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Supposed to follow the standard function. The standard function is not standard, but a GNU extension. Adding some ifdef mess is pointless too - it has no advantages other than having a mess, and not spotting implementation bugs in the emulation due to running it only on "obscure" platforms (like Windows, so most computers actually, except the developer's platform). There is mkstemp(), which at least is in POSIX 2008. But it's 100% useless, except in some obscure cases: it doesn't set O_CLOEXEC, nor can you pass it to it. Without O_CLOEXEC, we'd leak the temporary file to all child processes. (The fact that the file, which is expected to reach double or tripple digit GB sizes, will be deleted only once all processes unreference the FD, makes this sort of a big deal. You could ftruncate() it, but that doesn't fix all the other problems.) Why did POSIX standardize mkstemp() and O_CLOEXEC apparently at the same time, but provided no way to pass O_CLOEXEC to mkstemp()? With the introduction of O_CLOEXEC, they acknowledged that there's a need to atomically set the FD_CLOEXEC flag when creating file descriptors. (FD_CLOEXEC was standard before that, but setting it with fcntl() is racy.) You're much more likely to need a temp file that is CLOEXEC rather than the opposite, and even if they were somehow opposed to CLOEXEC by default (such as for compat. reasons), surely POSIX could have standardized mkostemp() too or instead. And then there's the fact that this whole O_CLOEXEC mess is stupid. Surely there would have been a better way to handle this, instead of requiring adding O_CLOEXEC to almost ALL instances of open() in all code that has been written ever. The justification for this is that the historic default was wrong, and you can't change it (e.g. this won't work: changing the behavior of exec() and not inherit the FD to the child process, unless a hypothetical O_KEEP_EXEC flag is set). But on the other hand, surely you could have introduced an exec() variant which does close all FDs, except a whitelist of FDs passed to it. Let's call it execve2(). In fact, I'm going to argue that exec() call sites are the most aware of whether (and which) FDs to inherit. Some programs even tried to explicitly iterate over all opened FDs and explicitly close "unwanted" FDs (which of course was problematic for other reasons), and such an execve2() call would have been the ideal solution. Maybe this proposed solution would have had problems too. But surely revisiting and reviewing every exec*() call would have been simpler than reviewing every open() call. And more importantly, having to extend every damn library function that either calls open() or creates FDs in some other way, like mkstemp(). What argument are there going to be against this? That there will be library code that can't keep working correctly with processes that use the "old" exec? Well, what about all my legacy library code that uses open() incorrectly, and that will break no matter what? Well, I'm not going to claim that I can come up with better solutions than POSIX (generally or in this case), but this situation is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS. It makes win32 programming look attractive compared to POSIX, that standard pandering to dead people from the past. (Note: not trying to insult dead people.) I'm not sure what POSIX is even doing. Anything useful? Doesn't look like it to me. Are they paid? Why? They didn't even fix the locale mess, nor do they intend to. I bet they're proud of discussing compatibility to 70ies code day in and day out iwtohut ever producing anything useful. What a load of crap. They seriously got to do better than this. Oh, and my wrapper is probably buggy. Fortunately that doesn't matter. Also I'm dumping this into io.h. Originally, io.h was just supposed to replace broken implementation of standard functions by MinGW (and then by Android), but whatever, just give a dumping ground for shit code. |
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README.md
mpv
- External links
- Overview
- System requirements
- Downloads
- Changelog
- Compilation
- FFmpeg vs. Libav
- FFmpeg ABI compatibility
- Release cycle
- Bug reports
- Contributing
- Relation to MPlayer and mplayer2
- License
- Contact
External links
Overview
mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
Releases can be found on the release list.
System requirements
- A not too ancient Linux, Windows 7 or later, or OSX 10.8 or later.
- A somewhat capable CPU. Hardware decoding might help if the CPU is too slow to
decode video in realtime, but must be explicitly enabled with the
--hwdecoption. - A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are
many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter,
etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are
current. In some cases, ancient fallback video output methods can help
(such as
--vo=xvon Linux), but this use is not recommended or supported.
Downloads
For semi-official builds and third-party packages please see mpv.io/installation.
Changelog
There is no complete changelog; however, changes to the player core interface are listed in the interface changelog.
Changes to the C API are documented in the client API changelog.
The release list has a summary of most of the important changes on every release.
Changes to the default key bindings are indicated in restore-old-bindings.conf.
Compilation
Compiling with full features requires development files for several external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements.
The mpv build system uses waf, but we don't store it in the
repository. The ./bootstrap.py script will download the latest version
of waf that was tested with the build system.
For a list of the available build options use ./waf configure --help. If
you think you have support for some feature installed but configure fails to
detect it, the file build/config.log may contain information about the
reasons for the failure.
NOTE: To avoid cluttering the output with unreadable spam, --help only shows
one of the two switches for each option. If the option is autodetected by
default, the --disable-*** switch is printed; if the option is disabled by
default, the --enable-*** switch is printed. Either way, you can use
--enable-*** or --disable-** regardless of what is printed by --help.
To build the software you can use ./waf build: the result of the compilation
will be located in build/mpv. You can use ./waf install to install mpv
to the prefix after it is compiled.
Example:
./bootstrap.py
./waf configure
./waf
./waf install
Essential dependencies (incomplete list):
- gcc or clang
- X development headers (xlib, xrandr, xext, xscrnsaver, xinerama, libvdpau, libGL, GLX, EGL, xv, ...)
- Audio output development headers (libasound/ALSA, pulseaudio)
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavfilter and either libswresample or libavresample)
- zlib
- iconv (normally provided by the system libc)
- libass (OSD, OSC, text subtitles)
- Lua (optional, required for the OSC pseudo-GUI and youtube-dl integration)
- libjpeg (optional, used for screenshots only)
- uchardet (optional, for subtitle charset detection)
- vdpau and vaapi libraries for hardware decoding on Linux (optional)
Libass dependencies:
- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
- fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
- harfbuzz (optional, required for correct rendering of combining characters, particularly for correct rendering of non-English text on OSX, and Arabic/Indic scripts on any platform)
FFmpeg dependencies:
- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
- OpenSSL or GnuTLS (have to be explicitly enabled when compiling FFmpeg)
- libx264/libmp3lame/libfdk-aac if you want to use encoding (have to be explicitly enabled when compiling FFmpeg)
- For native DASH playback, FFmpeg needs to be built with --enable-libxml2 (although there are security implications).
- For good nvidia support on Linux, make sure nv-codec-headers is installed and can be found by configure.
- Libav support is broken. (See section below.)
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal Linux distributions. For ease of compiling the latest git master of everything, you may wish to use the separately available build wrapper (mpv-build) which first compiles FFmpeg libraries and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW, or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See Windows compilation.
FFmpeg vs. Libav
Generally, mpv should work with the latest release as well as the git version of FFmpeg. Libav support is currently broken, because they did not add certain FFmpeg API changes which mpv relies on.
FFmpeg ABI compatibility
mpv does not support linking against FFmpeg versions it was not built with, even if the linked version is supposedly ABI-compatible with the version it was compiled against. Expect malfunctions, crashes, and security issues if you do it anyway.
The reason for not supporting this is because it creates far too much complexity with little to no benefit, coupled with absurd and unusable FFmpeg API artifacts.
Newer mpv versions will refuse to start if runtime and compile time FFmpeg library versions mismatch.
Release cycle
Every other month, an arbitrary git snapshot is made, and is assigned a 0.X.0 version number. No further maintenance is done.
The goal of releases is to make Linux distributions happy. Linux distributions are also expected to apply their own patches in case of bugs and security issues.
Releases other than the latest release are unsupported and unmaintained.
See the release policy document for more information.
Bug reports
Please use the issue tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests. Follow the template's instructions or the issue will likely be ignored or closed as invalid.
Using the bug tracker as place for simple questions is fine but IRC is recommended (see Contact below).
Contributing
Please read contribute.md.
For small changes you can just send us pull requests through GitHub. For bigger changes come and talk to us on IRC before you start working on them. It will make code review easier for both parties later on.
You can check the wiki or the issue tracker for ideas on what you could contribute with.
Relation to MPlayer and mplayer2
mpv is a fork of MPlayer. Much has changed, and in general, mpv should be considered a completely new program, rather than a MPlayer drop-in replacement.
For details see FAQ entry.
If you are wondering what's different from mplayer2 and MPlayer, an incomplete and largely unmaintained list of changes is located here.
License
GPLv2 "or later" by default, LGPLv2.1 "or later" with --enable-lgpl.
See details.
Contact
Most activity happens on the IRC channel and the github issue tracker.
- GitHub issue tracker: issue tracker (report bugs here)
- User IRC Channel:
#mpvonirc.freenode.net - Developer IRC Channel:
#mpv-develonirc.freenode.net