This uses a different method to piece segments together. The old
approach basically changes to a new file (with a new start offset) any
time a segment ends. This meant waiting for audio/video end on segment
end, and then changing to the new segment all at once. It had a very
weird impact on the playback core, and some things (like truly gapless
segment transitions, or frame backstepping) just didn't work.
The new approach adds the demux_timeline pseudo-demuxer, which presents
an uniform packet stream from the many segments. This is pretty similar
to how ordered chapters are implemented everywhere else. It also reminds
of the FFmpeg concat pseudo-demuxer.
The "pure" version of this approach doesn't work though. Segments can
actually have different codec configurations (different extradata), and
subtitles are most likely broken too. (Subtitles have multiple corner
cases which break the pure stream-concatenation approach completely.)
To counter this, we do two things:
- Reinit the decoder with each segment. We go as far as allowing
concatenating files with completely different codecs for the sake
of EDL (which also uses the timeline infrastructure). A "lighter"
approach would try to make use of decoder mechanism to update e.g.
the extradata, but that seems fragile.
- Clip decoded data to segment boundaries. This is equivalent to
normal playback core mechanisms like hr-seek, but now the playback
core doesn't need to care about these things.
These two mechanisms are equivalent to what happened in the old
implementation, except they don't happen in the playback core anymore.
In other words, the playback core is completely relieved from timeline
implementation details. (Which honestly is exactly what I'm trying to
do here. I don't think ordered chapter behavior deserves improvement,
even if it's bad - but I want to get it out from the playback core.)
There is code duplication between audio and video decoder common code.
This is awful and could be shareable - but this will happen later.
Note that the audio path has some code to clip audio frames for the
purpose of codec preroll/gapless handling, but it's not shared as
sharing it would cause more pain than it would help.
Will be helpful for the coming filter support. I planned on merging
audio/video decoding, but this will have to wait a bit longer, so only
remove the duplicate status codes.
Similar to the video path. dec_audio.c now handles decoding only. It
also looks very similar to dec_video.c, and actually contains some of
the rewritten code from it. (A further goal might be unifying the
decoders, I guess.)
High potential for regressions.
This is mainly a refactor. I'm hoping it will make some things easier
in the future due to cleanly separating codec metadata and stream
metadata.
Also, declare that the "codec" field can not be NULL anymore. demux.c
will set it to "" if it's NULL when added. This gets rid of a corner
case everything had to handle, but which rarely happened.
This is another attempt at making files with sparse video frames work
better.
The problem is that you generally can't know whether a jump in video
timestamps is just a (very) long video frame, or a timestamp reset. Due
to the existence of files with sparse video frames (new frame only every
few seconds or longer), every heuristic will be arbitrary (in general,
at least).
But we can use the fact that if video is continuous, audio should also
be continuous. Audio discontinuities can be easily detected, and if that
happens, reset some of the playback state.
The way the playback state is reset is rather radical (resets decoders
as well), but it's just better not to cause too much obscure stuff to
happen here. If the A/V sync code were to be rewritten, it should
probably strictly use PTS values (not this strange time_frame/delay
stuff), which would make it much easier to detect such situations and
to react to them.
Deal with jittering Matroska crap timestamps. This reuses the mechanism
that is needed for frames without PTS, and adds a heuristic to it. If
the interpolated timestamp is less than 1ms away from the real one, it
might be due to Matroska timestamp rounding (or other file formats with
such rounding, or files remuxed from Matroska).
While there actually isn't much of a need to do this (audio PTS
jittering by such a low amount doesn't negatively influence much), it
helps with identifying jitter from other sources.
Instead of requiring the decoder to set the PTS directly on the
dec_audio context (including handling absence of PTS etc.), transfer the
packet PTS to the decoded audio frame. Marginally simpler, and gives
more control to the generic code.
This provides a new method for enabling spdif passthrough. The old
method via --ad (--ad=spdif:ac3 etc.) is deprecated. The deprecated
method will probably stop working at some point.
This also supports PCM fallback. One caveat is that it will lose at
least 1 audio packet in doing so. (I don't care enough to prevent this.)
(This is named after the old S/PDIF connector, because it uses the same
underlying technology as far as the higher level protoco is concerned.
Also, the user should be renamed that passthrough is backwards.)
We've been prefering the libavcodec mp3 decoder for half a year now.
There is likely no benefit at all for using the libmpg123 one. It's just
a maintenance burden, and tricks users into thinking it's a required
dependency.
Trying to handle such video is almost worthless, but it was requested by
at least 2 users.
If there are no timestamps, enable byte seeking by setting
ts_resets_possible. Use the video FPS (wherever it comes from) and the
audio samplerate for timing. The latter was already done by making the
first packet emit DTS=0; remove this again and do it "properly" in a
higher level.
Commit 5e25a3d2 broke handling of the initial frame (the one decoded
with initial_audio_decode()). It didn't update the pts_offset field,
leading to a shift in timestamps by one audio frame.
Fix by calling the actual decode function in a single place. This
requires slightly more changes than what would be necessary to fix the
bug, but it also somewhat simplifies the data flow.
The goal is switching the whole audio chain to using refcounted frames.
This brings the architecture closer to FFmpeg, enables better
integration with libavfilter, will reduce useless copying somewhat, and
will probably allow better timestamp tracking.
For now, every filter goes through a semi-awful wrapper in
af_do_filter(), though. This will be fixed step by step, and the wrapper
should eventually be removed. Another thing that will have to be done is
improving the timestamp handling and avoiding extra copies for the AO.
Some of the new code is rather similar to the video filter code (the
core filter code basically just has types replaced). Such code
duplication is normally very unwanted, but in this case there's probably
no other choice. On the other hand, this code is pretty simple (even if
somewhat tricky). Maybe there will be unified filter code in the future,
but this is still far away.
This rewrites the audio decode loop to some degree. Audio filters don't
do refcounted frames yet, so af.c contains a hacky "emulation".
Remove some of the weird heuristic-heavy code in dec_audio.c. Instead of
estimating how much audio we need to filter, we always filter full
frames. Maybe this should be adjusted later: in case filtering increases
the volume of the audio data, we should try not to buffer too much
filter output by reducing the input that is fed at once.
For ad_spdif.c and ad_mpg123.c, we don't avoid extra copying yet - it
doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Use a pseudo-filter when changing speed with resampling, instead of
somehow changing a samplerate somewhere. This uses the same underlying
mechanism, but is a bit more structured and cleaner. It also makes some
of the following changes easier.
Since we now always use filters to change audio speed, move most of the
work set_playback_speed() does to recreate_audio_filters().
There's no real reason why audio_init_filter() should exist. Just use
af_init or af_reinit directly. (We lose a useless message; the same
information is printed in a quite close place with more details.)
Requires less code, and the way the filter chain is marked as having
failed to initialize allows just switching off audio instead of
crashing if trying to insert a volume filter in mixer.c fails, and
recreating the old filter chain fails too.
libavcodec/libavformat now handles gapless audio better. In theory, this
could be implemented with ad_mpg123 too, but since libavformat strips
metadata from mp3 files and passes pure mp3 packets to the decoders
only, this can't work by itself. Instead, the player must pass this
metadata separately. libav* do this relatively transparently over packet
"side data" (attached to AVPacket).
It might also be possible to let libmpg123 handles all this by
implementing it as demuxer that outputs PCM, but that would have other
problems, and I think it's better to make libavformat work correctly.
libmpg123 can still be used with '--ad=mpg123:mp3'.
Also see issue #1101.
bstr.c doesn't really deserve its own directory, and compat had just
a few files, most of which may as well be in osdep. There isn't really
any justification for these extra directories, so get rid of them.
The compat/libav.h was empty - just delete it. We changed our approach
to API compatibility, and will likely not need it anymore.
This commit makes audio decoding non-blocking. If e.g. the network is
too slow the playloop will just go to sleep, instead of blocking until
enough data is available.
For video, this was already done with commit 7083f88c. For audio, it's
unfortunately much more complicated, because the audio decoder was used
in a blocking manner. Large changes are required to get around this.
The whole playback restart mechanism must be turned into a statemachine,
especially since it has close interactions with video restart. Lots of
video code is thus also changed.
(For the record, I don't think switching this code to threads would
make this conceptually easier: the code would still have to deal with
external input while blocked, so these in-between states do get visible
[and thus need to be handled] anyway. On the other hand, it certainly
should be possible to modularize this code a bit better.)
This will probably cause a bunch of regressions.
Accidentally broken in b6af44d3. For ad_lavc (and in general), the PTS
was not updated correctly when filtering only parts of audio frames,
and for ad_mpg123 and ad_spdif the PTS was additionally offset by the
frame size.
This could lead to incorrect time display, and possibly broken A/V sync.
Execute the format change based on whether we logically detected EOF
(after filters), instead of when the decode buffer was drained. It's
slightly cleaner. (The requirement of len>0 existed before.)
Don't return an EOF code if there's still buffered data.
Also, don't call demux_stream_eof() in the playloop. There's probably
nothing wrong with it, but it's cleaner not to use it.
Also give AD_EOF its own value, so that a decoding error doesn't drain
audio by causing an EOF condition.
Move a function call, which does not change semantics.
Write the extra buffer sample count in a more straight-forward way; the
old code was not meaningful in any way (anymore).
It's true that the decoder can successfully decode, but return no data
(for various reasons). We don't need to handle this specially, though.
We just let the decoder decode some more data. This doesn't increase the
danger of an endless loop either, because audio_decode() already calls
this function until enough is decoded.
This commit mainly moves the initial decoding of data (done to probe the
audio format) to generic code. This will make it easier to make audio
decoding non-blocking in a later commit.
This commit also changes how decoders return data: instead of having
them write the data into a prepared buffer, they return a reference to
an internal buffer (by setting dec_audio.decoded). This makes it
significantly easier to handle audio format changes, since the decoders
don't really need to care anymore.
Also remove MSGL_SMODE and friends.
Note: The indent in options.rst was added to work around a bug in
ReportLab that causes the PDF manual build to fail.
This collects statistics and other things. The option dumps raw data
into a file. A script to visualize this data is included too.
Litter some of the player code with calls that generate these
statistics.
In general, this will be helpful to debug timing dependent issues, such
as A/V sync problems. Normally, one could argue that this is the task of
a real profiler, but then we'd have a hard time to include extra
information like audio/video PTS differences. We could also just
hardcode all statistics collection and processing in the player code,
but then we'd end up with something like mplayer's status line, which
was cluttered and required a centralized approach (i.e. getting the data
to the status line; so it was all in mplayer.c). Some players can
visualize such statistics on OSD, but that sounds even more complicated.
So the approach added with this commit sounds sensible.
The stats-conv.py script is rather primitive at the moment and its
output is semi-ugly. It uses matplotlib, so it could probably be
extended to do a lot, so it's not a dead-end.
The tmsg stuff was for the internal gettext() based translation system,
which nobody ever attempted to use and thus was removed. mp_gtext() and
set_osd_tmsg() were also for this.
mp_dbg was once enabled in debug mode only, but since we have log level
for enabling debug messages, it seems utterly useless.
This can be reproduced with:
mpv short.wav -af 'lavfi="aecho=0.8:0.9:5000|6800:0.3|0.25"'
An audio file that is just 1-2 seconds long should play for 8-9 seconds,
which audible echo towards the end.
The code assumes that when playing with AF_FILTER_FLAG_EOF, the filter
will either produce output, or has all remaining data flushed. I'm not
really sure whether this really works if there are multiple filters with
EOF handling in the chain. To handle it correctly, af_lavfi should retry
filtering if 1. EOF flag is set, 2. there were input samples, and 3. no
output samples were produced. But currently it seems to work well enough
anyway.
The new signature is actually closer to how it actually works, and
someone who is not familiar to the API and how it works might make fewer
fatal mistakes with the new signature than the old one. Pretty weird.
Do this to sneak in a flags parameter, which will later be used to flush
remaining data of at least vf_lavfi.
These used the suffix _resync_stream, which is a bit misleading. Nothing
gets "resynchronized", they really just reset state.
(Some audio decoders actually used to "resync" by reading packets for
resuming playback, but that's not the case anymore.)
Also move the function in dec_video.c to the top of the file.
This includes the case when lavc decodes audio with more than 8
channels, which our audio chain currently does not support.
the changes in ad_lavc.c are just simplifications. The code tried to
avoid overriding global parameters if it found something invalid, but
that is not needed anymore.
wm4
Marcin Kurczewski
Martin Herkt
Alessandro Ghedini