Apparently useful for dumping DVD. Could also be used to rip streams
with libquvi and such, but for that there are better tools. Actually
I doubt there aren't better tools to dump DVDs, but whatever, this was
a feature request, so I don't need a good reason.
For all suboptions, "flat" options were available by separating the
parent option and the sub option with ":", e.g. "--rawvideo:w=123". Drop
this syntax and use "-" as separator. This means even suboptions are
available as normal options now, e.g. "--rawvideo-w=123". The old syntax
doesn't work anymore.
Note that this is completely separate from actual suboptions. For
example, "-rawvideo w=123:h=123" still works. (Not that this syntax is
worth supporting, but it's needed anyway, for for other things like vf
and vo suboptions.)
As a consequence of this change, we also have to add new "no-" prefixed
options for flag suboptions, so that "--no-input-default-bindings"
works. ("--input-no-default-bindings" also works as a consequence of
allowing "-input no-default-bindings" - they are handled by the same
underlying option.)
For --input, always use the full syntax in the manpage. There exist
suboptions other than --input (like --tv, --rawvideo, etc.), but since
they might be handled differently in the future, don't touch these yet.
M_OPT_PREFIXED becomes the default, so remove it. As a minor unrelated
cleanup, get rid of M_OPT_MERGE too and use the OPT_SUBSTRUCT() macro in
some places.
Unrelated: remove the duplicated --tv:buffersize option, fix a typo in
changes.rst.
Use codec names instead of FourCCs to identify codecs. Rewrite how
codecs are selected and initialized. Now each decoder exports a list
of decoders (and the codec it supports) via add_decoders(). The order
matters, and the first decoder for a given decoder is preferred over
the other decoders. E.g. all ad_mpg123 decoders are preferred over
ad_lavc, because it comes first in the mpcodecs_ad_drivers array.
Likewise, decoders within ad_lavc that are enumerated first by
libavcodec (using av_codec_next()) are preferred. (This is actually
critical to select h264 software decoding by default instead of vdpau.
libavcodec and ffmpeg/avconv use the same method to select decoders by
default, so we hope this is sane.)
The codec names follow libavcodec's codec names as defined by
AVCodecDescriptor.name (see libavcodec/codec_desc.c). Some decoders
have names different from the canonical codec name. The AVCodecDescriptor
API is relatively new, so we need a compatibility layer for older
libavcodec versions for codec names that are referenced internally,
and which are different from the decoder name. (Add a configure check
for that, because checking versions is getting way too messy.)
demux/codec_tags.c is generated from the former codecs.conf (minus
"special" decoders like vdpau, and excluding the mappings that are the
same as the mappings libavformat's exported RIFF tables). It contains
all the mappings from FourCCs to codec name. This is needed for
demux_mkv, demux_mpg, demux_avi and demux_asf. demux_lavf will set the
codec as determined by libavformat, while the other demuxers have to do
this on their own, using the mp_set_audio/video_codec_from_tag()
functions. Note that the sh_audio/video->format members don't uniquely
identify the codec anymore, and sh->codec takes over this role.
Replace the --ac/--vc/--afm/--vfm with new --vd/--ad options, which
provide cover the functionality of the removed switched.
Note: there's no CODECS_FLAG_FLIP flag anymore. This means some obscure
container/video combinations (e.g. the sample Film_200_zygo_pro.mov)
are played flipped. ffplay/avplay doesn't handle this properly either,
so we don't care and blame ffmeg/libav instead.
Remove screenshot_force and associated logic. Always try to use the
screenshot video filter before trying taking screenshots with the VO,
which means that --vf=screenshot now takes the role of --vf=screenshot_force.
(To make this clear, not adding a video filter is still the recommended
way to take screenshots; we just change how VF screenshots are forced.)
Preferring VO over VF and having --vf=screenshot_force used to make
sense when not all VOs supported screenshots, and some VOs had somewhat
broken screenshots (like vo_xv taking screenshots with OSD in it). But
all these issues are fixed now, so just get rid of the cruft.
-x/-y were rather useless and obscure. The only use I can see is
forcing a specific aspect ratio without having to calculate the aspect
ratio float value (although --aspect takes values of the form w:h).
This can be also done with --geometry and --no-keepaspect. There was
also a comment that -x/-y is useful for -vm, although I don't see how
this is useful as it still messes up aspect ratio.
-xy is mostly obsolete. It does two things: a) set the window width to
a pixel value, b) scale the window size by a factor. a) is already done
by --autofit (--autofit=num does exactly the same thing as --xy=num, if
num >= 8). b) is not all that useful, so we just drop that
functionality.
Deprecate the hardware specific video codec entries (like ffh264vdpau).
Replace them with the --hwdec switch, which requests that a specific
hardware decoding API should be used. The codecs.conf entries will be
removed at a later time, but for now they are useful for testing and
compatibility.
Instead of --vc=ffh264vdpau, --hwdec=vdpau should be used.
Add a fallback if hardware decoding fails. Most hardware decoders
(including vdpau) support only a subset of h264, and having such a
fallback is supposed to enable a better user experience.
Before this commit, the --osd-* options (like --osd-font-size etc.)
configured both the OSD and subtitle font. Make them separate, and add
--sub-text-* options (like --sub-text-size etc.). Now --osd-* affects
the OSD font only, and --sub-text-* unstyled text subtitles only.
ffmpeg recently added a demuxer that can read vobsubs (pairs of .sub and
.idx files). Get rid of the internal vobsub reader, and use the ffmpeg
demuxer instead.
Sneak in an unrelated manpage change (autosub default).
The option is -no-video. Remove the deprecated "fast" suboption, which
did nothing and instructed the user to use "-novideo" instead.
Fix a reference to -novideo in encoding.rst.
Add a "generic" entry about -no-* to the list of renamed options. The
change is already explicitly mentioned in the text above the table, but
even if it's redundant, it makes it harder to overlook.
MPlayer/mplayer2 still show DVD subtitles in gray. Depending on who you
ask, this can be considered a bug or a feature. Include rendering in
gray as explicit feature, so the user can decide what is better.
This affects all indexed sub bitmaps entering the OSD rendering path.
Currently, this means all image subs are affected by this option, but
nothing else.
Apparently the -spugauss option was popular. The code originally
implementing this is gone (scaler stuff in spudec.c). Reimplement it
using libswscale to scale and blur image subtitles if the --sub-gauss
option is set.
The code does some rather lazy padding to allow the blur to spread
pixels past the original image bounding box. (This problem exists with
normal bilinear scaling too, but is barely noticable.)
Technically, this doesn't just blur subtitles, but anything RGBA (or
indexed) that enters the OSD rendering path. But only image subtitles
produce these OSD formats currently, so no explicit check is done to
prevent blurring in other cases.
Make more aspects of the OSD font customizable. This also affects the
font used for unstyled subtitles (such as SRT), or when using the
--no-ass option. This adds back some customizability that was lost with
commit 74e7a1 (osd: use libass for OSD rendering).
Removed options:
--ass-border-color
--ass-color
--font
--subfont
--subfont-text-scale
Added options:
--osd-color
--osd-border
--osd-back-color
--osd-shadow-color
--osd-font
--osd-font-size
--osd-border-size
--osd-margin-x
--osd-margin-y
--osd-shadow-offset
--osd-spacing
--sub-scale
The font size is now specified in pixels as it would be rendered on a
window with a height of 720 pixels. OSD and subtitles are always scaled
with the window height, so specifying or expecting an absolute font
size doesn't make sense.
Such scaled pixel units are used to specify font border etc. as well.
(Note: the font size is directly passed to libass. How the fonts are
actually rasterized is outside of our control, but in theory ASS font
sizes map to "script" pixels and then are scaled to screen size.)
The default settings should be about the same, with slight difference
due to rounding to the new scales.
The OSD and subtitle fonts are not separately configurable. It has
limited use and would double the number of newly added options, which
would be more confusing than helpful. It could be easily added later,
should the need arise.
Other small details that change:
- ASS_Style.Encoding is not set to -1 for subs anymore
(assuming subs use VSFilter direction in -no-ass mode too)
- use a different WrapStyle for OSD
- ASS forced styles are not applied to OSD
"--autosub-match" is close to "--autosub", and reflects what this
option does slightly better. Replace the magic number option values
with choices:
--sub-fuzziness=0 becomes --autosub-match=exact
--sub-fuzziness=1 becomes --autosub-match=fuzzy
--sub-fuzziness=2 becomes --autosub-match=all
Rename the -ss option to -start, and -endpos to -length. Add a -end
option. The -end option always specifies an absolute end time, as
opposed to -endpos/-length.
All these options (--start, --end, --length) now accept relative times.
Percent positions (e.g. "--start=30%") are interpreted as fractions of
the file duration. Negative times (e.g. "--start=-1:00) are interpreted
relative to the end of the file. Chapters (e.g. "--start=#3") yield the
chapter's time position.
The chapter support might be able to replace --chapter completely, but
for now I am not sure how well this works out with e.g. DVDs and BDs,
and a separate --chapter option is useful interface-wise.
The -ni option does something with the AVI demuxer only.
Also fix misleading error messages when the packet queue overflows (it
suggests using -ni, which in the typical case of playing NI AVI files
will not work, as demux_lavf is used by default).
"screenshot" now maps to "screenshot subtitles" by default, instead of
"screenshot video". Swap the argument order: the more useful argument
should come first. Remove the compatibility aliases for numeric choices
(e.g. "screenshot 1 0" won't work anymore).
This changes the name of this project to mpv. Most user-visible mentions
of "MPlayer" and "mplayer" are changed to "mpv". The binary name and the
default config file location are changed as well.
The new default config file location is: ~/.mpv/
Remove etc/mplayer.desktop. Apparently this was for the MPlayer GUI,
which has been removed from mplayer2 ages ago.
We don't have a logo, and the MS Windows resource files sort-of require
one, so leave etc/mplayer.ico/.xpm as-is.
Remove the debian and rpm packaging scripts. These contained outdated
dependencies and likely were more harmful than useful. (Patches which
add working and well-tested packaging are welcome.)
Make more properties use the property-to-option bridge to reduce code
size and to enforce consistency. Some options are renamed to the same
as the properties (the property names are better in all cases).
Do some other minor cleanups. One bigger issue was memory management of
strings: M_PROPERTY_TO_STRING assumed the strings were statically
allocated, and no dynamic allocations could be returned. Fix this in
case the need for such properties arises in the future. Get rid of
m_property_string_ro(), because it's not always clear that the "action"
parameter is M_PROPERTY_SET and the string argument will be used.
Rename both the option and property to "osd-level", which fits a bit
better with the general naming scheme. Make it a choice instead of an
integer range. I failed to come up with good names for the various
levels, so leave them as-is.
Remove the useless property handler for the "loop" property too.
Replace --hardframedrop with --framedrop=hard. Rename the framedrop
property from "framedropping" to "framedrop" for the sake of making
command line options have the same name as their corresponding
property. Change the property to accept choice values instead of
numeric values.
Remove unused/forgotten auto_quality variable.
This renames vo_gl3 to vo_opengl, and makes it the default. The old
vo_gl is still available under "opengl-old".
We keep "gl3" as alias to "opengl" for short-term compatibility.
For OSX/Cocoa, the autoprobe order changes (prefer the "opengl" over
"opengl-old").
Remove "gl_nosw". This was a compatibility alias for "opengl-old", and
there's no point in keeping it.
The --loop option takes slightly different parameters now. --loop=0
used to mean looping forever. Now it means looping is disabled (this is
more logical: 2 means playing 2 more times, 1 means playing 1 more time,
and 0 should mean playing not again).
Now --loop=inf must be used to enable looping forever.
Extend choice types to allow an optional range of integers as values.
If CONF_RANGE is added to the flags of a m_option_type_choice option,
m_option.min/max specify a range of allowed integer values. This can be
used to remove "special" values from make integer range options. These
special values are unintuitive, and sometimes expose mplayer internals
to the user. The (internal) choice values can be freely mixed with the
specified integer value range. If there are overlaps, the choice values
are preferred for conversion to/from strings.
Also make sure the extension to choice options works with properties.
Add the ability to step choice properties downwards, instead of just
upwards.
wm4
Rudolf Polzer
cantabile