This used to be needed to access the generic stream header from the
specific headers, which in turn was needed because the decoders had
access only to the specific headers. This is not the case anymore, so
this can finally be removed again.
Also move the "format" field from the specific headers to sh_stream.
This affects 64 bit floats and big endian integer PCM variants
(basically crap nobody uses). Possibly not all MS-muxed files work, but
I couldn't get or produce any samples.
Remove a bunch of format tags that are not needed anymore. Most of these
were used by demux_mov, which is long gone. Repurpose/abuse 'twos' as
mpv-internal tag for dealing with the PCM variants mentioned above.
Note that you still need --vd-lavc-o='strict=-2' to enable the decoder.
Also, there's no guarantee that all required features for HEVC demuxing
are actually implemented, nor that the current muxing schema is the
final one.
FFmpeg recently changed how it writes Opus-in-Matroska to match
the A_OPUS/EXPERIMENTAL name that mkvmerge uses, with the caveat
that things will change and compatibility with old files can get
worked out when the spec is finalized.
This adds both A_OPUS and A_OPUS/EXPERIMENTAL so that *hopefully*
it can play both the newer files that use A_OPUS/EXPERIMENTAL, and
older ones muxed by FFmpeg that were simply A_OPUS, since this is
also what FFmpeg seems to be doing to handle the situation.
The old names have been deprecated a while ago, but were needed for
supporting older ffmpeg/libav versions. The deprecated identifiers
have been removed from recent Libav and FFmpeg git.
This change breaks compatibility with Libav 0.8.x and equivalent
FFmpeg releases.
Use codec names instead of FourCCs to identify codecs. Rewrite how
codecs are selected and initialized. Now each decoder exports a list
of decoders (and the codec it supports) via add_decoders(). The order
matters, and the first decoder for a given decoder is preferred over
the other decoders. E.g. all ad_mpg123 decoders are preferred over
ad_lavc, because it comes first in the mpcodecs_ad_drivers array.
Likewise, decoders within ad_lavc that are enumerated first by
libavcodec (using av_codec_next()) are preferred. (This is actually
critical to select h264 software decoding by default instead of vdpau.
libavcodec and ffmpeg/avconv use the same method to select decoders by
default, so we hope this is sane.)
The codec names follow libavcodec's codec names as defined by
AVCodecDescriptor.name (see libavcodec/codec_desc.c). Some decoders
have names different from the canonical codec name. The AVCodecDescriptor
API is relatively new, so we need a compatibility layer for older
libavcodec versions for codec names that are referenced internally,
and which are different from the decoder name. (Add a configure check
for that, because checking versions is getting way too messy.)
demux/codec_tags.c is generated from the former codecs.conf (minus
"special" decoders like vdpau, and excluding the mappings that are the
same as the mappings libavformat's exported RIFF tables). It contains
all the mappings from FourCCs to codec name. This is needed for
demux_mkv, demux_mpg, demux_avi and demux_asf. demux_lavf will set the
codec as determined by libavformat, while the other demuxers have to do
this on their own, using the mp_set_audio/video_codec_from_tag()
functions. Note that the sh_audio/video->format members don't uniquely
identify the codec anymore, and sh->codec takes over this role.
Replace the --ac/--vc/--afm/--vfm with new --vd/--ad options, which
provide cover the functionality of the removed switched.
Note: there's no CODECS_FLAG_FLIP flag anymore. This means some obscure
container/video combinations (e.g. the sample Film_200_zygo_pro.mov)
are played flipped. ffplay/avplay doesn't handle this properly either,
so we don't care and blame ffmeg/libav instead.
Vika Apelsinova
wm4
Stefano Pigozzi
Stephen Hutchinson