |
| 43 | 43 | - add `--video-sync=display-tempo` |
| 44 | + - the `start` option is no longer unconditionally written by | |
| 45 | + watch-later. It is still written by default but you may | |
| 46 | + need to explictly add `start` depending on how you have | |
| 47 | + `--watch-later-options` configured. | |
| 44 | 48 | --- mpv 0.35.0 --- |
| 45 | 49 | - add the `--vo=gpu-next` video output driver, as well as the options |
| 46 | 50 | `--allow-delayed-peak-detect`, `--builtin-scalers`, |