Basically, extract the option table from DOCS/man/en/changes.rst, and
search the table if an option wasn't found. If there's an entry about
it, print it. Hopefully this behavior is slightly more userfriendly.
This is strictly bound to option names. It doesn't work for option
values, nor does it attempt to emulate the old option.
Also remove MSGL_SMODE and friends.
Note: The indent in options.rst was added to work around a bug in
ReportLab that causes the PDF manual build to fail.
This allows client API users and Lua scripts to side-step the pretty
horrible video filter string "language" (although it's back and can't be
avoided when using libavfilter).
This should fix some issues, such as not being able to set the
"no-video" option with MPV_FORMAT_FLAG.
Note that this changes semantics a bit. Now setting an option strictly
overwrite it, even if the corresponding command line option does not.
For example, if we change --sub to append by default, then setting the
"sub" option via the client API would still never append. (Oddly, this
also applies to --vf-add, which will overwrite the old value when using
the client API.)
I'm doing this because there's no proper separation between the command
line parser and setting an option using the MPV_FORMAT_STRING format.
Maybe the solution to this mess would be adding format aware code (i.e.
m_option_set_node) to every option type, and falling back to strings
only if needed - but this would mean that you couldn't set e.g. an
integer option using MPV_FORMAT_STRING, which doesn't seem to be ideal
either.
In conclusion, the current approach seems to be most robust, but I'm
open to suggestions should someone find that these semantics are a
problem.
glob() is mandated by POSIX. For the only non-POSIX platform we support,
Windows, we have our own replacement. So the ifdeffery is not needed.
Still leave the checks in the configure scripts, because they have to
decide whether to compile the replacement or not. (Although this could
be special cased to mingw-only, the wscript seems to make this hard.)
The Windows port uses CommandLineToArgvW, which doesn't expand wildcards
in command line arguments. Use glob to expand them instead, but only for
non-option arguments.
Often, user configs set options that are not suitable for encoding.
Usually, playback and encoding are pretty different things, so it makes
sense to keep them strictly separate. There are several possible
solutions. The approach taken by this commit is to basically ignore the
default config settings, and switch to an [encoding] config profile
section instead. This also makes it impossible to have --o in a config
file, because --o enables encode mode.
See github issue #727 for discussion.
This collects statistics and other things. The option dumps raw data
into a file. A script to visualize this data is included too.
Litter some of the player code with calls that generate these
statistics.
In general, this will be helpful to debug timing dependent issues, such
as A/V sync problems. Normally, one could argue that this is the task of
a real profiler, but then we'd have a hard time to include extra
information like audio/video PTS differences. We could also just
hardcode all statistics collection and processing in the player code,
but then we'd end up with something like mplayer's status line, which
was cluttered and required a centralized approach (i.e. getting the data
to the status line; so it was all in mplayer.c). Some players can
visualize such statistics on OSD, but that sounds even more complicated.
So the approach added with this commit sounds sensible.
The stats-conv.py script is rather primitive at the moment and its
output is semi-ugly. It uses matplotlib, so it could probably be
extended to do a lot, so it's not a dead-end.
It's a bit strange to allow this, so get rid of it.
This probably breaks a bunch of user config files.
The client API still allows setting them with MPV_FORMAT_FLAG with a
value of 1 (i.e. true), but I guess this is tolerable.
The most user visible change is that "420p" is now displayed as
"yuv420p". This is what FFmpeg uses (almost), and is also less confusing
since "420p" is often confused with "420 pixels vertical resolution".
In general, we return the FFmpeg pixel format name. We still use our own
old mechanism to keep a list of exceptions to provide compatibility for
a while.
Also, never return NULL for image format names. If the format is unset
(0/IMGFMT_NONE), return "none". If the format has no name (probably
never happens, FFmpeg seems to guarantee that a name is set), return
"unknown".
This re-allows the previous behaviour of being able to reencode with
metadata removed, which is useful when encoding "inconsistently" tagged
data for a device/player that shows file names when tags are not
present.
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.
Commit 2c2c1203 sorted the output of --list-options, but the same code
ias also used for listing sub-options, such as --vo=scale:help. For sub-
options, the order actually matters.
Until now, --list-options printed options in random order. There
literally wasn't any logic in its order, they just appeared as they were
declared. So just sort them.
Note that we can't sort them in advance, because for certain things
internal to m_config, the order actually matters.
Also we're using strcasecmp(), which is bad (locale dependent), but this
is output intended for human consumption, so it's not a problem.
This used to display the property type, but it was not always correct or
even available. The way the property mechanism works, we can know this
only at runtime.
The function tag_property() in command.c passed a key action with empty
path to m_property_read_list. This is normally not valid, because key
actions are supposed to access sub-paths. But it's kind of inconvenient
to check for this case in tag_property(). So make it valid by providing
a m_property_unkey() function, which turns a key access to "" into a
top-level action.
We've just checked whether a sub-path started with "name/", but that
changes behavior whether the property name has a trailing '/' or not.
Using a helper function to split of path components avoids this problem.
Setting string options to strings over the m_option fallback (i.e.
M_PROPERTY_SET_STRING is called if the option type is CONF_TYPE_STRING)
failed. This was because m_option_parse() returns 0. 0 still means
success, but the property code tried to be clever, and considered 0 not
a success in order to disallow setting flags to an emtpy string (which
in turn is allowed, because the command line allows flag options without
parameters).
Fix this by removing the overly clever code.
This could happen when e.g. using the "set" command on options/title (a
string option), and also was a problem for the client API.
Closes#610.
--ass-style-override=force now attempts to override the 'Default' style.
May or may not work. In some situations it will work, but also mess up
seemingly unrelated things like signs typeset with ASS.
Will be helpful to track down strange wait times and such issues, as
well when you have develop something timing related. (Then you may print
timestamps in your debug output, and the --msgtime timestamps will help
giving context.)
This is a bit weird: m_option_string types (i.e. char*) can be NULL. But
they're supposed to be treated just like empty strings. So don't make
the m_option_type.print function return NULL for these values. Returning
NULL would mean failure.
This didn't matter much before, but was quite visible through the client
API.
