I think that's expected; mpv shouldn't draw anything while no video is
active. This doesn't blend transparently, though.
Also document the vo_opengl_cb thing.
This adds API to libmpv that lets host applications use the mpv opengl
renderer. This is a more flexible (and possibly more portable) option to
foreign window embedding (via --wid).
This assumes that methods like context sharing and multithreaded OpenGL
rendering are infeasible, and that a way is needed to integrate it with
an application that uses a single thread to render everything.
Add an example that does this with QtQuick/qml. The example is
relatively lazy, but still shows how relatively simple the integration
is. The FBO indirection could probably be avoided, but would require
more work (and would probably lead to worse QtQuick integration, because
it would have to ignore transformations like rotation).
Because this makes mpv directly use the host application's OpenGL
context, there is no platform specific code involved in mpv, except
for hw decoding interop.
main.qml is derived from some Qt example.
The following things are still missing:
- a way to do better video timing
- expose GL renderer options, allow changing them at runtime
- support for color equalizer controls
- support for screenshots
If no-block was given, the device would be opened with SND_PCM_NOBLOCK.
Also, after opening, blocking mode was unconditionally enabled anyway
with snd_pcm_nonblock(). Further, if opening with SND_PCM_NOBLOCK
failed, opening was retried without this flag.
This doesn't make any sense to me, and I've never heard of someone using
this suboption. I suspect it has to do with ancient ALSA bugs or API
caveats. Remove it and simplify the code.
This is an ancient filter, and we assume it's not useful anymore.
If you really want this, it's still available in libavfilter (e.g. via
--vf=lavfi=[pp...]). The disadvantage is that mpv doesn't pass through
QP information to libavfilter. (This was probably the reason vf_pp still
was part of mpv - it was slightly easier to pass QP internally.)
By now, input.conf is actually just a small part of input handling.
Rename the section to something else ("command interface" was the
first reasonable thing that came to mind).
Also fix a minor typo further down.
Yep, Lua is so crappy that the stdlib doesn't provide anything like
this.
Repurposes the undocumented mp.format_table() function and moves it to
mp.utils.
Makeshift-solution for working around certain fontconfig issues.
With --use-text-osd=no, libass and fontconfig won't be initialized, and
fontconfig won't block everything with scanning for fonts.
The fact that it's a generic command prefix that is parsed even when
using the client API is a bit unclean (because this flag makes sense
for actual key-bindings only), but it's less code this way.
This command was actually requested on IRC ages ago, but I forgot about
it.
The main purpose is that the decoding state can be reset without issuing
a seek, in particular in situations where you can't seek.
This restarts decoding from the middle of the packet stream; since it
discards the packet buffer intentionally, and the decoder will typically
not output "incomplete" frames until it has recovered, it can skip a
large amount of data.
It doesn't clear the byte stream cache - I'm not sure if it should.
It's passed with the '--format' option to youtube-dl.
If it isn't set, we don't pass '--format best' so that youtube-dl can
use the options from its configuration file.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
This sub-option was turned into a flag when the sub-option parser was
changed to the generic one (probably accidentally). Turn it into a
proper choice-option.
Also, adjust what the options do. Though none of this probably makes
much sense; the default should work, and if it doesn't, the GPU/driver
is probably beyond help.
Probably needs to be polished a bit more. Also, might require a key
binding that can set/clear the loop points in a more intuitive way.
For now, something like this can be put into input.conf to use it:
ctrl+y set ab-loop-a ${time-pos} # set A
ctrl+x set ab-loop-b ${time-pos} # set B
ctrl+c set ab-loop-a no # clear (mostly)
Fixes#1241.
Due to the current code structure, the "current" entry and the entry
which is playing can be different. This is probably silly, but still
try to mark the entries correctly.
Refs #1260.
This actually doesn't even write/return the new sub-property, because
I dislike the idea of dumping that field for every single playlist
entry, even though it's "needed" only for one.
Fixes#1260.
Make the changes started in commit c827ae5f more eloborate, and provide
an option to control the amount of data read before the seek-target. To
achieve this, rewrite the loop that finds the lowest still acceptable
target cluster. It is now searched by time instead of file position. The
behavior (both with and without preroll option) may be different from
before this change, although it shouldn't be worse.
The change demux_mkv_read_cues() fixes a bug: when seeking after playing
normally, the code would erroneously assume that durations are set. This
doesn't happen if the first operation after loading was a seek instead
of playback.
This might be interesting for GUIs and such.
It's probably still a little bit insufficient. For example, the filter
and audio/video output lists are not available through this.
Following the discussion in #1253.
The events won't be removed for a while, though. (Or maybe never, unless
we run out of bits for the uint64_t event mask.)
This is not a real change (the events still work, and the alternative
mechanisms were established a few API revisions earlier), but for the
sake of notifying API users, update DOCS/client-api-changes.rst.
The main need I see for this is with libmpv - it would be confusing if
some application showed up as "mpv" on whateverthehell PulseAudio uses
it for (generally it does show up on various PA GUI tools).
Call VOCTRL_GET_DISPLAY_NAMES it when the property is
requested. The vo should return the names of the displays that the mpv
window is covering. For example, with x11 vos, xrandr names LVDS1,
HDMI1, etc.
Note that you can't pass .cue or .edl files to it, at least not yet.
Requested in context of allowing to specify custom chapters. For that
to work well, we probably need to add some sort of chapter metadata
pseudo-demuxer.
Using the --playlist option is no longer recommended.
A while ago, mpv rewrote all playlist parsers and added some minimal
security mechanisms (like not allowing local file access or unsafe
protocols in remote playlists). Further, mpv can load playlists by
passing them as normal file arguments, without the option.
Now, --playlist is needed only in these situations:
1) loading plaintext files
2) disabling additional security mechanisms
(e.g. using a remote playlist to play local files)
This is probably what libmpv users want; and it also improves error
reporting (or we'd have to add a way to communicate such mid-playback
failures as events).
Using magic integer values was an attempt to keep the API less verbose.
But it was probably not a good idea.
Reason 1 (restart) is not made explicit, because it is not used anymore
starting with the previous commit. For ABI compatibility, the value is
left as a hole in the enum.
At least on my machine, reading back the frame with system memcpy is
slower than just using software rendering. Use the optimized gpu_memcpy
from LAV to speed things up.
No development activity (or even any sign of life) for almost a year.
A replacement based on youtube-dl will probably be provided before the
next mpv release. Ask on the IRC channel if you want to test.
Simplify the Lua check too: libquvi linking against a different Lua
version than mpv was a frequent issue, but with libquvi gone, no
direct dependency uses Lua, and such a clash is rather unlikely.
So a client API user can know when a window is created or destroyed.
Also might be useful for the OSC: it could disable itself if video is
disabled.
Before this commit, there were only indirect ways of detecting this.
Some rationale for the documented/suggested behavior:
It's not really clear what to do with invalid UTF-8, since JSON simply
can't transport this information. Maybe you could transfer such strings
as byte arrays, but that would be very verbose and inconvenient, and
would pose the problem that it's hard to distinguish between strings
encoded in this way and actual arrays.
There are many other ways how this could be handled. For example, you
could replace invalid sequences with '?'. Or you could do it like
Python, and use certain reserved unicode codepoints to "tunnel" through
invalid bytes.
Which of these works really depends on the application. And since this
can be done entirely on the byte level (invalid UTF-8 sequences can
appear only in strings in our case), it's best to leave this to the
receiver.
Assume mpv.exe is located in $mpv_exe_dir, then config files were
preferably loaded from "$mpv_exe_dir/mpv". This was mostly traditional,
and inherited from MPlayer times.
Reverse the config path priority order, and prefer $CSIDL_APPDATA/mpv as
main config path. This also fixes behavior when writing watch_later
configs, and mpv is installed in a not-writable path.
It's possible that this will cause regressions for some users, if the
change in preference suddenly prefers stale config files (which may
happen to longer around in the appdata config dir) over the user's
proper config.
Also explicitly document the behavior.
The behavior of reverse cycling (with the "!reverse" magic value) was a
bit weird and acted with a "delay". This was because the command set the
value the _next_ command should use. Change this and make each command
invocation select and use the next command directly. This requires an
"uninitialized" special index in the counter, but that is no problem at
all.
Allows properly changing/updating the cursor state. Useful for client
API window embedding, because the host application may not want the mpv
window to grab mouse input, and this has to manually handle the cursor.
Changing the cursor of foreign windows is usually not sane.
It might make sense to allow changing the cursor icon, but that would be
much more complicated, so I won't add it unless someone actually
requests it.
Apparently using the stream index is the best way to refer to the same
streams across multiple FFmpeg-using programs, even if the stream index
itself is rarely meaningful in any way.
For Matroska, there are some possible problems, depending how FFmpeg
actually adds streams. Normally they seem to match though.
Windows doesn't have unix domain sockets, and can't handle sockets and
pipes in an uniform way. Only the libwaio fallback code is available,
which doesn't do JSON.
This is not realy obvious, so I assume this is a helpful hint.
Although the usefulness of such an approach is probably influenced by
the fact that the player might send events that arrive in the short
window while the socket is connected.
The JSON parser was introduced for the IPC protocol, but I guess it's
useful here too.
The motivation for this commit is the same as with 8e4fa5fc (again).
Because 1) Lua is terrible, and 2) popen() is terrible. Unfortunately,
since Unix is also terrible, this turned out more complicated than I
hoped. As a consequence and to avoid that this code has to be maintained
forever, add a disclaimer that any function in Lua's utils module can
disappear any time. The complexity seems a bit ridiculous, especially
for a feature so far removed from actual video playback, so if it turns
out that we don't really need this function, it will be dropped again.
The motivation for this commit is the same as with 8e4fa5fc.
Note that there is an "#ifndef __GLIBC__". The GNU people are very
special people and thought it'd be convenient to actually declare
"environ", even though the POSIX people, which are also very special
people, state that no header declares this and that the user has to
declare this manually. Since the GNU people overtook the Unix world with
their very clever "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy, but not 100%,
and trying to build without _GNU_SOURCE is hopeless; but since there
might be Unix environments which support _GNU_SOURCE features partially,
this means that in practice "environ" will be randomly declared or not
declared by system headers. Also, gcc was written by very clever people
too, and prints a warning if an external variable is declared twice (I
didn't check, but I suppose redeclaring is legal C, and not even the gcc
people are clever enough to only warn against a definitely not legal C
construct, although sometimes they do this), ...and since we at mpv hate
compiler warnings, we seek to silence them all. Adding a configure test
just for a warning seems too radical, so we special-case this against
__GLIBC__, which is hopefully not defined on other libcs, especially not
libcs which don't implement all aspects of _GNU_SOURCE, and redefine
"environ" on systems even if the headers define it already (because they
support _GNU_SOURCE - as I mentioned before, the clever GNU people wrote
software THAT portable that other libcs just gave up and implemented
parts of _GNU_SOURCE, although probably not all), which means that
compiling mpv will print a warning about "environ" being redefined, but
at least this won't happen on my system, so all is fine. However, should
someone complain about this warning, I will force whoever complained
about this warning to read this ENTIRE commit message, and if possible,
will also force them to eat a printed-out copy of the GNU Manifesto, and
if that is not enough, maybe this person could even be forced to
convince the very clever POSIX people of not doing crap like this:
having the user to manually declare somewhat central symbols - but I
doubt it's possible, because the POSIX people are too far gone and only
care about maintaining compatibility with old versions of AIX and HP-UX.
Oh, also, this code contains some subtle and obvious issues, but writing
about this is not fun.
It's kind of obvious, since the protocol by design has to allow you to
read (loadfile) and write (screenshot_to) random files, but better
make it explicit so that nobody accidentally does something insecure.
Now requires newest libass git. Since this feature wasn't part of a
libass release yet, I'm not bothering making the mpv code compatible
with as how it was previously implemented (it will just be disabled
with any older libass).
CC: @mpv-player/stable (because mpv-build uses libass git, and this
breaks the feature)
Apparently there's an use for this; see #1178.
I won't redocument obscure FFmpeg features, so add a hint to the
manpage that some protocols are documented in FFmpeg instead.
This provides some helper functions and classes for C++/Qt. As the top
of qthelper.hpp says, this is built on top of the client API, and is a
mere helper provided for convenience.
Maybe this should be a separate library, but on the other hand I don't
see much of a point in that. It's also header-only, but C++ people like
such things. This makes it easier for us, because we don't need to care
about ABI compatibility.
The client API doesn't change, but bump it so that those who are using
this header can declare a proper dependency.
This allows mpv's view to take key and send events to mpv's core.
To set key status correctly, clients must call -[NSWindow selectNextKeyView:]
during reconfig on the main thread. All is 'documented' in the cocoabasic
example.
If someone knows a better way to handle giving key to the embedded view,
let me know!
Allows passing native types as arguments.
Also some minor doc improvements, including giving some (natural)
improvements to mpv_free_node_contents().
Note: mpv_command_node_async() is completely untested.
This reverts commit 45c8b97efb.
Some else complained (github issue #1163).
The feature requested in #1148 will be implemented differently in
the following commit.
The event monitor is used to get keyboard events when there is no window, but
since it is a global monitor to the current process, we don't want it in a
library setting.
After @frau's split of macosx_events from macosx_application, `is_cplayer' is
not needed anymore. At the moment only global events such as Media Keys and
Apple Remote work, because the VO-level ones were hardcoded to be disabled.
(that will be fix in a later commit ).
Maybe using strings for log levels was a mistake (too broad and too
impractical), so I'm adding numeric log level at least for the receiver
side. This makes it easier to map mpv log levels to other logging
systems.
I'm still too stingy to add a function to set the log level by a numeric
value, though.
The numeric values are not directly mapped to the internal mpv values,
because then almost every file in mpv would have to include the client
API header.
Coalesce this into API version 1.6, since 1.6 was bumped just yesterday.
For the purpose of demonstration.
Also make the windows larger. I'm not exactly sure how Qt determines
the default window sizes, but here they are a bit tiny, so force them
larger.
The API could return partial lines, meaning the message could stop
in the middle of a line, and the next message would have the rest of
it (or just the next part of it). This was a pain for the user, so do
the nasty task of buffering the lines ourselves.
Now only complete lines are sent. To make things even easier for the
API user, don't put multiple lines into a single event, but split them.
The terminal output code needed something similar (inserting a prefix
header on start of each line). To avoid code duplication, this commit
refactors the terminal output so that lines are split in a single
place.
Whether you consider the semantics weird or not depends on your use
case, but I suppose it's a bit confusing anyway. At this point, we keep
MPV_EVENT_PAUSE/UNPAUSE for compatibility only.
Make the "core-idle" property somewhat more useful in this context.
Now any action that stops playback of a file (even playlist navigation)
will save the position. Normal EOF is of course excluded from this, as
well as commands that just reload the current file.
The option name is now slightly off, although you could argue what the
word "quit" means.
Fixes#1148 (or at least this is how I understood it).
This is the first of a series of commits that will change the Cocoa way in a
way that is easily embeddable inside parent views. To reach that point common
code must avoid referencing the parent NSWindow since that could be the host
application's window.
This is just temporary code but is a good base for future work (and baby
steps are required for these changes). The 'final destination' is embedding
the video view into any NSView but that requires some more work (the mechanism
will be the same: pass the view's pointer casted to int64_t through -wid).
For instance we will need to remove as much usage of the window instance
as possible, and use nil guards where not possible. For this reason I will
remove stuff like the mission control fullscreen feature (it's a cute feature
but annoying to support and quite limited, go make your GUIs), and a way to
lookup the current screen directly from the NSView absolute coordinates
(this is needed for ICC detection mostly, and reporting back the screen to
mpv's core).
Moreover the current view.m will need to be separated into 2 views: the actual
video view that will be embedded, and a parent view that will not be embedded
and will be responsibile for tracking events.
--x11-netwm=yes now forces NetWM fullscreen, while --x11-netwm=auto
(detect whether NetWM fullsctreen support is available) is the old
behavior and still the default.
See #888.
For the sake of libmpv. Might make things much easier for the user,
especially on Windows. On the other hand, it's a bit sketchy that a
command exists that makes the player access arbitrary memory regions.
(But do note that input commands are not meant to be "secure" and never
were - for example, there's the "run" command, which obviously allows
running random shell commands.)
Use percent-pos instead, which is exactly the same, except with the
range 0.0-100.0.
I'm not sure how this got there; it was probably introduced and then
removed again as percent-pos got more precise.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Apparently this is what users want. When playing with normal speed,
nothing is done. When playing slower than normal, resampling is used
instead, because scaletempo (which does the pitch correction) adds
too many artifacts.
wm4
ChrisK2
Stefano Pigozzi
Timothy Gu
Alessandro Ghedini
James Ross-Gowan
Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz
ahoka
Kevin Mitchell
Martin Herkt
Ben Boeckel
shdown
Stephen Caraher