Lua changed behavior for this specific event. I considered the change
minor enough that it would not need to go through deprecation, but
someone hit it immediately and ask on the -dev channel.
It's probably better to restore the behavior. But mark it as deprecated,
since it's problematic (mismatch with the C API). Unfortunately, no
automatic warning is possible. (Or maybe it is, by playing sophisticated
Lua tricks such as setting a metatable and overriding indexing, but
let's not.)
Move some parts that can be generic to the client API code. It turns out
lua.c doesn't need anything special.
This adds the "id" field. I think this was actually missing from the
JSON IPC code (i.e. it's a very recent regression that is fixed with
this commit).
Both Lua and the JSON IPC code need to convert the mpv_event struct (and
everything it points to) to Lua tables or JSON.
I was getting sick of having to make the same changes to Lua and IPC. Do
what has been done everywhere else, and let the core handle this by
going through mpv_node (which is supposed to serve both Lua tables and
JSON, and potentially other scripting language backends). Expose it as
new libmpv API function.
The new API is still a bit "rough" and support for other event types
might be added in the future.
This silently adds support for the playlist_entry_id fields to both Lua
and JSON IPC.
There is a small API change for Lua; I don't think this matters, so I
didn't care about compatibility. The new code in client.c is mashed up
from the Lua and the IPC code. The manpage additions are moved from the
Lua docs, and made slightly more "general".
Some danger for unintended regressions both in Lua and IPC. Also damn
these node functions suck, expect crashes due to UB.
Not sure why this became more code instead of less compared to before
(according to the diff stat), even though some code duplication across
Lua and IPC was removed. Software development sucks.
Should give a good deal more explicit control and insight over the
player state.
Some feel a bit pointless, and/or expose internal weirdness. However,
it's not like the existing weirdness didn't exist before, or can be made
go away. (In part, the weirdness is because certain in-between states
are visible. Hiding them would make things simpler, but less flexible.)
Maybe this actually gives users a better idea how the API _should_ look
like, too.
On a side note, this tries to really guarantee that mpctx->playing is
set between playback start/end. For that, the loadfile.c changes assume
that mpctx->playing is set (guaranteed by code above the change), and
that playing->filename is set (probably could never be false; was broken
before and actually would have crashed if that could ever happen; in any
case, also add an assert to playlist.c for this).
playlist_entry_to_index() now tolerates playlist_entrys that are not
part of the playlist. This is also needed for mpctx->playing.
It's odd that this state is observable, but is made implicit by making
the property unavailable. It's also odd that an API user cannot directly
put the player into such a state.
Just allow reading/writing -1 (or in fact, any out of bounds index) for
this case.
I'm also refraining from using OPT_CHOICE for the "no selection" case,
because although that would be cleaner in theory, it would cause only
problems to API users due to the more complex property type (worse is
better).
One reason for not restricting the integer range on the input property
anymore is that if there are no playlist elements, the range would
contain only 1 integer, which cannot be represented anymore since the
recent m_option change. This was actually broken with 1 element
playlists before (and still is, with the constricted type for OSD and
the add/cycle commands). Doesn't matter too much.
If the user manages to run a "loadfile x append" command before the loop
in mp_play_files() is entered, then the player could start playing
these. This isn't expected, because appending files to the playlist in
idle mode does not normally start playback. It could happen because
there is a short time window where commands are processed before the
loop is entered (such as running the command when a script is loaded).
The idle mode semantics are pretty weird: if files were provided in
advance (on the command line), then these should be played immediately.
But if idle mode was already entered, and something is appended to the
playlist using "append", i.e. without explicitly triggering playback,
then it should remain in idle mode.
Try to follow this by redefining PT_STOP to strictly mean idle mode.
Remove the playlist->current check from idle_loop(), since only the
stop_play field counts now (cf. what mp_set_playlist_entry() does).
This actually introduces the possibility that playlist->current, and
with it playlist-pos, are set to something, even though playback is not
active or being started. Previously, this was only possible during state
transitions, such as when changing playlist entries.
Very annoyingly, this means the current way MPV_EVENT_IDLE was sent
doesn't work anymore. Logically, idle mode can be "active" even if
idle_loop() was not entered yet (between the time after mp_initialize()
and before the loop in mp_play_files()). Instead of worrying about this,
redo the "idle-active" property, and deprecate the event.
See: #7543
Change all OPT_* macros such that they don't define the entire m_option
initializer, and instead expand only to a part of it, which sets certain
fields. This requires changing almost every option declaration, because
they all use these macros. A declaration now always starts with
{"name", ...
followed by designated initializers only (possibly wrapped in macros).
The OPT_* macros now initialize the .offset and .type fields only,
sometimes also .priv and others.
I think this change makes the option macros less tricky. The old code
had to stuff everything into macro arguments (and attempted to allow
setting arbitrary fields by letting the user pass designated
initializers in the vararg parts). Some of this was made messy due to
C99 and C11 not allowing 0-sized varargs with ',' removal. It's also
possible that this change is pointless, other than cosmetic preferences.
Not too happy about some things. For example, the OPT_CHOICE()
indentation I applied looks a bit ugly.
Much of this change was done with regex search&replace, but some places
required manual editing. In particular, code in "obscure" areas (which I
didn't include in compilation) might be broken now.
In wayland_common.c the author of some option declarations confused the
flags parameter with the default value (though the default value was
also properly set below). I fixed this with this change.
Commits ba70b150fb and 8a4f812b76 should have mentioned this. These
things should be quite useful for client API users, and thus should be
mentioned in a prominent place.
Although I'm not sure if anyone will understand from this gibberish what
this really means.
When the current file changes (or rather, when starting/finishing
playback of a playlist entry), clients tend to have the problem that
it's hard to tell whether a property change notification (via
mpv_observe_property() and mechanisms layered on top of it) is from the
previous or new playlist entry. The previous commit probably helps, but
all the asynchronity is still a bit unhelpful.
Try to make this better by adding new hooks, that are run before/after
playback init/deinit. This is similar to the existing hooks, except
they're outside of "initialized" playback, which excludes that you might
accidentally get an overlap between the current and the previous/next
playlist entry.
That still doesn't seem quite enough, since normally, property change
notifications come after the hook event. So basically a client would
have to explicitly "drain" the event queue within the hook, and make the
hook continue only after that is done. Knowing when property
notifications are done is another asynchronous nightmare (how exactly it
works keeps changing within client.c, and an API user probably can't
tell anymore when all pending properties are truly done). So introduce
another guarantee: properties that were changed before the hook happens
will be returned before the hook event is returned. That means the
client will have received all pending property notifications from the
previous playlist entry (or whatever) before the hook is entered.
As another minor complication, we shouldn't just keep the hook pending
until _all_ property notifications are done, since the client's hook
could produce new ones. (Or just consider things like the demuxer thread
hammering the client with cache update events, while the "on_preloaded"
hook is run.) So there is some extra untested, fragile logic in client.c
to handle this (the waiting_for_hook flag).
This probably works, but was barely tested. Not sure if this helps
anyone, but I think it's fine for my own purposes. (I really hated this
aspect of the API whenever I used it myself.)
No replacement. Qt or C++ code has no business in this repository, and
new code (even if it uses Qt) should not use it. Get rid of it.
We consider the libmpv API itself as stable. Symbols can be deprecated,
but not be removed. However, qthelper.hpp was never considered part of
the libmpv API. There no ABI implications either, since it's a header-
only implementation that uses C API symbols only. It's just a header
provided for convenience for Qt/C++ programs (i.e. extremely limited
usefulness).
This is more or less a minimal hack to make _some_ text measurement
functionality available to scripts. Since libass does not support such a
thing, this simply uses the bounding box of the rendered text.
This is far from ideal. Problems include:
- using a bitmap bounding box
- additional memory waste and/or flushing caches
- dependency on window size
- odd small deviations with different window sizes (run osd-test.lua and
resize the window after each timer update; the bounding boxes aren't
adjusted in an overly useful way)
- inability to query the size _after_ actual rendering
But I guess it's a start. Since I'm aware that it's crap, add a threat
to the manpage that this may be changed/removed again. For now, I'm
interested whether anyone will have use for it in its current form, as
it's an often requested feature.
The mp_filter_run() invocation blocks as long as the demuxer provides
packets and the queue can be filled. That means it may block quite a
long time of the decoder queue size is large (since we use libavcodec in
a blocking manner; it regrettably does not have an async. API).
This made the main thread freeze in certain situations, because it has
to wait on the decoder thread.
Other than I suspected (I wrote that code, but that doesn't mean I know
how the hell it works), this did not freeze during seeking: seek resets
flushed the queue, which also prevented the decoder thread from adding
more frames to it, thus stopping decoding and responding to the main
thread in time. But it does fix the issue that exiting the player waited
for the decoder to finish filling the queue when stopping playback.
(This happened because it called mp_decoder_wrapper_set_play_dir()
before any resets. Related to the somewhat messy way play_dir is
generally set. But it affects all "synchronous" decoder wrapper API
calls.)
This uses pretty weird mechanisms in filter.h and dispatch.h. The
resulting durr hurr interactions are probably hard to follow, and this
whole thing is a sin. On the other hand, this is a _very_ user visible
issue, and I'm happy that it can be fixed in such an unintrusive way.
I don't know what should happen when the same value is written to the
property. It seems that it would be more natural if it were ignored
(since that's also what is done with options now), but you could argue
the other way around as well. In any case, changing it silently could
leads to user scripts etc. breaking, so don't change it now.
Instead, add blabla to the manpage to put the responsibility on the
user, so when we suddenly change it one day, we can blame any breakages
on someone else.
See: #7501
Let's see how much everyone hates this. Leaving it enabled seems
problematic, because libavcodec returns an unspecific error if it
doesn't like it.
Fixes: #6300
See manpage additions. This has been a topic in MPlayer/mplayer2/mpv
since forever. But since libavcodec multi-threaded decoding was added,
I've always considered this pointless. libavcodec requires you to
"preload" it with packets, and then you can pretty much avoid blocking
on it, if decoding is fast enough.
But in some cases, a decoupled decoder thread _might_ help. Users have
for example come up with cases where decoding video in a separate
process and piping it as raw video to mpv helped. (Or my memory is
false, and it was about vapoursynth filtering, who knows.) So let's just
see whether this helps with anything.
Note that this would have been _much_ easier if libavcodec had an
asynchronous (or rather, non-blocking) API. It could probably have
easily gained that with a small change to its multi-threading code and a
small extension to its API, but I guess not.
Unfortunately, this uglifies f_decoder_wrapper quite a lot. Part of this
is due to annoying corner cases like legacy frame dropping and hardware
decoder state. These could probably be prettified later on.
There is also a change in playloop.c: this is because there is a need to
coordinate playback resets between demuxer thread, decoder thread, and
playback logic. I think this SEEK_BLOCK idea worked out reasonably well.
There are still a number of problems. For example, if the demuxer cache
is full, the decoder thread will simply block hard until the output
queue is full, which interferes with seeking. Could also be improved
later. Hardware decoding will probably die in a fire, because it will
run out of surfaces quickly. We could reduce the queue to size 1...
maybe later. We could update the queue options at runtime easily, but
currently I'm not going to bother.
I could only have put the lavc wrapper itself on a separate thread. But
there is some annoying interaction with EDL and backward playback shit,
and also you would have had to loop demuxer packets through the
playloop, so this sounded less annoying.
The food my mother made for us today was delicious.
Because audio uses the same code, also for audio (even if completely
pointless).
Fixes: #6926
The "seekbarkeyframes" option is now interpreted such if it's true, the
player default is used. Too lazy to make this a choice option or
whatever; the Lua option parser doesn't have support for that anyway.
Someone who cares can adjust this.
Try to deal with various corner cases. But when I fix one thing, another
thing breaks. (And it's 50/50 whether I find the breakage immediately or
a few months later.) So results may vary.
The default for--hr-seek is changed to "default" (not creative enough to
find a better name). In this mode, audio seeking is exact if there is no
video, or if the video has only a single frame. This change is actually
pretty dumb, since audio frames are usually small enough that exact
seeking does not really add much. But it gets rid of some weird special
cases.
Internally, the most important change is that is_coverart and is_sparse
handling is merged. is_sparse was originally just a special case for
weird .ts streams that have the corresponding low-level flag set. The
idea is that they're pretty similar anyway, so this would reduce the
number of corner cases. But I'm not sure if this doesn't break the
original intended use case for it (I don't have a sample anyway).
This changes last-frame handling, and respects the duration of the last
frame only if audio is disabled. This is mostly "coincidental" due to
the need to make seeking past EOF trigger player exit, and is caused by
setting STATUS_EOF early. On the other hand, this might have been this
way before (see removed chunk close to it).
This is useful with live streams, and it's not much worse than the h264
first packet hack, which reads some data anyway.
For some reason, the option wasn't even documented, so do that.
In addition, print the start time even if it's negative. That should not
be possible, but for some reason, the field is an int64_t copied from an
uint64_t so... whatever. Keeping the logging slightly more straight
forward is better anyway.
Remove some redundant fields that controlled or indicated whether the
demuxer was/could/should prefetch. Redefine how the eof/reading fields
work.
The in->eof field is now always valid, instead of weirdly being reset to
false in random situations. The in->reading field now corresponds to
whether the demuxer thread is working at all, and is reset if it stops
doing anything.
Also, I always found it stupid that dequeue_packet() forced the demuxer
thread to retry reading if it was EOF. This makes little sense, but was
probably added for files that are being appended to (running downloads).
It makes no sense, because if the cache really tried to read until file
EOF, it would encounter partial packets and throw errors, so all is lost
anyway. Plus stream_file now handles this better. So stop this behavior,
but add a temporary option that enables the old behavior.
I think checking for ds->eager when enabling prefetching never really
made sense (could be debated, but no, not really). On the other hand,
the change above exposed a missing wakeup in the backward demuxing code.
Some chances of regressions that could make it stuck in certain states
or so, or incorrect demuxer cache state reporting to the player
frontend.
This has been part of the libmpv for a while, so the implementation in
the IPC code is quite simple: just pass the mpv_node representing the
value of the "command" field without further checks to
mpv_command_node().
The only problem are the IPC-specific commands, which essentially have
their own dispatch mechanism. They expect an array. I'm not going to
rewrite the dispatch mechanism, so these still work only with an array.
I decided make the other case explicit with cmd==NULL. (I could also
have set cmd=="", which would have avoided changing each if condition
since "" matches no existing command, but that felt dirty.)
I decided to make this explicit. The alternative would have been making
all commands asynchronous always, like a small note in the manpage
threatened. I think that could have caused compatibility issues.
As a design decision, this does not send a reply if an async command
started. This could be a good or bad idea, but in any case, it will make
async command look almost like synchronous ones, except they don't block
the IPC protocol.
In all_formats mode, we've ignored what --ytdl-format did so far, since
we've converted the full format list, instead of just the formats
selected by youtube-dl.
But we can easily restore --ytdl-format behavior: just mark the selected
tracks as default tracks.
I don't think the skip_muxed option was overlay useful. While it was
nice to filter out the low quality muxed versions (as it happens on the
alphabetic site, I suspect it's compatibility stuff), it's not really
necessary, and just makes for another tricky and rarely used
configuration option. (This was different before muxed tracks were also
delay-loaded, and including the muxed versions slowed down loading.)
Add the force_all_formats option instead, which handles the HLS case.
Set it to true because they are also delay-loaded now, and don't slow
down startup as much.
Until now, delay-loading was for files with single tracks only
(basically what DASH and HLS like to expose, so adaptive streaming and
codec selection becomes easier - for sites, not for us). But they also
provide some interleaved versions, probably for compatibility. Until
now, we were forced to eagerly load it (making startup slightly slower).
But there is not much missing. We just need a way to provide multiple
metadata entries, and use them to represent each track.
A side effect is now that the "track_meta" header can be used for normal
EDL files too.
See manpage additions. We would have to extend delay_open to support
multiple sub-tracks (for audio and video), and we'd still don't know (?)
whether it might contain more than one stream each (thinking of HLS
master streams). And if it's a true interleaved file (such as a "normal"
mp4 file provided as fallback for more primitive players), we'd either
have to signal such "bundled" tracks, or waste bandwidth.
This restructures a lot. The if/else tree in add_single_video for format
selection was a bit annoying, so it's split into separate if blocks,
where it checks each time whether a URL was determined yet.
This is just a more convenient way to start IPC client scripts per mpv
instance.
Does not work on Windows, although it could if the subprocess and IPC
parts are implemented (and I guess .exe/.bat suffixes are required).
Also untested whether it builds on Windows. A lot of other things are
untested too, so don't complain.
Pretty worthless I guess. I only tested one site (and 2 videos), it's
somewhat likely that it will break with other sites. Even if you leave
the option disabled (the default).
Slightly related to #3548. This will allows you to use the bitrate
stream selection mechanism, that was added for HLS, with normal videos.
Works as ad-filter. I had some more plans, for example replacing
matching text with different text, but for now it's dropping matches
only. There's a big warning in the manpage that I might change
semantics. For example, I might turn it into a primitive sed.
In a sane world, you'd probably write a simple script that processes
downloaded subtitles before giving them to mpv, and avoid all this
complexity. But we don't live in a sane world, and the sooner you learn
this, the happier you will be. (But I also want to run this on muxed
subtitles.)
This is pretty straightforward. We use POSIX regexes, which are readily
available without additional pain or dependencies. This also means it's
(apparently) not available on win32 (MinGW). The regex list is because I
hate big monolithic regexes, and this makes it slightly better.
Very superficially tested.
This renders incorrectly in the html output. I suspect you need one more
level here. Increase the indentation level. No other changes, other than
re-breaking some lines.
Add something that will access an URL embedded in EDL only when the
track it corresponds to is actually selected. This is meant to help with
ytdl_hook.lua and to improve loading speeds.
In theory, all this stuff is available to any mpv user, but discourage
using it, as it's so specialized towards ytdl_hook.lua, that there's
danger we'll just break this once ytdl_hook.lua stops using it, or
similar.
Mostly untested.
Normally, the first sub-stream is implicitly created. This change lets
the user use more orthogonal syntax, and use a new_stream header for
every sub-stream, instead of having to skip the header for the first
one.
Add a mp_log context to the parse_edl() function, and report some
errors. Previously, this just told you that something was wrong. Add
some error reporting to make it slightly less evil.
Put all parameters in a list before processing them. This makes adding
parameters for special headers easier, and we can report parameters that
were not understood. (For "compatibility", which probably doesn't matter
at all, still don't count them as errors; as before.)
As requested I guess. It behaves quite similar to the --loop* options.
Not quite happy with the idea that 1) the option is mutated on each
operation (but at least it's consistent with --loop* and doesn't require
more properties), and 2) the ab-loop command will do nothing once all
loop iterations are done. As a concession, the OSD shows something about
"disabled".
Fixes: #7360
This is not really a changelog, but rather a list of potentially
breaking changes API- and normal users should be aware of, and to help
with migration from older mpv releases.
this creates a default log for the last mpv run when started from the
bundle. that way one can get a log of what happened even after an issue
occurred. also add a menu entry under Help to show the current log, but
only when the bundle is used.
Fixes#7396Fixes#2547
Directories inside ~~/scripts/ are now loaded as scripts, so don't use
it also for modules. Now there are no default module paths.
To compensate, we now try to run ~~/.init.js right after defaults.js,
so the user may extend the js init procedure via this script, e.g. for
adding default paths to mp.module_paths .
See #7435 and related for context.
Basically, it seems that while the original vsfilter processed subtitles
like with this option set to "yes", many current players (mpc-hc
default, vlc, probably most libass users) treat them like with "no". In
the linked issue, this makes rendering severely slower, and can consume
a lot of memory (or just overflow libass memory calculations). It seems
that changing this to "no" will lead to more good than bad, especially
because newer subtitles may be authored for the "no" behavior.
Most libass users seem to use "no" exactly because they do not call
ass_set_storage_size() at all. This API was needed because the scaling
of the subtitles depends on the video size (vsfilter bugs, or
something). In addition, it's my personal opinion that rendering should
not depend on the video at all, so I like setting the default of this to
"no".
The intention is to provide a slightly nicer way to distribute scripts.
For example, you could put multiple source files into the directory, and
then import them from the actual script file (this is still
unimplemented).
At first I wanted to require a config file (because you need to know at
least which scripting backend it should use). This wouldn't have been
too hard (could have reused/abused the mpv config file parsing
mechanism, and I already had working code that was just 2 function
calls). But probably better to do this without new config files, because
it might become a pain in the distant future.
So this just probes for "main.lua", "main.js", etc., until an existing
file is found.
Another important change is that this skips all directory entries whose
name starts with ".". This automatically excludes the "." and ".."
special directories, and is probably useful to exclude random crap that
might be lying around in the directory (such as editor temporary files,
or OSX, in its usual hrmful, annoying, and idiotic modus operandi,
sharting all over any directories opened by "Finder").
Although the changelog mentions the docs, they're added only in a later
commit.
This originally existed as a hack for weston. In certain scenarios, a
frame taking too long to render would cause vo_wayland_wait_frame to
timeout which would result in a ton of dropped frames. The naive
solution was to just to add a slight delay to the time value. If a
frame took too long, it would likely to fall under the timeout value and
all was well. This was exposed to the user since the default delay
(1000) was completely arbitrary.
However with presentation time, this doesn't appear to be neccesary.
Fresh frames that take longer than the display's refresh rate (16.666 ms
in most cases) behave well in Weston. In the other two main compositors
without presentation time (GNOME and Plasma), they also do not
experience any ill effects. It's better not to overcomplicate things, so
this "feature" can be removed now.
It's ridiculous that --script=something.dumb does not cause an error.
Make it error, and extend this behavior to the scripts/ sub-dir in the
mpv config dir.
This "bundles" all OSD properties. It also makes some previously
Lua-only values available (Lua has mp.get_osd_margins(), unsure if
anything uses it).
The main intention is actually to allow retrieving all fields in an
"atomic" way. (Could introduce a mechanism on the level of the mpv
client API to do this, but doing ti ad-hoc all the time like this commit
is easier.)
Addresses dumb things like accidentally overwriting a media file with
e.g. "mpv --log-file test.mkv" (when the user thought that --log-file
was a flag option, when it actually takes a filename). This example will
now print an error. It still works with "-log-file overwritten.mkv", but
prints a warning.
Not sure if I'm being too careful or not "radical" enough. In any case,
both the syntax that stops working and the syntax that produces a
warning now have been discouraged and were called legacy for almost a
decade.
See manpage additions. The libarchive behavior mentioned in the last
paragraph there is technically unrelated, but makes this new option
mostly pointless.
See: #7182
In the distant past, the cuviddec backed copy hwaccel could be
configured directly using lavc options. However, since that time,
we gained support for automatic hw ctx creation which ended up
bypassing the lavc options.
Rather than trying to find a way to pass those options again, a
better idea is to make the 'cuda-decode-device' option, used by
the interop hwaccels, work for the copy hwaccels too.
And that's pretty simple: we have to add a create function that
checks the option and passes it on to ffmpeg.
Note that this does require a slight re-jig to the configuration
flags, as we now have a scenario where we want to build with support
for the cuda copy hwaccels but not the interop ones. So we need
a distinct configuration flag for that combination.
Fixes#7295.
Thought it might be useful to document some of these things, instead of
explaining them over and over again. But I can guarantee that nobody
will ever read all this. (Independent of its quality and completeness.)
Add an "auto-safe" mode, mostly triggered by Ubuntu's nonsense to force
hwdec=vaapi in the global config file in their mpv package. But to be
honest it's probably something more people want.
This is implemented as explicit whitelist. On Windows, HEVC/Intel is
sometimes broken, but it's still whitelisted, and in theory we'd need a
detailed whitelist of device names etc. (like for example browsers tend
to do). On OSX, videotoolbox is a pretty bad choice, but unfortunately
the only one, so it's whitelisted too. There may be a larger number of
hwdec wrappers that work anyway, and I'm for example ignoring Android.
A minority of users have expressed a dislike of hats, calling them
"cancer [that] don't belong in software" describing the people who add
them as "shitty circlejerks" and "chucklefuck."
While I personally disagree with those opinions, it's probably easier
to let them have it their way. For that reason this adds the option
`greenandgrumpy` to the osc, which allows users to disable the hat.
Lua scripting has an undocumented mp.set_osd_ass() function, which is
used by osc.lua and console.lua. Apparently, 3rd party scripts also use
this. It's probably time to make this a public API.
The Lua implementation just bypassed the libmpv API. To make it usable
by any type of client, turn it into a command, "osd-overlay".
There's already a "overlay-add". Ignore it (although the manpage admits
guiltiness). I don't really want to deal with that old command. Its main
problem is that it uses global IDs, while I'd like to avoid that scripts
mess with each others overlays (whether that is accidentally or
intentionally). Maybe "overlay-add" can eventually be merged into
"osd-overlay", but I'm too lazy to do that now.
Scripting now uses the commands. There is a helper to manage OSD
overlays. The helper is very "thin"; I only want to force script authors
to use the ID allocation, which may help with putting multiple scripts
into a single .lua file without causing conflicts (basically, avoiding
singletons within a script's environment). The old set_osd_ass() is
emulated with the new API.
The JS scripting wrapper also provides a set_osd_ass() function, which
calls internal mpv API. Comment that part (to keep it compiling), but
I'm leaving it to @avih to finish the change.
Now that 00af718a made the lua read_options behavior much more similar
to the js behavior, the main difference was that lua does not re-read
the config file at on_update (but it does re-apply its stored content)
while js did re-read it.
Now the js on_update also does not re-read the config file and instead
applies its stored original content.
This is slightly hacky by adding an undocumented optional 4th argument
to read_options which allows overriding the config file content.
As described in the manpage changes. This makes more sense than the
previous approach, where options could "unexpectedly" stick. Although
this is still a somewhat arbitrary policy (ask many people and you'd get
a number of different expectations on what should happen), I think that
it reflects what mpv's builtin stuff does.
All the copying is annoying, but let's just hope nobody is stupid enough
to change these properties per video frame or something equally
ridiculous.
Apparently there are two different options for controlling which
screen an mpv window goes onto: --fs-screen and --screen. The former
explicitly only controls which screen a fullscreened window goes onto,
but does not appear to actually care about this option at runtime for
X11, so pressing f will always fullscreen to the screen mpv is currently
on. This means the option is of questionable usefulness for starters.
Making it worse, if you use --screen=1 --fs, mpv will actually fullscreen
on screen 0, because --fs-screen isn't set. Instead of doing that, fall
back to whatever --screen is set to.
This is a bit different than the lua code: on script-opts change it
simply re-applies the conf-file and script-opts to the options object,
and if this results in any changed value at options then on_update is
called with the changelist as argument.
This allows a value to revert back to the conf-file value if the
matching script-opts key had a different value and then got deleted.
It also guarantees to call back whenever the options object is
modified, which the lua code doesn't do (e.g. if the caller changed
a value and the observer changed it back - it won't detect a change).
Although they were not undocumented, they were hidden away in the
respective manpage sections. It's a good idea to add them to the main
keyboard bindings overview too. stats.lua also did this.
I decided to factor this into the user's scale option (instead of
somehow using it as default if the user has not specified it), because
it makes the option handling simpler, and won't break things like
per-screen DPI if the user only wants to scale the console font by a
factor.
Until now, .edl files accepted only "simple" filenames, i.e. no relative
or absolute paths, no URLs. Now that the origin bullshit is a bit
cleaned up and enforced in the EDL code, there's absolutely no reason to
keep this.
The new code behaves somewhat similar to playlists. (Although playlists
are special because they're not truly recursively opened.)
Very primitive and dumb, but fulfils its purpose for the next commits.
I chose this specific implementation because it has the lowest footprint
in command.c, without resorting to crazy hacks such as sending messages
between scripts (which would be hard to coordinate especially on
startup).
I don't even know anymore whether this was intended or not. Certain use
cases for the "-o" options might require this. These options are for
passing general FFmpeg options. These are translated to av_opt_set()
calls, which may or may not accumulate the option values on multiple
calls with the same option name (how should I know?).
Anyway, it seems crazy to allow non-unique keys, so make them unique.
The ad-hoc nature of the option code makes this wonderfully complicated
(when I wrote that this code is cursed, I meant it). In combination with
lazy testing, it probably means there are lots of bugs here.
Whenever I deal with this, I have to look at the code to make sense of
this. And beyond that, there are some strange inconsistencies. (I think
this code is cursed. It always was, and maybe always will be.)
Although the manpage claimed that using multiple items for -add etc. is
deprecated, string list options didn't warn against it. So add the
warning, and add something in the changelog (even though nobody will
ever read this).
The manpage mentioned --vf-append, but this didn't even exist. So add
it, I guess. We encourage using -append for the other option types, so
for consistency, it should work on filter options. (And I already
tricked me into believing it existed when I mentioned it in the
manpage.)
Make the "operations" table separate for all option types, and mention
the option type on every single of the top-level list options.
This is similar to the "edition" change.
I considered making this go through deprecation, but didn't have a good
idea how to do that. Maybe it's fine, because this is pretty obscure.
But it might break some API users/scripts (it certainly broke
stats.lua), and all I have to say is sorry for that.
See manpage/changelog changes.
The purpose of this change is to removes another case of inconsistent
property behavior. At first I wanted to make this go through deprecation
before making a technically incompatible change, but then I considered
this feature too obscure as that anyone would care.
the Apple Remote has long been deprecated and abandoned by Apple.
current macs don't come with support for it anymore. support might be
re-added with the next commit.
People somehow think "should" makes things optional, even though the
wording was merely trying to account for the exception of the rule. I
guess this means programming documents should sound like we're running a
police state (which is also the ultimate outcome of all technological
development, if you weren't aware).
See: #7248
And troll Microsoft slightly while we're at it. But is it trolling if
it's the truth?
The level of C99 support in MSVC is probably a bit better than most
people think, but it's by far not adequate. We need a bit of either C11
or GNU extensions too, and rely on some MinGW helpers (that look like
they're provided by MS, except they're not).
Seems like this was silently changed to enabled by default on the change
to libplacebo, without adjusting the manpage. Fix the documented
default.
Also add a comment about Nvidia; see referenced issue.
Fixes: #7245
Merged from mpv-repl git repo commit 5ea2bf64f9c239f0326b02. Some
changes were made on top of it:
- Tabs were converted to 4 spaces indentation (plus some manual
indentation fixes in some places).
- All user-visible mentions of "repl" were renamed to "console".
- The README was converted to a manpage (with heavy changes, some
additions taken from stats.rst; rossy converted the key bindings
table to RST).
- The method to change the default key binding was changed.
- Change minor detail about "font" default value setting (not a
functional change).
- Integrate into the player as builtin script, including an option to
prevent loading it.
Above changes and commit message done by wm4.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
To aid in discoverability, and to address the most common case
directly, I'm adding an 'auto' mode for the window controls. In
this case, we will show the controls if there is no window border
and hide them if there are borders. This also respects the option
being toggled at runtime.
To ensure that it works in the wayland case, I've also made sure
that the wayland code explicitly forces the option to false if
decoration support is missing.
Based on feedback, I've split the config in two, with one option
for whether controls are active, and one for alignment. These are
new enough that we can get away with ignoring compatibility.
The demuxer_id (exported in as "src-id" property) is supposed to be the
native stream ID, as it exists in the file, or -1 if that does not exist
(actually any negative value), or if it is unknown.
Until now, an ID was made up if it was missing. That seems like strange
non-sense, and I can't find the reason why it was done. But it was
probably for convenience by the EDL stuff or so.
Stop doing this. Fortunately, the src-id property was documented as
being unavailable if the ID is not known. Even the code for this was
present, it was just inactive until now. Extend input.rst with some
explanations.
Also fixing 3 other places where negative demuxer_id was ignored or
avoided.
Pretty annoying affair. The vo_gpu code could of course not trigger
rendering from filters yet, so it needed to be extended. Also, this uses
some icky stuff made for vf_sub (and this was the reason I marked vf_sub
as deprecated), so everything is terrible.
It seems logical to account for the window controls if `boxvideo`
is in use (which has the effect of reducing the size of the video
so that the osc is not covering the video).
Probably pretty useless in this form (see: the wall of warnings), but
someone wanted this.
I think this should be useful to perform some automated tests, maybe.
Fixes: #7194
Today, if window decorations are not present, either because they were
disabled, or because the platform doesn't support them
(eg: gnome-shell on wayland), there are no window controls, meaning it
is not possible to minimize/maximize/close a window without knowing
keyboard shortcuts.
While you can imagine various ways of offering client side decorations,
it is attractive to consider using OSC because that is functionality
that we already have.
The main work here is defining a separate input area from the main
OSC box with its own buttons, etc.
While we could probably handle auto-detection based on whether
decorations are present or not, it's manually controlled for now.
The window control logic is mostly disconnected from the OSC itself,
except in the case of the `topbar` layout, where there has to be
coordination so that the controls don't get drawn on top of each other.
I had to do fine-positioning of the buttons based on the font on
my system, so don't be surprised if it looks wrong elsewhere.
You could also argue that window controls should be unscaled, even
if the main OSC box is scaled, but I've not tried to do this.
The behavior is slightly different in a messy way. The change is in line
with the option-to-property bridge removal mentioned some commits ago
and thus is deemed necessary.
These properties actually were removed/replaced, so there is no conflict
with the options of the same name anymore. For example, there is no
"audio-file" property anymore, but you still can set "audio-files" (and
--audio-file simply maps to --audio-files-append).
add_key_binding() makes the name argument optional (in weird Lua
fashion), which did not work if there were additional arguments. So
there is no way to avoid specifying a name while passing a rp argument.
Fix this, declare this way of skipping the argument as deprecated, and
allow passing name=nil as the preferred way to skip the name argument.
This is supposed to turn input.conf comments into inline documentation.
Whether this will be useful depends on whether there'll be a script
using this field.
This changes a small aspect of input.conf parsing fundamentally: this
attempts to strip comments/whitespace from the command string, which
will later be used to generate the command when a key binding is
executed. This should not have any negative effects, but there could be
unknown bugs. (For some reason, every command is parsed when input.conf
is parsed, but it still only stores the string for the command. I guess
that saves some minor amount of memory.)
Read-only information about all bindings. Somewhat hoping someone can
make a nice GUI-like overlay thing for it, which provides information
about mapped keys.
Particularly for "any_unicode" mappings, so they don't have to
special-case keys like '#' and ' ', which are normally mapped to
symbolic names for input.conf reasons. (Though admittedly, this is a
pretty minor thing, since API users could map these manually.)
The key is never nil if it's invoked through the normal input path. The
key name could be "" if mp_cmd.key_name==NULL. This should not happen,
but there's no strong guarantee in input.c that it cannot happen, so
whatever.
The intended target for this is the mpv.repl script, which manually
added every single ASCII key as a separate key binding. This provides a
simpler mechanism, that will catch any kind of text input.
Due to its special nature, explicitly do not give a guarantee for
compatibility; thus the warning in input.rst.
I often watch sporting events. On many occasions I get files with the
same filename for each session. For example, for F1 I might have the
following directory structure:
F1/
FP1.mkv
FP2.mkv
FP3.mkv
Qualification.mkv
Race.mkv
Since usually one simply watches one race after the other, I usually
just rsync the new event's files over the old ones, so, for example,
Race.mkv will be replaced from the file for the last event with the file
from the new event.
One problem with this is that I like to use --resume-playback for other
kinds of media, so I have it on by default. That works great for, say, a
movie, but doesn't work so well with this scheme, because you can
trivially forget to pass --no-resume-playback on the command line and
end up 2 hours in, watching spoilers as the race results scroll down the
screen :-)
This patch adds a new option, --resume-playback-check-mtime, which
validates that the file's mtime hasn't changed since the watch_later
configuration was saved. It does this by setting the watch_later
configuration to have the same mtime as the file after it is saved.
Switching back and forth between checking mtime and not checking mtime
works fine, as we only choose whether to compare based on it, but we
update the watch_later configuration mtime regardless of its value.
These were a bad idea and are obscure. Scripting key mapping support
still uses them, but this is not relevant to scripting authors, because
the mpv provided helper code (defaults.lua) takes care of this. In
addition, the OSC uses a legacy form of this.
Hopefully, this input section stuff can be removed, and replaced by a
simpler mechanism.
Give an overview over the various methods. I feel like I've written text
like this over and over again (compatibility.rst and
interface-changes.rst for example duplicate the list of mpv API
abstractions), but such is life in hell.
Use this in particular to strongly suggest not to parse terminal output.
This suggestion got lost or de-emphasized at some point (maybe when
removing MPlayer and "slave mode" references). Some of this text is
still there, but it can be considered "fine print" at best, that nobody
will see. Now we have it in a more prominent place. This is especially
important since MPlayer-style use of mpv still seems to be prevalent,
see for example #7153.
I have no idea why this still exists, since we have --input-ipc-server.
I think there was something about Windows, but the latter option is
implemented even on Windows.
It sometimes happens that HLS streams freeze because the HTTP server is
not responding for a fragment (or something similar, the exact
circumstances are unknown). The --timeout option didn't affect this,
because it's never set on HLS recursive connections (these download the
fragments, while the main connection likely nothing and just wastes a
TCP socket).
Apply an elaborate hack on top of an existing elaborate hack to somehow
get these options set. Of course this could still break easily, but hey,
it's ffmpeg, it can't not try to fuck you over. I'm so fucking sick of
ffmpeg's API bullshit, especially wrt. HLS.
Of course the change is sort of pointless. For HLS, GET requests should
just aggressively retried (because they're not "streamed", they're just
actual files on a CDN), while normal HTTP connections should probably
not be made this fragile (they could be streamed, i.e. they are backed
by some sort of real time encoder, and block if there is no data yet).
The 1 minute default timeout is too high to save playback if this
happens with HLS.
Vaguely related to #5793.
Until now, we've made FFmpeg use the default network timeout - which is
apparently infinite. I don't know if this was changed at some point,
although it seems likely, as I was sure there was a more useful default.
For most use cases, a smaller timeout is more useful (for example
recording something in the background), so force a timeout of 1 minute.
See: #5793
Until now, each .c file in test/ was built as separate, self-contained
binary. Each binary could be run to execute the tests it contained.
Change this and make them part of the normal mpv binary. Now the tests
have to be invoked via the --unittest option. Do this for two reasons:
- Tests now run within a "properly" initialized mpv instance, so all
services are available.
- Possibly simplifying the situation for future build systems.
The first point is the main motivation. The mpv code is entangled with
mp_log and the option system. It feels like a bad idea to duplicate some
of the initialization of this just so you can call code using them.
I'm also getting rid of cmocka. There wouldn't be any problem to keep it
(it's a perfectly sane set of helpers), but NIH calls. I would have had
to aggregate all tests into a CMUnitTest list, and I don't see how I'd
get different types of entry points easily. Probably easily solvable,
but since we made only pretty basic use of this library, NIH-ing this is
actually easier (I needed a list of tests with custom metadata anyway,
so all what was left was reimplement the assert_* helpers).
Unit tests now don't output anything, and if they fail, they'll simply
crash and leave a message that typically requires inspecting the test
code to figure out what went wrong (and probably editing the test code
to get more information). I even merged the various test functions into
single ones. Sucks, but here you go.
chmap_sel.c is merged into chmap.c, because I didn't see the point of
this being separate. json.c drops the print_message() to go along with
the new silent-by-default idea, also there's a memory leak fix unrelated
to the rest of this commit.
The new code is enabled with --enable-tests (--enable-test goes away).
Due to waf's option parser, --enable-test still works, because it's a
unique prefix to --enable-tests.
The use of glXGetCurrentDisplay() restricted this to the GLX backend.
But actually it works under EGL as well. Removing the GLX-specific call
and using the general mpv-internal method to get the X "Display" makes
it work in mpv.
I didn't know this. Nvidia didn't list this as extension in the EGL
context when I still used their GPUs.
Note that this might in theory break use of vdpau in some libmpv clients
using the render API. But only if MPV_RENDER_PARAM_X11_DISPLAY is not
used, and they relied on mpv using glXGetCurrentDisplay(). EGL does not
provide such an API, and hwdec_vaapi.c also uses what hwdec_vdpau.c uses
now. Considering that vaapi is preferable these days, it's not bad at
all if these clients get "broken". They can be easily fixed by passing
the display to mpv correctly.
(Only half of the buffer is actually used in a useful way, see manpage
or commit which added the option.)
Might have some advantages with broken network filesystem drivers.
See: #6802
In some corner cases (see #6802), it can be beneficial to use a larger
stream buffer size. Use this as argument to rewrite everything for no
reason.
Turn stream.c itself into a ring buffer, with configurable size. The
latter would have been easily achievable with minimal changes, and the
ring buffer is the hard part. There is no reason to have a ring buffer
at all, except possibly if ffmpeg don't fix their awful mp4 demuxer, and
some subtle issues with demux_mkv.c wanting to seek back by small
offsets (the latter was handled with small stream_peek() calls, which
are unneeded now).
In addition, this turns small forward seeks into reads (where data is
simply skipped). Before this commit, only stream_skip() did this (which
also mean that stream_skip() simply calls stream_seek() now).
Replace all stream_peek() calls with something else (usually
stream_read_peek()). The function was a problem, because it returned a
pointer to the internal buffer, which is now a ring buffer with
wrapping. The new function just copies the data into a buffer, and in
some cases requires callers to dynamically allocate memory. (The most
common case, demux_lavf.c, required a separate buffer allocation anyway
due to FFmpeg "idiosyncrasies".) This is the bulk of the demuxer_*
changes.
I'm not happy with this. There still isn't a good reason why there
should be a ring buffer, that is complex, and most of the time just
wastes half of the available memory. Maybe another rewrite soon.
It also contains bugs; you're an alpha tester now.
tv:// and pvr:// are gone, DVD almost. The former didn't really have any
uses left, except webcams. Provide a replacement example for that.
We don't need a separate section for DVD. If you use DVD, you're on your
own. There's still enough documentation left to puzzle things together
even if you don't read the source code.
Not like anyone reads it. Although putting all this text before listing
the allowed option values sort of has the intention to discourage users
from using the option at all. Advertise Ctrl+h, which is a decent way of
enabling hardware decoding temporarily.
The user can raise the number of tolerated hardware decoding errors. On
the other hand, we have a static limit on packets that are "saved" for
fallback handling (and that's a good idea to avoid unbounded memory
usage). In this case, it could happen that the start of a file was fine
after a fallback, but after that buffered amount of data, it would
suddenly skip.
It's more useful to skip buffering entirely if the number of tolerated
decoding errors exceeds the fixed buffer.
(And also, I'm sure nobody gives a shit about this feature.)
The statement about the display FPS is outdated by several years.
"audio"-sync mode does not use the display FPS anymore, and that it's
X11 only also isn't true anymore.
These modes have separate implementations for audio and display video
sync. modes, so the explanations are separate.
Why the hell are users playing around with this anyway? The explanations
are probably too special to make sense for anyone who doesn't know the
code (and who knows the code doesn't need them anyway), but whatever.
This is mostly just because of the odd RGB default gamma issue, which
shouldn't have any real impact. This also sets allow_approximate_gamma,
which I hope is fine for normal use cases.
Raise swscale and zimg default parameters. This restores screenshot
quality settings (maybe) unset in the commit before. Also expose some
more libswscale and zimg options.
Since these options are also used for VOs like x11 and drm, this will
make x11/drm/etc. much slower. For compensation, provide a profile that
sets the old option values: sw-fast. I'm also enabling zimg here, just
as an experiment.
The core problem is that we have a single set of command line options
which control the settings used for most swscale/zimg uses. This was
done in the previous commit. It cannot differentiate between the VOs,
which need to be realtime and may accept/require lower quality options,
and things like screenshots or vo_image, which can be slower, but should
not sacrifice quality by default.
Should this have two sets of options or something similar to do the
right thing depending on the code which calls libswscale? Maybe. Or
should I just ignore the problem, make it someone else's problem (users
who want to use software conversion VOs), provide a sub-optimal
solution, and call it a day? Definitely, sounds good, pushing to master,
goodbye.
By default utilizes the color space of the desktop on which the
swap chain is located. If a specific value is defined, it will be
instead be utilized.
Enables configuration of the PQ color space (BT.2020 primaries,
PQ transfer function) for HDR.
Additionally, signals the swap chain color space to the renderer,
so that the render looks correct without having to specify
target-trc or target-prim manually.
Due to all of the APIs being Win10+ only, will only work starting
with Windows 10.
Enabling this by default probably causes a number of issues, such as
breaking vo_sdl, or reacting to various input devices while the window
is not focused. It's also pretty obscure, or at least new. Disable it by
default.
This doesn't take a ',' separated list. --script is just an alias for
--scripts--append. --scripts accepts a list, but uses the
mplayer-inherited platform-dependent path separator.
Fixes: #5996
Internally, vo_gpu uses NaN for some options to indicate a default value
that is different depending on the context (e.g. different scalers).
There are 2 problems with this:
1. you couldn't reset the options to their defaults
2. NaN is a damn mess and shouldn't be part of the API
The option parser already rejected NaN explicitly, which is why 1.
didn't work. Regarding 2., JSON might be a good example, and actually
caused a bug report.
Fix this by mapping NaN to the special value "default". I think I'd
prefer other mechanisms (maybe just having every scaler expose separate
options?), but for now this will do. See you in a future commit, which
painfully deprecates this and replaces it with something else.
I refrained from using "no" (my favorite magic value for "unset" etc.)
because then I'd have e.g. make --no-scale-param1 work, which in
addition to a lot of effort looks dumb and nobody will use it.
Here's also an apology for the shitty added test script.
Fixes: #6691
The code is very basic:
- only handles gamepads, could be extended for generic joysticks in the
future.
- only has button mappings for controllers natively supported by SDL2.
I heard more can be added through env vars, there's also ways to load
mappings from text files, but I'd rather not go there yet. Common ones
like Dualshock are supported natively.
- analog buttons (TRIGGER and AXIS) are mapped to discrete buttons using an
activation threshold.
- only supports one gamepad at a time. the feature is intented to use
gamepads as evolved remote controls, not play multiplayer games in mpv :)
Form some reason (and because of my fault), vf_format converts image
formats, but nothing else. For example, setting the "colormatrix"
sub-parameter would not convert it to the new value, but instead
overwrite the metadata (basically "reinterpreting" the image data
without changing it).
Make the historical mistake worse, and go all the way and extend it such
that it can perform a conversion. For compatibility reasons, this needs
to be requested explicitly. (Maybe this would deserve a separate filter
to begin with, but things are messed up anyway. Feel free to suggest an
elegant and simple solution.)
This demonstrates how zimg can properly perform some conversions which
swscale cannot (see examples added to vf.rst).
Stupidly this requires 2 code paths, one for conversion, and one for
overriding the parameters.
Due to the filter bullshit (what was I thinking), this requires quite
some acrobatics that would not be necessary without these abstractions.
On the other hand, it'd definitely be more of a mess without it. Oh
whatever.
Awful shit. I probably wouldn't accept this code from someone else, just
so you know.
The idea is that a sws_utils user can automatically use zimg without
large code changes. Basically, laziness. Since zimg support is still
very new, and I don't want that anything breaks just because zimg was
enabled at build time, an option needs to be set to enable it. (I have
especially especially obscure stuff in mind, which is all what
libswscale is used in mpv.)
This _still_ doesn't cause zimg to be used anywhere, because the
sws_utils user has to opt-in by setting allow_zimg. This is because some
users depend on certain libswscale features.
This provides a very similar API to sws_utils.h, which can be used to
convert and scale from one mp_image to another.
This commit adds only the code, but does not use it anywhere.
The code is quite preliminary and barely tested. It supports only a few
pixel formats, and will return failure for many others. (Unlike
libswscale, which tries to support anything that FFmpeg knows.)
zimg itself accepts only planar formats. Supporting other formats
requires manual packing/unpacking. (Compared to libswscale, the zimg API
is generally lower level, but allows for more flexibility.) Only BGR0
output was actually tested. It appears to work.
On a audio/video desync by more than 0.5 seconds, display-sync mode was
disabled, and not enabled again (until playback restart, e.g. a seek).
The idea was that it this only happens when this playback mode is broken
and can't perform well anyway (A/V desync is a clear indication that
something is very wrong). Instead of behaving like a god damn POS, it
should revert to the more robust audio-sync mode.
Unfortunately, this could happen sporadically due to temporary system
performance problems, such as toggling fullscreen. Users didn't like
this, and asked for a function to disable it, or to recover in some
other way.
This mechanism is questionable anyway. If an ignorant user enables
display-sync, and encounters problems with it (without being able to
determine that display-sync is messing up), the player will still behave
like a POS on every playback, and even after every seek. It might
actually be helpful to fail more consistently. Also, I've found that
it's sill relatively reliable anyway even without this mechanism.
So just remove the fallback.
Fixes: #7048
vo_wayland was removed during the wayland rewrite done in 0.28. However,
it is still useful for systems that do not have OpenGL.
The new wayland_common code makes vo_wayland much simpler, and
eliminates many of the issues the previous vo_wayland had.
OK, so --cache-secs is useless, because the default is set to 10 hours.
And that part about the "maximum" was obviously a lie (I wonder if it
simply changed at some point).
Query information on the system output most linked to the swap chain,
and either utilize a user-configured format, or either 8bit
RGBA or 10bit RGB with 2bit alpha depending on the system output's
bit depth.
Someone crazy is trying to mix images with videos in EDL files. Putting
an image as first thing into the EDL disabled audio, because the first
EDL entry was used to define the layout.
Change this. Make it user-configurable, and use a "better" heuristic to
select the default otherwise.
In theory, EDL could be easily extended to specify track layout and
mapping of parts to virtual EDL tracks manually and in great detail. But
I don't think it's worth it - who would bother using it?
Fixes: #6764
In this case, gapless will most likely not work. It will result in (very
slight) desync, or (more commonly with small buffer sizes), in an
underflow.
I think it would be legitimate to disable gapless at end of playback
completely if video is enabled at all. But this would need an exception
for cover art mode, so I guess the current solution is OK as well.
Another thing nobody will read. I'm attempting to document the rules by
which incompatible changes can be made. These rules have always been
present in this project, but I don't think they were written down. Or
maybe they were, but I forgot where.
I think due to the time of the day it became increasingly incoherent
(not necessarily near the end of the text). Hopefully no logical or
freudian lapses in there.
Although it was not true at the time this was written, both the
"program" and "cache-size" are gone now.
Since the changelog is for the entire next release, it makes no sense to
mention these removed properties.
It also happens to make the description of this much simpler, because
it's a non-issue now. It's probably not even worth mentioning anymore.
The justification for this is the fact that the `video-aspect` property
doesn't work well with `cycle_values` commands that include the value
"-1".
The "video-aspect" property has effectively no change in behavior, but
we may want to make it read-only in the future. I think it's probably
fine to leave as-is, though.
Fixes#6068.
There's potential confusion about how long a process started with the
"subprocess" command is allowed to live. Add some more explanations
regarding "subprocess" specifics (such as the playback_only field), and
things that apply to asynchronous commands in general.
Partially for #7025.
Still trying to get people to read it. Even though I wanted to make it
less of a wall of text and more readable, it got bigger. Oops.
While I'm at it, violate my own rules and mix these mostly cosmetic
changes with some actual rule changes and clarifications.
This allows stream_cb backends to implement blocking
behavior inside read_fn, and still get notified when the user
wants to cancel and stop playback.
Signed-off-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
The C11 situation is complicated. For example, MinGW doesn't seem to
have a full C11 implementation, but we pretty much rely on C11 atomics.
Regarding "#pragma once": they say it's not standard because of unsolved
(admittedly valid) issues. Btu still, fuck writing include guards, I
just can't be bothered with this crap.
(Does anyone even read this document?)
I think a popular libmpv application did exactly this: enabling advanced
control, and then receiving deadlocks. I didn't confirm it, though. In
any case, the API docs should avoid tricking users into making this easy
mistake.
The render API (vo_libmpv) had potential deadlock problems with
MPV_RENDER_PARAM_ADVANCED_CONTROL. This required vd-lavc-dr to be
enabled (the default). I never observed these deadlocks in the wild
(doesn't mean they didn't happen), although I could specifically provoke
them with some code changes.
The problem was mostly about DR (direct rendering, letting the video
decoder write to OpenGL buffer memory). Allocating/freeing a DR image
needs to be done on the OpenGL thread, even though _lots_ of threads are
involved with handling images. Freeing a DR image is a special case that
can happen any time. dr_helper.c does most of the evil magic of
achieving this. Unfortunately, there was a (sort of) circular lock
dependency: freeing an image while certain internal locks are held would
trigger the user's context update callback, which in turn would call
mpv_render_context_update(), which processed all pending free requests,
and then acquire an internal lock - which the caller might not release
until a further DR image could be freed.
"Solve" this by making freeing DR images asynchronous. This is slightly
risky, but actually not much. The DR images will be free'd eventually.
The biggest disadvantage is probably that debugging might get trickier.
Any solution to this problem will probably add images to free to some
sort of queue, and then process it later. I considered making this more
explicit (so there'd be a point where the caller forcibly waits for all
queued items to be free'd), but discarded these ideas as this probably
would only increase complexity.
Another consequence is that freeing DR images on the GL thread is not
synchronous anymore. Instead, it mpv_render_context_update() will do it
with a delay. This seems roundabout, but doesn't actually change
anything, and avoids additional code.
This also fixes that the render API required the render API user to
remain on the same thread, even though this wasn't documented. As such,
it was a bug. OpenGL essentially forces you to do all GL usage on a
single thread, but in theory the API user could for example move the GL
context to another thread.
The API bump is because I think you can't make enough noise about this.
Since we don't backport fixes to old versions, I'm specifically stating
that old versions are broken, and I'm supplying workarounds.
Internally, dr_helper_create() does not use pthread_self() anymore, thus
the vo.c change. I think it's better to make binding to the current
thread as explicit as possible.
Of course it's not sure that this fixes all deadlocks (probably not).
libass had an API to configure this since 2013. mpv always used
ASS_FONTPROVIDER_AUTODETECT, because usually there's little reason to
use anything else. The intention of the now added option is to allow
users to disable use of system fonts.
I didn't consider it worth the trouble to add the coretext and
directwrite enum items from ASS_DefaultFontProvider. The "auto" choice
will have the same effect if they're available. Also, the part of the
code which defines the option does not necessarily have libass available
(it's still optional!), so defining all enum items as choices is icky. I
still added fontconfig, since that may be nice to emulate a nostalgic
2010 feeling of mpv freezing on fontconfig.
The option for OSD is even less useful. (But you get it for free, and
why pass up a chance to add yet another useless option?)
This is not quite what was requested in #6947, but as close as it gets.
We default to EGL instead of GLX now, which means vdpau only works
if we explicitly specify that we want a GLX context, as vdpau lacks
interop for EGL.
Update the hwdec documentation to reflect this.
Concerns #6980.
The question came up on how a client would figure out where
screenshot-directory saved its screenshots if it contained
mpv-specific expansions. This command should remedy the situation
by providing a way for the client to ask mpv to do an expansion.
Basically, both the license of the file and the preferred license of the
project (LGPLv2.1+) counts. I'm doing that so that files with more
liberal licenses don't get infected by LGPL, but allow copy & pasting to
LGPL source files without jumping through lawyer bullshit hoops.
Mention this in Copyright too.
This flag makes mpv continue using the PulseAudio driver even if the
sink is suspended.
This can be useful if JACK is running with PulseAudio in bridge mode and
the sink-input assigned to mpv is the one JACK controls, thus being
suspended.
By forcing mpv to still use PulseAudio in this case, the user can now
adjust the sink to an unsuspended one.
Replace the "+" with "/". The "+" was supposed to imply that the cache
is the sum of the time (demuxer cache) and the size in bytes (stream
cache). We could not provide something nicer, because we had no idea how
many seconds of media was buffered in the stream cache.
Now the stream cache is done, and both the duration and byte size show
the amount buffered in the demuxer cache. Hopefully "/" is better to
imply this properly. Update the manpage explanations too.
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