This changes the name of this project to mpv. Most user-visible mentions
of "MPlayer" and "mplayer" are changed to "mpv". The binary name and the
default config file location are changed as well.
The new default config file location is: ~/.mpv/
Remove etc/mplayer.desktop. Apparently this was for the MPlayer GUI,
which has been removed from mplayer2 ages ago.
We don't have a logo, and the MS Windows resource files sort-of require
one, so leave etc/mplayer.ico/.xpm as-is.
Remove the debian and rpm packaging scripts. These contained outdated
dependencies and likely were more harmful than useful. (Patches which
add working and well-tested packaging are welcome.)
GL_RGB16 doesn't seem to work universally (e.g. Intel). Use GL_RGB by
default, and use GL_RGB16 for "opengl-hq" only.
This may require users of Intel GPUs to manually experiment with the
fbo-format suboption when using "opengl-hq", as GL_RGB16 doesn't seem to
work there in some cases (black screen).
It's not really known whether PBO use causes problems of any kind (most
likely not). They should slightly increase performance. Use them by
default with "opengl-hq".
Even though PBOs don't have anything to do with rendering quality,
"opengl-hq" provides a test bed for features that should be enabled by
default, but aren't out of fear for regressions.
Change the default settings for vo_opengl to highest performance and
compatibility, but lowest quality. Use bilinear as default scaler.
Add "opengl-hq" as alias for high quality settings. This alias uses
exactly the same settings as vo_opengl did before this commit.
This renames vo_gl3 to vo_opengl, and makes it the default. The old
vo_gl is still available under "opengl-old".
We keep "gl3" as alias to "opengl" for short-term compatibility.
For OSX/Cocoa, the autoprobe order changes (prefer the "opengl" over
"opengl-old").
Remove "gl_nosw". This was a compatibility alias for "opengl-old", and
there's no point in keeping it.
Now vo_gl3 should work with standard OpenGL 2.1, as long as the
GL_ARB_texture_rg extension is available. Optional features, which
require features that are always in OpenGL 3.0, but are available
as extensions only in OpenGL 2.1, are automatically disabled.
The force-gl2 suboption, which was an unreliable hack to run vo_gl3
in an OpenGL 2.1 context, is removed.
Significant changes are done to the extension loader to make it easier
to identify optional OpenGL features.
Context creation is a bit changed to simplify the code and to handle
the fallback better if OpenGL 3 context creation fails, and creating
an OpenGL legacy context is attempted.
Based on the initial work by Rudolf Polzer <divverent@xonotic.org>,
which included making the shader GLSL 1.20 compatible, and more.
While being able to play videos on a framebuffer device would be nice,
I didn't need it, and couldn't even test it (buggy nvidia binary
drivers that disable framebuffers, buggy DirectFB that crashes when
using the X11 backend). It's just dead weight, get rid of it.
vo_directx was very horrible, and by today it's mostly useless. I didn't
remove it, because there was that-guy who told me in amazement how
awesome mplayer was, because it was the only video player fast enough
for fast playback on his system when using vo_directx. Sorry, that-guy.
Since slave mode is not planned to be kept, this VO is useless and I'm
removing it.
This VO was useful for OSX GUIs. Since in cocoa you can't embed views in
windows from other processes, this VO was writing to a sharedbuffer with
mmap. The OSX GUIs would then read from the buffer and render the image
with an external renderer.
If in the future we will want to support GUIs we will need to reasearch the
IOSurface framework. This allows to share kernel managed image data
across processes and integrates well with OpenGL.
The documentation is mostly taken from the help text embedded in the
code of each output driver.
vo_v4l2 and ao_v4l2 have been removed.
Minor modifications to vo_xv, vo_directx and vo_gl.
This was disabled by default, and could be enabled with -dr. It was
disabled by default because it was buggy: there were issues with OSD
corruption.
It wasn't entirely sane for OpenGL based VOs either. OpenGL can chose
to drop mapped pixel buffer objects, requiring the application to map
and fill the buffer again. But there was no mechanism in mplayer to
fill the lost buffer again. (It seems this rarely happened in practice,
though.)
On the other side, users liked the --dr flag, because it promised them
more speed. I'm not sure if it actually helped with speed, but it's
unlikely it had any real advantages on modern systems.
In order to evade the --dr cargo culting in mplayer config files, it's
best to get rid of it.
About a year ago, ubitux converted most of the old manpage from the
hard to maintain nroff format to reStructuredText. This was not merged
back into the master repository immediately. The argument was that the
new manpage still required work to be done. However, progress was very
slow. Even worse: the old manpage wasn't updated, because it was
scheduled for deletion, and updating it would have meant useless work.
Now the situation is that the new manpage still isn't finished, and the
old manpage is grossly out of sync with the player. This is not helpful
for users. Additionally, keeping the new manpage in a separate branch,
while the normal development repository for code had the old manpage,
was very inconvenient, because you couldn't just update the
documentation in the same commit as the code.
Even though the new manpage isn't finished yet, merging it now seems to
be the best course of action. Squash-merge the manpage development
branch [1], revision e89f5dd3f2, which branches from the mplayer2
master branch after revision 159102e0cb.
Committers:
* Clément Bœsch <ubitux@gmail.com> (Initial conversion to RST.)
* Uoti Urpala <uau@mplayer2.org> (Many updates.)
* Myself (Minor edits.)
Most text of the manpage has been directly taken from the old manpage,
because this is a conversion, not a complete rewrite.
[1] http://git.mplayer2.org/uau/mplayer2.git/log/?h=man
