I'm not sure what's correct: stretching the DVD subtitles from storage
aspect ratio to video display aspect ratio, or displaying subtitles
using 1:1 PAR. Until now, DVD subtitles (as well as all other bitmap
subtitles) were always stretched to the video. There are good arguments
why this would be the correct behavior: DVDs were made for playback on
TV, which display anamorphic video by adjusting the horizontal refresh
rate, and thus wouldn't even be capable of DVD subtitles with square PAR
(other than resampling the subtitles additionally).
However, I haven't seen a sample yet where subtitles do _not_ look
stretched using this method. Rendering them at 1:1 PAR looks better.
Technically, we render them at display PAR (and not 1:1 PAR). Do this in
a way so that the subtitle area is always inside of the video frame if
display and video aspect ratios mismatch.
For DVB subtitles, the old method looks more correct, so this is special
cased to DVD subtitles.
I might revert this commit if it turns out that it's an disimprovement.
Partial packet reads were needed because the video/audio parsers were
working on top of them. So it could happen that a parser read a part of
a packet, and returned that to the decoder. With libavformat/libavcodec,
packets are already parsed, and everything is much simpler.
Most of the simplifications in ad_spdif could have been done earlier.
Remove some other stuff as well, like the questionable slave mode start
time reporting (could be replaced by proper code, but we don't bother).
Remove the unused skip_audio_frame() functionality as well (it was used
by old demuxers). Some functions become private to demux.c, like
demux_fill_buffer(). Introduce new packet read functions, which have
simpler semantics. Packets returned from them are owned by the caller,
and all packets in the demux.c packet queue are considered unread.
Remove special code that dropped subtitle packets with size 0. This
used to be needed because it caused special cases in the old code.
Delete demux_avi, demux_asf, demux_mpg, demux_ts. libavformat does
better than them (except in rare corner cases), and the demuxers have
a bad influence on the rest of the code. Often they don't output
proper packets, and require additional audio and video parsing. Most
work only in --no-correct-pts mode.
Remove them to facilitate further cleanups.
This means the direct libass usage can be removed from command.c, and no
weird hacks for retrieving the ASS_Track are needed.
Also fix a bug when using this feature with ordered chapters.
This was changed as part of commit b44202b as an intended
simplification, but it's actually nicer to have the subtitles
update immediately even if paused.
Should we actually get into trouble for unproper handling of
frame-based subtitle formats, this might be the simplest way to
work this around. Also is a bit more intuitive than -subfps, which
might use an unknown, misdetected, or non-sense video FPS.
Still pretty silly, though.
Before this commit, SRT demuxing and display actually happened to work
on Libav. But it was using the libavcodec srt converter (which is
essentially unmaintained in Libav), and timing postprocessing didn't
work. For some background explanations see sd_lavf_srt.c.
Until now, timing and charset recoding postprocessing was applied on
packets as they were output by the demuxer, and then passed to the
decoders. Make it so that postprocessing can happen after some decoders
in special situations.
This code was once part of subreader.c, then traveled to libass, and now
made its way back to the fork of the fork of the original code, MPlayer.
It works pretty much the same as subreader.c, except that we have to
concatenate some packets to do auto-detection. This is rather annoying,
but for all we know the actual source file could be a binary format.
Unlike subreader.c, the iconv context is reopened on each packet. This
is simpler, and with respect to multibyte encodings, more robust.
Reopening is probably not a very fast, but I suspect subtitle charset
conversion is not an operation that happens often or has to be fast.
Also, this auto-detection is disabled for microdvd - this is the only
format we know that has binary data in its packets, but is actually
decoded to text. FFmpeg doesn't really allow us to solve this properly,
because a) the input packets can be binary, and b) the output will be
checked whether it's UTF-8, and if it's not, the output is thrown away
and an error message is printed. We could just recode the decoded
subtitles before sd_ass if it weren't for that.
demux_libass.c allows us to make subtitle format detection part of the
normal file loading process. libass has no probe function, but trying to
load the start of a file (the first 4 KB) is good enough. Hope that
libass can even handle random binary input gracefully without printing
stupid log messages, and that the libass parser doesn't accept too many
non-ASS files as input.
This doesn't handle the -subcp option correctly yet. This will be fixed
later.
subreader.c (before this commit renamed to demux_subreader.c) was
special cased to the -sub option. The plan is using the normal demuxer
codepath for all subtitle formats (so we can prefer libavformat demuxers
for most formats).
There are some subtle changes. The probe size is restricted to 32 KB
(instead of unlimitted + giving up after 100 lines of input). For
formats like MicroDVD, the video FPS isn't used anymore, because it's
not available on the subtitle demuxer level. Instead, hardcode it to
23.976 FPS (libavformat seems to do the same). The user can probably
still use -sub-fps to fix the timing. Checking the file extension for
".utf"/".utf8"/".utf-8" is simply removed (seems worthless, was in the
way, and I've never seen this anywhere).
Actually check the newly added text for whitespace, and not the
uninitialized buffer after it. Also, if an even is only whitespace,
don't add it at all.
sd_ass contains some code that treats subtitle events with duration 0
specially, and adjust their duration so that they will disappear with
the next event.
This is most likely not needed anymore. Some subtitle formats allow
omitting the duration so that the event is visible until the next one,
but both subreader.c as well as libavformat subtitle demuxers already
handle this.
Subtitles embedded in mp4 files (movtext) used to trigger this code. But
these files appear to export subtitle duration correctly (at least
libavcodec's movtext decoder is using this assumption). Since commit
6dbedd2 changed demux_lavf to actually copy the packet duration field,
the code removed with this commit isn't needed anymore for correct
display of movtext subtitles. (The change in sd_movtext is for dropping
empty subtitle events, which would now be "displayed" - libavcodec does
the same.)
On the other hand, this code incorrectly displayed hidden events in .srt
subtitles. See for example the first event in SubRip_capability_tester.srt
(part of FFmpeg's FATE). These intentionally have a duration of 0, and
should not be displayed. (As of with this commit, they are still
displayed in external .srt subs because of subreader.c hacks.)
However, we can't be 100% sure that this code is really unneeded, so
just comment the code. Hopefully it can be removed if there are no
regressions after some weeks or months.
Currently, we are filtering libavformat style ASS packets by checking
whether they are prefixed "Dialogue: ". Unfortunately, comment packets
are demuxed too. These start with "Comment: ", so they are not caught.
Change the filtering, and use the codec ID instead. libavformat uses
"ssa" as codec ID for ASS subtitles, while mpv uses "ass". Also, at
least FFmpeg will change the ASS packet format to the same format mpv
and Matroska use, and identify these with "ass" as codec ID, so this is
works out nicely.
Some of this (fixing timing) is now done in dec_sub.c (although it's
not active for subreader.c code yet - this will be fixed when
subreader.c subs are read through a demuxer wrapper).
Another reason to remove this is that this code doesn't do much good
anymore. libass does handle overlap, and trying to fold overlapping
lines into single subtitle events will prevent libass from handling
this properly.
This fixes the -subfps option (which unfortunately is still useful),
and fixes minor annoying timing errors (which unfortunately still
happen).
Note that none of these affect ASS or image subtitles. ASS is specially
handled: libass loads subtitles as ASS_Track. There are no actual
packets passed around, and sd_ass just uses the ASS_Track.
Disable the --sub-no-text-pp option. It's misleading now and always was
completely useless.
If a subtitle is external, read it completely and add all subtitle
events in advance when the subtitle track is selected. This is done
for text subtitles only. (Note that subreader.c and subtitles loaded
with libass are different and don't have anything to do with this
commit.)
Seems like a completely unnecessary complication. Instead, always add a
1 byte padding (could be extended if a caller needs it), and clear it.
Also add some documentation. There was some, but it was outdated and
incomplete.
This function was called in various places. Most time, it was used
before a seek. In other cases, the purpose was apparently resetting
the EOF flag. As far as I can see, this makes no sense anymore. At
least the stream_reset() calls paired with stream_seek() are completely
pointless. A seek will either seek inside the buffer (and reset the
EOF flag), or do an actual seek and reset all state.
Both converters can output \pos and deal with font sizes, so they assume
a specific script resolution (PlayResX/PlayResY). The implicit
assumption was that a specific resolution was guaranteed. The
MP_ASS_FONT_PLAYRESY constant is connected to this.
Better make it explicit, so that the implicit dependency on
MP_ASS_FONT_PLAYRESY is removed. (Unfortunately, libavcodec sub
converters still don't set PlayResX/PlayResY explicitly, so the value
set by that constant can't be declared as arbitrary yet.)
PlayResY=288 is most likely the SSA natural script resolution (or
something like this?), as well as the libass and VSFilter default.
PlayResX=384 is the fallback value set by libass if PlayResY is set to
288, and PlayResX is unset.
The default style is added by mp_ass_default_track(), but not by
ass_new_track(). Considering this, the previous condition at this point
didn't make much sense anymore: the actual (converted) subtitle format
doesn't matter much for what styling should be applied. What matters is
if the subtitle was originally ASS, or if it was converted to it.
Change the code such that the default style is added if there aren't
any, even after reading sub extradata. (The extradata contains the ASS
header, including the style section.) This might change behavior with
scripts that don't define any styles. The change is either with this
commit or with an earlier commit in this branch, depending on the
situation - there are multiple places where default styles are added
in libass API functions, and it's all a big mess.
Other than with very old or broken files (where different behavior
doesn't matter much), the current code should be pretty safe, though.
Audio and video had their own (very similar) functions to initialize an
AVPacket (ffmpeg's packet struct) from a demux_packet (mplayer's packet
struct). Add a common function for these.
Also use this function for sd_lavc_conv. This is actually a functional
change, as some libavfilter subtitle demuxers add weird out-of-band
stuff as side-data.
When e.g. converting SRT to ASS, we certainly don't want them stretched
by video aspect ratio, even if that's necessary for native ASS
subtitles.
Annoying weird details...
This mirrors commit "sub: remove check_duplicate_plaintext_event()".
That code was basically duplicated. In general, this code is still
needed when doing conversion during demuxing (mostly because you can
seek during demuxing, which will cause duplicate events by replaying).
Normally, libavcodec subtitle converters will output a style header like
this as part of the extradata:
Style: Default,Arial,16,&Hffffff,&Hffffff,&H0,&H0,0,0,0,1,1,0,2,10,10,10,0,0
We don't want that, so use some bruteforce to get rid of them.
Stefano Pigozzi
wm4
Martin Herkt