This was an extremely obscure setting, as it was used only with vo_gl
if its scaled-osd suboption was used. If you really want this, you can
set the desired ass-hinting value directly, and there will be literally
no loss in functionality.
Note that this didn't actually test whether the EOSD was scaled.
Basically, it only checked whether vo_gl had the scaled-osd suboption
set.
Useless. It complicated the code and caused flicker, and was useless
otherwise. The manpage describes this option as "should not normally
be used".
One possibly useful effect from the point of view of the user was that
vsync was disabled. You can do this with the --vsync option, or by
changing X/driver settings directly.
This removes the alternative values like "off", "0", "false" etc., and
also the non-English versions of these.
This is done for general consistency. It's better to have a single way
of doing things when multiple ways don't add singificant value.
Also update some choices for consistency.
--softvol is enabled by default. For most audio outputs, this is a good
thing, as they have either their own (bad) soft volume implementation,
or control the system mixer. With ao_pulse, the situation is a bit
different: it supports per-application volume (i.e. volume control is
not really global). More importantly, ao_pulse uses a rather large audio
buffer, and changing the volume with mplayer's volume filter has a large
delay. With the native ao_pulse volume control, it's instant, because
PulseAudio's audio filtering happens at a later stage in its processing
pipeline (inaccessible for mplayer).
This means native volume control should really be allowed for ao_pulse,
while it's the reverse for other audio outputs. Make --softvol a choice
option, and add a new "auto" choice. This is default and will use PA's
volume control with ao_pulse, and mplayer's volume filter otherwise
(i.e. the old softvol behavior).
The --vid, --aid, --sid options now accept the values 'off' and 'auto',
instead of having the user deal with the numeric values -2 and -1. The
numeric values are not allowed anymore.
Remove the --audio option. It was probably meant as compensation option
for --no-audio. There are no such options for sub/video, and it was not
documented, so just remove it. The replacement is "--aid=auto".
Also do some updates to the manpage.
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.
It can't be re-implemented, because this isn't supported by libass. The
-subalign option and the associated sub-align slave property did
nothing. Remove them.
The rawaudio demuxer had a rather hard to use way to set the audio
format with the --rawaudio=format=value option. The user had to pass a
numeric value, which then was set as wFormatTag member in the
WAVEFORMATEX header.
Make it use the mplayer audio format (the same as --af=format=value).
Add a new internal pseudo audio codec tag, which is hopefully unused,
which makes ad_pcm use the value in wFormatTag as internal mplayer
audio format.
Playing non-PCM formats is disabled. (At least AC3 can be played
directly.)
af_format.h declares some symbols which are defined in format.c. The
fact that af_format.c is a completely unrelated file is rather
confusing. Having the header and implementation file use the same base
name is more uniform. (af_format.c is the audio conversion filter, while
af_format.h and format.c are about audio formats and their properties.)
Also fix all source files which include this file.
While being able to play videos on a framebuffer device would be nice,
I didn't need it, and couldn't even test it (buggy nvidia binary
drivers that disable framebuffers, buggy DirectFB that crashes when
using the X11 backend). It's just dead weight, get rid of it.
vo_directx was very horrible, and by today it's mostly useless. I didn't
remove it, because there was that-guy who told me in amazement how
awesome mplayer was, because it was the only video player fast enough
for fast playback on his system when using vo_directx. Sorry, that-guy.
When the internal mplayer MPEG demuxer was removed (commit 1fde09db),
the default demuxer when using dvdnav was set to libavformat. Now it
turns out that this doesn't work with libavformat. It will terminate
playback right after the audio runs out (instead of looping it like the
video, or whatever it's supposed to do). I'm not sure what exactly the
problem is, but since 1. even mplayer-svn can't handle DVD menus
directly (missing highlights), 2. DVD menus are essentially worthless,
and 3. I don't directly watch DVDs, don't bother with it and remove it.
For basic playback, there's still libdvdread support.
Also, use pkg-config for libdvdread, and drop support for in-tree
libdvdread. Remove support for in-tree libdvdcss as well.
It's not clear why this video filter supported OSD rendering.
The manpage says:
"Can be used for placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands."
But every single VO already does this if vf_expand adds black borders.
This feature is 100% pointless.
Rename -slave to -slave-broken to prevent slave mode applications from
working. Do this to prevent horrible user experiences, in case someone
should attempt to try this version of mplayer with smplayer and others.
This also makes it clear that we don't intend to keep slave mode
compatibility, because the slave mode protocol is horrible and bad.
See the changes in options.rst for further reasons and comments.
Since slave mode is not planned to be kept, this VO is useless and I'm
removing it.
This VO was useful for OSX GUIs. Since in cocoa you can't embed views in
windows from other processes, this VO was writing to a sharedbuffer with
mmap. The OSX GUIs would then read from the buffer and render the image
with an external renderer.
If in the future we will want to support GUIs we will need to reasearch the
IOSurface framework. This allows to share kernel managed image data
across processes and integrates well with OpenGL.
The documentation is mostly taken from the help text embedded in the
code of each output driver.
vo_v4l2 and ao_v4l2 have been removed.
Minor modifications to vo_xv, vo_directx and vo_gl.
Although slightly less precise, this sounds less clunky.
This change also causes the --screenshot-filetype option to be renamed
to --screenshot-format.
This provides the total number of titles (aka tracks) of CDs / VCDs / DVDs.
Additionally, add a titles property to the get_property slave command.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@34474 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Author: ib
Teletext requires special OSD support. Because I can't even test
teletext, I can't restore support for it. Since teletext can be
considered ancient and obscure, and since it doesn't make sense to keep
the remaining teletext code without being able to use it, I'm removing
it.
While this was an interesting idea, it wasn't actually useful.
Basically it dumped the raw data (as requested by the demuxer) into a
file. The result is only useful if the file format was raw or maybe
some MPEG packet stream, but not with most modern file formats.
This was disabled by default, and could be enabled with -dr. It was
disabled by default because it was buggy: there were issues with OSD
corruption.
It wasn't entirely sane for OpenGL based VOs either. OpenGL can chose
to drop mapped pixel buffer objects, requiring the application to map
and fill the buffer again. But there was no mechanism in mplayer to
fill the lost buffer again. (It seems this rarely happened in practice,
though.)
On the other side, users liked the --dr flag, because it promised them
more speed. I'm not sure if it actually helped with speed, but it's
unlikely it had any real advantages on modern systems.
In order to evade the --dr cargo culting in mplayer config files, it's
best to get rid of it.
stream_cue, which provided the cue:// protocol handler, was extremely
hacky and didn't even manage to play some samples I tried.
Remove it, because it's plain unneeded. There is much better support
for .cue files elsewhere:
- libcdio can play pairs of .cue/.bin files:
mplayer cdda:// --cdrom-device=your_cue_file.cue
Note that if the .cue file is not accompanied by a .cue file, but
an encoded file for example, this most likely won't work.
- mplayer can play .cue files directly:
mplayer your_cue_file.cue
This works, even if the .cue file comes with encoded files that are
not .bin . Note that if you play .bin files, mplayer will assume a
specific raw audio format. If the format doesn't match, mplayer will
play noise and destroy your speakers. Note that format mismatches are
extremely common, because the endianness seems to be essentially
random. (libcdio uses a clever algorithm to detect the endian, and
doesn't have this problem.)
To quote the manpage: "This filter is untested, maybe even unusable."
And it seems they were never touched again after it was added many
years ago (except for cosmetic changes). Just get rid of them.
About a year ago, ubitux converted most of the old manpage from the
hard to maintain nroff format to reStructuredText. This was not merged
back into the master repository immediately. The argument was that the
new manpage still required work to be done. However, progress was very
slow. Even worse: the old manpage wasn't updated, because it was
scheduled for deletion, and updating it would have meant useless work.
Now the situation is that the new manpage still isn't finished, and the
old manpage is grossly out of sync with the player. This is not helpful
for users. Additionally, keeping the new manpage in a separate branch,
while the normal development repository for code had the old manpage,
was very inconvenient, because you couldn't just update the
documentation in the same commit as the code.
Even though the new manpage isn't finished yet, merging it now seems to
be the best course of action. Squash-merge the manpage development
branch [1], revision e89f5dd3f2, which branches from the mplayer2
master branch after revision 159102e0cb.
Committers:
* Clément Bœsch <ubitux@gmail.com> (Initial conversion to RST.)
* Uoti Urpala <uau@mplayer2.org> (Many updates.)
* Myself (Minor edits.)
Most text of the manpage has been directly taken from the old manpage,
because this is a conversion, not a complete rewrite.
[1] http://git.mplayer2.org/uau/mplayer2.git/log/?h=man
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Rudolf Polzer
cantabile
Stefano Pigozzi
mplayer-svn