Things like .gz etc., which have no real file header. A mixed bag,
because it e.g. tends to misdetect mp3 files as compressed files or
something (of course it has no mp3 support - I don't know as what it
detects them). But requested by someone (or maybe not, I'm not sure
how to interpret that).
This works similar to the existing .rar support, but uses libarchive.
libarchive supports a number of formats, including zip and (most of)
rar.
Unfortunately, seeking does not work too well. Most libarchive readers
do not support seeking, so it's emulated by skipping data until the
target position. On backwards seek, the file is reopened. This works
fine on a local machine (and if the file is not too large), but will
perform not so well over network connection.
This is disabled by default for now. One reason is that we try
libarchive on every file we open, before trying libavformat, and I'm not
sure if I trust libarchive that much yet. Another reason is that this
breaks multivolume rar support. While libarchive supports seeking in
rar, and (probably) supports multivolume archive, our support of
libarchive (probably) does not. I don't care about multivolume rar, but
vocal users do.
Instead, force everyone to use the metadata struct and set a "title"
field. This is only a problem for the timeline producers, which set up
chapters manually. (They do this because a timeline is a separate
struct.)
This fixes the behavior of the chapter-metadata property, which never
returned a "title" property for e.g. ordered chapters.
This doesn't work too well if sections of the file change to a different
framerate. It lowers our chances to guess the correct FPS in the display
sync code.
For normal playback, this (probably) doesn't help that much anyway,
except that the "estimated-vf-fps" property will regress in the simplest
mkv case. This will be fixed with the next commit.
The now disabled code will probably be removed; it's not useful anymore.
Add --demuxer-max-packets and --demuxer-max-bytes, which control the
maximum size of the packet queue. These can be helpful to avoid
excessive memory usage.
Memory usage is the reason why there's a limit in the first place. If a
file is more or less broken, and audio and video don't line up, the
decoders will fill up the packet queue trying to read more audio or
video, and the maximum sizes are required to avoid unbounded memory
allocation. Being able to override the maximum sizes is useful; either
for restricting memory usage further, or enlarging the sizes when
attempting to play various broken files.
Remove --demuxer-readahead-packets and --demuxer-readahead-bytes. These
were a bit useless. They could force a minimum packet queue size, but
controlling the queue size with --demuxer-readahead-secs is much nicer.
It's fairly certain nobody ever used these options.
That just makes no sense, but seems to be a somewhat common user error.
The detection is not perfect. It's conceivable that EXT-X-... headers
are used in normal m3u playlists. After all, HLS playlists are by
definition a compatible extension to m3u playlists, as stupid as it
sounds.
Instead of opening a stream and then a demuxer, do both at once with
demux_open_url().
This requires some awkward additions to demuxer_params, because there
are some weird features associated with opening the main file. E.g. the
relatively useless --stream-capture features requires enabling capturing
on the stream before the demuxer is opened, but on the other hand
shouldn't be done on secondary files like external subtitles.
Also relatively bad: since demux_open_url() returns just a demuxer
pointer or NULL, additional error reporting is done via demuxer_params.
Still, at least conceptually, it's ok, and simpler than before.
Nobody wanted to restore this, so it gets the boot.
If anyone still wants to volunteer to restore menu support, this would
be welcome. (I might even try it myself if I feel masochistic and like
wasting a lot of time for nothing.) But if it does get restored, it
should be done differently. There were many stupid things about how it
was done. For example, it somehow tried to pull mp_nav_events through
all the layers (including needing to "buffer" them in the demuxer),
which was needlessly complicated. It could be done simpler.
This code was already inactive, so this commit actually changes nothing.
Also keep in mind that normal DVD/BD playback still works.
The user probably doesn't want these. Conveniently, this also skips the
unwanted "." and ".." entries.
(This code is triggered if the input stream is a directory - and it's in
demux_playlist.c because it's convenient.)
Handle a relatively recently introduced hack, that allows FLAC audio to
have arbitrary channel layouts, instead of just the predefined fixed
ones. This is actually supported by FFmpeg, but since the demuxer
(instead of the decoder) handles this in FFmpeg, we need to add special-
code to our mkv demuxer.
(The way FFmpeg does this seems a bit backwards, since now every demuxer
for a format that can handle FLAC needs to contain this logic as well.)
The FLAC hack is relatively terrible: we need to parse the FLAC headers,
look for a VorbisComment, parse the VorbisComment, and then retrieve
the magic WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK entry. But the hack is
officially endorsed, as the official FLAC tools use it. (Although I
couldn't find a trace of it in the format specification. Should I be
surprised?)
Extend the --demuxer-mkv-probe-video-duration behavior to work with
files that are partial and are missing an index. Do this by finding a
cluster 10MB before the end of the file, and if that fails, just read
the entire file. This is actually pretty trivial to do and requires only
5 lines of code.
Also add a mode that always reads the entire file to estimate the video
duration.
Until now, if a stream wasn't seekable, but the stream cache was enabled
(--cache), we've enabled seeking anyway. The idea was that at least
short seeks would typically fall within the cache. And if not, the user
was out of luck and terrible things happened. In other words, it was
unreliable.
Be stricter about it and remove this behavior. Effectively, this will
for example disable seeking in piped data.
Instead of trying to be clever, add an --force-seekable option, which
will always enable seeking if the user really wants it.
If the EditionFlagOrdered is set, chapters without ChapterTimeEnd make
no sense. Ordered chapters will play the chapters in the order they
appear, but will play the ranges the chapters cover. So if the end time
is missing, the range is incomplete and it's not clear what should be
played. If you assume the start of the next chapter as end time, the
ordered flag will have no observable effect, so that's not a useful
assumption.
This fixes playback of a file which (apparently) had the
EditionFlagOrdered set accidentally, with normal chapters.
At least Matroska files have a "forced" flag (in addition to the
"default" flag). Export this flag. Treat it almost like the default
flag, but with slightly higher priority.
The "FrameRate" element is probably deprecated (it's greyed out in the
"spec", and described as "Informational only" in bold). Normally files
use DefaultDuration. In fact, the FrameRate field was preferred over
DefaultDuration for determining framerate if present. Do not do this and
rely on DefaultDuration only.
Also, if no framerate is set, do not assume PAL (25 FPS). Such a
fallback makes little sense and will cause more problems than it solves.
Integer and float elements are encoded as a sequence of bytes prefixed
by a variable-length encoded length specifier. If the length is 0, then
there is no data. Whether this is valid or not is not really clear, but
some sample files which do this have surfaced. It's not particularly
hard to handle this, so just do it.
Use char* for strings instead of bstr (data ptr + length pair). Matroska
actually (probably) allows "padding" strings with \0 bytes, so using
normal C strings instead of byte strings is more appropriate.
MPlayer traditionally had completely separate sh_ structs for
audio/video/subs, without a good way to share fields. This meant that
fields shared across all these headers had to be duplicated. This commit
deduplicates essentially the last remaining duplicated fields.
Always use the already existing extradata[_len] variable, instead of the
awkward switch between manually changed extradata and falling back to
passing through extradata at the end.
That's how mime types are.
(This makes redirection with a specific HLS URL work, because some idiot
thought it'd be a great idea to spell the mime type as
"application/x-mpegURL".)
The only decoders I could find and which (possibly) require this field
are codecs which can be used via VfW only, and realaudio sipr. For VfW
we still passthrough this field.
Native Matroska codec support has to map the Matroska codec IDs to
libavcodec ones, and also has to undo codec-specific Matroska
strangeness, such as restoring AAC extradata and realaudio handling. The
VfW codec support doesn't need it, because AVI maps well enough to
libavcodec conventions (possibly because AVI was a dominant codec when
libavcodec was created). But there's still some need for generic codec
handling, such as enabling parsers and messing with various codec
parameters.
Separate these two, and move the parts which are guaranteed not to be
needed by VfW to the if-else tree that handles the VfW case
("A_MS/ACM"), making the cases exclusive.
(This should probably be done more radically, since it's very unlikely
that we should or have to mess with the VfW parameters at all - they
should just be passed through to the decoder.)
This removes the last traces of the old MPlayer FourCC-based codec
mapping code. Forcing all codec IDs through a FourCC table and then
back to codec names was confusing at best, so this is a nice cleanup.
Handling of PCM (non-VfW case) is redone to some degree.
Handling of AC3 is moved below realaudio handling, since "A_REAL/DNET"
is apparently AC3, and we must not skip realaudio-specific handling.
(It seems unlikely that anything would actually break, but on the other
hand I don't have any A_REAL/DNET samples for testing.)
Instead of explicitly matching all the specific AAC codec names, just
match them all as prefix.
Some codecs don't need special handling other than their mapping
entries, so they fall away (like Vorbis and Opus).
The prores check in mkv_parse_and_add_packet() is not strictly related
to this, but is done for consistency with the wavpack check above.
The existing code avoided doing this for some codecs. I see no point in
this, and it seems the original reason this exists was due to some
cleanup in 2007. libavformat doesn't do this. So just drop it.
It's well possible that we've always ended up invoking the
AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO codec, but it's hard to tell. Mangling everything
through FourCCs (and then back) makes it hard to analyze. Also,
libavformat's Matroska demuxer uses AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO here, so it
should be quite safe to do anyway.
Inherited from MPlayer times, we used FourCCs to identify video codecs.
This was later changed to libavcodec codec names (which made life a
whole lot simpler). But demux_mkv still uses FourCCs a lot.
Change this for video. It's pretty simple, because some preparation was
done in the past. We just have to replace some "internal" FourCCs with
different handling.
One potentially complicated issue is that there is no natural way to
set the sh->format (AVCodecContext.codec_tag) field anymore. Most
decoders do not need it, though mjpeg is an exception.
Note that the AVI compatibility code still requires codec mappings, but
these are provided by FFmpeg. Also, the audio code is not changed.
For the MKV_V_MPEG2 -> mpeg1video thing see next commit.
Vobsubs come as .idx/.sub pair of files. The .idx file is the one that
should be opened, but the name of the .sub file is unknown. We can now
make our own guess what the name of that file is. In particular, improve
support with URLs (as these can have the file extension in the middle of
the filename string if there are HTTP parameters).
Note that this works only with newer ffmpeg versions, because the
recently added sub_name demuxer option is used for this.
This reads the "CUESHEET" tag, and attempts to parse it as .cue data. If
any is found, the cue tracks are added as chapters.
This reuses the parser written for demux_cue.c.
Fixes#1957.
The options don't change, but they're now declared and used privately by
demux_mkv.c. This also brings with it a minor refactor of the subpreroll
seek handling - merge the code from playloop.c into demux_mkv.c. The
change in demux.c is pretty much equivalent as well.
This change allows forward seeking even if there are no more video
keyframes in forward direction. This helps with files that e.g. encode
cover art as a single video frame (within a _real_ video stream - ffmpeg
seems to like to produce such files). Seeking backwards will still jump
to the nearest video frame, so this improvement has limited use.
The old code didn't do this because of the logic the min_diff variable
followed. Instead of somehow using the timestamp of the last packet read
for min_diff, use the first index entry for it. This actually makes it
fall back to the first/last index entry as the (removed) comment claims.
Note that last_pts is basically random at this point (because the
demuxer can be far ahead of playback position), so this didn't make
sense in the first place.
On EOF, this stopped reporting the actual cache duration, and just
signalled unknown duration. Fix this and keep reporting whatever is left
in the packet queue.
This reverts commit 5438a8b3. The commit doesn't give a good explanation
as to why it is needed, but I guess it was because the reporting was
imperfect (it switched between unknown or 0, and the correct duration).
This also removes a line added in commit 848546f2. The line is
ds->active = false;
The "active" flag basically says that data from this stream is actively
needed, and it's used to calculate the minimum data that can actually be
played (approximately). If this were ignored, a sparse subtitle stream
would set the cache duration to 0s. The commit message adding the line
says "actually does nothing, but in theory it's cleaner". Well, screw
it.
Remove the old implementation for these properties. It was never very
good, often returned very innaccurate values or just 0, and was static
even if the source was variable bitrate. Replace it with the
implementation of "packet-video-bitrate". Mark the "packet-..."
properties as deprecated. (The effective difference is different
formatting, and returning the raw value in bits instead of kilobits.)
Also extend the documentation a little.
It appears at least some decoders (sipr?) need the
AVCodecContext.bit_rate field set, so this one is still passed through.
If a directory is encountered, replace it with its contents in the
internal playlist.
This is messed into demux_playlist.c, because why not. STREAMTYPE_DIR
could be avoided by unconditonally trying opendir() in demux_playlist.c,
but it seems nicer not to do weird things like calling it on real files.
This does not work on Windows, because msvcrt is retarded.
We handle picking out font attachments by mime type ourselves in a
higher level, so we really just want to use the mimetype. Also, Matroska
is currently the only code in libavformat which uses the fonts at all,
and we can drop use of the codec IDs completely.
With a recent cleanup, rar support was stuffed into demux_playlist.c
(because "opening" rar files pretty much just lists archive contents and
adds them to a playlist using a special rar:// protocol, which will
actually access the rar file contents).
Since demux_playlist.c is probed _after_ demux_lavf.c (and should/must
be), libavformat was given the chance to detect DTS streams embedded
within the rar file. This is not really what we want, and a regression
what happened before rar listing was moved to demux_playlist.c.
Fix it by moving the rar listing into its own pseudo-demuxer, and let ir
probe before demux_lavf.c.
(Yes, this feature still has users.)
Trying to handle such video is almost worthless, but it was requested by
at least 2 users.
If there are no timestamps, enable byte seeking by setting
ts_resets_possible. Use the video FPS (wherever it comes from) and the
audio samplerate for timing. The latter was already done by making the
first packet emit DTS=0; remove this again and do it "properly" in a
higher level.
Check async abort notification. libavformat already do something
equivalent.
Before this commit, the demuxer could enter resync mode (and print silly
warning messages) when the stream stopped returning data because of an
abort.
A user reported a webm stream that couldn't be played. The issue was
that this stream 1. was on an unseekable HTTP connection, and 2. had a
SeekHead element (wtf?). The code reading the SeekHead marked the
element as unreadable too early: although you can't seek in the stream,
reading the header elements after the SeekHead read them anyway. Marking
them as unreadable only after the normal header reading fixes this.
(The way the failing stream was setup was pretty retarded: inserting
these SeekHead elements makes absolutely no sense for a stream that
cannot be seeked.)
Fixes#1656.
This reverts commit c8f49be919.
Not needed anymore; fixed in all supported FFmpeg releases. Though I
could not test again, because all sample files are gone (oops).
Use the (relatively new) libavformat image format probing functionality,
instead of letting demux_mf guess by file extension and MIME type.
The libavformat support is weird, though. Traditionally, it uses an
absolutely terrible hack to detect images by extension, _and_ (which is
the horrible part) will randomly interpret parts of the filename as
specifiers for matching by number. So something like '%03d' will be
interpreted as placeholder for a frame number. The worst part is that
such character sequences can be perfectly valid and common in http URLs.
This is known as "image2" demuxer. The newer support, which probes by
examining the file header, is split into several format-specific
demuxers with names ending in "_pipe". So we check for such a name
suffix. (At this point we're doing fine-grained hacking around ffmpeg
weirdness, so a clean solution is impossible anyway until upstream
changes.)
It was possible to make the player play local files by putting rar://
links into remote playlists, and some other potentially unsafe things.
Redo the handling of it. Now the rar-redirector (the thing in
demux_playlist.c) sets disable_safety, which makes the player open any
playlist entries returned. This is fine, because it redirects to the
same file anyway (just with different selection/interpretation of the
contents). On the other hand, rar:// itself is now considered fully
unsafe, which means that it is ignored if found in normal playlists.
This warning wasn't overly helpful in the past, and warned against
perfectly fine code. But at least with recent gcc versions, this is the
warning that complains about assignments in if expressions (why???), so
we want to enable it.
Also change all the code this warning complains about for no reason.
Refactors an older hack, which for some reason used a more complicated
way. This generates the playlist representing the contents of the rar
file in demux_playlist.c. The pseudo-demuxer could easily be separate
from the the playlist parsers (and in fact there's almost no shared
code), but I don't think this obscure feature deserves a separate file.
Sample files created with:
rar a -v20000k -m0 files.rar file1.mkv file1.mkv
If the cache is enabled, the demuxer is closed and opened again (because
currently, the cache can not be enabled atfer data was already read).
The call for opening a new demuxer uses the same params struct, which
references the ctx->uids array. But there is a MP_TARRAY_GROW()
invocation somewhere on the way, which can reallocate the ctx->uids
array, making params.uids a dangling pointer.
This issue probably existed for a longer time, probably since 5cd33853
(slightly more obvious since f50b105d).
Again removes some indirections and extra arguments.
Also replace some memcpy/memmoves with assignments. (Assignments became
possible only later, when reference UIDs were turned into a struct.)
Should behave about the same, but reduces code some duplication with
seeking and reading a header element pointed to by a SeekHead. It also
makes behavior with incomplete files slightly better.
Remove coded_width and coded_height. This was originally added in commit
fd7dde40, when BITMAPINFOHEADER was killed. The separate fields became
redundant in commit e68f4be1. Remove them (nothing passed to the
decoders actually changes with _this_ commit).
Some of the hacks were not applied if the file format was forced. Commit
37a0c914 moved them to a table, which is checked with normal probing
only.
Fixes#1612 (DVD forces mpeg, which in turn has to export native stream
IDs specifically).
Do some code restructuring on the way. For example, the probescore can
simply be set to the correct initial value, instead of checking whether
it was set at all.
Whatever the hell that is. FFmpeg tries to open any files with .bin file
extension with this demuxer (unless it finds a better demuxer), and then
reads the whole damn file, along with spamming dumb crap.
Includes some logic for not starting the demuxer thread for fully read
subtitles. (Well, the cache will still waste _lots_ of resources, and
the cache always has to be created, because we don't know whether it'll
be needed _before_ opening the file.)
See #1597.
An attempt to make format-specifics more declarative. (In my opinion,
all of this should be either provided by libavformat, or should not be
needed.)
I'm still leaving many checks with matches_avinputformat_name(), because
they're so specific.
Also useful for the following commit.
The Matroska timeline code was the only thing which still used the
demuxer.type field. This field explicitly identifies a demuxer
implementation. The purpose of the Matroska timeline code was to reject
files that are not Matroska. But it already forces the Matroska format,
meaning loading will explicitly only use the Matroska demuxer. If the
demuxer can't open the file, no other demuxer will be tried, and thus
checking the field is redundant.
The change in demux_mkv_timeline.c removes the if condition, and
unindents the if body.
