The argument or this change is that --loop should set how often the
file is played, not the number of additional repeats.
Based on pull request 277, with additions to the manpage and removal
of "--loop=0".
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
You couldn't jump to the first entry in the playlist, if that entry was
marked as "too short". But this is usually fine, because it doesn't get
into the way of the user. (This feature is meant to allow being able to
jump backwards through the playlist even if a file immediately stops
playback right after initialization, not to prevent playing these files
at all.)
Also, apply the skip logic when wrapping around the playlist when going
backwards. This happens with --loop, because looping pretends the
playlist is infinitely repeated forwards and backwards (as long as the
playlist_prev/next commands are concerned).
Also add some comments.
When for example switching off the video stream, and --force-window is
used, forcefully reconfigure the VO. This will reset the size, and will
clear the window with black.
Needed some effort, because you don't always want to clear the window
on "discontinuity" points like going to a next file: this would
introduce some flicker.
Didn't handle VO events, didn't handle OSD message management.
There is probably still some strangeness left. --idle mode was never
made for direct interaction.
We can render subtitles if a VO is open. Whether we're decoding video
(i.e. if mpctx->sh_video is set) doesn't really matter.
Subtitle display with --force-window still doesn't quite work yet,
because there's nothing to actually force redrawing of subtitles in this
mode.
This commit adds the --force-window option, which will cause mpv always
to create a window when started. This can be useful when pretending that
mpv is a GUI application (which it isn't, but users pretend anyway), and
playing audio files would run mpv in the background without giving a
window to control it.
This doesn't actually create the window immediately: it only does so
only after initializing playback and when it is clear that there won't
be any actual video. This could be a problem when starting slow or
completely stuck network streams (mpv would remain frozen in the
background), or if video initialization somehow is stuck forever in
an in-between state (like when the decoder doesn't output a video
frame, but doesn't return an error either). Well, we can pretend only
so much that mpv is a GUI application.
Seeking normally resets the VO and throws away the currently displayed
frame, so if you seek outside the video with --keep-open enabled, the
window would normally be "stuck" and not redraw properly, because there
is no source video frame that could be redrawn. To deal with this, a
precise seek to the position of the last displayed video frame was
issued.
This usually worked, but it can fail for formats where seeking is broken
or not possible (consider reading from a pipe).
Fix this by changing the semantics for vo_seek_reset(): now the video
frame is remembered even after seeking.
Note that this changes behavior a little when trying to seek outside of
a file with --keep-open enabled. Since no actual seek is done anymore,
the video will remain "frozen" on the previous position, and you can't
unpause or framestep to see the video between current position and
actual end of the video. If users complain, I might revert this commit.
Commit 884c179 attempted to make it possible to skip backwards through
the playlist, even for files which fail to intitialize, or play for a
very short time. This was also used to prevent mpv from looping forever
and doing nothing if --loop=inf is used, and no file in the playlist is
playable.
This broke looping of very short files, because mpv was assuming that
this case happened. But there are legitimate use cases.
Fix this by making the looping case special. Instead of checking whether
playback was "very short", check whether something could be decoded and
displayed/played. If yes, allow looping.
This is preliminary. There are still tons of issues, and any aspect
of scripting may change in the future. I decided to merge this
(preliminary) work now because it makes it easier to develop it, not
because it's done. lua.rst is clear enough about it (plus some
sarcasm).
This requires linking to Lua. Lua has no official pkg-config file, but
there are distribution specific .pc files, all with different names.
Adding a non-pkg-config based configure test was considered, but we'd
rather not.
One major complication is that libquvi links against Lua too, and if
the Lua version is different from mpv's, you will get a crash as soon
as libquvi uses Lua. (libquvi by design always runs when a file is
opened.) I would consider this the problem of distros and whoever
builds mpv, but to make things easier for users, we add a terrible
runtime test to the configure script, which probes whether libquvi
will crash. This is disabled when cross-compiling, but in that case
we hope the user knows what he is doing.
The problem with DVD/BD and playback resume is that most often, the
filename is just "dvd://", while the actual path to the DVD disk image
is given with --dvd-device. But playback resume works on the filename
only.
Add a pretty bad hack that includes the path to the disk image if the
filename starts with dvd://, and the same for BD respectively. (It's a
bad hack, but I want to go to bed, so here we go. I might revert or
improve it later, depending on user feedback.)
We have to cleanup the global variable mess around the dvd_device.
Ideally, this should go into MPOpts, but it isn't yet. Make the code
paths in mplayer.c take MPOpts anyway.
Note that this is intentionally never done if the AO or softvolume is
different, or if the current volume control method is thought to control
system wide volume (such as ALSA) or otherwise user controllable (such
as PulseAudio). The intention is to keep things robust and to avoid
messing with the user's audio settings as far as possible, while still
providing the ability to resume volume if it makes sense.
Refactor how mixer.c does volume/mute restoration and initialization.
Move to handling of --volume and --mute to mixer.c. Simplify the
implementation of these and hopefully fix bugs/strange behavior related
to using them as file-local options (this uses a somewhat dirty trick:
the option values are reverted to "auto" after initialization). Put most
code related to initialization and volume restoring in probe_softvol()
and restore_volume(). Having this code all in one place is less
confusing.
Instead of trying to detect whether to use softvol at runtime, detect it
at initialization time using AOCONTROL_GET_VOLUME (same with mute,
AOCONTROL_GET_MUTE). This implies we expect SET_VOLUME/SET_MUTE to work
if the GET variants work. Hopefully this is always the case.
This is also preparation for being able to change volume/mute settings
if audio is disabled, and for allowing restoring value with playback
resume.
It's quite unlikely, but functions like mp_find_user_config_file() can
return NULL, e.g. if $HOME is unset.
Fix all the code that didn't check for this correctly yet.
Call update_subtitles() on every iteration of the playloop, so that
subtitle packets are read as soon as possible, instead of every time a
video frame is displayed. This helps in case the packet queue is swamped
with subtitle packets, which can happen with certain insane mkv files.
The change will simply cause the subtitle queue to be emptied on each
playloop iteration.
The timestamps update_subtitles() uses for display are the same before
and after this commit. (Important for files which have subtitle packets
with timestamps or duration not set.)
This is for situations when repeated attempts at playing a playlist
entry failed, and playlist navigation becomes impossible due to that.
For example, it wasn't possible to skip backwards past an unplayable
playlist entry:
mpv file1.mkv doesntexist.mkv file3.mkv
You couldn't skip back to file1.mkv from file3.mkv. When running a
single "playlist_prev" command, doesntexist.mkv would be played, which
would fail to load. As reaction to the failure to load it, the next file
would be played, which is file3.mkv.
To make this even worse, the file could successfully load, but run only
for a split second. So just loading successfully isn't good enough.
Attempt to solve this by marking problematic playlist entries as failed,
and by having playlist_prev skip past such playlist entries. We define
failure as not being able to play more than 3 seconds (or failing to
initialize to begin with). (The 3 seconds are in real time, not file
duration.)
"playlist_prev force" still exhibits the old behavior.
Additionally, use the same mechanism to prevent pointless infinite
reloading if none of the files on the playlist exist. (See github issue
All in all, this is a heuristic, and later adjustments might be
necessary.
Note: forward skips (playlist_next) are not affected at all. (Except for
the interaction with --loop.)
This is commonly used to disable the screensaver with broken/non-
standard X screensavers. During pause, the screensaver should not be
disabled, so not calling this command while paused seems sensible.
See github issue #236.
The --deinterlace option does on playback start what the "deinterlace"
property normally does at runtime. You could do this before by using the
--vf option or by messing with the vo_vdpau default options, but this
new option is supposed to be a "foolproof" way.
The main motivation for adding this is so that the deinterlace property
can be restored when using the video resume functionality
(quit_watch_later command).
Implementation-wise, this is a bit messy. The video chain is rebuilt in
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo(), where we don't have access to MPContext, so the
usual mechanism for enabling deinterlacing can't be used. Further,
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() is called by the video decoder, which doesn't
have access to MPContext either. Moving this call to mplayer.c isn't
currently possible either (see below). So we just do this before frames
are filtered, which potentially means setting the deinterlacing every
frame. Fortunately, setting deinterlacing is stable and idempotent, so
this is hopefully not a problem. We also add a counter that is
incremented on each reconfig to reduce the amount of additional work per
frame to nearly zero.
The reason we can't move mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() to mplayer.c is because
of hardware decoding: we need to check whether the video chain works
before we decide that we can use hardware decoding. Changing it so that
this can be decided in advance without building a filter chain sounds
like a good idea and should be done, but we aren't there yet.
It's annoying for users if you can't get a list of options with --help,
but on the other hand, printing all options would be overkill. So just
mentioned --list-options.
run_playloop() is already stuffed enough. This function is still quite
big, but all the other code shares various variables, so it's not as
easy to split.
This option makes the cursor always visible in windowed mode.
Apparently, this is what (some?) Windows and OSX users expect. It's
disabled by default for now.
Restructure the cursor hide logic a bit for this purpose.
Even if a subtitle was explicitly loaded with -sub, it was still auto-
loaded (if auto-loading applied to that file). Fix this by explicitly
checking whether a file is already loaded.
The check is maximal naive and just compares the filenames as strings.
The change in find_subfiles.c is so that "-sub something.ass" happens to
work (auto-loading prepended a "./" to it, so the naive filename
comparison check didn't work).
Until now, options could be accessed as properties via "options/name",
but the access was read-only. Change it so that write access is possible
in --idle mode. (All options have to support setting options at that
time, simply because of the way MPlayer designed per-file options.
During playback, normal properties take care of changing things,
including things backed by options.)
This is work in progress. There are some issues: at least setting the
"vf" and "af" options won't work for strange reasons.
When enabling --save-position-on-quit, playback position stored not only
on quit, but in any case playback of a file was stopped. This includes
going to the next file with playlist navigation commands.
After some discussion on IRC, it turned out that nobody thought this was
good behavior. Disable it, and really make it save only on quit.
Maybe the option is useless now, as the user could remap the CLOSE_WIN
key binding. On the other hand, CLOSE_WIN sounds and _is_ a bit obscure.
Before this commit, the player didn't write resume info if the playback
position was within the first or last percent of the file.
This was sometimes annoying, and with playlist resume can lead to
unintuitive behavior. (It wouldn't resume the playlist if the currently
played file was at 0-1% or 99-100%, even if you were in the middle of a
playlist.)
Moreover, the "percent > 99" check is a bit bogus anyway, because 100
(in integer) is rarely reached.
Drop the check, and make sure using --save-position-on-quit won't write
resume info when reaching EOF. The latter check is needed to make sure
playback of the file starts at beginning when playing it again after
EOF.
This includes the case of passing multiple files to command line
(internally this is the same as loading a playlist).
Resuming works by finding the first playlist entry that can be resumed.
Alternative implementations would be possible, such as hashing the
playlist contents. But this implementation is simpler, and doesn't have
the disadvantage that changes to the playlist (like appending entries)
will throw away the resume point.
This makes loading large playlists a bit slower, because it has to look
into ~/.mpv/watch_later/ for every entry. Loading a 15000 entries
playlist now increases from 150ms to 400ms. Considering you rarely load
playlists this big with mpv (because it's impractical considering the
terminal and non-GUI nature of the player), this is probably ok.
The option list contains an empty string member with this option value,
so ignore that. I'm not sure whether the option list should maybe be
empty in this case, but it could be the wrong thing in case of other
options.
This happens by default with pausing: if a file was paused when doing
quit_watch_later, then resume and unpause, then the file played after
that would start in paused mode. This is because the pause option is
backed up at thr wrong place, so it backs up the state from resuming,
instead of whatever it was set to before that.
