Some options change from percentages to number of kilobytes; there are
no cache options using percentages anymore.
Raise the default values. The cache is now 25000 kilobytes, although if
your connection is slow enough, the maximum is probably never reached.
(Although all the memory will still be used as seekback-cache.)
Remove the separate --audio-file-cache option, and use the cache default
settings for it.
Use the time as returned by mp_time_us() for mpthread_cond_timedwait(),
instead of calculating the struct timespec value based on a timeout.
This (probably) makes it easier to wait for a specific deadline.
This used global variables for the asynchronous interrupt callback.
Pick the simple and dumb solution and stuff the callback into
mpv_global. Do this because interrupt checking should also work in the
connect phase, and currently stream creation equates connecting.
Ideally, this would be passed to the stream on creation instead, or
connecting would be separated from creation. But since I don't know yet
which is better, and since moving stream/demuxer into their own thread
is something that will happen later, go with the mpv_global solution.
This was broken at some unknown point (even before the recent cache
changes). There are several problems:
- stream_dvd returning a random stream position, confusing the cache
layer (cached data and stream data lost their 1:1 corrospondence by
position)
- this also confused the mechanism added with commit a9671524, which
basically triggered random seeking (although this was not the only
problem)
- demux_lavf requesting seeks in the stream layer, which resulted in
seeks in the cache or the real stream
Fix this by completely removing byte-based seeking from stream_dvd. This
already works fine for stream_dvdnav and stream_bluray. Now all these
streams do time-based seeks, and pretend to be infinite streams of data,
and the rest of the player simply doesn't care about the stream byte
positions.
resize_cache() checks the size itself and clamps the size to the valid
range if necessary, so we don't need these checks. In fact, the checks
are different. Also, output the cache size after clamping, instead of
before.
Merge the cache_read function into cache_fill_buffer, since there's
not much reason to keep them separate. Also, simply call read_buffer()
to see if there's any readable data, instead of checking for the
condition manually.
The only tricky part is keeping the cache contents, which is made simple
by allocating the new cache while still keeping the old cache around,
and then copying the old data.
To explain the "Don't use this when playing DVD or Bluray." comment: the
cache also associates timestamps to blocks of bytes, but throws away the
timestamps on seek. Thus you will experience strange behavior after
resizing the cache until the old cached region is exhausted.
The only difference is that the MP_DBG message is not printed anymore if
the current user read position is outside of the current cache range.
(In order to handle seek_limit==0 gracefully in the normal case of
linear reading, change the comparison from ">=" to ">".)
Until now, this could never happen, because new data was simply always
appended to the end of the cache. But for making stream cache resizing
easier, doing it this way seems advantageous. It also makes it harder to
make the internal state inconsistent. (Before this change it could
happen that cache and stream position went out of sync if the read
position was adjusted "inappropriately".)
Until now, cache_read() (which calls read_buffer()) could return short
reads. This was a simplification allowed by the stream interface. But
for cache resizing, it will be more practical to make read_buffer() do
a full read.
Seems like a good idea. One possible bad effect would be slowing down
uncached controls, but they're already slow. The good thing is that
many controls make intrusive changes to the stream (at least controls
which do write accesses), so the cached parameters should be updated.
Stream-level chapters (like DVD etc.) did potentially not have
timestamps for each chapter, so STREAM_CTRL_SEEK_TO_CHAPTER and
STREAM_CTRL_GET_CURRENT_CHAPTER were needed to navigate chapters. We've
switched everything to use timestamps and that seems to work, so we can
simplify the code and remove this old mechanism.
Note that this still happens in the stream level, so we can't have
nice highlevel behavior restricting seeking. Instead, if a seek leads
to the demuxer requesting data outside of the cached range, the seek
will simply fail. This might confuse the demuxer, and the resulting
behavior is not necessarily useful.
Note that this also doesn't try to skip data on a forward seek. This
would just freeze the stream with slow unseekable streams.
One nice thing is that stream.h has a separate function for merely
skipping data (separate from seeking forward), which is pretty useful
in this case: we want skipping of data to work, even if we reject
seeking forward by skipping data as too expensive. This probably is
or will be useful for demux_mkv.c.
The tmsg stuff was for the internal gettext() based translation system,
which nobody ever attempted to use and thus was removed. mp_gtext() and
set_osd_tmsg() were also for this.
mp_dbg was once enabled in debug mode only, but since we have log level
for enabling debug messages, it seems utterly useless.
EOF is a special case. Normally, the reader will block until the cache
thread has new data. Obviously we don't want to do this on EOF, because
we'd potentially block forever. On the other hand, EOF will put the
cache thread into a waiting state, so if EOF recovers, this will happen
at a "later" point. This is bad if there is some kind of external event
that ends the EOF condition. In this case, a steram_read() call would
still return EOF. Make it so that the reader waits at least for one
iteration of the cache trying to rad a new block.
Also adjust some debug messages to not print file positions in hex.
This readds a more or less completely new dvdnav implementation, though
it's based on the code from before commit 41fbcee. Note that this is
rather basic, and might be broken or not quite usable in many cases.
Most importantly, navigation highlights are not correctly implemented.
This would require changes in the FFmpeg dvdsub decoder (to apply a
different internal CLUT), so supporting it is not really possible right
now. And in fact, I don't think I ever want to support it, because it's
a very small gain for a lot of work. Instead, mpv will display fake
highlights, which are an approximate bounding box around the real
highlights.
Some things like mouse input or switching audio/subtitles stream using
the dvdnav VM are not supported.
Might be quite fragile on transitions: if dvdnav initiates a transition,
and doesn't give us enough mpeg data to initialize video playback, the
player will just quit.
This is added only because some users seem to want it. I don't intend to
make mpv a good DVD player, so the very basic minimum will have to do.
How about you just convert your DVD to proper video files?
This is a regression caused by 854303a. This commit removed the include of
`sys/time.h` which was included in `cache.c` through a chain of recurvive
includes.
STREAM_CTRL_GET_METADATA will be used to poll for streamcast metadata.
Also add DEMUXER_CTRL_UPDATE_INFO, which could in theory be used by
demux_lavf.c. (Unfortunately, libavformat is too crappy to read metadata
mid-stream for mp3 or ogg, so we don't implement it.)
Querying this caused the cache to block and wait. Some parts of the
frontend (like progress bar) call this very often, so cache performance
was ruined in these cases.
Also print a message in -v mode when the cache is blocked for a
STREAM_CTRL. This should make debugging similar issues easier.
Or rather, keep hacking it until it somehow works. The problem here was
that trying to avoid calling STREAM_CTRL_GET_CURRENT_TIME too often
didn't really work, so the cache sometimes returned incorrect times.
Also try to avoid the situation that looking up the time with an
advanced read position doesn't really work, as well as when trying to
look it up when EOF or cache end has been reached. In that case we have
read_filepos == max_filepos, which is "outside" of the cache, but
querying the time is still valid.
Should also fix the issue that demuxing streams with demux_lavf and if
STREAM_CTRL_GET_CURRENT_TIME is not supported messed up the reported
playback position.
This stuff is still not sane, but the way the player tries to fix the
playback time and how the DVD/BD stream inputs return the current time
based on the current byte position isn't sane to begin with. So, let's
leave it at bad hacks.
The two changes that touch s->eof are unrelated and basically of
cosmetic nature (separate commit would be too noisy.)
DVD and bluray packet streams carry (essentially) random timestamps,
which don't start at 0, can wrap, etc. libdvdread and libbluray provide
a linear timestamp additionally. This timestamp can be retrieved with
STREAM_CTRL_GET_CURRENT_TIME.
The problem is that this timestamp is bound to the current raw file
position, and the stream cache can be ahead of playback by an arbitrary
amount. This is a big problem for the user, because the displayed
playback time and actual time don't match (depending on cache size),
and relative seeking is broken completely.
Attempt to fix this by saving the linear timestamp all N bytes (where
N = BYTE_META_CHUNK_SIZE = 16 KB). This is a rather crappy hack, but
also very effective.
A proper solution would probably try to offset the playback time with
the packet PTS, but that would require at least knowing how the PTS can
wrap (e.g. how many bits is the PTS comprised of, and what are the
maximum and reset values). Another solution would be putting the cache
between libdvdread and the filesystem/DVD device, but that can't be done
currently. (Also isn't that the operating system's responsibility?)
Basically rewrite all the code supporting the cache (i.e. anything other
than the ringbuffer logic). The underlying design is untouched.
Note that the old cache2.c (on which this code is based) already had a
threading implementation. This was mostly unused on Linux, and had some
problems, such as using shared volatile variables for communication and
uninterruptible timeouts, instead of using locks for synchronization.
This commit does use proper locking, while still retaining the way the
old cache worked. It's basically a big refactor.
Simplify the code too. Since we don't need to copy stream ctrl args
anymore (we're always guaranteed a shared address space now), lots of
annoying code just goes away. Likewise, we don't need to care about
sector sizes. The cache uses the high-level stream API to read from
other streams, and sector sizes are handled transparently.
Before this commit, the cache was franken-hacked on top of the stream
API. You had to use special functions (like cache_stream_fill_buffer()
instead of stream_fill_buffer()), which would access the stream in a
cached manner.
The whole idea about the previous design was that the cache runs in a
thread or in a forked process, while the cache awa functions made sure
the stream instance looked consistent to the user. If you used the
normal functions instead of the special ones while the cache was
running, you were out of luck.
Make it a bit more reasonable by turning the cache into a stream on its
own. This makes it behave exactly like a normal stream. The stream
callbacks call into the original (uncached) stream to do work. No
special cache functions or redirections are needed. The only different
thing about cache streams is that they are created by special functions,
instead of being part of the auto_open_streams[] array.
To make things simpler, remove the threading implementation, which was
messed into the code. The threading code could perhaps be kept, but I
don't really want to have to worry about this special case. A proper
threaded implementation will be added later.
Remove the cache enabling code from stream_radio.c. Since enabling the
cache involves replacing the old stream with a new one, the code as-is
can't be kept. It would be easily possible to enable the cache by
requesting a cache size (which is also much simpler). But nobody uses
stream_radio.c and I can't even test this thing, and the cache is
probably not really important for it either.
Some code in mplayer.c did stuff like accessing (dvd_priv_t *)st->priv.
Do this indirectly by introducing STREAM_CTRL_GET_DVD_INFO. This is
extremely specific to DVD, so it's not worth abstracting this further.
This is a preparation for turning the cache into an actual stream, which
simply wraps the cached stream. There are other streams which are
accessed in the way DVD was, at least TV/radio/DVB. We assume these
can't be used with the cache. The code doesn't look thread-safe or fork
aware.
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xylosper
Stefano Pigozzi
James Ross-Gowan