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NOTE: DOCS/OUTDATED-tech/* may contain more detailed information, but most of it
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is possibly or definitely outdated. This file intends to give a big
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picture of how mpv is structured.
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mpvcore/mplayer.c:
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This contains the main play loop, anything related to mpv and playback
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related initializations. It also contains the main function. Generally, it
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accesses all other subsystems, initializes them, and pushes data between
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them during playback.
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The structure is as follows (as of commit e13c05366557cb):
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* main():
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* basic initializations (e.g. init_libav() and more)
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* pre-parse command line (verbosity level, config file locations)
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* load config files (parse_cfgfiles())
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* parse command line, add files from the command line to playlist
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(m_config_parse_mp_command_line())
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* check help options etc. (call handle_help_options()), possibly exit
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* call play_files() function that works down the playlist:
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* run idle loop (idle_loop()), until there are files in the
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playlist or an exit command was given (slave mode only)
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* actually load and play a file in play_current_file():
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* run all the dozens of functions to load the file and
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initialize playback
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* run a small loop that does normal playback, until the file is
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done or a slave command terminates playback
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(on each iteration, run_playloop() is called, which is rather
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big and complicated - it decodes some audio and video on
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each frame, waits for input, etc.)
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* uninitialize playback
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* determine next entry on the playlist to play
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* loop, or exit if no next file or quit is requested
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(see enum stop_play_reason)
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* call exit_player_with_rc()
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Things worth saying about the playback core:
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- the currently played tracks are in sh_video and sh_audio
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- the timeline stuff is used only with MKV ordered chapters (and some other
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minor features: cue, edl)
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- most state is in MPContext (mp_core.h), which is not available to the
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subsystems
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- the other subsystems rarely call back into the frontend, and the frontend
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polls them instead (probably a good thing)
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I like to call mplayer.c (and some other files) the "frontend".
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talloc.h & talloc.c:
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Hierarchical memory manager copied from Samba. It's like a malloc() with
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more features. Most importantly, each talloc allocation can have a parent,
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and if the parent is free'd, all children will be free'd as well. The
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parent is an arbitrary talloc allocation. It's either set by the allocation
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call by passing a talloc parent, usually as first argument to the allocation
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function. It can also be set or reset later by other calls (at least
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talloc_steal()). A talloc allocation that is used as parent is often called
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a talloc context.
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Lots of code still uses malloc() proper, and you should be careful what
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type of allocation you're dealing with when returning or free'ing an
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allocation. (Needless to say, talloc_free() and free() are completely
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different things.)
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The copy in mpv has been modified to abort on OOM conditions. An
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allocation call will never return NULL.
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One very useful feature of talloc is fast tracking of memory leaks. ("Fast"
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as in it doesn't require valgrind.) You can enable it by passing the option
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--leak-report as first parameter, or better, setting the
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MPV_LEAK_REPORT environment variable to "1":
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export MPV_LEAK_REPORT=1
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This will list all unfree'd allocations on exit.
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Documentation can be found here:
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http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=blob;f=lib/talloc/talloc.h;hb=HEAD
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Note: unlike tcmalloc, jemalloc, etc., talloc() is not actually a malloc
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replacement. It works on top of system malloc and provides additional
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features that are supposed to make memory management easier.
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Warning: actually, we're not using talloc anymore. talloc in mpv has been
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replaced by a custom re-implementation (TA in ta/). It provides
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some talloc emulation (just the parts needed by mpv). We will get
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rid of the talloc emulation later and use TA natively.
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(See ta/README for details.)
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mpvcore/mp_core.h:
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Data structures for mplayer.c and command.c. They are usually not accessed
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by other parts of mpv for the sake of modularization.
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Note that there are lots of global variables floating around everywhere
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else. This is an ongoing transition, and eventually there should be no
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global variables anymore.
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options.h contains the global option struct MPOpts, and its default values
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are in defaultopts.c for some reason.
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mpvcore/input/input.c:
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This translates keyboard input comming from libvo and other sources (such
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as remote control devices like Apple IR or slave mode commands) to the
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key bindings listed in the user's (or the builtin) input.conf and turns
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them into items of type struct mp_cmd. These commands are queued, and read
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by mplayer.c. They get pushed with run_command() to command.c.
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Note that keyboard input and slave mode input are essentially the same
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things. Just looking at input.conf should make this clear. (The other
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direction of slave mode communication, mpv to application, consists of
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random mp_msg() calls all over the code in all parts of the player.)
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mpvcore/command.c:
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This contains the implementation for slave commands and properties.
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Properties are essentially dynamic variables changed by certain commands.
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This is basically responsible for all user commands, like initiating
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seeking, switching tracks, etc. It calls into mplayer.c, where most of the
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work is done, but also into other parts of mpv.
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mpvcore/mp_msg.h:
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All terminal output should go through mp_msg().
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stream/*:
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File input is implemented here. stream.h/.c provides a simple stream based
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interface (like reading a number of bytes at a given offset). mpv can
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also play from http streams and such, which is implemented here.
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E.g. if mpv sees "http://something" on the command line, it will pick
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stream_lavf.c based on the prefix, and pass the rest of the filename to it.
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Some stream inputs are quite special: stream_dvd.c turns DVDs into mpeg
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streams (DVDs are actually a bunch of vob files etc. on a filesystem),
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stream_tv.c provides TV input including channel switching.
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Some stream inputs are just there to invoke special demuxers, like
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stream_mf.c. (Basically to make the prefix "mf://" do something special.)
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cache.c is a caching wrapper around streams implementations, needed for
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smooth network playback.
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demux/:
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Demuxers split data streams into audio/video/sub streams, which in turn
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are split in packets. Packets (see demux_packet.h) are mostly byte chunks
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tagged with a playback time (PTS). These packets are passed to the decoders.
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Most demuxers have been removed from this fork, and the only important and
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"actual" demuxers left are demux_mkv.c and demux_lavf.c (uses libavformat).
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There are some pseudo demuxers like demux_cue.c, which exist only to invoke
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other frontend code (tl_cue.c in this case).
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The main interface is in demux.h. The stream headers are in stheader.h.
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There is a stream header for each audio/video/sub stream, and each of them
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holds codec information about the stream and other information.
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video/:
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This contains several things related to audio/video decoding, as well as
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video filters.
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mp_image.h and img_format.h define how mpv stores decoded video frames
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internally.
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video/decode/:
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vd_*.c are video decoders. (There's only vd_lavc.c left.) dec_video.c/vd.c
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handle most of connecting the frontend with the actual decoder.
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video/filter/:
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vf_*.c and vf.c form the video filter chain. They are fed by the video
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decoder, and output the filtered images to the VOs though vf_vo.c. By
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default, no video filters (except vf_vo) are used. vf_scale is automatically
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inserted if the video output can't handle the video format used by the
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decoder.
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video/out/:
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Video output. They also create GUI windows and handle user input. In most
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cases, the windowing code is shared among VOs, like x11_common.c for X11 and
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w32_common.c for Windows. The VOs stand between frontend and windowing code.
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vo_opengl can pick a windowing system at runtime, e.g. the same binary can
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provide both X11 and Cocoa support on OSX.
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VOs can be reconfigured at runtime. A config() call can change the video
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resolution and format, without destroying the window.
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vo_vdpau and vo_opengl should be taken as reference.
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audio/:
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format.h/format.c define the uncompressed audio formats. (As well as some
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compressed formats used for spdif.)
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audio/decode/:
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ad_*.c and dec_audio.c/ad.c handle audio decoding. ad_lavc.c is the
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decoder using ffmpeg. ad_spdif.c is not really a decoder, but is used for
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compressed audio passthrough.
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audio/filter/:
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Audio filter chain. af_lavrresample is inserted if any form of conversion
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between audio formats is needed. (af_format.c is also used for some corner
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cases.)
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audio/out/:
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Audio outputs.
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Unlike VOs, AOs can't be reconfigured on a format change. Without
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--gapless-audio, even playing a new file will close and re-open the audio
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device.
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Note that mpv synchronizes the video to the audio. That's the reason
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why buggy audio drivers can have a bad influence on playback quality.
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sub/:
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Contains subtitle and OSD rendering.
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sub.c/.h is actually the OSD code. It queries dec_sub.c to retrieve
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decoded/rendered subtitles. osd_libass.c is the actual implementation of
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the OSD text renderer (which uses libass, and takes care of all the tricky
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fontconfig/freetype API usage and text layouting).
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Subtitle loading is now in demux/ instead. demux_libass.c wraps loading
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.ass subtitles via libass. demux_lavf.c loads most subtitle types via
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FFmpeg. demux_subreader.c is the old MPlayer code. It's used as last
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fallback, or to handle some text subtitle types on Libav. (It also can
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load UTF-16 encoded subtitles without requiring the use of -subcp.)
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demux_subreader.c should eventually go away (maybe).
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The subtitles are passed to dec_sub.c and the subtitle decoders in sd_*.c
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as they are demuxed. All text subtitles are rendered by sd_ass.c. If text
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subtitles are not in the ASS format, subtitle converters are inserted, for
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example sd_srt.c, which is used to convert SRT->ASS. sd_srt.c is also used
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as general converter for text->ASS (to prevent interpretation of text as
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ASS tags).
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Text subtitles can be preloaded, in which case they are read fully as soon
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as the subtitle is selected, and then effectively stored in an ASS_Track.
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It's used for external text subtitles, and required to make codepage
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detection as well as timing postprocessing work. (Timing postprocessing
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removes tiny gaps or overlaps between subtitle events.)
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mpvcore/timeline/:
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A timeline is the abstraction used by mplayer.c to combine several files
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into one seemingly linear video. It's mainly used for ordered chapters
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playback. The high level code to find and load other files containing the
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segments for playing an ordered chapters file is in tl_matroska.c.
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etc/:
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The file input.conf is actually integrated into the mpv binary by the
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build system. It contains the default keybindings.
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