Changing --softvol-max and then resuming would change the volume level
on resume to something different than the original volume. This is
because the user volume setting is always between 0-100, and 100
corresponds to --softvol-max gain.
Avoid that changing -softvol-max and resuming an older file could lead
to a too loud volume level by refusing to restore if --softvol-max
changed.
This has 2 goals:
- Ensure that AOs have always enough data, even if the device buffers
are very small.
- Reduce complexity in some AOs, which do their own buffering.
One disadvantage is that performance is slightly reduced due to more
copying.
Implementation-wise, we don't change ao.c much, and instead "redirect"
the driver's callback to an API wrapper in push.c.
Additionally, we add code for dealing with AOs that have a pull API.
These AOs usually do their own buffering (jack, coreaudio, portaudio),
and adding a thread is basically a waste. The code in pull.c manages
a ringbuffer, and allows callback-based AOs to read data directly.
We want to move the AO to its own thread. There's no technical reason
for making the ao struct opaque to do this. But it helps us sleep at
night, because we can control access to shared state better.
The step argument for "add volume <step>" was ignored until now. Fix it.
There is one problem: by defualt, "add volume" should use the value set
with --volstep. This value is 3 by default. Since the default volue for
the step argument is always 1 (and we don't really want to make the
generic code more complicated by introducing custom step sizes), we
simply multiply the step argument with --volstep to keep it compatible.
The --volstep option should probably be just removed in the future.
The tmsg stuff was for the internal gettext() based translation system,
which nobody ever attempted to use and thus was removed. mp_gtext() and
set_osd_tmsg() were also for this.
mp_dbg was once enabled in debug mode only, but since we have log level
for enabling debug messages, it seems utterly useless.
The AF control commands used an elaborate and unnecessary organization
for the command constants. Get rid of all that and convert the
definitions to a simple enum. Also remove the control commands that
were not really needed, because they were not used outside of the
filters that implemented them.
In theory, af_volume could use separate volume levels for each channel.
But this was never used anywhere.
MPlayer implemented something similar before (svn r36498), but kept the
old path for some reason.
Changing volume when audio is disabled was a feature request (github
issue #215), and was introduced with commit 327a779.
But trying to fix github issue #280 (volume is not correct in no-audio
mode, and if audio is re-enabled, the volume set in no-audio mode isn't
set), I concluded that it's not worth the trouble and the current
implementation is questionable all around. (For example, you can't
change the real volume in no-audio mode, even if the AO is open - this
could happen with gapless audio.) It's hard to get right, and the
current mixer code is already hilariously overcomplicated. (Virtually
all of mixer.c is an amalgamation of various obscure corner cases.)
So just remove this feature again.
Note that "options/volume" and "options/mute" still can be used in
idle mode to adjust the volume used next time, though these properties
can't be used during playback and thus not in audio-only mode.
Querying the volume still "works" in audio-only mode, though it can
return bogus values.
Calling them separately doesn't really make sense, and all existing
calls to them usually combined them. One subtitle difference was that
af_init() didn't wipe the filter chain if initialization of the chain
itself failed, but that didn't really make sense anyway.
Also remove af_init() from the code for setting balance in mixer.c. The
mixer should be in the initialized state only if audio is fully
initialized, so the af_init() call made no sense.
Note that the filter "editing" code in command.c doesn't really do a
nice job of handling errors in case recreating an _old_ (known to work)
filter chain unexpectedly fails, and this obscure/rare case might be
differently handled after this change.
Note that this is intentionally never done if the AO or softvolume is
different, or if the current volume control method is thought to control
system wide volume (such as ALSA) or otherwise user controllable (such
as PulseAudio). The intention is to keep things robust and to avoid
messing with the user's audio settings as far as possible, while still
providing the ability to resume volume if it makes sense.
Refactor how mixer.c does volume/mute restoration and initialization.
Move to handling of --volume and --mute to mixer.c. Simplify the
implementation of these and hopefully fix bugs/strange behavior related
to using them as file-local options (this uses a somewhat dirty trick:
the option values are reverted to "auto" after initialization). Put most
code related to initialization and volume restoring in probe_softvol()
and restore_volume(). Having this code all in one place is less
confusing.
Instead of trying to detect whether to use softvol at runtime, detect it
at initialization time using AOCONTROL_GET_VOLUME (same with mute,
AOCONTROL_GET_MUTE). This implies we expect SET_VOLUME/SET_MUTE to work
if the GET variants work. Hopefully this is always the case.
This is also preparation for being able to change volume/mute settings
if audio is disabled, and for allowing restoring value with playback
resume.
Softvol always used a linear multiplier for volume control. This was
converted to dB, and then back to linear in af_volume. Remove this non-
sense. We still try to keep the command line argument to af_volume in
dB, though.
Make the VF/VO/AO option parser available to audio filters. No audio
filter uses this yet, but it's still a quite intrusive change.
In particular, the commands for manipulating filters at runtime
completely change. We delete the old code, and use the same
infrastructure as for video filters. (This forces complete
reinitialization of the filter chain, which hopefully isn't a problem
for any use cases. The old code forced reinitialization too, but it
could potentially allow a filter to cache things; e.g. consider loaded
ladspa plugins and such.)
This actually breaks audio for 5/6/8 channels. There's no reordering
done yet. The actual reordering will be done inside of af_lavrresample
and has to be made part of the format negotiation.
Consider:
mpv --volume 10 file1.mkv file2.mkv
Before this commit, the volume was reset to 10 when playing file2.mkv.
This was inconsistent to most other options. E.g. --brightness is a
rather similar case.
In general, settings should never be reset when playing the next file,
unless the option was explicitly marked file-local. This commit
corrects the behavior of the --volume and --mute options.
File local --volume still works as expected:
mpv --{ --volume 10 file1.mkv file2.mkv --}
This sets the volume always to 10 on playback start.
Move the m_config_leave_file_local() call down so that the mixer code
in uninit_player() can set the option volume and mute variables without
overwriting the global option values.
Another subtle issue is that we don't want to set volume if there's no
need to, which is why the user_set_volume/mute fields are introduced.
This is important because setting the volume might change the system
volume depending on other options.
This partially reverts earlier decisions, when I thought it would
always be better to prefer the audio volume filter over the AO's,
because the AO's relies on the underlying audio-API, which could
be broken or exhibit unusual behavior (like it happened with ao_dsound).
However, since the audio buffer can be quite large (500 ms), and we
don't attempt to flush & refilter the audio on volume changes, always
prefer AO volume control (as long as the AO mixer doesn't control the
system mixer).
Also document what the mixer.c related AO fields mean (hopefully not
too brief).
mixer_setvolume() accepts float values for volume, but used the
integer function av_clip() to limit range, losing the fractional part
as a side effect. Change the code to use av_clipf() instead. For most
uses this shouldn't make any real difference; actual AO volume
settings may not have that much precision anyway.
Lowering volume while muted did not work correctly with audio outputs
that support native mute setting separate from volume (ao_alsa and
ao_pulse), because the AO-level volume was not set while muted but was
still being read back. Fix by setting the AO volume in this case.
Finish renaming directories and moving files. Adjust all include
statements to make the previous commit compile.
The two commits are separate, because git is bad at tracking renames
and content changes at the same time.
Also take this as an opportunity to remove the separation between
"common" and "mplayer" sources in the Makefile. ("common" used to be
shared between mplayer and mencoder.)
Tis drops the silly lib prefixes, and attempts to organize the tree in
a more logical way. Make the top-level directory less cluttered as
well.
Renames the following directories:
libaf -> audio/filter
libao2 -> audio/out
libvo -> video/out
libmpdemux -> demux
Split libmpcodecs:
vf* -> video/filter
vd*, dec_video.* -> video/decode
mp_image*, img_format*, ... -> video/
ad*, dec_audio.* -> audio/decode
libaf/format.* is moved to audio/ - this is similar to how mp_image.*
is located in video/.
Move most top-level .c/.h files to core. (talloc.c/.h is left on top-
level, because it's external.) Park some of the more annoying files
in compat/. Some of these are relicts from the time mplayer used
ffmpeg internals.
sub/ is not split, because it's too much of a mess (subtitle code is
mixed with OSD display and rendering).
Maybe the organization of core is not ideal: it mixes playback core
(like mplayer.c) and utility helpers (like bstr.c/h). Should the need
arise, the playback core will be moved somewhere else, while core
contains all helper and common code.
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Stefano Pigozzi
Uoti Urpala