Removes a good hunk of weird code.
This loses qscale "emulation", some logging, and the fact that duplicate
keys for values starting with +/- were added with AV_DICT_APPEND. I
don't assign those any importance, even if they are user-visible
changes.
The new M_OPT_ flag is just so that nothing weird happens for other
key-value options, which do not interpret a "help" key specially.
Most options starting with --no-<name> are automatically translated to
--<name>=no. Make the code slightly nicer by using a flag instead of
explicitly comparing option types. Also fix an issue that made the
option parser print nonsense error messages for if --no-... was used for
options which don't support it.
--vf=help will now list libavfilter filters, and e.g. --vf=yadif=help
will list libavfilter filter options.
The latter is rather bare, because the AVOption API is really awful
(holy shit how is it so bad), and would require us to handle _every_
option type manually.
Alternatively we could call av_opt_show2(), which ffmpeg uses for help
output in its CLI tools and which is much more detailed. But it's rather
foreign and forces output through av_log(), so I don't really want to
use it.
Instead of duplicating the append code, reimplement it using the
existing code. The difference between -add and -append is that -append
does not take multiple items (thus removing the need for escaping), but
-append can reuse all code for -add by pretending the separator is never
found.
And use it for 2 demuxer options. It could be used for more options
later. (Though the --cache options can not use this, because they use KB
as base unit.)
Add the print callback to all option types (except pseudo option types
which don't represent values). This makes it less confusing for client
API users (no strange properties that can't be read), and also lists the
default properly with --list-options.
Fix the option type for audio formats - they use int, not uint32_t.
Fix some identation cosmetic issues.
'help' is a valid value for a lot of mpv options, such as `hwdec`
or `vo` for printing available values, so this change makes the
output of OPT_CHOICE options like `--video-sync=help` more
consistent by not reporting an error about invalid value 'help'.
Previously when using a libmpv instance to play multiple videos,
once --start was set there was no clear way to unset it. You could
use --start=0, but 0 does not always mean the beginning of the file
(especially when using --rebase-start-time=no). Looking up the start
timestamp and passing that in also does not always work, particularly
when the first timestamp is negative (since negative values to --start
have a special meaning).
This commit adds a new "none" value which maps to the internal
REL_TIME_NONE, matching the default value of the play_start option.
Somewhat useful for debugging. Unfortunately libass (or something else)
strips leading whitespace, making it look slightly more ugly than
necessary. Still an improvement.
See "Copyright" file for caveats.
This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think
that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
This is more confusing than it helps, and forces escaping more stuff.
For example, for string lists we could remove all need for escaling with
-add and -pre.
The user can simply use multiple of those options.
Remove the various redundant m_config_set_option* calls, rename the
remaining one to m_config_set_option_cli(), and merge the
m_config_parse_option() function.
The changes to path list options is basically getting rid of the need to
pass multiple paths to a single option. Instead, you can use the option
multiple times. The old behavior can be used by using the -set suffix
with the option.
Change some options to path lists. For example --script is now append by
default, and if you use --script-set, you need to use ":"/";" as
separator instead of ",".
--sub-paths/--audio-file-paths is a deprecated alias now, and will break
if the user tries to pass multiple paths to it. I'm assuming that if
these are used, most users will pass only 1 path anyway.
--opengl-shaders has more compatibility handling, since it's probably
rather common that users pass multiple options to it.
Also document all that in the manpage.
I'll probably regret this later, as it somewhat increases the complexity
of the option parser, rather than increasing it.
There is no technical need for this, but it's nicer if --list-options
appears to output them sorted (it only actually sorts the actual option
list, while actions are output in the order they are defined).
This means you can use --sub-file-set=a,b,c to set a string list
separated by ',', while --sub-file=filename,with,commas.srt still works
(the original motivation for changing the --sub-file option this way).
You can also use it to append strings to string list options without the
need for escale, e.g.: --opengl-shaders-add-str=unescapesdfilename.glsl
(The normal -add for some reason expects a ',' separated list as
argument.)
This affects options like --vf or --display-tags. These used a "*"
suffix to match all options starting with a specific name, and handled
the rest in the option parser. Change this to remove the "*" special
case, and require every option parser to declare a list of allowed
suffixes via m_option_type.actions.
The new way is conceptually simpler, because we don't have to account
for the "*" in a bunch of places anymore, and instead everything is
centrally handled in the CLI part of the option parser, where it's
actually needed.
It automatically enables suffixes like -add for a bunch of other
stringlist options.
This was an annoying option type. And still is. But at least it's on the
same level as m_option_type_print_fn now, and can probably cleaned up
further like it. Both types are for options that are only on the command
line, always have special handling (i.e. do something with them in
parse_commandline.c before passing them to the generic
m_config.c/m_option.c layers), and are m_options only for --list-options
and (oddly) the split_opt_silent() function.
This reverts commit e30fe38a21.
The original author as well as the author from d568eaa2 agreed to LGPL
now. The only one missing is 0842caf6 (Henk could not be reached, and
that will probably stay this way).
When I discussed this with someone else who knows a lot about copyright
(j-b), the conclusion was that the rewrite was actually enough to
remove all past copyright. Only the syntax and the option name remained
the same, but code, code structure, and architecture all changed
radically. So I'm content with dropping the GPL part.
(m_option.c is still formally GPL due to the special agreement with
michael, but once this is fullfilled, we will change the license to
LGPL without further checks.)
In commit eb22569ff0, I claimed that the geometry parsing code was
rewritten. But I'm not sure if it's rewritten enough, or if copyright
claims could still be made. Given that the original code was
self-contained, and could be considered a separate work, it's probably
safer (and more up to the standards applied to this relicensing) to
leave this as GPL code.
The rewrite/code move can be seen with: git diff f2dcdca...ccaed5e
All authors of the current code have agreed (as far as this commit
requires).
options.c/options.h will take more effort, because it contains all the
option declarations, and thus is touched extremely often.
m_option.c is technically still GPL, because of commit 2c82d5a1d8
(michael has agreed to LGPL, but only once the core of mpv is LGPL).
The geometry parsing code in m_option.c was originally by someone who
could not be reached. However, it was heavily rewritten anyway, and only
the syntax remains (i.e. not copyright-relevant).
parse_commandline.c contains a change by "adland" (commit 1d0ac71ae8),
who could not be reached - this this specific part is GPL only.
Fortunately, it matters only for DVD (and even then is more like a hack,
but whatever).
There are some other relevant changes, but they have all been reverted,
moved somewhere else, deleted, or replaced.
"@name:!" becomes simply "@name". This is actually slightly more complex
to parse, but makes for a much simpler syntax and will be less weird to
the user. Suggested by haasn.
The old syntax is now rejected with an error.
Also add some more explicit error checks, instead of e.g. allowing empty
filter names and erroring only when it's not found.
It should default to true, but setting the filter list via mpv_node
(relevant for client API and Lua scripting) left it to false.
Also "document" the flag.
Basically, see the example in input.rst.
This is better than the "old" vf-toggle method, because it doesn't
require the user to duplicate the filter string in mpv.conf and
input.conf.
Some aspects of this changes are untested, so enjoy your alpha testing.
Remove more stuff that was needed only for legacy suboptions.
One user-visible change is that parent-options like --tv are now not
visible anymore. They lead to a special error message when used before,
but now they're simply not part of the option list anymore.
Long planned. Leads to some sanity.
There still are some rather gross things. Especially g_groups is ugly,
and a hack that can hopefully be removed. (There is a plan for it, but
whether it's implemented depends on how much energy is left.)
There were multiple values under M_OPT_EXIT (M_OPT_EXIT-n for n>=0).
Somehow M_OPT_EXIT-n either meant error code n (with n==0 no error?), or
the number of option valus consumed (0 or 1). The latter is MPlayer
legacy, which left it to the option type parsers to determine whether an
option took a value or not. All of this was changed in mpv, by requiring
the user to use explicit syntax ("--opt=val" instead of "-opt val").
In any case, the n value wasn't even used (anymore), so rip this all
out. Now M_OPT_EXIT-1 doesn't mean anything, and could be used by a new
error code.
vo_opengl sub-option were always rather annoying to handle. It seems
better to make them global options instead. This is simpler and easier
to use. The only disadvantage we are aware of is that it's not clear
that many/all of these new global options work with vo_opengl only.
--vo=opengl-hq is also deprecated.
There is extensive compatibility with the old behavior. One exception is
that --vo-defaults will not apply to opengl-hq (though with opengl it
still works). vo-cmdline is also dysfunctional and will be removed in a
following commit.
These changes also affect opengl-cb.
The update mechanism is still rather inefficient: it requires syncing
with the VO after each option change, rather than batching updates.
There's also no granularity (video.c just updates "everything", and if
auto-ICC profiles are enabled, vo_opengl.c will fetch them on each
update).
Most of the manpage changes were done by Niklas Haas <git@haasn.xyz>.