Listening on messages currently uses polling (every time
mpv_wait_event() has no new events, the message buffer is polled and a
message event is possibly created). Improve this situation a bit, and
call the user-supplied wakeup callback.
This will increase the frequency with which the wakeup callback is
called, but the client is already supposed to be able to deal with this
situation. Also, as before, calling mpv_wait_event() from the wakeup
callback is forbidden, so the client can't read new messages from the
callback directly.
The wakeup pipe is written either. Since the wakeup pipe is created
lazily, we can't access the pipe handle without creating a race
condition or a deadlock. (This is actually very silly, since in practice
the race condition won't matter, but for now let's keep it clean.)
If an API user calls mpv_wait_event() and mpv_observe_property() before
mpv_initialize(), it could happen that a property was accessed before
initialization, which is not ok.
This was always intended this way, and even documented in client.h. Due
to an oversight it was never actually implemented.
The intention is that mpv embedded in applications and "real mpv" don't
conflict. An API user can undo this by setting the "config" option to
"yes", if using the user's mpv config is desired.
Until now, an error was reported only if the command couldn't be parsed.
Attempt to do more fine-grained reporting. This is not necessarily
perfect, but it's an improvement.
This is probably a good idea, because it would make it easier for
software embedding mpv to configure the mpv parts, without requiring the
host program to provide explicit mechanisms for this (other than calling
mpv_load_config_file()).
The code paths for setting options by string and by direct "raw" value
were too different, which resulted in some weird code. Make the code
paths closer to each other.
Also, use this to remove the weirdness in the mpv_set_option()
implementation.
Use the time as returned by mp_time_us() for mpthread_cond_timedwait(),
instead of calculating the struct timespec value based on a timeout.
This (probably) makes it easier to wait for a specific deadline.
If a property is notified as changed, and then again (before the change
notification is returned to the client), and the second change is a
sporadic change (i.e. nothing actually changed) and the change
notification was associated with with a data type, it could happen that
a change was "overlooked", because it would detect no change on the
second notification.
This is actually a pretty annoying corner case, due to the annoying way
we do things, so just store both the previously returned _and_ the newly
obtained property value. then we always compare with the user value to
check for a change, excluding any possibility of a missed change.
Note that we don't (can't/shouldn't) care if a value changes, and then
changes back; it's fine if that doesn't generate a notification. This is
due to how property notifications are supposed to be coalesced.
This was part of osdep/threads.c out of laziness. But it doesn't contain
anything OS dependent. Note that the rest of threads.c actually isn't
all that OS dependent either (just some minor ifdeffery to work around
the lack of clock_gettime() on OSX).
This should fix some issues, such as not being able to set the
"no-video" option with MPV_FORMAT_FLAG.
Note that this changes semantics a bit. Now setting an option strictly
overwrite it, even if the corresponding command line option does not.
For example, if we change --sub to append by default, then setting the
"sub" option via the client API would still never append. (Oddly, this
also applies to --vf-add, which will overwrite the old value when using
the client API.)
I'm doing this because there's no proper separation between the command
line parser and setting an option using the MPV_FORMAT_STRING format.
Maybe the solution to this mess would be adding format aware code (i.e.
m_option_set_node) to every option type, and falling back to strings
only if needed - but this would mean that you couldn't set e.g. an
integer option using MPV_FORMAT_STRING, which doesn't seem to be ideal
either.
In conclusion, the current approach seems to be most robust, but I'm
open to suggestions should someone find that these semantics are a
problem.
And slightly adjust the semantics of MPV_EVENT_PAUSE/MPV_EVENT_UNPAUSE.
The real pause state can now be queried with the "core-idle" property,
the user pause state with the "pause" property, whether the player is
paused due to cache with "paused-for-cache", and the keep open event can
be guessed with the "eof-reached" property.
Otherwise, the client API user could not know why playback was stopped.
Regarding the fact that 0 is used both for normal EOF and EOF on error:
this is because mplayer traditionally did not distinguish these, and in
general it's hard to tell the real reason. (There are various weird
corner cases which make it hard.)
This turned out ridiculously complex. I think it will have to be
simplified some day. Main reason for the complexity are:
- filtering properties by forcing clients to observe individual
properties explicitly
(to avoid spamming clients with changes they don't want)
- optional retrieval of property value with the notification
(the basic idea was that this is more user friendly)
- allowing to the client to specify a format in which the value
should be retrieved
(because if a property changes its type, the client API couldn't
convert it properly, and compatibility would break)
I don't know yet which of these are important, and everything could
change. In particular, the interface and semantics should be adjusted
to reduce the implementation complexity.
While I consider the API complete, there could (and probably will) be
bugs left. Also while the implementation is complete, it's inefficient.
The complexity of the property matching is O(a*b*c) with a clients,
b observed properties, and c properties changing at once. I threw away
an earlier implementation using bitmasks, because it was too unwieldy.
Remove the use of mp_ring and use a simple array and a bunch of
variables instead. This is way less awkwad.
The change in reserve_reply fixes incorrect tracking of free events.
Change script_message to broadcast the message to all clients. Add a new
script_message_to command, which does what the old script_message
command did.
This is intended as simplification, although it might lead to chaos too.
Sending an asynchronous request and then calling mpv_destroy() would
crash the player when trying to send the reply to the removed client.
Fix this by waiting until all remaining replies have been sent.
Always map MPV_FORMAT_STRING to setting property value directly through
M_PROPERTY_SET_STRING, instead of trying to go through
M_PROPERTY_SET_NODE.
This treats a direct MPV_FORMAT_STRING query differently from a
MPV_FORMAT_STRING wrapped in a mpv_node. This was already the case in
mpv_get_property(). The reason for all this is that mpv_node is supposed
to be the exact type, while a direct MPV_FORMAT_STRING goes through all
possible conversions.
Not sure if these semantics are good.
1. Cannot set option after initialized: it seems that this bug has
existed since libmpv was introduced first. Maybe just a typo.
2. Crash when setting property with native format: mpv_set_property
just causes a crash when using a native format. I found an invalid
casting and fixed it.
3. Wrong error value for mpv_get_property: when an error occurred,
mpv_get_property always returns wrong format error because every
error for property except M_PROPERTY_NOT_IMPLEMENTED is just ignored.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Closes pull request #593. Does not incldue the first fix, which was not
correct. The underlying bug will be fixed by a later commit.
Commit message extracted from pull request and slightly edited.
Not sure about this... might redo.
At least this provides a case of a broadcasted event, which requires
per-event data allocation.
See github issue #576.
May or may not be useful in some ways.
We require a context parameter for this just to be sure, even if the
internal implementation currently doesn't.
That's one less mpv internal function for the Lua wrapper.
This is only half-implemented: actually the option will first be
converted from mpv_node to its native type, then it's converted to a
string, and then back to its native type. This is because the option
API was made for strings and not anything else.
Other than being grossly inelegant, the only downside is probably with
string lists and key/value lists, which don't escape strings containing
syntax elements correctly.
This actually makes use of the client.h declarations and the mpv_node
mechanisms added some commits ago.
For now, using MPV_FORMAT_STRING will usually fallback to explicit
string conversion, but not in the other cases. E.g. reading a numeric
property as string will work, but not reading a string property as
number. Other than that, only MPV_FORMAT_INT64->MPV_FORMAT_DOUBLE does
an automatic conversion.
I'm not sure whether these semantics and API are good, so comments and
suggestions are welcome.
With mpv_set_property(h, "property", MPV_FORMAT_STRING, ptr), ptr now
has to be of type char** instead of char*. This makes it more consistent
with mpv_get_property() and also non-pointer formats, which will be
introduced in the following commits. mpv_set_property() of course does
not change its interface (only its implementation is adjusted to keep
its interface).
This also affects mpv_set_option(), but again not
mpv_set_option_string().
Add a client API, which is intended to be a stable API to get some rough
control over the player. Basically, it reflects what can be done with
input.conf commands or the old slavemode. It will replace the old
slavemode (and enable the implementation of a new slave protocol).
wm4
xylosper