Consider e.g. --aid=2 with a file that has only 1 track. Then it would
fall back to selecting track 1. Stop doing this. If no matching track is
found, this will not select any track now.
Note that the fingerprint stuff (track_layout_hash in the source)
prevents softens the impact of this change. Without the fingerprint,
playing a dual-audio file with the second track selected, and then a
single-audio file, would play the second file without audio. But the
fingerprint resets it due to differences in the track list.
Try to exhaustively document this and tricky interactions between the
other features. What a damn mess, I think it's simply cursed. Of course
it's still my fault.
See: #7608
Some time ago, properties and options were mostly unified. However, the
track selection properties/options semantics are incompatible to this
change. I'm still trying to handle the fallout.
There are two things that are in the way:
1. Track properties somehow return the runtime selection, not the option
value (all while properties are supposed to be aliases to options
with the same name).
2. The user's track options are not supposed to be changed without
interaction. If a track is auto-selected, the property should return
its ID, but the option value should remain at "auto". Only if the
user actually writes to the property the option should change. E.g.
playing e.g. an audio-only file and then a normal video file not play
the video file with --vid=no just because the audio file had no video
track.
In addition to each of them being in conflict with the property/option
unification, attempt to fix one of them breaks the other one.
Today, we're trying to fix parts of this and avoiding an unfortunate
case where you can get a conflicting option/property value, and where
trying to select a track does nothing if the track to select has the
same ID as the option value.
This breaks 2. from above in certain situations. See manpage additions.
See: #7608
This sucks, but is helpful for testing.
Obviously, it would be much nicer if there were a way to specify _all_
scaler options per filter (if the user wanted), instead of always using
the global options. But this is "too hard" for now. For testing, it is
extremely convenient to select the scaler backend, so add this option,
but make clear that it could go away. We'd delete it once there is a
better mechanism for this.
Keys and lines-to-scroll are configurabe, and the scroll keys are only
bound on pages which support scrolling (currently only page 4) - also
during oneshot (like the page-switching keys).
Scroll offset is reset for all pages on any key - except scroll keys, so
that entering or switching to a page resets the scroll, as well as when
"re-entering" the same page or "re-activating" the stats oneshot view.
TODO: print_page(..) is highly associated with extending the oneshot
timer if required. The timer handling can probably move into print_page
and removed from all the places which boilerplate its management.
While --input-file was removed for justified reasons, wanting to pass
down socket FDs this way is legitimate, useful, and easy to implement.
One odd thing is that
Fixes: #7592
Add an infrastructure for collecting performance-related data, use it in
some places. Add rendering of them to stats.lua.
There were two main goals: minimal impact on the normal code and normal
playback. So all these stats_* function calls either happen only during
initialization, or return immediately if no stats collection is going
on. That's why it does this lazily adding of stats entries etc. (a first
iteration made each stats entry an API thing, instead of just a single
stats_ctx, but I thought that was getting too intrusive in the "normal"
code, even if everything gets worse inside of stats.c).
You could get most of this information from various profilers (including
the extremely primitive --dump-stats thing in mpv), but this makes it
easier to see the most important information at once (at least in
theory), partially because we know best about the context of various
things.
Not very happy with this. It's all pretty primitive and dumb. At this
point I just wanted to get over with it, without necessarily having to
revisit it later, but with having my stupid statistics.
Somehow the code feels terrible. There are a lot of meh decisions in
there that could be better or worse (but mostly could be better), and it
just sucks but it's also trivial and uninteresting and does the job. I
guess I hate programming. It's so tedious and the result is always shit.
Anyway, enjoy.
That's where it comes from after all. The other property does not have
much of a reason to exist anymore, but there's no real reason to remove
it either.
Ancient Linux audio output. Apparently it survived until now, because
some BSDs (but not all) had use of this. But these should work with
ao_sdl or ao_openal too (that's why these AOs exist after all). ao_oss
itself has the problem that it's virtually unmaintainable from my point
of view due to all the subtle (or non-subtle) difference. Look at the
ifdef mess and the multiple code paths (that shouldn't exist) in the
removed source code.
I wonder what this even is. I've never heard of anyone using it, and
can't find a corresponding library that actually builds with it. Good
enough to remove.
It was always marked as "experimental", and had inherent problems that
were never fixed. It was disabled by default, and I don't think anyone
is using it.
May or may not help when dealing with playlist loading in scripts. It's
supposed to help with the mean fact that loading a recursive playlist
will essentially edit the playlist behind the API user's back.
Scripts such as the OSC can be loaded and unloaded at runtime by
toggling the option that enables them. (It even works, although normally
it's only used to control initial loading.)
Unloading was racy because it used the client name; fix this.
The load-script change is an accidental feature. And probably useless.
I mostly intend this for internal purposes. Probably pretty useless for
external API users, but on the other hand trivial to expose. While it
makes a lot of sense internally, I'll probably regret exposing it.
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.
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