This adds cache as a possible path for mpv to internally pick
(~/.cache/mpv for non-darwin unix-like systems, the usual config
directory for everyone else). For gpu shader cache and icc cache,
controlling whether or not to write such files is done with the new
--gpu-shader-cache and --icc-cache options respectively. Additionally,
--cache-on-disk no longer requires explicitly setting the --cache-dir
option. The old options, --cache-dir, --gpu-shader-cache-dir, and
--icc-cache-dir simply set an override for the directory to save cache
files. If unset, then the cache is saved in XDG_CACHE_HOME.
A pain point for some users is the fact that watch_later is stored in
the ~/.config directory when it's really not configuration data. Roughly
2 years ago, XDG_STATE_DIR was added to the XDG Base Directory
Specification[0] and its description, user-specific state data, actually
perfectly matches what watch_later data is for. Let's go ahead and use
this directory as the default for watch_later. This change only affects
non-darwin unix-like systems (i.e. Linux, BSDs, etc.). The directory
doesn't move for anyone else.
Internally, quite a few things change with regards to the path
selection. If the platform in question does not have a statedir concept,
then the path selection will simply return "home" instead (old
behavior). Fixes#9147.
[0]: 4f2884e16d
Instead of erroring when values returned by profile-cond expressions
aren't booleans, apply the relative profiles as long as the return
values are truthy. This allows shortening conditions like
profile-cond=path:match('foo') ~= nil
to
profile-cond=path:match('foo')
These options make it possible to specify the directory that will be
passed to ass_set_fonts_dir(), akin to VLC's `--ssa-fontsdir` and
FFmpeg's `fontsdir`.
Fixes#8338
Pushing E (aka Shift+e) cycles through Editions for containers
that support editions, such as Matroska, although this feature was not
documented before this commit.
Whether or not the GNOME project has a tendency to make life
difficult for anyone outside their ecosystem, the user manual is
no place for childish rants such as this.
Keep it to what is relevant for users.
This adds a section to the documentation to explain how resuming
playback works, and in particular it explains how it affects which
playlist entry mpv starts playing from, since this feature was only
implied in the --playlist-start documentation.
It also groups the documentation of the watch later options together to
make them easier to find.
We have a few examples with vf=rotate=90, but libavfilter's rotate
accepts radians - not degrees, so a value of 90 is valid but misleading
because it's not 90 degrees.
Change the value of 90 at those examples.
Also replace "vf-add=hflip" with "vf add hflip", since that example
lists commands, not options, to run.
This fix the warnings shown below when compiling the manual for
any of its three common formats:
```
DOCS/man/mpv.rst:46: (ERROR/3) Unknown target name: "--input-test".
DOCS/man/stats.rst:183: (ERROR/3) Unknown target name: "--input-test".
```
In rst, double-backtick starts a code string only if it's followed by
a non-space char, otherwise it's taken literally, hence, `` x2.0``
was taken literally rather than code string.
Apple has decided that Mac OS X is now named macOS for the time
being. For consistency, it makes sense to use the same name for the
operating system in all places where it occurs. This commit renames
OS X to macOS in the documentation in places where it was otherwise
still using the old name.
While this says that _ is replaced with -, it doesn't say that you HAVE
to use _. This isn't obvious and I didn't understand why my profile
conditions with - weren't working at first. Seeing as the person who
reproted #8324 ran into this as well, this may be worth clarifying.
Apparently mpv supports loading config files from the same directory as
the mpv.exe. This is a fallback of some sort. It used the old_home
mechanism.
I want to add a warning if old_home exists, but that would always show
the warning on win32. Obviously we don't want that.
Add a separate exe_dir entry to deal with that.
Untested, but probably works.
Mistakenly reverted as part of the default configuration directory
location switch-back in aa18a8e1cd.
Separation of the mpv executable directory from old_path is a
good change now that we warn about the old_config directory also
existing.
Fixes#8232Fixes#8244Fixes#8262
The original documentation here is unclear, so let's describe the
behaviour we actually have. Inspired by wm4's updated docs but
obviously not identical because we're not changing any of the
behaviours.
Accepting ":" in addition to "," seems confusing and dumb. It only
causing problems when you want to pass a value that contains ":". Remove
support for ":", it is now treated like any other normal character. This
affects all options that are listed as "Key/value list" in the option
list.
It's possible that this breaks for someone who happened to use ":" as
separator. But this was undocumented, and never recommended. Originally,
the option treated many other characters in a special way, but this was
changed in commit a3d561f950. I'm, not sure why ":" was explicitly
included. Maybe because -the absurd -vf/--af syntax uses ":" as list
separator. But "," was always recommended and used in examples for
key/value options.
Fixes: #8021 (if you consider it a bug)
Add support for reading a byte range from a stream via
the `slice://` protocol.
Syntax is `slice://start[-end]@URL` where end is a maximum
(read until end or eof).
Size suffixes support in `m_option` is reused so they can
be used with start/end.
This can be very useful with e.g. large MPEGTS streams with
corruption or time-stamp jumps or other issues in them.
Signed-off-by: Mohammad AlSaleh <CE.Mohammad.AlSaleh@gmail.com>
Uses the mechanism introduced in the previous commit. The hope was to
make auto-profiles easier to use, and to get rid of the need for
manually created inverse profiles. Not sure if the end result is useful.
Make it possible to restore from profiles by backing up the option
values before profile application. This is sort of like unapplying a
profile. Since there might be multiple ways to do this, a profile needs
to explicitly provide the "profile-restore" option, which specifies how
exactly this should be done.
This is a big mess. There is not natural way to do this. Profile
application is "destructive" and simply changes the values of the
options. Maybe one could argue that the option system should have
hierarchical "overlays" of profiles instead, where unset options will
use the value of the lower profiles. Options set interactively by the
user would be the top profile. Default values would be in the lowest
profile. You could unapply a profile by simply removing it from this
overlay stack.
But uh, let's not, so here's something stupid. It reuses some code used
for file local options to reduce code size. At least the overlay idea
would still be possible in theory, and could be added as another
profile-restore mode.
This is used by the following commit.
This is taken from a somewhat older proof-of-concept script. The basic
idea, and most of the implementation, is still the same. The way the
profiles are actually defined changed.
I still feel bad about this being a Lua script, and running user
expressions as Lua code in a vaguely defined environment, but I guess as
far as balance of effort/maintenance/results goes, this is fine.
It's a bit bloated (the Lua scripting state is at least 150KB or so in
total), so in order to enable this by default, I decided it should
unload itself by default if no auto-profiles are used. (And currently,
it does not actually rescan the profile list if a new config file is
loaded some time later, so the script would do nothing anyway if no auto
profiles were defined.)
This still requires defining inverse profiles for "unapplying" a
profile. Also this is still somewhat racy. Both will probably be
alleviated to some degree in the future.
I'm tired of dealing with this frequent spawning of xdg-screensaver when
debugging and what not. xdg-screensaver was never a serious tool anyway,
it's more like some self-deprecating joke by FDO folks.
This will affect X11 on GNOME and other DEs. I'm singling out GNOME
though, because they are the ones actively sabotaging any sane
technical solutions and community cooperation.
I have been accused of taking it out on innocent GNOME users, while none
of this will reach GNOME developers. Of course that is not the
intention.
Apparently mpv supports loading config files from the same directory as
the mpv.exe. This is a fallback of some sort. It used the old_home
mechanism.
I want to add a warning if old_home exists, but that would always show
the warning on win32. Obviously we don't want that.
Add a separate exe_dir entry to deal with that.
Untested, but probably works.
XDG is stupid, so change back to the standard behavior. Unfortunately,
most users will now have the XDG one, so we will still need to load
this. (This is exactly the same problem as when XDG support was
introduced, just the other way around).
This should not affect any normal users. Hopefully I tested this well
enough; my intention is not to torment miserable XDG fans; they can keep
using their config dir if they want it.
This changes behavior in two cases:
- new users (now creates ~/.mpv/ instead of ~/.config/mpv/)
- users which have both directories
The latter case will behave subtly or obviously different, not sure.
Just fix your shit.
Extend the manpage with all the messy details, as far as I could reverse
engineer them from the code.
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.
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.
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 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.
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>
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.
Dudemanguy
Guido Cella
Frédéric Brière
Leo Izen
Avi Halachmi (:avih)
enly1
Mia Herkt
sfan5
garoto
wm4
soredake
Philip Langdale
Mohammad AlSaleh
Guido Cella
xPMo
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