Plan 9 has a very interesting synchronization mechanism, the
rendezvous() call. A good property of this is that you don't need to
explicitly initialize and destroy a barrier object, unlike as with e.g.
POSIX barriers (which are mandatory to begin with). Upon "meeting", they
can exchange a value.
This mechanism will be nice to synchronize certain stages of
initialization between threads in the following commit.
Unlike Plan 9 rendezvous(), this is not implemented with a hashtable,
because that would require additional effort (especially if you want to
make it actually scele). Unlike the Plan 9 variant, we use intptr_t
instead of void* as type for the value, because I expect that we will be
mostly passing a status code as value and not a pointer. Converting an
integer to void* requires two cast (because the integer needs to be
intptr_t), the other way around it's only one cast.
We don't particularly care about performance in this case either. It's
simply not important for our use-case. So a simple linked list is used
for waiters, and on wakeup, all waiters are temporarily woken up.
DVD and Bluray (and to some extent cdda) require awful hacks all over
the codebase to make them work. The main reason is that they act like
container, but are entirely implemented on the stream layer. The raw
mpeg data resulting from these streams must be "extended" with the
container-like metadata transported via STREAM_CTRLs. The result were
hacks all over demux.c and some higher-level parts.
Add a "disc" pseudo-demuxer, and move all these hacks and special-cases
to it.
The mplayer1/2/mpv CoreAudio audio output historically contained both usage
of AUHAL APIs (these go through the CoreAudio audio server) and the Device
based APIs (used only for output of compressed formats in exclusive mode).
The latter is a very unwieldy and low level API and pretty much forces us to
write a lot of code for little workr. Also with the widespread of HDMI, the
actual need for outputting compressed audio directly to the device is getting
lower (it was very useful with S/PDIF for bandwidth constraints not allowing
a number if channels transmitted in LPCM).
Considering how invasive it is (uses hog/exclusive mode), the new AO
(`ao_coreaudio_device`) is not going to be autoprobed but the user will have
to select it.
For remarks, pretty much see the manpage additions. Could help with
network streams that require too much seeking (maybe), or might be
extended to help with the use case of watching and downloading a file
at the same time.
In general, it might be a useless feature and could be removed again.
It is reasonably stable, so all further changes will be versioned.
Also change how the libmpv version number is generated. Fix the patch
version number to 0; I don't think we have a use for this. In
particular, the version doesn't version mpv, just the client API.
Does anyone actually use this?
For now, update it, because it's the only case left where an option
points to a global variable (and not a struct offset).
This was never intended to be installed; waf just picked it up
automagically. There's also a closed ticket on github where someone
complains that the program "simple" is installed, and I didn't realize
at this point that it was actually installed by default when enabling
the client API.
If a single person complains, I will readd it. But I don't expect that
this will happen.
The main reason for removing this is that it's some of the most unclean
code remaining, it's unmaintained, and I've never ever heard of someone
using it.
Currently, vo_reconfig() calculates the requested window size and sets
the vo->dwidth/dheight fields _if_ VOCTRL_UPDATE_SCREENINFO is
implemented by the VO or the windowing backend. The window size can be
different from the display size if e.g. the --geometry option is used.
It will also set the vo->dx/dy fields and read vo->xinerama_x/y.
It turned out that this is very backwards and actually requires the
windowing backends to workaround these things. There's also
MPOpts.screenwidth/screenheight, which used to map to actual options,
but is now used only to communicate the screen size to the vo.c code
calculating the window size and position.
Change this by making the window geometry calculations available as
separate functions. This commit doesn't change any VO code yet, and just
emulates the old way using the new functions. VO code will remove its
usage of VOCTRL_UPDATE_SCREENINFO and use the new functions directly.
This factors out some code from vo_vdpau.c, especially deinterlacing
handling. The intention is to use this for vo_vdpau.c to make the logic
significantly easier, and to use it for vo_opengl (gl_hwdec_vdpau.c) to
allow selecting deinterlace and postprocessing modes.
As of this commit, the filter actually does nothing, since both vo_vdpau
and vo_opengl treat the generated images as normal vdpau images. This
will change in the following commits.
This was part of osdep/threads.c out of laziness. But it doesn't contain
anything OS dependent. Note that the rest of threads.c actually isn't
all that OS dependent either (just some minor ifdeffery to work around
the lack of clock_gettime() on OSX).
Not needed anymore. I'm not opposed to having asm, but inline asm is too
much of a pain, and it was planned long ago to eventually get rid fo all
inline asm uses.
For the note, the inline asm use that was removed with the previous
commits was almost worthless. It was confined to video filters, and most
video filtering is now done with libavfilter. Some mpv filters (like
vf_pullup) actually redirect to libavfilter if possible.
If asm is added in the future, it should happen in the form of external
files.
These playlist parsers are all what's left from the old mplayer playlist
parsing code. All of it is old code that does little error checking; the
type of C string parsing code that gives you nightmare.
Some playlist parsers have been rewritten and are located in
demux_playlist.c. The removed formats were not reimplemented. ASX and
SMIL use XML, and since we don't want to depend on a full blown XML
parser, this is not so easy. Possibly these formats could be supported
by writing a very primitive XML-like lexer, which would lead to success
with most real world files, but I haven't attempted that. As for NSC, I
couldn't find any URL that worked with MPlayer, and in general this
formats seems to be more than dead.
Move playlist_parse_file() to playlist.c. It's pretty small now, and
basically just opens a stream and a demuxer. No use keeping
playlist_parser.c just for this.
Mainly meant to apply simple VapourSynth filters to video at runtime.
This has various restrictions, which are listed in the manpage.
Additionally, this actually copies video frames when converting frame
references from mpv to VapourSynth, and a second time when going from
VapourSynth to mpv. This is inefficient and could probably be easily
improved. But for now, this is simpler, and in fact I'm not sure if
we even can references VapourSynth frames after the core has been
destroyed.
This cd_info_t struct was practically unused. The only thing it did was
storing the track name of the form "Track %d" in a very roundabout way.
Remove it. (It made more sense when there was still CDDB support.)
This reads MPV_CLIENT_API_VERSION from the source header, and turns it
into a 3 part version number.
E.g. if MPV_CLIENT_API_VERSION were 0x12abcdef, this would result in
"18.171.773615" (8 bits, 8 bits, 16 bits).
We'll see if this is actually useful, or if it's too clever.
Rename it to --enable-libmpv-shared. The option name didn't really
tell much. When we add the possibility to create a static library,
it would also be bad if that were named --enable-static (because it
would sound like it does what --static-build does).
ao_wasapi.c was almost entirely init code mixed with option code and
occasionally actual audio handling code. Split most things to
ao_wasapi_utils.c and keep the audio handling code in ao_wasapi.c.
This has 2 goals:
- Ensure that AOs have always enough data, even if the device buffers
are very small.
- Reduce complexity in some AOs, which do their own buffering.
One disadvantage is that performance is slightly reduced due to more
copying.
Implementation-wise, we don't change ao.c much, and instead "redirect"
the driver's callback to an API wrapper in push.c.
Additionally, we add code for dealing with AOs that have a pull API.
These AOs usually do their own buffering (jack, coreaudio, portaudio),
and adding a thread is basically a waste. The code in pull.c manages
a ringbuffer, and allows callback-based AOs to read data directly.
This library will export the client API functions.
Note that this doesn't allow compiling the command line player to link
against this library yet. The reason is that there's lots of weird stuff
required to setup the execution environment (mostly Windows and OSX
specifics), as well as things which are out of scope of the client API
and every application has to do on its own. However, since the mpv
command line player basically reuses functions from the mpv core to
implement these things, it's not very easy to separate the command
line player form the mpv core.
Add a client API, which is intended to be a stable API to get some rough
control over the player. Basically, it reflects what can be done with
input.conf commands or the old slavemode. It will replace the old
slavemode (and enable the implementation of a new slave protocol).
Application icon was added to the Dock only when run inside of a bundle. That
was handled automatically by OS X using the Info.plist definition.
To add the Application icon when run as a CLI program, I used the samme
approach in the X11 code and loaded the icon as a static binary blob inside
of mpv's binary. This is the simplest approach as it avoid headackes when
relocating the binary and such.
This finally gets rid of the LaTeX dependency.
We should actually be using docultils directly here, but I didn't
do this because of all the potential Python 2/3 breakage.
