For example, previously, --audio-device='alsa/' would provide ao->device="" to
the alsa driver in spite of the fact that this is an already parsed option. To
avoid requiring a check of ao->device[0] in every driver, make sure this never
happens.
Long planned. Leads to some sanity.
There still are some rather gross things. Especially g_groups is ugly,
and a hack that can hopefully be removed. (There is a plan for it, but
whether it's implemented depends on how much energy is left.)
This will make it easier for AOs to add explicit default device entries.
(See next commit.)
Hopefully this change doesn't lead accidentally to bogus "Default"
entries to appear, but then it can only happen if the device ID is
empty, which would mean the underlying audio API returned bogus entries.
Use the device name as fallback. This is ugly, but still better than
skipping the description entirely. This can be an issue on ALSA, where
the API can return entries without proper description.
Currently, calling mp_input_wakeup() will wake up the core thread (also
called the playloop). This seems odd, but currently the core indeed
calls mp_input_wait() when it has nothing more to do. It's done this way
because MPlayer used input_ctx as central "mainloop".
This is probably going to change. Remove direct calls to this function,
and replace it with mp_wakeup_core() calls. ao and vo are changed to use
opaque callbacks and not use input_ctx for this purpose. Other code
already uses opaque callbacks, or has legitimate reasons to use
input_ctx directly (such as sending actual user input).
I decided that it's too much work to convert all the VO/AOs to the new
option system manually at once. So here's a shitty hack instead, which
achieves almost the same thing. (The only user-visible difference is
that e.g. --vo=name:help will list the sub-options normally, instead of
showing them as deprecation placeholders. Also, the sub-option parser
will verify each option normally, instead of deferring to the global
option parser.)
Another advantage is that once we drop the deprecated options,
converting the remaining things will be easier, because we obviously
don't need to add the compatibility hacks.
Using this mechanism is separate in the next commit to keep the diff
noise down.
Instead of requiring each VO or AO to manually add members to MPOpts and
the global option table, make it possible to register them automatically
via vo_driver/ao_driver.global_opts members. This avoids modifying
options.c/options.h every time, including having to duplicate the exact
ifdeffery used to enable a driver.
Normally I'd prefer a bunch of smaller functions with fewer parameters
over a single function with a lot of parameters. But future changes will
require messing with the parameters in a slightly more complex way, so a
combined function will be needed anyway. The now-unused "global"
parameter is required for later as well.
Positional parameters cause problems because they can be ambiguous with
flag options. If a flag option is removed or turned into a non-flag
option, it'll usually be interpreted as value for the first sub-option
(as positional parameter), resulting in very confusing error messages.
This changes it into a simple "option not found" error.
I don't expect that anyone really used positional parameters with --vo
or --ao. Although the docs for --ao=pulse seem to encourage positional
parameters for the host/sink options, which means it could possibly
annoy some PulseAudio users.
--vf and --af are still mostly used with positional parameters, so this
must be a configurable option in the option parser.
This commit adds an --audio-channel=auto-safe mode, and makes it the
default. This mode behaves like "auto" with most AOs, except with
ao_alsa. The intention is to allow multichannel output by default on
sane APIs. ALSA is not sane as in it's so low level that it will e.g.
configure any layout over HDMI, even if the connected A/V receiver does
not support it. The HDMI fuckup is of course not ALSA's fault, but other
audio APIs normally isolate applications from dealing with this and
require the user to globally configure the correct output layout.
This will help with other AOs too. ao_lavc (encoding) is changed to the
new semantics as well, because it used to force stereo (perhaps because
encoding mode is supposed to produce safe files for crap devices?).
Exclusive mode output on Windows might need to be adjusted accordingly,
as it grants the same kind of low level access as ALSA (requires more
research).
In addition to the things mentioned above, the --audio-channels option
is extended to accept a set of channel layouts. This is supposed to be
the correct way to configure mpv ALSA multichannel output. You need to
put a list of channel layouts that your A/V receiver supports.
OpenSL ES is used on Android. At the moment only stereo output is
supported. Two options are supported: 'frames-per-buffer' and
'sample-rate'. To get better latency the user of libmpv should pass
values obtained from AudioManager.getProperty(PROPERTY_OUTPUT_FRAMES_PER_BUFFER)
and AudioManager.getProperty(PROPERTY_OUTPUT_SAMPLE_RATE).
It existed for XP-compatibility only. There was also a time where
ao_wasapi caused issues, but we're relatively confident that ao_wasapi
works better or at least as good as ao_dsound on Windows Vista and
later.
If there were many AO drivers without device selection, this added a
"Default" entry for each AO. These entries were not distinguishable, as
the device list feature is meant not to require to display the "raw"
device name in GUIs.
Disambiguate them by adding the driver name. If the AO is the first, the
name will remain just "Default". (The condition checks "num > 1",
because the very first entry is the dummy for AO autoselection.)
The manpage entry explains this.
(Maybe this option could be always enabled and removed. I don't quite
remember what valid use-cases there are for just disabling audio
entirely, other than that this is also needed for audio decoder init
failure.)
Make the code a bit more uniform. Always build a "dummy" audio output
list before probing, which means that opening preferred devices and
pure auto-probing is done with the same code. We can drop the second
ao_init() call.
This also makes the next commit easier, which wants to selectively
fallback to ao_null. This could have been implemented by passing a
different requested audio output list (instead of reading it from
MPOptions), but I think it's better if this rather special feature
is handled internally in the AO code. This also makes sure the AO
code can handle its own options (such as the audio output list) in
a self-contained way.
Replace all the check macros with function calls. Give them all the
same case and naming schema.
Drop af_fmt2bits(). Only af_fmt2bps() survives as af_fmt_to_bytes().
Introduce af_fmt_is_pcm(), and use it in situations that used
!AF_FORMAT_IS_SPECIAL. Nobody really knew what a "special" format
was. It simply meant "not PCM".
This commit adds notifications for hot plugging of devices. It also extends
the old behaviour of the `audio-out-detected-device` property which is now
backed by the hotplugging code. This allows clients to be notified when the
actual audio output device changes.
Maybe hotplugging should be supported for ao_coreaudio_exclusive too, but it's
device selection code is a bit fragile.
Not very important for the command line player; but GUI applications
will want to know about this.
This only adds the internal API; support for specific audio outputs
comes later.
This reuses the ao struct as context for the hotplug event listener,
similar to how the "old" device listing API did. This is probably a bit
unclean and confusing. One argument got reusing it is that otherwise
rewriting parts of ao_pulse would be required (because the PulseAudio
API requires so damn much boilerplate). Another is that --ao-defaults is
applied to the hotplug dummy ao struct, which automatically applies such
defaults even to the hotplug context.
Notification works through the property observation mechanism in the
client API. The notification chain is a bit complicated: the AO notifies
the player, which in turn notifies the clients, which in turn will
actually retrieve the device list. (It still has the advantage that it's
slightly cleaner, since the AO stuff doesn't need to know about client
API issues.)
The weird handling of atomic flags in ao.c is because we still don't
require real atomics from the compiler. Otherwise we'd just use atomic
bitwise operations.
This is a small oversight. The client name (as set on command line
options or, more importantly, the client API) was not set when listing
devices e.g. via the "audio-device-list" property.
Might or might not fix#1578.
Also adjust the log level for an unrelated message.
Before this commit, ao_null was used as last fallback. This doesn't make
too much sense. Why would you decode audio just to discard it? Let audio
initialization fail instead. This also handles the weird but possible
corner-case that ao_null might fail initializing, in which case e.g.
ao_pcm could be autoselected. (This happened once, and had to be fixed
manually.)
This removes the slightly duplicated code for picking the required AO
driver if --audio-device forces one. Now --audio-device reuses the same
code as --ao for this.
As a consequence, ao_alloc_pb() and ao_create() can be merged into
ao_init(). Although the ao_init() argument list, which is already pretty
big, grows by one, it's better than having all these similar sounding
functions around.
Actually, I just wanted to do the change the following commit will do,
but I found this code was more of a mess than it had to be.
dsound was set as default, because there were some hard to fix problems
with wasapi. These problems were probably fixed now, so let's try with
wasapi as default again.
This is what you would expect. Before this commit, each
ao_request_reload() call would just queue a reload command, and then
recreate the AO for the number of times the function was called.
Instead of sending a command, introduce some sort of event retrieval
mechanism. At least for the reload case, use atomics, because we're too
lazy to setup an extra mutex.
The main need I see for this is with libmpv - it would be confusing if
some application showed up as "mpv" on whateverthehell PulseAudio uses
it for (generally it does show up on various PA GUI tools).
Kevin Mitchell
wm4
Aman Gupta
Ilya Zhuravlev
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marcin Kurczewski
Stefano Pigozzi