This is an unfortunate fact of life. Maybe making this the default
wasn't such a good idea after all.
Also update etc/example.conf. It used an obsolete alias for "auto".
Allow setting an arbitrary amount, instead of the fixed 50%.
This is nto striclty backwards compatible. The defaults don't change,
but the --cache/--cache-default options now set the readahead portion.
So in practice, users who configured this until now will see the
double amount of cache being used, _plus_ the 75MB default backbuffer
will be in use.
Probably makes users happy who want bitmap subtitles to show up in the
screen margins, and stops them from doing idiotic crap with vf_expand.
Fixes#2098.
Normally, vdpau decoded frames are passed directly to a suitable
vo (vo_vdpau or vo_opengl) without ever touching system memory. This
is efficient for output purposes, but prevents any of the regular
filters from being used with such frames.
This new filter implements a read-back step to pull the frames back
into system memory where they can be acted on by other filters.
Eventually the frames will be sent to the vo as if they were normal
software-decoded frames.
Note that a vdpau compatible vo must still be used to ensure that
the decoder is properly initialised.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Extend the --demuxer-mkv-probe-video-duration behavior to work with
files that are partial and are missing an index. Do this by finding a
cluster 10MB before the end of the file, and if that fails, just read
the entire file. This is actually pretty trivial to do and requires only
5 lines of code.
Also add a mode that always reads the entire file to estimate the video
duration.
Until now, if a stream wasn't seekable, but the stream cache was enabled
(--cache), we've enabled seeking anyway. The idea was that at least
short seeks would typically fall within the cache. And if not, the user
was out of luck and terrible things happened. In other words, it was
unreliable.
Be stricter about it and remove this behavior. Effectively, this will
for example disable seeking in piped data.
Instead of trying to be clever, add an --force-seekable option, which
will always enable seeking if the user really wants it.
See manpage additions. This is mainly useful for vo_opengl_cb, but can
also be applied to vo_opengl.
On a side note, gl_hwdec_load_api() should stop using a name string, and
instead always use the IDs. This should be cleaned up another time.
If the request contains a "request_id", copy it back into the
response. There is no interpretation of the request_id value by mpv; the
only purpose is to make it easier on the requester by providing an
ability to match up responses with requests.
Because the IPC mechanism sends events continously, it's possible for
the response to a request to arrive several events after the request was
made. This can make it very difficult on the requester to determine
which response goes to which request.
Until now, this was for AC3 only. For PCM, we used AudioUnit in
ao_coreaudio, and the only reason ao_coreaudio_exclusive exists
is that there is no other way to passthrough AC3.
PCM support is actually rather simple. The most complicated
issue is that modern OS X versions actually do not support
copying through the data; instead everything must go through
float. So we have to deal with virtual and physical format
being different, which causes some complications.
This possibly also doesn't support some other things correctly.
For one, if the device allows non-interleaved output only, we
will probably fail. (I couldn't test it, so I don't even know
what is required. Supporting it would probably be rather
simple, and we already do it with AudioUnit.)
This should make interpolation work much better in general, although
there still might be some side effects for unusual framerates (eg. 35 Hz
or 48 Hz). Most of the common framerates are tested and working fine.
(24 Hz, 30 Hz, 60 Hz)
The new code doesn't have support for oversample yet, so it's been
removed (and will most likely be reimplemented in a cleaner way if
there's enough demand). I would recommend using something like robidoux
or mitchell instead of oversample, though - they're much
smoother for the common cases.
At least Matroska files have a "forced" flag (in addition to the
"default" flag). Export this flag. Treat it almost like the default
flag, but with slightly higher priority.
We want to distinguish actual errors, and just aborting the program
intentionally.
Also be a bit more careful with handling the wait() exit status: do not
called WEXITSTATUS() without checking WIFEXITED() first.
DVD/BD menu support never worked right, and are a pain to maintain. In
particular, DVD menus never actually worked correctly, because
highlights were not rendered correctly. Fixing this requires major
effort, which I'm not interested to spend.
Most importantly, the requirement to switch streams without losing the
DVD/BD state caused major weirdness in the playback core. It was
implemented by somehow syncing the playback state to the DVD/BD
implementation (in stream_dvdnav.c etc.), and then reloading the demuxer
without destroying and recreating the stream. This caused a bunch of
special-cases which I'm looking forward to remove.
For now, don't just remove everything related to menu support and just
disable it. If someone volunteers, it can be restored (i.e. rewritten)
in a reasonable way. If nobody volunteers soon, it goes.
So successful playback and user quit can be distinguished, for whatever
reason you may want to do this.
Normally, the "quit" command can be customized, but this does not work
for quit commands sent by the terminal signal handler. One solution
would be introducing something like "ON_SIGNAL" (equivalent to
"CLOSE_WIN"), but considering there are a bunch of possible signals, I'd
rather not get into this. So go with the dumb solution.
Probably fixes#2029.
This provides a new method for enabling spdif passthrough. The old
method via --ad (--ad=spdif:ac3 etc.) is deprecated. The deprecated
method will probably stop working at some point.
This also supports PCM fallback. One caveat is that it will lose at
least 1 audio packet in doing so. (I don't care enough to prevent this.)
(This is named after the old S/PDIF connector, because it uses the same
underlying technology as far as the higher level protoco is concerned.
Also, the user should be renamed that passthrough is backwards.)
The "osd" command cycles between 4 states (OSD level 0-3), which is
probably confusing and inconvenient. OSD levels 0 and 2 are rarely
needed. I would claim there is normally not much of a need to completely
disable OSD by setting level 0 during playback. Level 2 is just slightly
less information than level 3, and I'm not sure why it exists at all.
Change it so that it toggles between level 3 and 1. Note that this
ignores the default OSD level. If the default is 3, the first use of
this key will set it to 3 again. Just assume 1 is the default. If
someone complains, this could be improved.
It polluted the global namespace, instead of exporting the function
properly.
For now, keep it compatible by explicitly keeping the bogus export.
Also fix a mistake in the manpage example.
This command has been deprecated in the 0.8.x and 0.9.x releases - get
rid of it. Its only point ever was MPlayer compatibility, which broke
years ago anyway.
They're completely orthogonal concepts, merged in the past due to
convenience and ease of implementing it in the old #ifdef hell renderer.
Especially after the CMS stuff was generalized by 634b4a, this was a
trivial change to implement and also means color management will be much
higher quality when enabled with vo=opengl (which had quantization
issues in the past due to the 8 bit FBO format and upscaling), since it
can be done in a single pass now.
Wnile it seems quite logical to me that commands use _ as word
separator, while properties use -, I can't really explain the
difference, and it tends to confuse users as well. So always
prefer - as separator for everything.
Using _ still works, and will probably forever. Not doing so would
probably create too much chaos and confusion.
Also replace their implementation with the recently introduced
properties. One significant difference is that audio-channels using OSD
formatting does not print the channel layout. The user can just use the
replacement property instead.
This brings the volume control closer to what is percepted as linear
volume change.
Adjust the --softvol-max default to roughly the old maximum (roughly
doubles the gain).
Now --volume takes an absolute volume, meaning it doesn't depend on
--softvol-max. 0 is still silence, and 100 now always means unchanged
volume. The OSD and the "volume" property are changed accordingly.
Also raise the minimum value of --softvol-max. A value below 100 makes
no sense and breaks the OSD.
Only absolute percentage seeking was permitted first. It is now also
possible to seek by relative percentage.
MPSEEK_FACTOR is used as seek_type.
Fixes#1950.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Instead of having separate backends, make use of GLES a flag. This
reduces the number of backends and the resulting annoyances.
Also, nobody cares about using GLES, so there's no backward
compatibility either.
(I have no idea why there are different modes.)
Instead of risking to drop frames too early, give it some margin. Since
there are situations this could deadlock, wait with a timeout. This can
happen if e.g. the API user is refusing to render anything, or if
uninitialization is happening.
This creates the window before the first file is loaded. This was
requested a bunch of times, but on the other hand a change to make this
behavior the default was reverted some time ago, because other users
hated it.
Reduces (but likely does not remove) the danger of rounding intermediate
values down to 8 bit. This is important for cscale, or any other
processing that might store raw YUV values in framebuffers.
Fixes#1918.
ao_coreaudio uses AudioUnit - the OSX software mixer. In theory, it
supports multichannel audio just fine. But in practice, this might be
disabled by default, and the user is supposed to select a multichannel
base format in the "Audio MIDI Setup" utility.
This option attempts to change this setting automatically. Some possible
disadvantages and caveats are listed in the manpage additions. It is off
by default, since changing this might be rather bad behavior for a
normal application.
Since commit 7381db60, strings like "~desktop/" were expanded as
platform-specific paths by mpv. Apparently this similarity to standard
Unix shell expansion caused confusion, so change it to "~~desktop/". The
shell doesn't expand this, so it should be better.
This now stores caches for multiple ICC profiles, potentially all the
user has ever used. The big use case for this is for users with multiple
monitors. The old logic would mandate recomputing the LUT and discarding
the cache whenever dragging mpv from one screen to another.
This also avoids having to save and check the ICC profile itself, since
the file name already uniquely determines it.
This should take care of the endless complaints about the default
location for screenshots (and will of course create new ones).
If the screenshot-template is set to an absolute path, the directory
won't be used. So this should be reasonably compatible.
So that the user realizes where they come from, or can find them at all.
This was a common complaint, and this is the most lazy solution. Better
suggestions for a default template are welcome.
win32 has a special function for this.
I'm not sure about OSX - it seems ~/Desktop can be hardcoded, and the
OSX GUI actually localizes the _displayed_ path in its UI.
For Unix, there is not much to be done, or is there.
Now the rescan_external_files command will by default reselect the audio
and subtitle streams. This should be more intuitive.
Client API users and Lua scripts might break, but can be fixed in a
backward-compatible way by setting the mode explicitly.
This was in the "Window" section. It has absolutely nothing to do with
windows. Move it to the "Miscellaneous" section instead. The "--mc"
option, which has a similar function, was already there.
The build failed because rst2pdf apparently has problems with
page breaks. In this case, the link to the ALSA upmix guide was
causing a page break in an admonition block. My guess is that
rst2pdf screws up when it can’t fill at least one line of text
following a page break, so I worked around this by making that
paragraph a little longer. Seems to do the trick.
I also shortened the URL using GitHub’s service because it was
causing some rather unsightly formatting in the manpage output.
Maybe we should just build HTML instead of a PDF.
Approximate time of video buffered in the demuxer, in seconds. Same as
`demuxer-cache-duration` but returns the last timestamp of bufferred
data in demuxer.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Remove the old implementation for these properties. It was never very
good, often returned very innaccurate values or just 0, and was static
even if the source was variable bitrate. Replace it with the
implementation of "packet-video-bitrate". Mark the "packet-..."
properties as deprecated. (The effective difference is different
formatting, and returning the raw value in bits instead of kilobits.)
Also extend the documentation a little.
It appears at least some decoders (sipr?) need the
AVCodecContext.bit_rate field set, so this one is still passed through.
Useful for dealing with libavfilter's terrible graph syntax.
Not strictly backwards compatible (for example "[a[b]" fails now - the
"[" within the quote is interpreted now). But hopefully it's obscure
enough not to warrant any kind of compatibility hacks.
It's entirely useless, especially now that vo.c handles screenshots in a
generic way, and requires no special VO support. There are some
potential weird use-cases, but actually I've never seen it being used.
The old behavior does not make too much sense after all. If you don't
want to file to be overwritten, the user can check this manually.
This is a change in behavior - let's hope nobody actually relied on it.
libavcodec makes it impossible to distinguish dropped frames (requested
with AVCodecContext.skip_frame), and cases when the decoder simply does
not return a frame by default (such as with VP9, which has invisible
reference frames).
This confuses users when decoding VP9 video. It's basically a cosmetic
issue, so just paint it over by ignoring them if framedropping is
disabled.
It seems this choice was never documented. "always" is actually older
than "yes", so just declare it a compatibility value for "yes". (Also
move it before "always" in the C code to make this clear.)
I tried to find that option by searching for terms like “cover art”
and got nothing. I imagine most users would look for similar terms.
Hope this helps.
This could help in cases where the DWM (Windows desktop compositor) adds another
layer of bufferring and therefore the SwapBuffers timing could get messed up.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
This seems to come up often. I guess '.' vs. ':' for Lua calls is
confusing, and this part of the scripting API is the only one which
requires using it.
There still might be FFmpeg demuxers which mess up if audio is disabled
(like it happened to the FLV demuxer), but these are bugs and shouldn't
happen.
This merges all of the scaler-related options into a single
configuration struct, and also cleans up the way they're passed through
the code. (For example, the scaler index is no longer threaded through
pass_sample, just the scaler configuration itself, and there's no longer
duplication of the params etc.)
In addition, this commit makes scale-down more principled, and turns it
into a scaler in its own right - so there's no longer an ugly separation
between scale and scale-down in the code.
Finally, the radius stuff has been made more proper - filters always
have a radius now (there's no more radius -1), and get a new .resizable
attribute instead for when it's tunable.
User-visible changes:
1. scale-down has been renamed dscale and now has its own set of config
options (dscale-param1, dscale-radius) etc., instead of reusing
scale-param1 (which was arguably a bug).
2. The default radius is no longer fixed at 3, but instead uses that
filter's preferred radius by default. (Scalers with a default radius
other than 3 include sinc, gaussian, box and triangle)
3. scale-radius etc. now goes down to 0.5, rather than 1.0. 0.5 is the
smallest radius that theoretically makes sense, and indeed it's used
by at least one filter (nearest).
Apart from that, it should just be internal changes only.
Note that this sets up for the refactor discussed in #1720, which would
be to merge scaler and window configurations (include parameters etc.)
into a single, simplified string. In the code, this would now basically
just mean getting rid of all the OPT_FLOATRANGE etc. lines related to
scalers and replacing them by a single function that parses a string and
updates the struct scaler_config as appropriate.
This makes the core much more elegant, reusable, reconfigurable and also
allows us to more easily add aliases for specific configurations.
Furthermore, this lets us apply a generic blur factor / window function
to arbitrary filters, so we can finally "mix and match" in order to
fine-tune windowing functions.
A few notes are in order:
1. The current system for configuring scalers is ugly and rapidly
getting unwieldy. I modified the man page to make it a bit more
bearable, but long-term we have to do something about it; especially
since..
2. There's currently no way to affect the blur factor or parameters of
the window functions themselves. For example, I can't actually
fine-tune the kaiser window's param1, since there's simply no way to
do so in the current API - even though filter_kernels.c supports it
just fine!
3. This removes some lesser used filters (especially those which are
purely window functions to begin with). If anybody asks, you can get
eg. the old behavior of scale=hanning by using
scale=box:scale-window=hanning:scale-radius=1 (and yes, the result is
just as terrible as that sounds - which is why nobody should have
been using them in the first place).
4. This changes the semantics of the "triangle" scaler slightly - it now
has an arbitrary radius. This can possibly produce weird results for
people who were previously using scale-down=triangle, especially if
in combination with scale-radius (for the usual upscaling). The
correct fix for this is to use scale-down=bilinear_slow instead,
which is an alias for triangle at radius 1.
In regards to the last point, in future I want to make it so that
filters have a filter-specific "preferred radius" (for the ones that
are arbitrarily tunable), once the configuration system for filters has
been redesigned (in particular in a way that will let us separate scale
and scale-down cleanly). That way, "triangle" can simply have the
preferred radius of 1 by default, while still being tunable. (Rather
than the default radius being hard-coded to 3 always)
