Matroska files can contain multiple segments, which are literally
further Matroska files appended to the main file. They can be referenced
by segment linking.
While this is an extraordinarily useless and dumb feature, we support it
for the hell of it.
This is implemented by adding a further demuxer parameter for skipping
segments. When scanning for linked segments, each file is opened
multiple times, until there are no further segments found. Each segment
will have a separate demuxer instance (with a separate file handle
etc.).
It appears the Matroska spec. has an even worse feature for segments:
live streaming can completely reconfigure the stream by starting a new
segment. We won't add support for it, because there are 0 people on this
earth who think Matroska life streaming is a good idea. (As opposed to
serving Matroska/WebM files via HTTP.)
With Matroska ordered chapters, the main file (i.e. the file you're
playing) can be empty, while all video/audio data is in linked files.
Some files don't even contain the track list, only chapter information.
mpv refused to play these, because normally, the main file dictates the
track layout.
Fix this by using the first segment for track data if no part of the
timeline is sourced from the main file.
I am aware this detection may occur too late, depending on other
settings, but at least it usually works and is portable.
Where the output fd can be changed, though, it'd be better to force a
similar behaviour via file descriptor use: use pipe:3 as output to FD 3,
and change the calling program to expect the stream on FD 3.
This option can be used to selectively reset settings when playing the
next file in the playlist (i.e. restore mplayer and mplayer2 behavior).
Might remove this option again should it turn out that nobody uses it.
Consider:
mpv --volume 10 file1.mkv file2.mkv
Before this commit, the volume was reset to 10 when playing file2.mkv.
This was inconsistent to most other options. E.g. --brightness is a
rather similar case.
In general, settings should never be reset when playing the next file,
unless the option was explicitly marked file-local. This commit
corrects the behavior of the --volume and --mute options.
File local --volume still works as expected:
mpv --{ --volume 10 file1.mkv file2.mkv --}
This sets the volume always to 10 on playback start.
Move the m_config_leave_file_local() call down so that the mixer code
in uninit_player() can set the option volume and mute variables without
overwriting the global option values.
Another subtle issue is that we don't want to set volume if there's no
need to, which is why the user_set_volume/mute fields are introduced.
This is important because setting the volume might change the system
volume depending on other options.
Commit bc20f2c moved the variable default_max_pts_correction (which
backs the --mc option) to the MPOpts struct. The initializer was
forgotten when doing this, so it was left at 0. This disabled part of
the A/V sync mechanism. This was apparent when using ad_spdif (this
decoder has other A/V sync related problems, and thus triggers this
issue easily).
Closes#59.
Makes sure that seeking to a given time position shows the subtitle at
that position. This can fail if the subtitle packet is not close enough
to the seek target. Always enabled for hr-seeks, and can be manually
enabled for normal seeks with --mkv-subtitle-preroll.
This helps displaying subtitles correctly with ordered chapters. When
switching ordered chapter segments, a seek is performed. If the subtitle
is timed slightly before the start of the segment, it normally won't be
demuxed. This is a problem with all seeks, but in this case normal
playback is affected. Since switching segments always uses hr-seeks,
the code added by this commit is always active in this situation.
If no subtitles are selected or the subtitles come from an external
file, the demuxer should behave exactly as before this commit.
In the last cleanup round, this was accidentally changed from a store
option to int, and the option value was passed as flag value.
(Not that anyone needs/uses/cares about this option...)
The main problem with video PTS was that it wasn't very useful when
playing audio files with cover art. Using the audio time instead was an
obvious solution. Unfortunately, this leads to "inexact" reporting of
the playback time in paused mode, and audio is always ahead by small,
essentially random amounts of time ahead. This is possibly because the
times reported by AOs are not entirely accurate when paused (see commit
9b3bf76).
Switch back to video PTS, and use a simpler way to deal with the cover
art case: if the video has ended, use the audio PTS.
Also see commit f9a259e (and the commits referenced from there).
Trying to step over a segment boundary didn't work, and the video was
stuck at the end of the current chapter. At this point, both video and
audio of the segment has ended, and the segment switching code is going
to call seek() to go to the next segment (the part of the code in
run_playloop that uses end_is_chapter). However, this seek() is not
called if playback is paused, and the framestepping code always paused
before this code is run.
Move the framestepping code below the chapter switching code. The added
restart_playback condition makes sure the code is called only after at
least one video frame has been shown. Also don't reset the framestep
counter after seek. It's not needed, and removing it prevents full
unpausing when stepping over a segment boundary.
This also terminates playback when frame stepping at the end of the
file. The --keep-open option can be used to get the old behavior.
The OSX part of the Apple Remote was unmaintained for a long time and was not
working anymore. I tried to update the cookies to what the current versions of
OS X expect without much luck. I decided to remove it since Apple is not
including the IR receiver anymore in new hardware and it's clear that wifi
based remotes are the way to go.
A third party iOS app should be used in it's place. In the future we could look
into having a dedicated iOS Remote Control app like VLC and XBMC do.
The Linux side (`appleir.c`) was relatively tidy but it looks like LIRC can be
configured to work with any version of Apple Remote [1] and is more maintained.
[1] LIRC Apple Remote configs: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/apple/
Drawing the bar with vector drawings (instead with characters from the
OSD font) offers more flexibility and looks better. This also adds
chapter marks to the OSD bar, which are visible as small triangles on
the top and bottom inner border of the bar.
Change the default position of the OSD bar below the center of the
screen. This is less annoying than putting the bar directly into the
center of the view, where it obscures the video. The new position is
not quite on the bottom of the screen to avoid collisions with
subtitles.
The old centered position can be forced with ``--osd-bar-align-y=0``.
Also make it possible to change the OSD bar width/height with the new
--osd-bar-w and --osd-bar-h options.
It's possible that the new OSD bar renders much slower than the old
one. There are two reasons for this: 1. the character based bar
allowed libass to cache each character, while the vector drawing forces
it to redraw every time the bar position changes. 2., the bar position
is updated at a much higher granularity (the bar position is passed
along as float instead of as integer in the range 0-100, so the bar
will be updated on every single video frame).
gl_video.c contains all rendering code, gl_lcms.c the .icc loader and
creation of 3D LUT (and all LittleCMS specific code). vo_opengl.c is
reduced to interfacing between the various parts.
Makes the code a bit simpler to follow, at least in the "modern"
decoding path (update_video_nocorrect_pts() is used with old demuxers,
which don't return proper packets and need further parsing, so this code
looks less simple now).
There were complaints that ${fps} was printed as e.g. "23.98" instead of
"23.976". Since there's no way to format floats exactly _and_ in a user-
friendly way, just change the default precision for printing floats.
This way it's possible to retrieve correct information about video, like
actual width/height, which in general are available only after at least
one frame has been sent to the video output, such as dwidth/dheight.
mpv_identify.sh becomes a bit slower, because we let it decode enough
audio and video to fill the audio buffers and to send one frame to the
video output. Also, --playing-msg isn't shown anymore with --frames=0
(could be fixed by special-casing it, should this break any use cases).
Note that in some corner cases, like when the demuxer for some reason
returns lots of audio packets but no video packets at the start, but
video actually starts later, the --playing-msg will still be output
before video starts.
This has the same (useless) definition as frame stepping in audio-only
mode: one frame means one playloop iteration. (It's relatively useless,
because one playloop iteration has a random duration. But it makes
--frames=1 work, which is useful again.)
Add new properties "dwidth" and "dheight", which contain the video
size as known by the VO (not necessarily what the VO makes out of them,
i.e. without window scaling and panscan).
Some time ago, all old special-cased commands (like "volume 1" to change
volume by one) have been removed. These commands are still emulated
using simple text replacement. This emulation is done to not break
everyone's input.conf, especially because the input.conf provided by
standard mplayer* still uses the old commands.
Every use of a deprecated command prints a replacement warning, which
was visible only with -v. Make these warnings visible by default.
There's actually not much reason to do this, but since commands like
"volume 5 1" don't work anymore, it's better to be verbose about this.
Also simplify the replacement for "vo_fullscreen".
Normal text was set to gray foreground color. This didn't work for
terminals with white background.
Instead of setting a color for normal text, reset the color attributes.
This way, only errors and warnings are formatted differently.
Also change the default color for MSGL_HINT from bold white to yellow.
A recent change accidentally set the flags options to -1 (probably
confusing it with the defasult value?), which mistakenly set all flags
and rejected all option values (except 0).
We consider FFmpeg 1.x and Libav 0.9.x releases compatible. Support
for FFmpeg 0.9.x and Libav 0.8.x is considered infeasible and has been
dropped in the previous commits. The bits that break compatibility are
mainly the CodecID renaming (trivial, but would require nasty hacks
everywhere), the avcodec_encode_video2() function (missing in older
releases, mandatory in newer ones), and the resampler changes (older
releases miss lib{av,sw}resample, newer versions removed the
libavcodec resampler).
Remove some other compatibility bits that were needed to for releases
for which we drop support.
The comment about Libav 0.9 in compat/libav.h is incorrect and should
have been 0.8 (the symbol is present in Libav 0.9).
The old names have been deprecated a while ago, but were needed for
supporting older ffmpeg/libav versions. The deprecated identifiers
have been removed from recent Libav and FFmpeg git.
This change breaks compatibility with Libav 0.8.x and equivalent
FFmpeg releases.
Move them into per-instance structs. This should get rid of all global
variables in mplayer.c (not counting those referenced by cfg-mplayer.h).
In core/input/ar.c, just remove checking the slave_mode variable. I'm
not sure what this code was supposed to achieve, but slave mode is
broken, slave mode is actually infeasible on OSX (ar.c is completely OSX
specific), and the correct way of doing this would be to disable this
input device per command line switch.
Missing entries cause avcodec_descriptor_get() to return NULL, and in
turn mp_codec_from_av_codec_id() will return NULL. This shouldn't
happen, and avcodec_descriptor_get() returning NULL for a valid codec is
clearly a bug.
But make it more robust anyway, and use the decoder's name if this
happens, because I doubt maintainance of the AVCodecDescriptor table
in ffmpeg/Libav will always be perfect and reliable.
Latest nvidia drivers ignore the application setting, so this switch
makes even less sense than before. It's still possible to control this
with VO specific suboptions.
Separate the video output options from the big MPOpts structure and also only
pass the new mp_vo_opts structure to the vo backend.
Move video_driver_list into mp_vo_opts
The spdif decoder was hardcoded to assume that the spdif output is
capable of accepting high (>1.5Mbps) bitrates. While this is true
for modern HDMI spdif interfaces, the original coax/toslink system
cannot deal with this and will fail to work.
This patch adds an option --dtshd which can be enabled if you use
a DTS-capable receiver behind a HDMI link.
