After a new file is loaded, playback never starts instantly. Rather, it
takes some playloop iterations until initial audio and video have been
decoded, and the outputs have been (lazily) initialized. This means you
will get status line updates between the messages that inform of the
initialized outputs. This is a bit annoying and clutters the terminal
output needlessly.
Fix this by never printing the status line before playback isn't fully
initialized. Do this by reusing the --term-playing-msg code (which
prints a message once playback is initialized). This also makes sure the
status line _is_ shown during playback restart when doing seeks.
It's possible that the change will make the output more confusing if for
some reason is stuck forever initializing playback, but that seems like
an obscure corner case that never happens, so forget about it.
print_status() is called at a later point anyway (and before sleeping),
so this code has little effect. This code was added in commit a4f7a3df5,
and I can't observe any problems with idle mode anymore.
Now print_status() is called from a single place only, within osd.c.
This mostly uses the same idea as with vo_vdpau.c, but much simplified.
On X11, it tries to get the display framerate with XF86VM, and limits
the frequency of new video frames against it. Note that this is an old
extension, and is confirmed not to work correctly with multi-monitor
setups. But we're using it because it was already around (it is also
used by vo_vdpau).
This attempts to predict the next vsync event by using the time of the
last frame and the display FPS. Even if that goes completely wrong,
the results are still relatively good.
On other systems, or if the X11 code doesn't return a display FPS, a
framerate of 1000 is assumed. This is infinite for all practical
purposes, and means that only frames which are definitely too late are
dropped. This probably has worse results, but is still useful.
"--framedrop=yes" is basically replaced with "--framedrop=decoder". The
old framedropping mode is kept around, and should perhaps be improved.
Dropping on the decoder level is still useful if decoding itself is too
slow.
Apparently users prefer this behavior.
It was used for subtitles too, so move the code to calculate the video
offset into a separate function. Seeking also needs to be fixed.
Fixes#1018.
The OSD is marked as changed, but the core isn't notified and this
doesn't immediately wakeup. (Possibly the OSD code should wakeup the
core instead, but maybe that woudl be overkill.)
Observed when using "mp.use_suspend = false" in the OSC, and pausing,
and moving the mouse pointer out of the window. The last part of the
fade remained visible for longer than intended.
Code reorganized to make layouts exchangeable
alternative test layout can be tested with
layout=slimbox
in the OSC config
timers are now used to properly animate the fade out when the
player is paused
duplicate seeks are discarded again
sub_reset() was called on cycling subtitle tracks and on seeking. Since
we don't want that subtitles disppear on cycling, sd_lavc.c didn't clear
its internal subtitle queue on reset, which meant that seeking with PGS
subtitles could leave the subtitle on screen (PGS subtitles usually
don't have a duration set).
Call it only on seeking, so we can also strictly clear the subtitle
queue in sd_lavc.
(This still can go very wrong if you disable a subtitle, seek, and
enable it again - for example, if used with libavformat that uses "SSA"
style demuxed ASS subtitle packets. That shouldn't happen with newer
libavformat versions, and the user can "correct" it anyway by executing
a seek while the subtitle is selected.)
Until recently, vo_opengl could be accessed from a single thread only,
due to the OpenGL API context being thread-specific. This issue doesn't
exist anymore, because VOs run on their own thread. This means we can
simply lock/unlock the playloop instead of doing something complicated
to get the playloop thread to execute our code.
This ran adjust_sync() on every playloop iteration, instead of every
newly decoded frame. It seems this was idempotent in the common case,
but the code was originally designed to be run once only, so restore
that.
The previous commit broke these things, and fixing them is separate in
this commit in order to reduce the volume of changes.
Move the image queue from the VO to the playback core. The image queue
is a remnant of the old way how vdpau was implemented, and increasingly
became more and more an artifact. In the end, it did only one thing:
computing the duration of the current frame. This was done by taking the
PTS difference between the current and the future frame. We keep this,
but by moving it out of the VO, we don't have to special-case format
changes anymore. This simplifies the code a lot.
Since we need the queue to compute the duration only, a queue size
larger than 2 makes no sense, and we can hardcode that.
Also change how the last frame is handled. The last frame is a bit of a
problem, because video timing works by showing one frame after another,
which makes it a special case. Make the VO provide a function to notify
us when the frame is done, instead. The frame duration is used for that.
This is not perfect. For example, changing playback speed during the
last frame doesn't update the end time. Pausing will not stop the clock
that times the last frame. But I don't think this matters for such a
corner case.
The VO is run inside its own thread. It also does most of video timing.
The playloop hands the image data and a realtime timestamp to the VO,
and the VO does the rest.
In particular, this allows the playloop to do other things, instead of
blocking for video redraw. But if anything accesses the VO during video
timing, it will block.
This also fixes vo_sdl.c event handling; but that is only a side-effect,
since reimplementing the broken way would require more effort.
Also drop --softsleep. In theory, this option helps if the kernel's
sleeping mechanism is too inaccurate for video timing. In practice, I
haven't ever encountered a situation where it helps, and it just burns
CPU cycles. On the other hand it's probably actively harmful, because
it prevents the libavcodec decoder threads from doing real work.
Side note:
Originally, I intended that multiple frames can be queued to the VO. But
this is not done, due to problems with OSD and other certain features.
OSD in particular is simply designed in a way that it can be neither
timed nor copied, so you do have to render it into the video frame
before you can draw the next frame. (Subtitles have no such restriction.
sd_lavc was even updated to fix this.) It seems the right solution to
queuing multiple VO frames is rendering on VO-backed framebuffers, like
vo_vdpau.c does. This requires VO driver support, and is out of scope
of this commit.
As consequence, the VO has a queue size of 1. The existing video queue
is just needed to compute frame duration, and will be moved out in the
next commit.
The function video_decode_and_filter(), called between initializing the
local vf variable and using it, can actually destroy and recreate the
filter. Thus, the vf variable turns into a dangling pointer if that
happens.
Could be observed with: --hwdec=vda --deinterlace=yes --vf=yadif
(Also happens with vdpau/vaapi.)
This code was sending a string to a different thread, and then
deallocated the string shortly after, which means most of the time
the other thread was accessing a dangling pointer.
It's possible that this is the cause for #1002.
Completely useless, and could accidentally be enabled by cycling
framedrop modes. Just get rid of it.
But still allow triggering the old code with --vd-lavc-framedrop, in
case someone asks for it. If nobody does, this new option will be
removed eventually.
Trying to jump chapters in a gile that has no chapters does nothing,
not even show a warning. This is confusing. The reason is that the
"add chapter" command will just bail out completely if the property
is unavailable.
This was because it exited when it couldn't get the property type.
Instead of exiting, just don't enter the code that needs the type.
(I'm not sure when this behavior changed. I consider it a regression.
It was probably caused by changes to the chapter code, which perhaps
started returning UNAVAILABLE instead of OK if there are no chapters.)
The client API exports this state via events already, but maybe it's
better to explicitly provide this property in order to facilitate use on
OSD and similar cases.
This is delayed by 300ms - before that, the status doesn't change. I
feel like it would too annoying if the status line would "flicker" on
normal seek by quickly showing and hiding the indicator.
If this code is not skipped, encoding (or dumping with --ao=pcm) will
attempt to adjust video timing to audio. Since another commit (0cce8fe6)
already avoids writing audio ahead, this didn't slow down encoding to
realtime, but it was still significantly slower.
This change should actually remove all extra sleeping.
This builds but both the libmpv example and the cplayer block infinitely when
building libmpv. That's because we wait inifinitely in `dispatch_sync` as
there's no event loop in the main thread that allows for libdispatch to work..
Whiel we are at it, we should probably investigate how to use mp_dispatch
instead since it is a little lower level and could give us higher control in
building and event loop.
The subtitle timing logic always used the demuxer's start time as video
offset. This made external subtitle files "just work" with file formats
like TS, which usually have a non-0 start time. But it was wrong for
subtitles muxed with the TS, so adjust the time offset explicitly with
external files only.
Although disabling both video and audio is surely an obscure corner
case, it's allowed, and we don't want the demuxer to skip arbitrary
packets.
Basically, make the heuristic for checking interleaved files affect
external files only.
Handle --term-playing-msg at a better place.
Move MPV_EVENT_TICK hack into a separate function. Also add some words
to the client API that you shouldn't use it. (But better leave breaking
it for later.)
Handle --frames and frame_step differently. Remove the mess from the
playloop, and do it after frame display. Give up on the weird semantics
for audio-only mode (they didn't make sense anyway), and adjust the
manpage accordingly.
If seeks take very long, it's better not to freeze up the display.
(This doesn't handle the case when decoding video frames is extremely
slow; just if hr-seek is used, or the demuxer is threaded and blocks on
network I/O.)
Internally, there are two mechanisms which can trigger property
notification as used with "observed" properties in the client API.
The first mechanism associates events with a group of properties that
are potentially changed by a certain event. mp_event_property_change[]
declares these associations, and maps each event to a set of strings.
When an event happens, the set of strings is matched against the list of
observed properties of each client. Make this more efficient by
comparing bitsets of events instead. This way, only a bit-wise "and" is
needed for each observed property. Even better, we can completely skip
clients which have no observed properties that match.
The second mechanism just updates individual properties explicitly by
name. Optimize this by using the property index instead. It would be
nice if we could reuse the first mechanism for the second one, but
there are too many properties to fit into a 64 bit mask.
(Though the limit on 64 events might get us into trouble later...)
Almost nothing was left of it.
The only thing this commit actually removes is support for reading
input commands from stdin. But you can emulate this via:
--input-file=/dev/stdin --input-terminal=no
However, this won't work on Windows. Just use a named pipe.
Playing audio files with embedded cover art broke due to some of the
recent changes. Treat video EOF properly, and don't burn the CPU.
Disable hrseek for video in attached picture mode, since the decoder
will always produce a new image, which makes hrseek never terminate.
Fixes#970.
Andrey Morozov
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ChrisK2
Stefano Pigozzi
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