This reverts commit 41243e7c4f.
This fixes image format detection. FFmpeg has an utter called "image2",
which is designed to read patterns in filenames (so you can play
something like "%*.jpg" for all jpg files in the current directory).
"image2" is not what we want; it's just broken with custom I/O like
mpv uses it, and we don't want to "accidentally" interpret filenames
as pattern. That's why mpv blacklists it.
Unfortunately, "image2" is sometimes the format that FFmpeg's probe API
returns as best match. Thus demux_lavf fails to detect the file type,
and after some more futile attempts, we end up at demux_mf, which uses
detection by file extension. (Not sure why. I guess MPlayer did that,
and foudn that sufficient.) If the file extension is wrong (which
happens a lot because apparently the world is full of idiots who don't
manage to get the most simple things right), the image "loads", but
decoding obviously fails.
There's no easy way around this. The FFmpeg API has no mechanism to
exclude a specific format from probing (like image2, which breaks stuff
for us). Out of the 5 probe functions the API provides, none can probe
a specific format or include or exclude specific formats. The main
problem is that AVInputFormat.read_probe is a private symbol.
FFmpeg itself has no problem opening such files. It turns out that it
works, because even though image2 by itself uses detection by file
extension, it uses private API to further probe the exact format. It
explicitly excludes itself to prevent recursion.
But fortunately, that also means that it's impossible to get the image2
format if no filename is passed to the prober. (No filename, no file
extension.) Apparently we pass it in because it helps in corner cases.
Until almost 3 years ago, we passed the filename only when normal
probing already failed. Restore this by this revert. It makes
incorrectly named files work. The revert also makes the (apparently
forgotten) comment above the touched line of code true again.
Yes, quite possible that this breaks some mp3s again. You can't win
with FFmpeg. Thanks FFmpeg for making us fail at opening simple image
files and/or the most widely used file format for audio.
Change all OPT_* macros such that they don't define the entire m_option
initializer, and instead expand only to a part of it, which sets certain
fields. This requires changing almost every option declaration, because
they all use these macros. A declaration now always starts with
{"name", ...
followed by designated initializers only (possibly wrapped in macros).
The OPT_* macros now initialize the .offset and .type fields only,
sometimes also .priv and others.
I think this change makes the option macros less tricky. The old code
had to stuff everything into macro arguments (and attempted to allow
setting arbitrary fields by letting the user pass designated
initializers in the vararg parts). Some of this was made messy due to
C99 and C11 not allowing 0-sized varargs with ',' removal. It's also
possible that this change is pointless, other than cosmetic preferences.
Not too happy about some things. For example, the OPT_CHOICE()
indentation I applied looks a bit ugly.
Much of this change was done with regex search&replace, but some places
required manual editing. In particular, code in "obscure" areas (which I
didn't include in compilation) might be broken now.
In wayland_common.c the author of some option declarations confused the
flags parameter with the default value (though the default value was
also properly set below). I fixed this with this change.
It seems sporadic errors are possible, such as connection timeouts.
Before the recent demuxer change, the demuxer thread retried many times
even on EOF, so an error was only interpreted as EOF once the decoder
queues ran out.
Change it to use EOF only. Since this may actually lead to the demuxer
thread being "stuck" and retrying forever (depending on libavformat API
behavior), I'm also adding a heuristic to prevent this, using a random
retry counter. This should not be necessary, but libavformat cannot be
trusted. (This retrying forever could be stopped by the user, but
obviously it would still heat the CPU for a longer time if the user is
not present.)
RTSP supports seeking, but at least the libavformat implementation makes
this dependent on runtime behavior. So you have to perform a seek, and
check if it fails. But even if you do this, the stream is interrupted
and restarted, and there seem to be other issues.
Assume that RTSP with unknown duration means it's a live stream, and
disable seeking in this case, as suggested by the issue reporter.
Fixes: #7472
Libav seems rather dead: no release for 2 years, no new git commits in
master for almost a year (with one exception ~6 months ago). From what I
can tell, some developers resigned themselves to the horrifying idea to
post patches to ffmpeg-devel instead, while the rest of the developers
went on to greener pastures.
Libav was a better project than FFmpeg. Unfortunately, FFmpeg won,
because it managed to keep the name and website. Libav was pushed more
and more into obscurity: while there was initially a big push for Libav,
FFmpeg just remained "in place" and visible for most people. FFmpeg was
slowly draining all manpower and energy from Libav. A big part of this
was that FFmpeg stole code from Libav (regular merges of the entire
Libav git tree), making it some sort of Frankenstein mirror of Libav,
think decaying zombie with additional legs ("features") nailed to it.
"Stealing" surely is the wrong word; I'm just aping the language that
some of the FFmpeg members used to use. All that is in the past now, I'm
probably the only person left who is annoyed by this, and with this
commit I'm putting this decade long problem finally to an end. I just
thought I'd express my annoyance about this fucking shitshow one last
time.
The most intrusive change in this commit is the resample filter, which
originally used libavresample. Since the FFmpeg developer refused to
enable libavresample by default for drama reasons, and the API was
slightly different, so the filter used some big preprocessor mess to
make it compatible to libswresample. All that falls away now. The
simplification to the build system is also significant.
Demuxers can call demux_close_stream() to close the underlying stream if
it's not needed anymore. (Useful to release "heavy" resources like FDs
and sockets. Plus merely keeping a file open can have visible side
effects such as inability to unmount a filesystem or, on Windows, to do
anything with the file.)
Until now, this set demuxer->stream to a dummy stream, because most code
used to assume that the stream field is non-NULL. But this requirement
disappeared (in some cases, the stream field is already NULL), so stop
doing that. demux_lavf.c, one of the demuxers which calls this function,
still had some of this, though.
See previous commit. libavformat exports this information as AVStream.id
field.
The big problem is that the libavformat field is simply 0 if it's
unknown (i.e. the demuxer never sets it). So it needs to remain a
whitelist. Just add more formats which are known to have a meaningful
ID.
I considered exporting IDs for all formats, and then either leaving the
values as they are, or filtering duplicate values (and choosing
arbitrary but unique different IDs). But then again, I think it's sort
of mpv's job to filter FFmpeg's absurd bullshit API, and it should make
an effort to hide it rather than to reflect it.
See: #7211
It sometimes happens that HLS streams freeze because the HTTP server is
not responding for a fragment (or something similar, the exact
circumstances are unknown). The --timeout option didn't affect this,
because it's never set on HLS recursive connections (these download the
fragments, while the main connection likely nothing and just wastes a
TCP socket).
Apply an elaborate hack on top of an existing elaborate hack to somehow
get these options set. Of course this could still break easily, but hey,
it's ffmpeg, it can't not try to fuck you over. I'm so fucking sick of
ffmpeg's API bullshit, especially wrt. HLS.
Of course the change is sort of pointless. For HLS, GET requests should
just aggressively retried (because they're not "streamed", they're just
actual files on a CDN), while normal HTTP connections should probably
not be made this fragile (they could be streamed, i.e. they are backed
by some sort of real time encoder, and block if there is no data yet).
The 1 minute default timeout is too high to save playback if this
happens with HLS.
Vaguely related to #5793.
Until now, we've made FFmpeg use the default network timeout - which is
apparently infinite. I don't know if this was changed at some point,
although it seems likely, as I was sure there was a more useful default.
For most use cases, a smaller timeout is more useful (for example
recording something in the background), so force a timeout of 1 minute.
See: #5793
In some corner cases (see #6802), it can be beneficial to use a larger
stream buffer size. Use this as argument to rewrite everything for no
reason.
Turn stream.c itself into a ring buffer, with configurable size. The
latter would have been easily achievable with minimal changes, and the
ring buffer is the hard part. There is no reason to have a ring buffer
at all, except possibly if ffmpeg don't fix their awful mp4 demuxer, and
some subtle issues with demux_mkv.c wanting to seek back by small
offsets (the latter was handled with small stream_peek() calls, which
are unneeded now).
In addition, this turns small forward seeks into reads (where data is
simply skipped). Before this commit, only stream_skip() did this (which
also mean that stream_skip() simply calls stream_seek() now).
Replace all stream_peek() calls with something else (usually
stream_read_peek()). The function was a problem, because it returned a
pointer to the internal buffer, which is now a ring buffer with
wrapping. The new function just copies the data into a buffer, and in
some cases requires callers to dynamically allocate memory. (The most
common case, demux_lavf.c, required a separate buffer allocation anyway
due to FFmpeg "idiosyncrasies".) This is the bulk of the demuxer_*
changes.
I'm not happy with this. There still isn't a good reason why there
should be a ring buffer, that is complex, and most of the time just
wastes half of the available memory. Maybe another rewrite soon.
It also contains bugs; you're an alpha tester now.
This can be used by distros to disable all known FFmpeg ABI violations.
Currently only 1 is known, in demux_lavf.c. In addition to if-defing out
the access to the private FFmpeg field, this disables the possibly
fragile nested open callbacks, which make sense only if the
aforementioned field can be accessed.
This partially reverts commit a9d83eac40
("Remove optical disc fancification layers").
Mostly due to the timestamp crap, this was never really going to work.
The playback layer is sensitive to timestamps, and derives the playback
time directly from the low level packet timestamps. DVD/BD works
differently, and libdvdnav/libbluray do not make it easy at all to
compensate for this. Which is why it never worked well, but not doing it
at all is even more awful.
demux_disc.c tried this and rewrote packet timestamps from low level TS
to playback time. So restore demux_disc.c, which should bring behavior
back to the old often non-working but slightly better state.
I did not revert anything that affects components above the demuxer
layer. For example, the properties for switching DVD angles or listing
disc titles are still gone. (Disc titles could be reimplemented as
editions. But not by me.)
This commit modifies the reverted code a bit; this can't be avoided,
because the internal API changed quite a bit. The old seek resync in
demux_lavf.c (which was a hack) is replaced with a hack. SEEK_FORCE and
demux_params.external_stream are new additions.
Some of this could/should be further cleaned up. If you don't want
"proper" DVD/BD support to disappear, you should probably volunteer.
Now why am I wasting my time for this? Just because some idiot users are
too lazy to rip their ever-wearing out shitty physical discs? Then why
should I not be lazy and drop support completely? They won't even be
thankful for me maintaining this horrible garbage for no compensation.
This was added in 585f9ff42f by @bbarenblat (github handle). We
don't do this. This file alone probably has multiple dozen of authors (I
didn't count, but it has a history of 15 years). If everyone added their
names with each small change, this project would have giant lists of
contributing authors on every source file.
Neither copyright law nor any of the used licenses require listing
authors in the license header. Authorship is recorded in the git log.
So don't start with this, and remove this recent case to avoid setting a
precedent.
Some files still have an author in the header. These cases are
grandfathered, and usually are the actual authors of the original code.
This detected the first packet demuxed after a seek as timestamp
discontinuity. Obviously this is non-sense. Since the OGG radio streams
for which this feature was introduced are normally unseekable, it's
simple to fix this: simply disable it (if in auto mode, the default) as
soon as a seek is performed. This code is never called if the stream is
considered unseekable, unless the user forced it.
There's still a chance this linearization is performed before a seek
happens. This will be a bit awkward, but no worse than without this
feature, since seeking with timestamp resets is inherently broken in
both mpv and libavformat.
Fixes: #6974
Fixes: 27fcd4d
This field is documented as internal, so an API user should not
access it. However, this is the only way to get some read statistics
without replacing FFmpeg's entire HLS demuxer. (Using custom I/O as
workaround doesn't work: the HLS code uses some weird internal APIs
that cannot be provided by FFmpeg API users; I even made the author
of the relevant patch to provide a public API, but which was shot
down by another FFmpeg developer. So I take this as my right to
access this field.)
Mention this explicitly, as it affects ABI and API compatibility, and
I don't want that anyone claims this was a "mistake". Add some
explanations.
Retarded webshit streaming protocols (well, DASH) chop a stream into
small fragments, and move unchanging header parts to an "init" fragment
to save some bytes (in the case at hand about 300 bytes for each
fragment that is 100KB-200KB, sure was worth it, fucking idiots).
Since mpv uses an even more retarded hack to inefficiently emulate DASH
through EDL, it opens a new demuxer for every fragment. Thus the
fragment needs to be virtually concatenated with the init fragment. (To
be fair, I'm not sure whether the alternative, reusing the demuxer and
letting it see a stream of byte-wise concatenated fragmenmts, would
actually be saner.)
demux_lavc.c contained a hack for this. Unfortunately, a certain shitty
streaming site by an evil company, that will bestow dytopia upon us soon
enough, sometimes serves webm based DASH instead of the expected mp4
DASH. And for some reason, libavformat's mkv demuxer can't handle the
init fragment or rejects it for some reason. Since I'd rather eat
mushrooms grown in Chernobyl than debugging, hacking, or (god no)
contributing to FFmpeg, and since Chernobyl is so far away, make it work
with our builtin mkv demuxer instead.
This is not hard. We just need to copy the hack in demux_lavf.c to
demux_mkv.c. Since I'm not _that_ much of a dumbfuck to actually do
this, remove the shitty gross demux_lavf.c hack, and replace it by a
slightly less bad generic implementation (stream_concat.c from the
previous commit), and use it on all demuxers. Although this requires
much more code, this frees demux_lavf.c from a hack, and doesn't require
adding a duplicated one to demux_mkv.c, so to the naive eye this seems
to be a much better outcome.
Regarding the code, for some reason stream_memory_open() is never meant
to fail, while stream_concat_open() can in extremely obscure situations,
and (currently) not in this case, but we handle failure of it anyway.
Yep.
Instead of having to rely on the protocol matching, make a function that
creates a stream from a stream_info_t directly. Instead of going through
a weird indirection with STREAM_CTRL, add a direct argument for non-text
arguments to the open callback. Instead of creating a weird dummy
mpv_global, just pass an existing one from all callers. (The latter one
is just an artifact from the past, where mpv_global wasn't available
everywhere.)
Actually I just wanted a function that creates a stream without any of
that bullshit. This goal was slightly missed, since you still need this
heavy "constructor" just to setup a shitty struct with some shitty
callbacks.
The old implementation didn't work for the OGG case. Discard the old
shit code (instead of fixing it), and write new shit code. The old code
was already over a year old, so it's about time to rewrite it for no
reason anyway.
While it's true that the old code appears to be broken, the main reason
to rewrite this is to make it simpler. While the amount of code seems to
be about the same, both the concept and the actual tag handling are
simpler. The result is probably a bit more correct.
The packet struct shrinks by 8 byte. That fact that it wasted 8 bytes
per packet for a rather obscure use case was the reason I started this
at all (and when I found that OGG updates didn't work). While these 8
bytes aren't going to hurt, the packet struct was getting too bloated.
If you buffer a lot of data, these extra fields will add up. Still quite
some effort for 8 bytes. Fortunately, it's not like there are any
managers that need to be convinced whether it's worth doing. The freedom
to waste time on dumb shit.
The old implementation attached the current metadata to each packet.
When the decoder read the packet, the packet's metadata was made
current. The new implementation stores metadata as separate list, and
requires that the player frontend tells it the current playback time,
which will be used to find the currently valid metadata. In both cases,
the objective was to correctly update metadata even if a lot of data is
buffered ahead (and to update them correctly when seeking within the
demuxer cache).
The new implementation is actually slightly more correct, because it
uses the playback time for the metadata lookup. Consider if you have an
audio filter which buffers 15 seconds (unfortunately such a filter
exists), then the old code would update the current title 15 seconds too
early, while the new one does it correctly.
The new code also simplifies mixing the 3 metadata sources (global, per
stream, ICY). We assume these aren't mixed in a meaningful way. The old
code tried to be a bit more "exact". I didn't bother to look how the old
code did this, but the new code simply always "merges" with the previous
metadata, so if a newer tag removes a field, it's going to stick around
anyway.
I tried to keep it simple. Other approaches include making metadata a
special sh_stream with metadata packets. This would have been
conceptually clean, but the implementation would probably have been
unnatural (and doesn't match well with libavformat's API anyway). It
would have been nice to make the metadata updates chapter points (makes
a lot of sense for the intended use case, web radio current song
information), but I don't think it would have been a good idea to make
chapters suddenly so dynamic. (Still an idea to keep in mind; the new
code actually makes it easier to work towards this.)
You could mention how subtitles are timed metadata, and actually are
implemented as sparse packet streams in some formats. mp4 implements
chapters as special subtitle stream, AFAIK. (Ironically, this is very
not-ideal for files. It would be useful for streaming like web radio,
but mp4 is extremely bad for streaming by design for other reasons.)
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Some OGG web radio streams use timestamp resets when a new song starts
(you can find those Xiph's directory - other streams there don't show
this behavior). Basically, the OGG stream behaves like concatenated OGG
files, and "of course" the timestamps will start at 0 again when the
song changes. This is very inconvenient, and breaks the seekable demuxer
cache. In fact, any kind of seeking will break
This is more time wasted in Xiph's bullshit. No, having timestamp resets
by design is not reasonable, and fuck you. I much prefer the awful
ICY/mp3 streaming mess, even if that's lower quality and awful. Maybe it
wouldn't be so bad if libavformat could tell us WHERE THE FUCK THE RESET
HAPPENS. But it doesn't, and the randomly changing timestamps is the
only thing we get from its API.
At this point, demux_lavf.c is like 90% hacks. But well, if libavformat
applies this strange mixture of being clever for us vs. giving us
unfiltered garbage (while pretending it abstracts everything, and hiding
_useful_ implementation/low level details), not much we can do.
This timestamp linearizing would, in general, probably be better done
after the decoder, because then we wouldn't need to deal with timestamp
resets. But the main purpose of this change is to fix seeking within the
demuxer cache, so we have to do it on the lowest level.
This can probably be applied to other containers and video streams too.
But that is untested. Some further caveats are explained in the manpage.
Probably doesn't change anything, other than looking slightly better. In
theory, the common function has some stuff that makes it more likely
that timestamps round-trip through conversions properly, but I didn't
confirm that.
This commit generally fixes backward playing in wav, at least in most
PCM cases.
libavformat's wav demuxer (and actually all other raw PCM based
demuxers) have a specific behavior that breaks backward demuxing. The
same thing also breaks persistent seek ranges in the demuxer cache,
although that's less critical (it just means some cached data gets
discarded). The backward demuxing issue is fatal, will log the message
"Demuxer not cooperating.", and then typically stop doing anything.
Unlike modern media formats, these formats don't organize media data in
packets, but just wrap a monolithic byte stream that is described by a
header. This is good enough for PCM, which uses fixed frames (a single
sample for all audio channels), and for which it would be too expensive
to have per frame headers.
libavformat (and mpv) is heavily packet based, and using a single packet
for each PCM frame causes too much overhead. So they typically "bundle"
multiple frames into a single packet. This packet size is obviously
arbitrary, and in libavformat's case hardcoded in its source code.
The problem is that seeking doesn't respect this arbitrary packet
boundary. Seeking is sample accurate. You can essentially seek inside a
packet. The resulting packets will not be aligned with previously
demuxed packets. This is normally OK.
Backward seeking (and some other demuxer layer features) expect that
demuxing an earlier demuxed file position eventually results in the same
packets, regardless of the seeks that were done to get there. I like to
call this "deterministic" demuxing. Backward demuxing in particular
requires this to avoid overlaps, which would make it rather hard to get
continuous output.
Fix this issue by detecting wav and hopefully other raw audio formats
with a heuristic (even PCM needs to be detected as heuristic). Then, if
a seek is requested, align the seek timestamps on the guessed number of
samples in the audio packets returned by the demuxer.
The heuristic excludes files with multiple streams. (Except "attachment"
video streams, which could be an ID3 tag. Yes, FFmpeg allows ID3 tags on
WAV files.) Such files will inherently use the packet concept in some
way.
We don't know how the demuxer chooses the internal packet size, but we
assume that it's fixed and aligned to PCM frame sizes. The frame size is
most likely given by block_align (the native wav frame size, according
to Microsoft). We possibly need to explicitly read and discard a packet
if the seek is done without reading anything before that. We ignore any
subsequent packet sizes; we need to avoid the very last packet, which
likely has a different size.
This hack should be rather benign. In the worst case, it will "round"
the seek target a little, but the maximum rounding amount is bounded.
Maybe we _could_ round up if SEEK_FORWARD is specified, but I didn't
bother.
An earlier commit fixed the same issue for mpv's demux_raw.
An alternative, and probably much better solution would be clipping
decoded data by timestamp. demux.c could allow the type of overlap the
wav demuxer introduces, and instruct the decoder to clip the output
against the last decoded timestamp. There's already an infrastructure
for this (demux_packet.end field) used by EDL/ordered chapters.
Although this sounds like a good solution, mpv unfortunately uses floats
for timestamps. The rounding errors break sample accuracy. Even if you
used integers, you'd need a timebase that is sample accurate (not always
easy, since EDL can merge tracks with different sample rates).
Fixes the same thing as the previous commit did with demux_mkv. I'm not
sure if this is correct or a good idea (well, it works with my sample
file).
There are some shady things in this, but describing them would require
too many expletives.
It was an ugly hack, and the next commit will make it even uglier.
Slightly reduce the ugliness to prevent death of too many brain cells,
though it's still an ugly hack.
The cleanup is really minor, but I guess the following commit would be
much worse otherwise. In particular, this commit checks accesses
(instead of having a public field with evil access rules), which should
avoid misunderstandings and incorrect use. Strictly speaking, the added
field is redundant, but the next commit complicates it a bit.
struct stream used to include the stream buffer, including peek buffer,
inline in the struct. It could not be resized, which means the maximum
peek size was set in stone. This meant demux_lavf.c could peek only so
much data.
Change it to use a dynamic buffer. Because it's possible, keep the
inline buffer for default buffer sizes (which are basically always used
outside of file opening). It's unknown whether it really helps with
anything. Probably not.
This is also the fallback plan in case we need something like the old
stream cache in order to deal with mp4 + unseekable http: the code can
now be easily changed to use any buffer size.
The only thing left is the notification for track switching. Just get
rid of that.
There's probably no real reason to get rid of control(), but why not. I
think I was actually trying to do some real work but fuck that.
Subtitles (and a few other file types, like playlists) are not streamed,
but fully read on opening. This means keeping the file handle or network
socket open is a waste of resources and could cause other weird
behavior. This is why there's a hack to close them after opening.
Change this hack to make the demuxer itself do this, which is less
weird. (Until recently, demuxer->stream ownership was more complex,
which is why it was done this way.)
There is some evil shit due to a huge ownership/lifetime mess of various
objects. Especially EDL (the currently only nested demuxer case)
requires being careful about mp_cancel and passing down stream pointers.
As one defensive programming measure, stop accessing the "stream"
variable in open_given_type(), even where it would still work. This
includes removing a redundant line of code, and removing the peak call,
which should not be needed anymore, as the remaining demuxers do this
mostly correctly.
The "program" property could switch between TS programs. It was rather
complex and rather obscure (even if you deal with TS captures, you
usually don't need it). If anyone actually needs it (did anyone ever
attempt to even use it?), it should be rewritten. The demuxer should
export a program list, and the frontend should handle the "cycling"
logic.
This removes anything related to DVD/BD/CD that negatively affected the
core code. It includes trying to rewrite timestamps (since DVDs and
Blurays do not set packet stream timestamps to playback time, and can
even have resets mid-stream), export of chapters, stream languages,
export of title/track lists, and all that.
Only basic seeking is supported. It is very much possible that seeking
completely fails on some discs (on some parts of the timeline), because
timestamp rewriting was removed.
Note that I don't give a shit about optical media. If you want to watch
them, rip them. Keeping some bare support for DVD/BD is the most I'm
going to do to appease the type of lazy, obnoxious users who will care.
There are other players which are better at optical discs.
Manual changes done:
* Merged the interface-changes under the already master'd changes.
* Moved the hwdec-related option changes to video/decode/vd_lavc.c.
Commit e392d6610d modified the native
demuxer to use track gain as a fallback for album gain if the latter is
not present. This commit makes functionally equivalent changes in the
libavformat demuxer.
In theory, this could be easily done with custom I/O. In practice, all
the halfassed garbage in FFmpeg shits itself and fucks up like there's
no tomorrow. There are several problems:
1. FFmpeg pretends you can do custom I/O, but in reality there's a lot
that custom I/O can do. hls.c even contains explicit checks to disable
important things if custom I/O is used! In particular, you can't use the
HTTP keepalive functionality (needed for somewhat decent HLS
performance), because some cranky asshole in the cursed FFmpeg dev.
community blocked it.
2. The implementation of nested I/O callbacks (io_open/io_close) is
bogus and halfassed (like everything in FFmpeg, really). It will call
io_open on some URLs without ever calling io_close. Instead, it'll call
avio_close() on the context directly. From what I can tell, avio_close()
is incompable to custom I/O anyway (overwhelmed by their own garbage,
the fFmpeg devs created the io_close callback for this reason, because
they couldn't fix their own fucking garbage). This commit adds some
shitty workaround for this (technically triggers UB, but with that
garbage heap of a library we depend on it's not like it matters).
3. Even then, you can't proxy I/O contexts (see 1.), but we can just
keep track of the opened nested I/O contexts. The bytes_read is
documented as not public, but reading it is literally the only way to
get what we want.
A more reasonable approach would probably be using curl. It could
transparently handle the keep-alive thing, as well as propagating
cookies etc. (which doesn't work with the FFmpeg approach if you use
custom I/O). Of course even better if there were an independent HLS
implementation anywhere. FFmpeg's HLS support is so embarrassing
pathetic and just goes to show that they belong into the past
(multimedia from 2000-2010) and should either modernize or fuck off.
With FFmpeg's shit-crusted structures, todic communities, and retarded
assholes denying progress, probably the latter. Did I already mention
that FFmpeg is a shit fucked steaming pile of garbage shit?
And all just to get some basic I/O stats, that any proper HLS consumer
requires in order to implement adaptive streaming correctly (i.e.
browser based players, and nothing FFmshit based).
I encountered a stream that fails with "Could not demux init fragment.".
It turns out this is a regression from the recent change to that code.
The assumption was that demux_lavf.c would treat this as concatenated
stream - which it does, but not for probing.
Doing this transparently is hard without doing it properly. Doing it
properly would mean creating some sort of stream_concat (reminiscent of
that FFmpeg security bug). I probably don't want to go there, and I
think libavformat should just support this directly, so whatever.
Hack-fix this with the knowledge that the init segment will always
contain the headers.
FFmpeg is retarded enough not to give us any indication whether it is
(unless we query fields not in the ABI/API). I bet FFmpeg developers
love it when library users have to litter their code with duplicated
information.
FFmpeg is retarded enough not to give us any indication whether it is
(unless we query fields not in the ABI/API). I bet FFmpeg developers
love it when library users have to litter their code with duplicated
information.
Mia Herkt
wm4
mg
Aman Gupta
Jan Ekström
Benjamin Barenblat
Anton Kindestam