Calculate the buffering percentage in the same code which determines
whether the player is or should be buffering. In particular it can't
happen that percentage and buffering state are slightly out of sync due
to calling DEMUXER_CTRL_GET_READER_STATE and reusing it with the
previously determined buffering state.
Now it's also easier to guarantee that the buffering state is updated
properly.
Add some more verbose output as well.
(Damn I hate this code, why did I write it?)
Ever since a change in mplayer2 or so, relative seeks were translated to
absolute seeks before sending them to the demuxer in most cases. The
only exception in current mpv is DVD seeking.
Remove the SEEK_ABSOLUTE flag; it's not the implied default. SEEK_FACTOR
is kept, because it's sometimes slightly useful for seeking in things
like transport streams. (And maybe mkv files without duration set?)
DVD seeking is terrible because DVD and libdvdnav are terrible, but
mostly because libdvdnav is terrible. libdvdnav does not expose seeking
with seek tables. (Although I know xbmc/kodi use an undocumented API
that is not declared in the headers by dladdr()ing it - I think the
function is dvdnav_jump_to_sector_by_time().) With the current mpv
policy if not giving a shit about DVD, just revert our half-working seek
hacks and always use dvdnav_time_search(). Relative seeking might get
stuck sometimes; in this case --hr-seek=always is recommended.
Some oddity that is not needed anymore. The only thing which still
referenced them was avoiding loading external files more than once,
which is now prevented by checking the list of tracks instead.
When playback of a video ends, and the next file has no video at all (no
cover art or anything), then the window must be cleared.
This also resizes the window forcibly, which is by design.
Fixes#2825.
See --lavfi-complex option.
This is still quite rough. There's no support for dynamic configuration
of any kind. There are probably corner cases where playback might freeze
or burn 100% CPU (due to dataflow problems when interaction with
libavfilter).
Future possible plans might include:
- freely switch tracks by providing some sort of default track graph
label
- automatically enabling audio visualization
- automatically mix audio or stack video when multiple tracks are
selected at once (similar to how multiple sub tracks can be selected)
Slightly helps with timeline stuff, like EDL. There is no need to keep
network (or even just disk I/O) busy for all segments at the same time,
because 1. the data won't be needed any time soon, and 2. will probably
be discarded anyway if the stream is seeked when segment is resumed.
Partially fixes#2692.
Eventually we want the VO be driven by a A->V filter, so a decoder
doesn't even have to exist. Some features definitely require a decoder
though (like reporting the decoder in use, hardware decoding, etc.), so
for each thing which accessed d_video, it has to be redecided if and how
it can access decoder state.
At least the "framedrop" property slightly changes semantics: you can
now always set this property, even if no video is active.
Some untested changes in this commit, but our bio-based distributed
test suite has to take care of this.
Basically reimplement it. The old implementation was quite stupid, and
was probably done this way because video filtering and output used to be
way less decoupled. Now we can reimplement it in a very simple way: when
backstepping, seek to current time, but keep the last frame that was
supposed to be discarded when reaching the target time. When the seek
finishes, prepend the saved frame to the video frame queue.
A disadvantage is that the new implementation fails to skip over
timeline boundaries (ordered chapters etc.), but this never worked
properly anyway. It's possible that this will be fixed some time in the
future.
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 slightly changes behavior when seeking with external audio/subtitle
tracks if transport streams and mpeg files are played, as well as
behavior when seeking with such external tracks.
get_main_demux_pts() is evil because it always blocks on the demuxer (if
there isn't already a packet queued). Thus it could lock up the player,
which is a shame because all other possible causes have been removed.
The reduced "precision" when seeking in the ts/mpeg cases (where
SEEK_FACTOR is used, resulting in byte seeks instead of timestamp seeks)
might lead to issues. We should probably drop this heuristic. (It was
introduced because there is no other way to seek in files with PTS
resets with libavformat, but its value is still questionable.)
PT_RELOAD_FILE is a somewhat obscure case when using DVB or when
switching Matroska editions. Both cases were broken, because the
asynchronous playback abort mechanism was still triggered. This
mechanism is used to force the demuxer and stream layers to exit
immediately (instead of blocking on I/O possibly forever), and
is normally disabled on playback start. The reopen path is a bit
strange, and needs to reset it manually.
Pointed out in #2568.
If you do "mpv /bla/", and then branch out into sub-directories using
playlist navigation, and then used quit and watch later, then playing
the same directory did not resume from the previous point. This was
because resuming is based on the path hash, so a path prefix can't be
detected when resuming the parent directory.
Solve this by writing each path prefix when playing directories is
involved. (This includes all parent paths, so interestingly, "mpv /"
would also resume in the above example.)
Something like this was requested multiple times, and I want it too.
When using --start with timeline/ordered chapters, then the
timeline_switch_to_time() function will look at playback_initialized
whether to rselect the currently selected streams on the demuxer level.
So we need to set this field to true at an earlier stage during
initialization, and in particular before the code for --start is called.
This includes the case of switching ordered chapter boundaries. It will
now be recreated on each timeline part switch. This shouldn't be much of
a problem with modern libass. (Older libass versions use fontconfig for
memory fonts, and will be very slow to reinitialize memory fonts.)
Since commit 6d9cb893, subtitle state doesn't survive timeline switches
(ordered chapters etc.). So there is no point in caching the state per
sh_stream anymore (which would be required to deal with multiple
segments). Move the cache to struct track.
(Whether it's worth caching the subtitle state just for the situation
when subtitle tracks get reselected is questionable. But for now, it's
nice to have the subtitles immediately show up when reselecting a
subtitle.)
When crossing timeline boundaries (such as switching to a new segment or
chapter with ordered chapters), clear the internal text subtitle list.
This breaks the sub-seek command, but is otherwise not too harmful.
Fixes Sub-OC-test-final7.mkv. (The internal text subtitle list is
basically a cache to make subtitles show up at the right time when
seeking back.)
I suspect this was caused by 76fcef61. The sample file times subtitles
slightly before the video frame when it should show up. This is to avoid
problems with subtitles showing up a frame later than intended. It also
means that a subtitle which is supposed to show up on the start of a
timeline part boundary actually might first be shown in a different
part. Since we now manipulate the packet timestamps, instead of
manipulating timestamps after the subtitle decoder, this means this
subtitle event would have 2 timestamps, which our code of course does
not handle.
If the two parts come one after another, this would actually work (since
the subtitle would have the same timestamps in the old and new part),
but it breaks if the new part (which follows the old part in the
physical file) is has a completely different start time in the timeline.
Essentially, the trick used to time subtitles correctly is incompatible
with the way we cache subtitles (to make them survive seeks).
The simple solution is just clearing the cached subtitles when crossing
chapter boundaries.
The demuxer infrastructure was originally single-threaded. To make it
suitable for multithreading (specifically, demuxing and decoding on
separate threads), some sort of tripple-buffering was introduced. There
are separate "struct demuxer" allocations. The demuxer thread sets the
state on d_thread. If anything changes, the state is copied to d_buffer
(the copy is protected by a lock), and the decoder thread is notified.
Then the decoder thread copies the state from d_buffer to d_user (again
while holding a lock). This avoids the need for locking in the
demuxer/decoder code itself (only demux.c needs an internal, "invisible"
lock.)
Remove the streams/num_streams fields from this tripple-buffering
schema. Move them to the internal struct, and protect them with the
internal lock. Use accessors for read access outside of demux.c.
Other than replacing all field accesses with accessors, this separates
allocating and adding sh_streams. This is needed to avoid race
conditions. Before this change, this was awkwardly handled by first
initializing the sh_stream, and then sending a stream change event. Now
the stream is allocated, then initialized, and then declared as
immutable and added (at which point it becomes visible to the decoder
thread immediately).
This change is useful for PR #2626. And eventually, we should probably
get entirely of the tripple buffering, and this makes a nice first step.
Use the demux_set_ts_offset() added in the previous commit to base each
timeline segment to use timestamps according to its relative position
within the overall timeline. As a consequence we don't need to care
about these timestamps anymore, and everything becomes simpler.
(Another minor but delicious nugget of sanity.)
Most of this is explained in the DOCS additions.
This gives us slightly more sanity, because there is less interaction
between the various parts. The goal is getting rid of the video_offset
entirely.
The simplification extends to the user API. In particular, we don't need
to fix missing parts in the API, such as the lack for a seek command
that seeks relatively to the start time. All these things are now
transparent.
(If someone really wants to know the real timestamps/start time, new
properties would have to be added.)
Get rid of get_past_frame_durations(), which was a bit too messy. Add
a past_frames array, which contains the same information in a more
reasonable way. This also means that we can get the exact current and
past frame durations without going through awful stuff. (The main
problem is that vo_pts_history contains future frames as well, which is
needed for frame backstepping etc., but gets in the way here.)
Also disable the automatic disabling of display-sync if the frame
duration changes, and extend the frame durations allowed for display
sync. To allow arbitrarily high durations, vo.c needs to be changed
to pause and potentially redraw OSD while showing a single frame, so
they're still limited.
In an attempt to deal with VFR, calculate the overall speed using the
average FPS. The frame scheduling itself does not use the average FPS,
but the duration of the current frame. This does not work too well,
but provides a good base for further improvements.
Where this commit actually helps a lot is dealing with rounded
timestamps, e.g. if the container framerate is wrong or unknown, or
if the muxer wrote incorrectly rounded timestamps. While the rounding
errors apparently can't be get rid of completely in the general case,
this is still much better than e.g. disabling display-sync completely
just because some frame durations go out of bounds.
The stop command didn't always stop. In this case, opening a HLS URL and
then sending "stop" during loading would actually make it fallback to
parsing it as a playlist, and then continued to play the playlist items.
(This corner case makes several unfortunate factors come together to
produce this really odd behavior.)
Another issue is that the "stop" was not always explicitly set. This
could be a problem when sending several commands at once. Only the
"quit" command should have priority over the "stop" command, so this is
still checked.
This was in sub/, because the code used to be specific to subtitles. It
was extended to automatically load external audio files too, and moving
the file and renaming it was long overdue.
The previous commit was incomplete (and I didn't notice due to a broken
test procedure).
The annoying part is that actually creating the VO was separate; redo
this and merge the code for this into handle_force_window() as well.
This will also make implementing proper reaction to runtime option
changes easier. (Only the part for actually listening to option changes
is missing.)
This is a bad hack; the correct way to handle this would be implementing
profiles differently, and then listen to option changes and act on them
dynamically.
If this mode is enabled, the player tries to strictly synchronize video
to display refresh. It will adjust playback speed to match the display,
so if you play 23.976 fps video on a 24 Hz screen, playback speed is
increased by approximately 1/1000. Audio wll be resampled to keep up
with playback.
This is different from the default sync mode, which will sync video to
audio, with the consequence that video might skip or repeat a frame once
in a while to make video keep up with audio.
This is still unpolished. There are some major problems as well; in
particular, mkv VFR files won't work well. The reason is that Matroska
is terrible and rounds timestamps to milliseconds. This makes it rather
hard to guess the framerate of a section of video that is playing. We
could probably fix this by just accepting jittery timestamps (instead
of explicitly disabling the sync code in this case), but I'm not ready
to accept such a solution yet.
Another issue is that we are extremely reliant on OS video and audio
APIs working in an expected manner, which of course is not too often
the case. Consequently, the new sync mode is a bit fragile.
For video sync, we want separate playback speed controls for user-
requested speed and the "correction" speed for video timing. Further, we
use this separation to make sure only a resampler is inserted if
playback speed is only changed for video sync correction.
As of this commit, this is basically inactive code. It's just
preparation for the video sync code (the following commit).
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff