Until recently, ao_lavc and vo_lavc started encoding whenever the core
happened to send them data. Since audio and video are not initialized at
the same time, and the muxer was not necessarily opened when the first
encoder started to produce data, the resulting packets were put into a
queue. As soon as the muxer was opened, the queue was flushed.
Change this to make the core wait with sending data until all encoders
are initialized. This has the advantage that we don't need to queue up
the packets.
This does what af_volume used to do. Since we couldn't relicense it,
just rewrite it. Since we don't have a new filter mechanism yet, and the
libavfilter is too inconvenient, do applying the volume gain in ao.c
directly. This is done before handling the audio data to the driver.
Since push.c runs a separate thread, and pull.c is called asynchronously
from the audio driver's thread, the volume value needs to be
synchronized. There's no existing central mutex, so do some shit with
atomics. Since there's no atomic_float type predefined (which is at
least needed when using the legacy wrapper), do some nonsense about
reinterpret casting the float value to an int for the purpose of atomic
access. Not sure if using memcpy() is undefined behavior, but for now I
don't care.
The advantage of not using a filter is lower complexity (no filter auto
insertion), and lower latency (gain processing is done after our
internal audio buffer of at least 200ms).
Disavdantages include inability to use native volume control _before_
other filters with custom filter chains, and the need to add new
processing for each new sample type.
Since this doesn't reuse any of the old GPL code, nor does indirectly
rely on it, volume and replaygain handling now works in LGPL mode.
How to process the gain is inspired by libavfilter's af_volume (LGPL).
In particular, we use exactly the same rounding, and we quantize
processing for integer sample types by 256 steps. Some of libavfilter's
copyright may or may not apply, but I think not, and it's the same
license anyway.
This is pretty pointless, but I believe it allows us to claim that the
new code is not affected by the copyright of the old code. This is
needed, because the original mp_audio struct was written by someone who
has disagreed with LGPL relicensing (it was called af_data at the time,
and was defined in af.h).
The "GPL'ed" struct contents that surive are pretty trivial: just the
data pointer, and some metadata like the format, samplerate, etc. - but
at least in this case, any new code would be extremely similar anyway,
and I'm not really sure whether it's OK to claim different copyright. So
what we do is we just use AVFrame (which of course is LGPL with 100%
certainty), and add some accessors around it to adapt it to mpv
conventions.
Also, this gets rid of some annoying conventions of mp_audio, like the
struct fields that require using an accessor to write to them anyway.
For the most part, this change is only dumb replacements of mp_audio
related functions and fields. One minor actual change is that you can't
allocate the new type on the stack anymore.
Some code still uses mp_audio. All audio filter code will be deleted, so
it makes no sense to convert this code. (Audio filters which are LGPL
and which we keep will have to be ported to a new filter infrastructure
anyway.) player/audio.c uses it because it interacts with the old filter
code. push.c has some complex use of mp_audio and mp_audio_buffer, but
this and pull.c will most likely be rewritten to do something else.
All contributors of the current code have agreed. ao.c requires a
"driver" entry for each audio output - we assume that if someone who
didn't agree to LGPL added a line, it's fine for ao.c to be LGPL
anyway. If the affected audio output is not disabled at compilation
time, the resulting binary will be GPL anyway, and ootherwise the
code is not included.
The audio output code itself was inspired or partially copied from
libao in 7a2eec4b59 (thus why MPlayer's audio code is named libao2).
Just to be sure we got permission from Aaron Holtzman, Jack Moffitt, and
Stan Seibert, who according to libao's SVN history and README are the
initial author. (Something similar was done for libvo, although the
commit relicensing it forgot to mention it.)
242aa6ebd40: anders mostly disagreed with the LGPL relicensing, but we
got permission for this particular commit.
0ef8e555735: nick could not be reached, but the include statement was
removed again anyway.
879e05a7c17: iive agreed to LGPL v3+ only, but this line of code was
removed anyway, so ao_null.c can be LGPL v2.1+.
9dd8f241ac2: patch author could not be reached, but the corresponding
code (old slave mode interface) was completely removed later.
Currently, calling mp_input_wakeup() will wake up the core thread (also
called the playloop). This seems odd, but currently the core indeed
calls mp_input_wait() when it has nothing more to do. It's done this way
because MPlayer used input_ctx as central "mainloop".
This is probably going to change. Remove direct calls to this function,
and replace it with mp_wakeup_core() calls. ao and vo are changed to use
opaque callbacks and not use input_ctx for this purpose. Other code
already uses opaque callbacks, or has legitimate reasons to use
input_ctx directly (such as sending actual user input).
And introduce a global option which does this. Or more precisely, this
deprecates the global wasapi and coreaudio options, and adds a new one
that merges their functionality. (Due to the way the sub-option
deprecation mechanism works, this is simpler.)
This commit adds an --audio-channel=auto-safe mode, and makes it the
default. This mode behaves like "auto" with most AOs, except with
ao_alsa. The intention is to allow multichannel output by default on
sane APIs. ALSA is not sane as in it's so low level that it will e.g.
configure any layout over HDMI, even if the connected A/V receiver does
not support it. The HDMI fuckup is of course not ALSA's fault, but other
audio APIs normally isolate applications from dealing with this and
require the user to globally configure the correct output layout.
This will help with other AOs too. ao_lavc (encoding) is changed to the
new semantics as well, because it used to force stereo (perhaps because
encoding mode is supposed to produce safe files for crap devices?).
Exclusive mode output on Windows might need to be adjusted accordingly,
as it grants the same kind of low level access as ALSA (requires more
research).
In addition to the things mentioned above, the --audio-channels option
is extended to accept a set of channel layouts. This is supposed to be
the correct way to configure mpv ALSA multichannel output. You need to
put a list of channel layouts that your A/V receiver supports.
The manpage entry explains this.
(Maybe this option could be always enabled and removed. I don't quite
remember what valid use-cases there are for just disabling audio
entirely, other than that this is also needed for audio decoder init
failure.)
This commit adds notifications for hot plugging of devices. It also extends
the old behaviour of the `audio-out-detected-device` property which is now
backed by the hotplugging code. This allows clients to be notified when the
actual audio output device changes.
Maybe hotplugging should be supported for ao_coreaudio_exclusive too, but it's
device selection code is a bit fragile.
Not very important for the command line player; but GUI applications
will want to know about this.
This only adds the internal API; support for specific audio outputs
comes later.
This reuses the ao struct as context for the hotplug event listener,
similar to how the "old" device listing API did. This is probably a bit
unclean and confusing. One argument got reusing it is that otherwise
rewriting parts of ao_pulse would be required (because the PulseAudio
API requires so damn much boilerplate). Another is that --ao-defaults is
applied to the hotplug dummy ao struct, which automatically applies such
defaults even to the hotplug context.
Notification works through the property observation mechanism in the
client API. The notification chain is a bit complicated: the AO notifies
the player, which in turn notifies the clients, which in turn will
actually retrieve the device list. (It still has the advantage that it's
slightly cleaner, since the AO stuff doesn't need to know about client
API issues.)
The weird handling of atomic flags in ao.c is because we still don't
require real atomics from the compiler. Otherwise we'd just use atomic
bitwise operations.
This is what you would expect. Before this commit, each
ao_request_reload() call would just queue a reload command, and then
recreate the AO for the number of times the function was called.
Instead of sending a command, introduce some sort of event retrieval
mechanism. At least for the reload case, use atomics, because we're too
lazy to setup an extra mutex.
Remove the unnecessary indirection through ao fields.
Also fix the inverted result of AOCONTROL_HAS_TEMP_VOLUME. Hopefully the
change is equivalent. But actually, it looks like the old code did it
wrong.
bstr.c doesn't really deserve its own directory, and compat had just
a few files, most of which may as well be in osdep. There isn't really
any justification for these extra directories, so get rid of them.
The compat/libav.h was empty - just delete it. We changed our approach
to API compatibility, and will likely not need it anymore.
For some reason, the buffered_audio variable was used to "cache" the
ao_get_delay() result. But I can't really see any reason why this should
be done, and it just seems to complicate everything.
One reason might be that the value should be checked only if the AO
buffers have been recently filled (as otherwise the delay could go low
and trigger an accidental EOF condition), but this didn't work anyway,
since buffered_audio is set from ao_get_delay() anyway at a later point
if it was unset. And in both cases, the value is used _after_ filling
the audio buffers anyway.
Simplify it. Also, move the audio EOF condition to a separate function.
(Note that ao_eof_reached() probably could/should whether the last
ao_play() call had AOPLAY_FINAL_CHUNK set to avoid accidental EOF on
underflows, but for now let's keep the code equivalent.)
This should probably be an AO function, but since the playloop still has
some strange stuff (using the buffered_audio variable instead of calling
ao_get_delay() directly), just leave it and make it more explicit.
Until now, this was always conflated with uninit. This was ugly, and
also many AOs emulated this manually (or just ignored it). Make draining
an explicit operation, so AOs which support it can provide it, and for
all others generic code will emulate it.
For ao_wasapi, we keep it simple and basically disable the internal
draining implementation (maybe it should be restored later).
Tested on Linux only.
We want to move the AO to its own thread. There's no technical reason
for making the ao struct opaque to do this. But it helps us sleep at
night, because we can control access to shared state better.
Replace the code that used a single buffer with mp_audio_buffer. This
also enables non-interleaved output operation, although it's still
disabled, and no AO supports it yet.
This comes with two internal AO API changes:
1. ao_driver.play now can take non-interleaved audio. For this purpose,
the data pointer is changed to void **data, where data[0] corresponds to
the pointer in the old API. Also, the len argument as well as the return
value are now in samples, not bytes. "Sample" in this context means the
unit of the smallest possible audio frame, i.e. sample_size * channels.
2. ao_driver.get_space now returns samples instead of bytes. (Similar to
the play function.)
Change all AOs to use the new API.
The AO API as exposed to the rest of the player still uses the old API.
It's emulated in ao.c. This is purely to split the commits changing all
AOs and the commits adding actual support for outputting N-I audio.
Set the PulseAudio stream title, just like the VO window title is set.
Refactor update_vo_window_title() so that we can use it for AOs too.
The ao_pulse.c bit is stolen from MPlayer.
ao_lavc.c accesses ao->buffer, which I consider internal. The access was
done in ao_lavc.c/uninit(), which tried to get the left-over audio in
order to write the last (possibly partial) audio frame. The play()
function didn't accept partial frames, because the AOPLAY_FINAL_CHUNK
flag was not correctly set, and handling it otherwise would require an
internal FIFO.
Fix this by making sure that with gapless audio (used with encoding),
the AOPLAY_FINAL_CHUNK is set only once, instead when each file ends.
Basically, move the hack in ao_lavc's uninit to uninit_player.
One thing can not be entirely correctly handled: if gapless audio is
active, we don't know really whether the AO is closed because the file
ended playing (i.e. we want to send the buffered remainder of the audio
to the AO), or whether the user is quitting the player. (The stop_play
flag is overwritten, fixing that is perhaps not worth it.) Handle this
by adding additional code to drain the AO and the buffers when playback
is quit (see play_current_file() change).
Test case: mpv avdevice://lavfi:sine=441 avdevice://lavfi:sine=441 -length 0.2267 -gapless-audio
The core didn't use these fields, and use of them was inconsistent
accross AOs. Some didn't use them at all. Some only set them; the values
were completely unused by the core. Some made full use of them.
Remove these fields. In places where they are still needed, make them
private AO state.
Remove the --abs option. It set the buffer size for ao_oss and ao_dsound
(being ignored by all other AOs), and was already marked as obsolete. If
it turns out that it's still needed for ao_oss or ao_dsound, their
default buffer sizes could be adjusted, and if even that doesn't help,
AO suboptions could be added in these cases.
The point is selecting a minimal fallback. The AOs will call this
through the AO API, so it will be possible to add options affecting
the general channel layout selection.
It provides the following mechanism to AOs:
- forcing the correct channel order
- downmixing to stereo if no layout is available
- allow 5.1 <-> 5.1(side) fallback
- handling "unknown" channel layouts
This is quite weak and lots of code/complexity for little gain. All AOs
already made sure the channel order was correct, and the fallback is of
little value, and could perhaps be done in the frontend instead, like
stereo downmixing with --channels=2 is handled. But I'm not really sure
how this stuff should _really_ work, and the new code will hopefully
provides enough flexibility to make radical changes to channel layout
negotiation easier.
This actually breaks audio for 5/6/8 channels. There's no reordering
done yet. The actual reordering will be done inside of af_lavrresample
and has to be made part of the format negotiation.
mp_audio has some redundant fields. Setters like mp_audio_set_format()
initialize these properly.
Also move the mp_audio struct to a the file audio.c.
We can remove a mysterious line of code from af.c:
in.format |= af_bits2fmt(in.bps * 8);
I'm not sure if this was ever actually needed, or if it was some kind of
"make it work" quick-fix that works against the way things were supposed
to work. All filters etc. now set the format correctly, so if there ever
was a need for this code, it's definitely gone.
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.
mpv -ao help and mpv -vo help shouldn't show the encoding outputs (named
"lavc" on both cases). Also make it impossible to select these manually
when not encoding.
This partially reverts earlier decisions, when I thought it would
always be better to prefer the audio volume filter over the AO's,
because the AO's relies on the underlying audio-API, which could
be broken or exhibit unusual behavior (like it happened with ao_dsound).
However, since the audio buffer can be quite large (500 ms), and we
don't attempt to flush & refilter the audio on volume changes, always
prefer AO volume control (as long as the AO mixer doesn't control the
system mixer).
Also document what the mixer.c related AO fields mean (hopefully not
too brief).
Finish renaming directories and moving files. Adjust all include
statements to make the previous commit compile.
The two commits are separate, because git is bad at tracking renames
and content changes at the same time.
Also take this as an opportunity to remove the separation between
"common" and "mplayer" sources in the Makefile. ("common" used to be
shared between mplayer and mencoder.)
Tis drops the silly lib prefixes, and attempts to organize the tree in
a more logical way. Make the top-level directory less cluttered as
well.
Renames the following directories:
libaf -> audio/filter
libao2 -> audio/out
libvo -> video/out
libmpdemux -> demux
Split libmpcodecs:
vf* -> video/filter
vd*, dec_video.* -> video/decode
mp_image*, img_format*, ... -> video/
ad*, dec_audio.* -> audio/decode
libaf/format.* is moved to audio/ - this is similar to how mp_image.*
is located in video/.
Move most top-level .c/.h files to core. (talloc.c/.h is left on top-
level, because it's external.) Park some of the more annoying files
in compat/. Some of these are relicts from the time mplayer used
ffmpeg internals.
sub/ is not split, because it's too much of a mess (subtitle code is
mixed with OSD display and rendering).
Maybe the organization of core is not ideal: it mixes playback core
(like mplayer.c) and utility helpers (like bstr.c/h). Should the need
arise, the playback core will be moved somewhere else, while core
contains all helper and common code.
wm4
Marcin Kurczewski
Stefano Pigozzi