In wayland-protocols 1.25, xdg-shell got a version bump which added the
configure_bounds event. The compositor can send this to clients to
indicate that they should not resize past a certain size. For mpv, we'll
choose to only listen to this on reconfig events (i.e. when the window
first appears and if the video resolution changes later in the
playlist). However, this behavior is still exposed as a user option
(default on) because it will neccesarily conflict with a user setting a
specific geometry size and/or window scale. Presumably, if someone is
setting a really large size that goes beyond the bounds of their
monitor, they actually want it like that. The wayland-protocols version
is newer-ish, but we can get around having to poke the build system by
just using a define that exists in the generated xdg-shell header.
In the confusing landscape of hardware video decoding APIs, we have had
a long standing support gap for the v4l2 based APIs implemented for the
various SoCs from Rockship, Amlogic, Allwinner, etc. While VAAPI is the
defacto default for desktop GPUs, the developers who work on these SoCs
(who are not the vendors!) have preferred to implement kernel APIs
rather than maintain a userspace driver as VAAPI would require.
While there are two v4l2 APIs (m2m and requests), and multiple forks of
ffmpeg where support for those APIs languishes without reaching
upstream, we can at least say that these APIs export frames as DRMPrime
dmabufs, and that they use the ffmpeg drm hwcontext.
With those two constants, it is possible for us to write a
hwdec-interop without worrying about the mess underneath - for the most
part.
Accordingly, this change implements a hwdec-interop for any decoder
that produces frames as DRMPrime dmabufs. The bulk of the heavy
lifting is done by the dmabuf interop code we already had from
supporting vaapi, and which I refactored for reusability in a previous
set of changes.
When we combine that with the fact that we can't probe for supported
formats, the new code in this change is pretty simple.
This change also includes the hwcontext_fns that are required for us to
be able to configure the hwcontext used by `hwdec=drm-copy`. This is
technically unrelated, but it seemed a good time to fill this gap.
From a testing perspective, I have directly tested on a RockPRO64,
while others have tested with different flavours of Rockchip and on
Amlogic, providing m2m coverage.
I have some other SoCs that I need to spin up to test with, but I don't
expect big surprises, and when we inevitably need to account for new
special cases down the line, we can do so - we won't be able to support
every possible configuration blindly.
Whether or not the GNOME project has a tendency to make life
difficult for anyone outside their ecosystem, the user manual is
no place for childish rants such as this.
Keep it to what is relevant for users.
Generally, the hard-coded sizes used for the OSC elements are
comfortable regardless of the font used, but the timecode fields have
relatively many characters, and so are affected to a greater degree by
fonts with a wider or narrower average character width than expected.
This allow users to adjust the space reserved for the timecode fields to
compensate.
Previously if the raw command_native_async returned an error then the
callback function was run directly. This meant that script writers
potentially had to account for both synchronous and asynchronous logic
in the callback, which can happen even with seemingly 'safe' commands
if the mpv event queue is full.
This was at odds with the Javascript implementation of
the function, which always runs the callback asynchronously.
Now the mp.add_timeout function is used to run the callback
asynchronously on error, replicating the Javascript implementation.
This provides consistency for developers in how the callback is handled
in Lua, and increases consistency between the Lua and Javascript APIs.
With the recent addition of the libxpresent, it should improve frame
timings for most users. However, there were known cases of bad behavior
(Nvidia) which lead to a construction of a whitelist instead of just
enabling this all the time. Since there's no way to predict whatever
combination of hardware/drivers/etc. may work correctly, just give users
an option to switch the usage of xorg's presentation statistics on/off.
The default value, auto, works like before (basically, Mesa drivers and
no Nvidia are allowed), but now one can force it on/off if needed.
The `absolute` value was incorrectly labelled as the default instead of
the value named `default`, which was somewhat confusing. When the newer
default option was added in 679e410 it seems like wm4 forgot to remove
the label in the manual on the previous default.
This is mainly for other user scripts that may conflict with the osc
logo in some way. Although it is possible to listen for
shared-script-properties, this has many edge cases that could easily pop
up. A user could want other OSC things to happen at the same time (say
osc-message). They just don't want the logo. The idlescreen option
disables all idlescreen related things (including the santa hat) if it
is set to "no". A new script message (osc-idlescreen) is also added so
users can easily toggle the value (passing "cycle" or just explictly
setting "yes" or "no"). Some more discussion on this is found in the
below github issues.
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/10201https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-file-browser/issues/55
This driver makes use of dmabuffer and viewporter interfaces
to enable efficient display of vaapi surfaces, avoiding
any unnecessary colour space conversion, and avoiding scaling
or colour conversion using GPU shader resources.
Add Jpeg XL as a possible output format for screenshots, which
should make it possible to take fast screenshots with much better
quality than JPEG, or take lossless high-bit-depth screenshots
with lower file sizes than PNG.
- Say built-in which is more common than builtin
- Move "By default" because only the key to open the console is
customizable, and fix the punctuation and case of the sentence
- ` opens the console, not ´
- Remove the sentences that explains which user script console.lua is
based on since it's no longer relevant now that the console has been
part of mpv for over 2 years.
Now that a separate --cover-art-whitelist option exists, files like
cover.jpg are loaded even without setting --cover-art-auto to fuzzy, so
only load files that have exactly the media filename by default, since
fuzzy loading is probably more likely to load unwanted images than to
load cover art that the user intended to display, especially if you play
audio files with a short filename like a.mp3.
This allows more fine grained control over which cover art to load. With
--cover-art-auto=exact and --cover-art-whitelist=yes, you can now load
cover art with the exact media filename and the whitelisted filenames,
but not cover art that contains the media filename
(--cover-art-auto=fuzzy).
This adds a section to the documentation to explain how resuming
playback works, and in particular it explains how it affects which
playlist entry mpv starts playing from, since this feature was only
implied in the --playlist-start documentation.
It also groups the documentation of the watch later options together to
make them easier to find.
Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), aka Freesync or Adaptive Sync can be used
with DRM by setting the VRR_ENABLED property on a crtc if the
connector reports that it is VRR_CAPABLE. This is a useful feature
for us as it is common to play 24/25/50 fps content on displays that
are nominally locked to 60Hz. VRR can allow this content to play at
native framerates.
This is a simple change as we just need to check the capability
and set the enabled property if requested by the user. I've defaulted
it to disabled for now, but it might make sense to default to auto
in the long term.
The documentation's current discussion of hwdec usage is out of date,
and unnecessarily pessemistic when applied to modern hardware. The
reality is that modern APIs on modern hardware produce reasonable
results and there's no need to pretend otherwise. The current language
that tries to drive people away from using hwdecs at all leads to them
making bad choices when they do try to use it.
Let's also make it clearer that users should use vo=gpu with hwdecs
rather than vo=vaapi or vo=vdpau. Even the existing admonitions have
proven insufficient, so let's strengthen that language.
There are two major ways of going about this:
1. Expose the native ra_gl/ra_pl/ra_d3d11 objects to the pre-existing
hwdec mappers, and then add code in vo_gpu_next to rewrap those
ra_tex objects into pl_tex.
2. Wrap the underlying pl_opengl/pl_d3d11 into a ra_pl object and expose
it to the hwdec mappers, then directly use the resulting pl_tex.
I ultimately opted for approach 1 because it enables compatibility with
more hardware decoders, specifically including ones that use native
OpenGL calls currently. The second approach only really works with
cuda_vk and vaapi_pl.
I was initially hesitant to link to an external article from the manpage
but a lot of other places in the man page already do something like
this, and it really makes more sense to have this as a wiki article
rather than trying to keep the manpage up-to-date by hand, since this
evolves quickly and the two are expected to converge over time.
The stop-screensaver option is currently limited to a simple yes/no
option. While the no option does always disable mpv trying to stop the
screensaver, yes does not mean the screensaver is always stopped. The
screensaver will be enabled again depending on certain conditions (like
if the player is paused). Simply introduce a new value for this option,
always, which does exactly what the name implies: the screensaver will
always be disabled.
- Make it clearer that playback_only affects subprocess' behavior when
the playback of the current playlist entry terminates, rather than
when mpv quits.
- Explain when status is positive and when it is negative.
- Replace "exited gracefully" in status' and error_string's
documentation with "terminated normally" so it can't be misinterpreted
as exiting successfully.
- Reword the playback_only warning
We have a few examples with vf=rotate=90, but libavfilter's rotate
accepts radians - not degrees, so a value of 90 is valid but misleading
because it's not 90 degrees.
Change the value of 90 at those examples.
Also replace "vf-add=hflip" with "vf add hflip", since that example
lists commands, not options, to run.
When utils.get_user_path was added, the expand-path command didn't
exist. Now it does, so remove the C code, make it a trivial wrapper.
Keep this function for backward compat to not break scripts, but
technically it's not required anymore.
