Additionally to taking the average, this tries to use the demuxer FPS to
eliminate jitter, and applies some other heuristics to check if the
result is sane.
This code will also be used for the display sync code (it will actually
make use of the require_exact parameter).
(The value of doing this over keeping the simpler demux_mkv hack is
somewhat questionable. But at least it allows us to deal with other
container formats that use jittery timestamps, such as mp4 remuxed
from mkv.)
Instead of opening a stream and then a demuxer, do both at once with
demux_open_url().
This requires some awkward additions to demuxer_params, because there
are some weird features associated with opening the main file. E.g. the
relatively useless --stream-capture features requires enabling capturing
on the stream before the demuxer is opened, but on the other hand
shouldn't be done on secondary files like external subtitles.
Also relatively bad: since demux_open_url() returns just a demuxer
pointer or NULL, additional error reporting is done via demuxer_params.
Still, at least conceptually, it's ok, and simpler than before.
Nobody wanted to restore this, so it gets the boot.
If anyone still wants to volunteer to restore menu support, this would
be welcome. (I might even try it myself if I feel masochistic and like
wasting a lot of time for nothing.) But if it does get restored, it
should be done differently. There were many stupid things about how it
was done. For example, it somehow tried to pull mp_nav_events through
all the layers (including needing to "buffer" them in the demuxer),
which was needlessly complicated. It could be done simpler.
This code was already inactive, so this commit actually changes nothing.
Also keep in mind that normal DVD/BD playback still works.
This is a real pain: if a quit command is received, it's set to PT_QUIT.
And then other code could overwrite it, making it not quit. The annoying
bit is that stop_play is written and read in many places. Just not
overwriting it unconditionally seems to be the best course of action.
For the sake of removing the separate stream/demuxer loading code.
This could probably be reimplemented in some other way, but I have no
DVB hardware for testing. The most preferred way would be making DVB to
not quit, and just rerun the stream selection.
The final goal is making opening the demuxer and opening the stream the
same operation.
Stream dumping is a rather uninteresting feature, but has a small
number of vocal users, and it's easy to keep.
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.
Adding an external audio track before loading the main file didn't work
right. For one, mp_switch_track() assumes it is called after the main
file is loaded. (The difference is that decoders are only initialized
once the main file is loaded, and we avoid doing this before that for
whatever reason.)
To avoid further messiness, just allow mp_switch_track() to be called at
any time. Also make it do what mp_mark_user_track_selection() did, since
the latter requires current_track to be set. (One could probably simply
allow current_track to be set at this point, but it'd interfere with
default track selection anyway and thus would be pointless.)
Fixes#1984.
mp_find_config_file() will print the filename lookup and its result in
verbose mode. This is wanted, but gets inconvenient when it is done for
every playlist entry (for resuming).
Lookup the watch_later subdir only once and cache the result instead.
This drops the logic for loading the resume file from other locations,
which should generally be unnecessary, though might lead to confusion if
the user has mixed old and new config paths (which the user shouldn't).
Also add a mp_find_user_config_file() function for a more
straightforward and reliable way to get actual local configpaths,
instead of possibly global and unwritable locations.
Also, for symmetry, check the resume option in mp_load_playback_resume()
just like mp_check_playlist_resume() does.
Should help with debugging, and might be slightly more userfriendly.
Note that this is called manually in multiple entry-points, instead of
the functions doing the actual work (like mp_remove_track()). This is
done so that exiting the player or calling the sub_reload command won't
print redundant in-between states.
This could make the player crash on exit if the "sub_reload" command was
used successfully. the reason was that the mpctx->sources array could
have dangling pointers to the unloaded demuxers.
Also fix a memory leak by actually always freeing the per-stream
subtitle decoders (which are a hack to make ordered chapters behave
better).
It was possible to make the player play local files by putting rar://
links into remote playlists, and some other potentially unsafe things.
Redo the handling of it. Now the rar-redirector (the thing in
demux_playlist.c) sets disable_safety, which makes the player open any
playlist entries returned. This is fine, because it redirects to the
same file anyway (just with different selection/interpretation of the
contents). On the other hand, rar:// itself is now considered fully
unsafe, which means that it is ignored if found in normal playlists.
Commit f54220d9 attempted to improve this, but it got worse. Now there
was a crash when ytdl_hook.lua added external tracks. This happened
because close_unused_demuxers() assumed that sources[0] was the main
demuxer (so that it didn't close it). This assumption failed, because
the ytdl script can add external tracks before the main file is loaded.
The easy fix would have been to check for master_demuxer, and not i==0.
But instead give up on the old idea, make some stricter assumptions how
demuxers and external tracks map, and simplify the code.
Do timeline building (scanning & opening reference files for ordered
chapters, and more) in a thread. As a result, this process can actually
be stopped without having to kill the player.
This is pretty simple: just reuse the demuxer opening thread. We have
to give up on the idea that open_demux_reentrant() is reusable, though.
(Althoughthe timeline readers still need some fixes before they react to
the quit request.)
These functions do blocking work on a separate thread, but wait until
they return. So they are not async or non-blocking. But they do react to
user-input and client API accesses, which makes them reentrant.
Includes some logic for not starting the demuxer thread for fully read
subtitles. (Well, the cache will still waste _lots_ of resources, and
the cache always has to be created, because we don't know whether it'll
be needed _before_ opening the file.)
See #1597.
Instead of accessing MPContext in player/timeline/*, create a separate
context struct, which the timeline loaders fill out. It turns out that
there's not much in the way too big MPContext that these need to access.
One major PITA is managing (and closing) the set of open demuxers. The
problem is that we need a list of all demuxers to make sure no unneeded
streams are enabled.
This adds a callback to the demuxer_desc struct, with the intention of
leaving to to the demuxer to call the right loader, instead of
explicitly checking the demuxer type and dispatching manually in common
code. I also considered making the timeline part of the demuxer state,
but decided against: it's too much of a mess wrt. memory management and
threading, and also doesn't make it clear who owns the child demuxers.
With the struct timeline decoupled from the demuxer state, it's at least
somewhat clear that the child demuxers are independent from the "main"
demuxer.
The actual changes to player/timeline/* are separated in the following
commits, because they're quite verbose. Some artifacts will be removed
later as soon as there's only 1 timeline loading mechanism.
Also effects some other cases.
The real reason for this is for keeping track of which demuxers can be
closed (see following commit). Since I don't want to use reference
counting for this, some sort of simplistic mark-and-sweep is done to
determine whether a demuxer is still needed.
This removes the delay when switching audio tracks in mkv or mp4 files.
Other formats are not enabled, because it's not clear whether the
demuxers fulfill the requirements listed in demux.h. (Many formats
definitely do not with libavformat.)
Background:
The demuxer packet cache buffers a certain amount of packets. This
includes only packets from selected streams. We discard packets from
other streams for various reasons. This introduces a problem: switching
to a different audio track introduces a delay. The delay is as big as
the demuxer packet cache buffer, because while the file was read ahead
to fill the packet buffer, the process of reading packets also discarded
all packets from the previously not selected audio stream. Once the
remaining packet buffer has been played, new audio packets are available
and you hear audio again.
We could probably just not discard packets from unselected streams. But
this would require additional memory and CPU resources, and also it's
hard to tell when packets from unused streams should be discarded (we
don't want to keep them forever; it'd be a memory leak).
We could also issue a player hr-seek to the current playback position,
which would solve the problem in 1 line of code or so. But this can be
rather slow.
So what we do in this commit instead is: we just seek back to the
position where our current packet buffer starts, and start demuxing from
this position again. This way we can get the "past" packets for the
newly selected stream. For streams which were already selected the
packets are simply discarded until the previous position is reached
again.
That latter part is the hard part. We really want to skip packets
exactly until the position where we left off previously, or we will skip
packets or feed packets to the decoder twice. If we assume that the
demuxer is deterministic (returns exactly the same packets after a seek
to a previous position), then we can try to check whether it's the same
packet as the one at the end of the packet buffer. If it is, we know
that the packet after it is where we left off last time.
Unfortunately, this is not very robust, and maybe it can't be made
robust. Currently we use the demux_packet.pos field as unique packet
ID - which works fine in some scenarios, but will break in arbitrary
ways if the basic requirement to the demuxer (as listed in the demux.h
additions) are broken. Thus, this is enabled only for the internal mkv
demuxer and the libavformat mp4 demuxer.
(libavformat mkv does not work, because the packet positions are not
unique. Probably could be fixed upstream, but it's not clear whether
it's a bug or a feature.)
Requested. See manpage additions.
This also makes the magical loop_times constants slightly saner, but
shouldn't change the semantics of any existing --loop option values.
Autoload external audio files only if there's at least a video track
(which is not coverart pseudo-video).
Enable external audio file autoloading by default. Now that we actively
avoid doing stupid things like loading an external audio file for an
audio-only file, this should be fine.
Additionally, don't autoload subtitles if a subtitle is played.
Although you currently can't play subtitles without audio or video,
it's disturbing and stupid that the player might load subtitle files
with different extension and then fail.
In ancient times, this was needed because it was not default, and many
VOs had problems with it. But it was always default in mpv, and all VOs
are required to deal with it. Also, running --fixed-vo=no is not useful
and just creates weird corner cases. Get rid of it.
These commands are counterparts of sub_add/sub_remove/sub_reload which
work for external audio file.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
(minor simplification)
Opening the stream and opening the demuxer are both done asynchronously,
meaning the player reacts to client API requests. They also can
potentially take a while. Thus it's better to process outstanding
property changes, so that change events are sent for properties that
were changed during opening.
mpctx->audio_delay always has the same value as opts->audio_delay. (This
was not the case a long time ago, when the audio-delay property didn't
actually write to opts->audio_delay. I think.)
This is for the ordered chapters case only. In theory this could have
resulted in initial audio, video or subs missing, although it didn't
happen in practice (because no streams were selected, thus the demuxer
thread didn't actually try to read anything). It's still better to make
this explicit.
Also, timeline_set_part() can be private to loadfile.c.
mpv needs at least an audio or video track to play something. If the
track selection is basically insufficient, the player will immediately
skip to the next file (or quit).
One slightly annoying thing might be that trying to play a subtitle file
will close the VO window, and then go to the next file immediately (so
"mpv 1.mkv 2.srt 3.mkv" would flash the video window when 2.srt is
skipped). Move the check to before the video window is possibly closed.
This is a minor cosmetic issue; one can use --force-window to avoid
closing the video window at all.
Fixes#1459.
Enable asynchronous reading for external files. This excludes subtitle
files (so it's effectively enabled for audio files only), because most
subtitle files are fully read on loading, and running a thread for them
would just cause slowdowns and increase resource usage, without having
any advantages.
In theory, an external file could provide multiple tracks from the same
demuxer, but demux_start_thread() is idempotent, so the code can be
kept simple.
Should help with playing DASH with ytdl_hook.
This attempts to increase user-friendliness by excluding useless tags.
It should be especially helpful with mp4 files, because the FFmpeg mp4
demuxer adds tons of completely useless information to the metadata.
Fixes#1403.
Until now, these options took effect only at program start. This could
be confusing when e.g. doing "mpv list.m3u --shuffle". Make them always
take effect when a playlist is loaded either via a playlist file, or
with the "loadlist" command.
The code in the demuxer etc. was changed to update all metadata/tags at
once, instead of changing each metadata field. As a consequence,
printing of the tags to the terminal was also changed to print
everything on each change.
Some users didn't like this. Add a very primitive way to avoid printing
fields with the same value again if metadata is marked as changed. This
is not always correct (could print unchanged fields anyway), but usually
works.
(In general, a rather roundabout way to reflect a changed title with ICY
streaming...)
Fixes#813 (let's call it a "policy change").
The player thinks an error happened because no audio or video was played
after finishing the file, but this obviously makes no sense with stream
dumping. (error_playing follows the client API convention that negative
values are errors.)
Ordered chapter EOF was handled as special-case of ending the last
segment. This broke --kee-open, because it set AT_END_OF_FILE in an
"inconvenient" place (after checking for --keep-open, and before the
code that exits playback if EOF is reached).
We don't actually need to handle the last segment specially. Instead, we
remain in the same segment if it ends. The normal playback logic will
recognize EOF, because the end of the segment "cuts off" the file.
Now timeline_set_from_time() never "fails", and we can remove the old
segment EOF handling code in mp_seek().
libass won't use embedded fonts, unless ass_set_fonts() (called by
mp_ass_configure_fonts()) is called. However, we call this function when
the ASS_Renderer is initialized, which is long before the .ass file is
actually loaded. (I'm not sure why it tries to keep 1 ASS_Renderer, but
it always did this.)
Fix by calling mp_ass_configure_fonts() after loading them. This also
means this function will be called multiple times - hopefully this is
harmless (it will reinit fontconfig every time, though).
While we're at it, also initialize the ASS_Renderer lazily.
Fixes#1244.
The purpose of temporarily setting stop_play was to make the audio
uninit code to explicitly drain audio if needed. This was the only way
to do it before ao_drain() was made a separate function; now we can just
do it explicitly instead.
Instead of defining a separate data structure in the core.
For some odd reason, demux_chapter exported the chapter time in
nano-seconds. Change that to the usual timestamps (rename the field
to make any code relying on this to fail compilation), and also remove
the unused chapter end time.
Note that you can't pass .cue or .edl files to it, at least not yet.
Requested in context of allowing to specify custom chapters. For that
to work well, we probably need to add some sort of chapter metadata
pseudo-demuxer.
If you played e.g. an audio-only file and something bad happened that
interrupted playback, the exit message could say "No files played".
This was awkward, so show a different message in this case.
Also overhaul how the exit status is reported in order to make this
easier. This includes things such as not reporting a playback error
when loading playlists (playlists contain no video or audio, which
was considered an error).
Not sure if I'm happy with this, but for now it seems like a slight
improvement.
This is probably what libmpv users want; and it also improves error
reporting (or we'd have to add a way to communicate such mid-playback
failures as events).
This was probably done incorrectly in cases when the currently selected
channel had no data. I'm not sure if this codepath is functional at all,
though. Maybe not.
Untested due to lack of DVB hardware.
Using magic integer values was an attempt to keep the API less verbose.
But it was probably not a good idea.
Reason 1 (restart) is not made explicit, because it is not used anymore
starting with the previous commit. For ABI compatibility, the value is
left as a hole in the enum.
Use the codepath that is normally used for DVD/BD title switching and
DVB channel switching. Removes some extra artifacts from the client API:
now MPV_EVENT_END_FILE will never be called on reloads (and neither is
MPV_EVENT_START_FILE).
No development activity (or even any sign of life) for almost a year.
A replacement based on youtube-dl will probably be provided before the
next mpv release. Ask on the IRC channel if you want to test.
Simplify the Lua check too: libquvi linking against a different Lua
version than mpv was a frequent issue, but with libquvi gone, no
direct dependency uses Lua, and such a clash is rather unlikely.
Apparently using the stream index is the best way to refer to the same
streams across multiple FFmpeg-using programs, even if the stream index
itself is rarely meaningful in any way.
For Matroska, there are some possible problems, depending how FFmpeg
actually adds streams. Normally they seem to match though.
This was probably commented as an oversight. Since the subtitle renderer
was uninitialized on reinitialization anyway, this had no negative
consequences, except a memory on exit.
A vague idea to get something similar what libquvi did.
Undocumented because it might change a lot, or even be removed. To give
an idea what it does, a Lua script could do the following:
-- type ID priority
mp.commandv("hook_add", "on_load", 0, 0)
mp.register_script_message("hook_run", function(param, param2)
-- param is "0", the user-chosen ID from the hook_add command
-- param2 is the magic value that has to be passed to finish
-- the hook
mp.resume_all()
-- do something, maybe set options that are reset on end:
mp.set_property("file-local-options/name", "value")
-- or change the URL that's being opened:
local url = mp.get_property("stream-open-filename")
mp.set_property("stream-open-filename", url .. ".png")
-- let the player (or the next script) continue
mp.commandv("hook_ack", param2)
end)
This reverts commit 45c8b97efb.
Some else complained (github issue #1163).
The feature requested in #1148 will be implemented differently in
the following commit.
Now any action that stops playback of a file (even playlist navigation)
will save the position. Normal EOF is of course excluded from this, as
well as commands that just reload the current file.
The option name is now slightly off, although you could argue what the
word "quit" means.
Fixes#1148 (or at least this is how I understood it).
Run opening the stream and opening the demuxer in a separate thread.
This should remove the last code paths in which the player can normally
get blocked on network.
When the stream is opened, the player will still react to input and so
on. Commands to abort opening can also be handled properly, instead of
using some of the old hacks in input.c. The only thing the user can
really do is aborting loading by navigating the playlist or quitting.
Whether playback abort works depends on the stream implementation; with
normal network, this will depend on what libavformat (via "interrupt"
callback) does.
Some pain is caused by DVD/BD/DVB. These want to reload the demuxer
sometimes. DVB wants it in order to discard old, inactive streams.
DVD/BD for the same reason, and also for reloading stream languages
and similar metadata. This means the stream and the demuxer have to
be loaded separately.
One minor detail is that we now need to copy all global options. This
wasn't really needed before, because the options were accessed on
opening only, but since opening is now on a separate thread, this
obviously becomes a necessity.
Also recreate ASS_Library on every file played. This means we can move
the code out of main.c as well.
Recreating the ASS_Library object has no disadvantages, because it
literally stores only the message callback, the (per-file) font
attachment as byte arrays, and the set of style overrides. Hopefully
this thing can be removed from the libass API entirely at some point.
The only reason why the player core creates the ASS_Renderer, instead
of the subtitle renderer, is because we want to cache the loaded fonts
across ordered chapter transitions, so this probably still has to stay
around for now.
Each subsystem (or similar thing) had an INITIALIZED_ flag assigned. The
main use of this was that you could pass a bitmask of these flags to
uninit_player(). Except in some situations where you wanted to
uninitialize nearly everything, this wasn't really useful. Moreover, it
was quite annoying that subsystems had most of the code in a specific
file, but the uninit code in loadfile.c (because that's where
uninit_player() was implemented).
Simplify all this. Remove the flags; e.g. instead of testing for the
INITIALIZED_AO flag, test whether mpctx->ao is set. Move uninit code
to separate functions, e.g. uninit_audio_out().
This mechanism originates from MPlayer's way of dealing with blocking
network, but it's still useful. On opening and closing, mpv waits for
network synchronously, and also some obscure commands and use-cases can
lead to such blocking. In these situations, the stream is asynchronously
forced to stop by "interrupting" it.
The old design interrupting I/O was a bit broken: polling with a
callback, instead of actively interrupting it. Change the direction of
this. There is no callback anymore, and the player calls
mp_cancel_trigger() to force the stream to return.
libavformat (via stream_lavf.c) has the old broken design, and fixing it
would require fixing libavformat, which won't happen so quickly. So we
have to keep that part. But everything above the stream layer is
prepared for a better design, and more sophisticated methods than
mp_cancel_test() could be easily introduced.
There's still one problem: commands are still run in the central
playback loop, which we assume can block on I/O in the worst case.
That's not a problem yet, because we simply mark some commands as being
able to stop playback of the current file ("quit" etc.), so input.c
could abort playback as soon as such a command is queued. But there are
also commands abort playback only conditionally, and the logic for that
is in the playback core and thus "unreachable". For example,
"playlist_next" aborts playback only if there's a next file. We don't
want it to always abort playback.
As a quite ugly hack, abort playback only if at least 2 abort commands
are queued - this pretty much happens only if the core is frozen and
doesn't react to input.
The purpose is making accessing the current playlist entry saner when
commands are executed during initialization, termination, or after
playlist navigation commands.
For example, the "playlist_remove current" command will invalidate
playlist->current - but some things still access the playlist entry even
on uninit. Until now, checking stop_play implicitly took care of it, so
it worked, but it was still messy.
Introduce the mpctx->playing field, which points to the current playlist
entry, even if the entry was removed and/or the playlist's current entry
was moved (e.g. due to playlist navigation).
Continues commit 348dfd93. Replace other places where input was manually
fetched with common code.
demux_was_interrupted() was a weird function; I'm not entirely sure
about its original purpose, but now we can just replace it with simpler
code as well. One difference is that we always look at the command
queue, rather than just when cache initialization failed. Also, instead
of discarding all but quit/playlist commands (aka abort command), run
all commands. This could possibly lead to unwanted side-effects, like
just ignoring commands that have no effect (consider pressing 'f' for
fullscreen right on start: since the window is not created yet, it would
get discarded). But playlist navigation still works as intended, and
some if not all these problems already existed before that in some
forms, so it should be ok.
Somehow, there was a larger misunderstanding in the code: ao_buffer
does not need to be preserved over audio reinit for proper support of
gapless audio. The actual AO internal buffer takes care of this.
In fact, preserving ao_buffer just breaks audio resync. In the ordered
chapter case, end_pts is used, which means not all audio data in the
buffer is played, thus some data is left over when audio decoding
resumes on the next segment. This triggers some code that aborts resync
if there's "audio decoded" (ao_buffer contains something), but no PTS
is known (nothing was actually decoded yet).
Simplify, and always bind the output buffer to the decoder.
CC: @mpv-player/stable (maybe)
--hls-bitrate=min/max lets you select the min or max bitrate. That's it.
Something more sophisticated might be possible, but is probably not even
worth the effort.
Because that might be a bad idea.
Note that remote playlists still can use any protocol marked with
is_safe and is_network, because the case of http-hosted playlists
containing URLs using other streaming protocols is not unusual.
Until now, you had to use --load-unsafe-playlists or --playlist to get
playlists loaded. Change this and always load playlists by default.
This still attempts to reject unsafe URLs. For example, trying to invoke
libavdevice pseudo-demuxer is explicitly prevented. Local paths and any
http links (and some more) are always allowed.
In theory, timestamps can be negative, so we shouldn't just return -1
as special value.
Remove the separate code for clearing decode buffers; use the same code
that is used for normal seek reset.
sub_reset() was called on cycling subtitle tracks and on seeking. Since
we don't want that subtitles disppear on cycling, sd_lavc.c didn't clear
its internal subtitle queue on reset, which meant that seeking with PGS
subtitles could leave the subtitle on screen (PGS subtitles usually
don't have a duration set).
Call it only on seeking, so we can also strictly clear the subtitle
queue in sd_lavc.
(This still can go very wrong if you disable a subtitle, seek, and
enable it again - for example, if used with libavformat that uses "SSA"
style demuxed ASS subtitle packets. That shouldn't happen with newer
libavformat versions, and the user can "correct" it anyway by executing
a seek while the subtitle is selected.)
The previous commit broke these things, and fixing them is separate in
this commit in order to reduce the volume of changes.
Move the image queue from the VO to the playback core. The image queue
is a remnant of the old way how vdpau was implemented, and increasingly
became more and more an artifact. In the end, it did only one thing:
computing the duration of the current frame. This was done by taking the
PTS difference between the current and the future frame. We keep this,
but by moving it out of the VO, we don't have to special-case format
changes anymore. This simplifies the code a lot.
Since we need the queue to compute the duration only, a queue size
larger than 2 makes no sense, and we can hardcode that.
Also change how the last frame is handled. The last frame is a bit of a
problem, because video timing works by showing one frame after another,
which makes it a special case. Make the VO provide a function to notify
us when the frame is done, instead. The frame duration is used for that.
This is not perfect. For example, changing playback speed during the
last frame doesn't update the end time. Pausing will not stop the clock
that times the last frame. But I don't think this matters for such a
corner case.
wm4
Marcin Kurczewski
Niklas Haas
xylosper
Stefano Pigozzi
Alessandro Ghedini