This enables playing URLs from libquvi supported streaming sites
directly, e.g. "mplayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...."
Anything opened with mplayer is checked with libquvi. If it looks like
a URL of a supported streaming site, libquvi is used to extract the
media URL, which is then passed to the lower level mplayer code
instead of the HTML URL. Hopefully the libquvi URL checker works well
enough that it doesn't cause any problems with normal URLs, files, or
whatever else mplayer's stream layer accepts.
Add the --libquvi-format option. the option value is directly passed to
libquvi as requested format. The only values that seem to work for any
streaming site seem to be "best" (best quality) and "default" (lowest
quality). The mplayer option defaults to "best" (overriding libquvi's
default).
Outstanding issues:
- Does libquvi checking every opened file really not cause problems?
Should there be a runtime option to disable libquvi use?
(Probably not an issue.)
- Should we check/set the supported protocol? By default libquvi has
support for all protocols enabled. In the worst case, it might return
an URL using a protocol not supported by mplayer, even though it
could extract URLs with other protocols too.
(Probably not an issue.)
- Somehow export metadata (like media title) to the mplayer frontend?
-chapter can optionally take a range with a start and an end. Add a
new option type which supports such values and use that instead of a
custom per-option function.
This commit also fixes a build configuration bug: before the
availability of the -chapter option depended on DVD functionality
being enabled in the binary, even though the option works with other
sources too.
The stream code does not access many option variables directly, but it
does access some such as audio_id and network_bandwidth (and does that
without including proper headers for them). Add option pointer to the
stream struct to allow access to those variables. Remove the unused
(always NULL) and clumsy-looking char** options parameter in the
open_stream call and replace it with the option pointer. The parameter
is currently only set in the main open_stream() call in MPlayer.c and
not in any other locations that can open a stream.
In the long term it might be better to pass a more limited set of
values somehow, but this should do for now.
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reimar
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diego
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ben