Pretty much a fringe-feature, but also it's awkward if something appears
on the terminal with no indication for the source.
This is made quite awkward by the fact that stderr and stdout could be
closed at different times, and that poll() doesn't accept "holes" in its
FD list. Invalid (.e.g negative) FDs just make it return immediately, as
required by the standard. So sparse_poll() takes care of the messy
details.
What was the purpose of that? Probably none.
Also simplify another thing: if we get the cancel signal through FD,
there's no reason to check it separately.
No development activity (or even any sign of life) for almost a year.
A replacement based on youtube-dl will probably be provided before the
next mpv release. Ask on the IRC channel if you want to test.
Simplify the Lua check too: libquvi linking against a different Lua
version than mpv was a frequent issue, but with libquvi gone, no
direct dependency uses Lua, and such a clash is rather unlikely.
So a client API user can know when a window is created or destroyed.
Also might be useful for the OSC: it could disable itself if video is
disabled.
Before this commit, there were only indirect ways of detecting this.
Most things should be allowed to access the client API unconditionally
(for example for sending events), so move destroying the client API
down. Also, mp_uninit_ipc() should happen before the point at which all
clients are shutdown, or there will be a small time window in which new
clients can be created after destroying them all.
Wether and when the text of a button should be squeezed when it
gets too long can now be configured in the layout:
lo.button.maxchars = <number>
nil = no squeezing (default)
If the button text has more than <maxchars> characters, it will
be squeezed to the estimated width of <maxchars>.
The player was supposed to exit playback if both video and audio failed
to initialize (or if one of the streams was not selected when the other
stream failed). This didn't work; for one this check was missing from
one of the failure paths. And more importantly, both checked the
current_track array incorrectly.
Fix these issues, and move the failure handling code into a common
function.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Because Lua is so terrible, it's easy to confuse temporary values pushed
to the Lua stack with arguments if the arguments are checked after that.
Add a hack that should fix this.
The behavior of reverse cycling (with the "!reverse" magic value) was a
bit weird and acted with a "delay". This was because the command set the
value the _next_ command should use. Change this and make each command
invocation select and use the next command directly. This requires an
"uninitialized" special index in the counter, but that is no problem at
all.
Due to the way video-rotate currently works, the state will be
automatically updated once new video is decoded. So the filter chain
doesn't need to be reinitialized automatically, but there is a need to
trigger the video instant refresh code path instead.
Also move the support function closer to an annoying similar yet
different function. They probably can be unified next time major changes
are done to this code.
Allows properly changing/updating the cursor state. Useful for client
API window embedding, because the host application may not want the mpv
window to grab mouse input, and this has to manually handle the cursor.
Changing the cursor of foreign windows is usually not sane.
It might make sense to allow changing the cursor icon, but that would be
much more complicated, so I won't add it unless someone actually
requests it.
Apparently using the stream index is the best way to refer to the same
streams across multiple FFmpeg-using programs, even if the stream index
itself is rarely meaningful in any way.
For Matroska, there are some possible problems, depending how FFmpeg
actually adds streams. Normally they seem to match though.
Getting subtitle scaling and positioning right even if there are video
filters, which completely change the image (like cropping), doesn't seem
to have a single, correct solution. To some degree, the results are
arbitrary, so we may as well do what is most useful to the user.
In this case, if the PGS resolution aspect ratio and the video output
aspect ratio mismatch, letter-box it, instead of stretching the subs
over the video frame. (This will require additional fixes, should it
turn out that there are PGS subtitles which are stretched by design.)
Fixes#1205.
It turns out the glibc people are very clever and return an error if the
thread name exceeds the maximum supported kernel length, instead of
truncating the name. So everyone has to hardcode the currently allowed
Linux kernel name length limit, even if it gets extended later.
Also the Lua script filenames could get too long; use the client name
instead.
Another strange thing is that on Linux, unrelated threads "inherit" the
name by the thread they were created. This leads to random thread names,
because there's not necessarily a strong relation between these threads
(e.g. script command leads to filter recreation -> the filter's threads
are tagged with the script's thread name). Unfortunate.
Especially with other components (libavcodec, OSX stuff), the thread
list can get quite populated. Setting the thread name helps when
debugging.
Since this is not portable, we check the OS variants in waf configure.
old-configure just gets a special-case for glibc, since doing a full
check here would probably be a waste of effort.
Thanks to the recently introduced mp_lua_PITA(), this is "simple" now.
It fixes leaks on Lua errors. The hack to avoid stack overflows
manually isn't needed anymore, and the Lua error handler will take
care of this.
The JSON parser was introduced for the IPC protocol, but I guess it's
useful here too.
The motivation for this commit is the same as with 8e4fa5fc (again).
Because 1) Lua is terrible, and 2) popen() is terrible. Unfortunately,
since Unix is also terrible, this turned out more complicated than I
hoped. As a consequence and to avoid that this code has to be maintained
forever, add a disclaimer that any function in Lua's utils module can
disappear any time. The complexity seems a bit ridiculous, especially
for a feature so far removed from actual video playback, so if it turns
out that we don't really need this function, it will be dropped again.
The motivation for this commit is the same as with 8e4fa5fc.
Note that there is an "#ifndef __GLIBC__". The GNU people are very
special people and thought it'd be convenient to actually declare
"environ", even though the POSIX people, which are also very special
people, state that no header declares this and that the user has to
declare this manually. Since the GNU people overtook the Unix world with
their very clever "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy, but not 100%,
and trying to build without _GNU_SOURCE is hopeless; but since there
might be Unix environments which support _GNU_SOURCE features partially,
this means that in practice "environ" will be randomly declared or not
declared by system headers. Also, gcc was written by very clever people
too, and prints a warning if an external variable is declared twice (I
didn't check, but I suppose redeclaring is legal C, and not even the gcc
people are clever enough to only warn against a definitely not legal C
construct, although sometimes they do this), ...and since we at mpv hate
compiler warnings, we seek to silence them all. Adding a configure test
just for a warning seems too radical, so we special-case this against
__GLIBC__, which is hopefully not defined on other libcs, especially not
libcs which don't implement all aspects of _GNU_SOURCE, and redefine
"environ" on systems even if the headers define it already (because they
support _GNU_SOURCE - as I mentioned before, the clever GNU people wrote
software THAT portable that other libcs just gave up and implemented
parts of _GNU_SOURCE, although probably not all), which means that
compiling mpv will print a warning about "environ" being redefined, but
at least this won't happen on my system, so all is fine. However, should
someone complain about this warning, I will force whoever complained
about this warning to read this ENTIRE commit message, and if possible,
will also force them to eat a printed-out copy of the GNU Manifesto, and
if that is not enough, maybe this person could even be forced to
convince the very clever POSIX people of not doing crap like this:
having the user to manually declare somewhat central symbols - but I
doubt it's possible, because the POSIX people are too far gone and only
care about maintaining compatibility with old versions of AIX and HP-UX.
Oh, also, this code contains some subtle and obvious issues, but writing
about this is not fun.
Using the Lua API is a big PITA because it uses longjmp() error
handling. That is, a Lua API function could any time raise an error and
longjmp() to a lower part of the stack. This kind of "exception
handling" is completely foreign to C, and there are no proper ways to
clean up the "skipped" stack frames.
Other than avoiding such situations entirely, the only way to deal with
this is using Lua "userdata", which is basically a malloc'ed data block
managed by the Lua GC, and which can have a destructor function
associated (__gc metamethod).
This requires an awful lot of code (because the Lua API is just so
terrible), so I avoided this utnil now. But it looks like this will make
some of the following commits much easier, so here we go.
mp_stat() instead of stat() was used in the normal code (i.e. even
on Unix), because MinGW-w64 has an unbelievable macro-mess in place,
which prevents solving this elegantly.
Add some dirty workarounds to hide mp_stat() from the normal code
properly. This now requires replacing all functions that use the
struct stat type. This includes fstat, lstat, fstatat, and possibly
others. (mpv currently uses stat and fstat only.)
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ChrisK2
Martin Herkt
Kevin Mitchell
Stefano Pigozzi
Alessandro Ghedini