The quicktime html scripting guide suggests to wrap urls not
necesarly associated with quicktime in a .mov file.
(so that when <embed>ing videos quicktime would be forced.)
These mov files may contain several "Text Hacks".
One of these is RTSPtext.
The suggested/allowed format (as regex) is like:
RTSPtext[ \r]RTSP://url
See also p.51 of:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_HTML/QTScripting_HTML.pdf
In reality there are also files like (e.g. zdfmediathek.de):
RTSPtext\nrtsp://url\n\n
Lets handle these files as a playlist with one element.
The --deinterlace option does on playback start what the "deinterlace"
property normally does at runtime. You could do this before by using the
--vf option or by messing with the vo_vdpau default options, but this
new option is supposed to be a "foolproof" way.
The main motivation for adding this is so that the deinterlace property
can be restored when using the video resume functionality
(quit_watch_later command).
Implementation-wise, this is a bit messy. The video chain is rebuilt in
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo(), where we don't have access to MPContext, so the
usual mechanism for enabling deinterlacing can't be used. Further,
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() is called by the video decoder, which doesn't
have access to MPContext either. Moving this call to mplayer.c isn't
currently possible either (see below). So we just do this before frames
are filtered, which potentially means setting the deinterlacing every
frame. Fortunately, setting deinterlacing is stable and idempotent, so
this is hopefully not a problem. We also add a counter that is
incremented on each reconfig to reduce the amount of additional work per
frame to nearly zero.
The reason we can't move mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() to mplayer.c is because
of hardware decoding: we need to check whether the video chain works
before we decide that we can use hardware decoding. Changing it so that
this can be decided in advance without building a filter chain sounds
like a good idea and should be done, but we aren't there yet.
Retrieve per-chapter metadata, but don't do much with it. We just make
the metadata of the _current_ chapter available as chapter-metadata
property. Returning the full chapter list with metadata would be no
problem, except that the property interface isn't really good with
structured data, so it's not available for now.
Not sure if it's worth it, but it was requested via github issue #201.
Consider the cluster used for prerolling contains an insane amount of
subtitle packets. Then the demuxer packet queue would be full of
subtitle packets, and demux.c would refuse to read any further packets -
including video and audio packets, resulting in EOF. Since everything
involving Matroska and subtitles is 100% insane, this can actually
happen.
Fix this by putting a limit on the number of subtitle packets read by
preroll, and throw away any further packets if the limit is exceeded. If
this happens, the preroll mechanism will stop working, but the player's
operation is unaffected otherwise.
The really funny thing about this commit is that this code is added on
top of another work around. Basically, subtitle seeking in libavformat
is completely broken. To make it useful, we have to add yet another
workaround.
The basic problem is that libavformat's subtitle seeking code always
uses the stream time base, instead of AV_TIME_BASE if stream index -1 is
passed to the avformat_seek_file() function.
Fixes github issue #216. Hopefully this will be fixed in ffmpeg too at
some point.
Port it from playlist_parser.c to demux_playlist.c. Also, change the m3u
parser to drop whitespace from the trailing part of the line (will make
it work properly with windows line endings).
(I hoped that this would make MMS URIs with http instead of mmsh
prefixes work, but it doesn't. Instead, it leads to a playlist loop. So
solving this issue would require a change in ffmpeg, probably.)
Apparently, it is popular to store large files in uncompressed rar
archives. Extracting files is not practical, and some media players
suport playing directly from uncompressed rar (at least VLC and some
DirectShow components).
Storing or accessing files this way is completely idiotic, but it is
a common practice, and the ones subjected to this practice can't do
much to change this (at least that's what I assume/hope). Also, it's
a feature request, so we say yes.
This code is mostly taken from VLC (commit f6e7240 from their git tree).
We also copy the way this is done: opening a rar file by itself yields
a playlist, which contains URLs to the actual entries in the rar file.
Compressed entries are simply skipped.
Modeled after the old playlist_parser.c, but actually new code, and it
works a bit differently.
Demuxers (and sometimes streams) are the component that should be used
to open files and to determine the file format. This was already done
for subtitles, but playlists still use a separate code path.
The way this was added to FFmpeg is less than ideal, because it requires
text parsing in the Matroska demuxer. But in order to use the FFmpeg
webvtt-to-ass converter, we still have to mimic this in some way. We do
this by putting the parsing into sd_lavc_conv.c, before the subtitle
packet is passed to libavcodec. At least this keeps the ugliness out of
unrelated code.
There is some change that FFmpeg will fix their design eventually.
Instead of rewriting the parsing code, we simply borrow it from FFmpeg's
Matroska demuxer.
Otherwise, this would just try to demux a good chunk of the file, even
though the operation can't succeed anyway.
This caused some pretty strange issues, where perfectly valid use cases
would print a "Too many packets in the demuxer packet queue..." message.
The rawaudio demuxer read one frame per packet, basically a few bytes,
which caused insane overhead. (I found this when I couldn't play raw
audio without dropouts when using -v, which printed a line per packet
read.)
Fix this and read 1 second of audio per packet. This is a regression
since cfa5712 (merging of demux_rawaudio and demux_rawvideo).
Originally, the objective of this commit was changing --edition to be
1-based, but this was cancelled. I'm still leaving the change to
demux_mkv.c though, which is now only of cosmetic nature.
This is completely useless, and in this particular case, it broke the
fallback for MLP2 subtitles (stored as .txt files) to demux_subreader.
(Yes, libavformat should be fixed to handle this, but for now this will
_always_ break playback of subtitle files stored in .txt.)
You can still force this demuxer, but by default we will just pretend
that the "tty" demuxer does not exist.
Perhaps not very useful, but reserved for situations when a user reports
awful latency and experimentation/debugging might be required to find
out why or to fix it (happens often).
avio_alloc_context() is documented to require an av_malloc'ed buffer. It
appears libavformat can even reallocate the buffer while it is probing,
so passing a static buffer can in theory lead to crashes.
I couldn't reproduce such a crash, but apparently it happened to
mplayer-svn. This commit follows the mplayer fix in svn commit r36397.
Move the decoder parts from vo_vdpau.c to a new file vdpau_old.c. This
file is named so because because it's written against the "old"
libavcodec vdpau pseudo-decoder (e.g. "h264_vdpau").
Add support for the "new" libavcodec vdpau support. This was recently
added and replaces the "old" vdpau parts. (In fact, Libav is about to
deprecate and remove the "old" API without deprecation grace period,
so we have to support it now. Moreover, there will probably be no Libav
release which supports both, so the transition is even less smooth than
we could hope, and we have to support both the old and new API.)
Whether the old or new API is used is checked by a configure test: if
the new API is found, it is used, otherwise the old API is assumed.
Some details might be handled differently. Especially display preemption
is a bit problematic with the "new" libavcodec vdpau support: it wants
to keep a pointer to a specific vdpau API function (which can be driver
specific, because preemption might switch drivers). Also, surface IDs
are now directly stored in AVFrames (and mp_images), so they can't be
forced to VDP_INVALID_HANDLE on preemption. (This changes even with
older libavcodec versions, because mp_image always uses the newer
representation to make vo_vdpau.c simpler.)
Decoder initialization in the new code tries to deal with codec
profiles, while the old code always uses the highest profile per codec.
Surface allocation changes. Since the decoder won't call config() in
vo_vdpau.c on video size change anymore, we allow allocating surfaces
of arbitrary size instead of locking it to what the VO was configured.
The non-hwdec code also has slightly different allocation behavior now.
Enabling the old vdpau special decoders via e.g. --vd=lavc:h264_vdpau
doesn't work anymore (a warning suggesting the --hwdec option is
printed instead).
Remove the (now unused) code for determining correct-pts mode based on
the demuxer in use. Change its description in the manpage to reflect
what this option does now.
Gives really funky results with PNG attachments otherwise. The main
problem is that avcodec_flush_buffers() does not fully reset the
decoder, so passing multiple PNG packets without keyframe flags will
attempt to combine the new picture with the previously decoded
contents. (Makes no sense with proper PNG - maybe this codepath is
intended for MNG or APNG.)
In general, this warning can hint to actual bugs. We don't enable it
yet, because it would conflict with some unmerged code, and we should
check with clang too (this commit was done by testing with gcc).
This also affects --audiofile. The previous behavior wasn't really
useful. There are even separate switches for that: --audio-demuxer and
--sub-demuxer.
This fixes the sample RA_missing_timestamps.mkv. Pretty funny how this
code got it almost right, but not quite, so it was broken all these
years. And then, after everyone stopped caring, someone comes and fixes
it. (By the way, I know absolutely nothing about realaudio.)
This fixes playback of the sample linked by FFmpeg ticket 2508. The fix
follows ffmpeg commit 6158a3b (although it's not exactly the same).
The problem here is that the file contains an apparently non-sense
DefaultDuration value. DefaultDuration for audio tracks is used to
derive PTS values for packets with no timestamps, like they can happen
with frames inside a laced block. So the first packet of a SimpleBlock
will have a correct PTS, while the PTS values of the following packets
are calculated using DefaultDuration, and thus are broken.
This leads to seemingly ok playback, but broken A/V sync. Not using the
DefaultDuration value will leave the PTS values of these packets unset,
and the audio decoder can derive them from the output instead.
The fix more or less uses a heuristic to detect the broken case: if the
sample rate is 8 KHz (Matroska default, can assume unset), and the codec
is AC3 (as the broken file did), don't use it. I'm not sure why this
should be done only for AC3, maybe the muxing application (mkvmerge
v4.9.1) has known issues with AC3. AC3 also doesn't support 8 KHz as
sample rate natively.
(By the way, I'm not sure why we should honor the DefaultDuration at all
for audio. It doesn't seem to be needed. You can't seek to these frames,
and decoders should always be able to produce perfect PTS values by
adding the duration of the decoded audio to the first PTS.)
Matroska has an output sample rate (OutputSamplingFrequency), which in
theory should be forced instead of whatever the decoder outputs. But it
appears no software (other than mplayer2 and mpv until now) actually
respects this. Even worse, there were broken files around, which played
correctly with (in theory) broken software, but not mplayer2/mpv. Hacks
were added to our code to play these files correctly, but they didn't
catch all cases.
Simplify this by doing what everyone else does, and always use the
decoder's sample rate instead. In particular, we try to handle all
sample rate issues like libavformat's Matroska demuxer does.
Guess the colorspace directly in mpcodecs_reconfig_vo(), instead of in
set_video_colorspace(). The difference is that the latter function just
makes the video filter chain (and VOs) force the detected colorspace,
and then throws it away, while the former is a bit more general and
central. Not really a big difference and it doesn't matter much in
practice, but it guarantees that there is no internal disagreement about
the colorspace.
DVD playback had some trouble with PTS resets: libavformat's genpts
feature would try reading until EOF (worst case) to find a new usable
PTS in case a packet's PTS is not set correctly. Especially with slow
DVD access, this would make the player to appear frozen.
Reimplement it partially in demux_lavf.c, and use that code in the DVD
case. This is heavily "inspired" by the code in av_read_frame from
libavformat/utils.c. The difference is that we stop reading if no PTS
has been found after 50 packets (consider this a heuristic). Also, we
don't bother with the PTS wrapping and last-frame-before-EOF handling.
Even with normal PTS wraps, the player frontend will go to hell for the
duration of a frame anyway, and should recover quickly after that.
The terribleness of this commit is mostly that we duplicate libavformat
functionality, and that we suddenly need a packet queue.
All demuxers make a reasonable effort to set packet timestamps, and thus
support correct-pts mode. This commit also implicitly switches
demux_rawvideo to correct-pts mode.
We still allow demuxers to disable correct-pts mode in theory.
Get rid of the strange and messy reliance on DEMUXER_TYPE_ constants.
Instead of having two open functions for the demuxer callbacks (which
somehow are both optional, but you can also decide to implement both...),
just have one function. This function takes a parameter that tells the
demuxer how strictly it should check for the file headers. This is a
nice simplification and allows more flexibility.
Remove the file extension code. This literally did nothing (anymore).
Change demux_lavf so that we check our other builtin demuxers first
before libavformat tries to guess by file extension.
This removes the dependency on DEMUXER_TYPE_* and the file_format
parameter from the stream open functions.
Remove some of the playlist handling code. It looks like this was
needed only for loading linked mov files with demux_mov (which was
removed long ago).
Delete a minor bit of dead network-related code from stream.c as well.
Move codec_tags.h include to demux_mkv.c, because this is the only file
which still uses it.
Move new_sh_stream() to demux.h, because this is more proper.
Before this commit, we tried to play along with libavformat and tried
to pretend that attached pictures are video streams with a single
frame, and that the frame magically appeared at the seek position when
seeking. The playback core would then switch to a mode where the video
has ended, and the "remaining" audio is played.
This didn't work very well:
- we needed a hack in demux.c, because we tried to read more packets in
order to find the "next" video frame (libavformat doesn't tell us if
a stream has ended)
- switching the video stream didn't work, because we can't tell
libavformat to send the packet again
- seeking and resuming after was hacky (for some reason libavformat sets
the returned packet's PTS to that of the previously returned audio
packet in generic code not related to attached pictures, and this
happened to work)
- if the user did something stupid and e.g. inserted a deinterlacer by
default, a picture was never displayed, only an inactive VO window)
- same when using a command that reconfigured the VO (like switching
aspect or video filters)
- hr-seek didn't work
For this reason, handle attached pictures as separate case with a
separate video decoding function, which doesn't read packets. Also,
do not synchronize audio to video start in this case.
The code touched by this commit makes sure that DVD subtitle tracks
known by libdvdread but not known by demux_lavf can be selected and
displayed properly. These subtitle tracks have the first packet
some time late in the packet stream, so that libavformat won't
immediately recognize them, and will add the track as soon as the
first packet is seen during normal demuxing.
demux_mpg used to handle this elegantly: you just set the MPEG ID of
the stream you wanted. demux_lavf couldn't do this, so it was emulated
with a DEMUXER_CTRL. This commit changes it so that new streams are
selected by default (if autoselect is enabled), and the playloop
simply can take appropriate action before the lower layer throws away
the first packet.
This also changes the demux_lavf behavior that subtitle packets are
always demuxed, even if not needed. (They were immediately thrown away,
so there was no advantage to this.)
Further, this adds the ability to demux.c to deal with demuxing more
than one stream of a kind at once. (Though currently it's not useful.)
Benjamin Franzke
wm4
Stefano Pigozzi