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.
This was shown only if decoder-framedropping was enabled, and only if at
least 50 frames were dropped by it. Since drop_frame_cnt used to mean
"number of late frames", this code made sense, but this is not the case
anymore: drop_frame_cnt can be even 0, all while video gets hopelessly
behind audio.
One problem with this is that short desync spikes (which usually can
probably dealt with) will also cause this message to be shown. If it
gets triggered too often, the code will need to be adjusted.
For example, if --force-window is used, and video is switched off during
playback, then you need to redecide the rendering method to get subs
displayed correctly.
Do this by moving the state setup code into a function, and call it on
every frame.
If you played e.g. an audio-only file and something bad happened that
interrupted playback, the exit message could say "No files played".
This was awkward, so show a different message in this case.
Also overhaul how the exit status is reported in order to make this
easier. This includes things such as not reporting a playback error
when loading playlists (playlists contain no video or audio, which
was considered an error).
Not sure if I'm happy with this, but for now it seems like a slight
improvement.
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).
This was probably done incorrectly in cases when the currently selected
channel had no data. I'm not sure if this codepath is functional at all,
though. Maybe not.
Untested due to lack of DVB hardware.
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.
Use the codepath that is normally used for DVD/BD title switching and
DVB channel switching. Removes some extra artifacts from the client API:
now MPV_EVENT_END_FILE will never be called on reloads (and neither is
MPV_EVENT_START_FILE).
Without --force-window, this is called on every iteration or so, and
calling uninit_video_out() sends the video-reconfig event. Avoid sending
redundant events.
Fixes#1225 (using an alternative patch).
Pretty much a fringe-feature, but also it's awkward if something appears
on the terminal with no indication for the source.
This is made quite awkward by the fact that stderr and stdout could be
closed at different times, and that poll() doesn't accept "holes" in its
FD list. Invalid (.e.g negative) FDs just make it return immediately, as
required by the standard. So sparse_poll() takes care of the messy
details.
What was the purpose of that? Probably none.
Also simplify another thing: if we get the cancel signal through FD,
there's no reason to check it separately.
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.
Most things should be allowed to access the client API unconditionally
(for example for sending events), so move destroying the client API
down. Also, mp_uninit_ipc() should happen before the point at which all
clients are shutdown, or there will be a small time window in which new
clients can be created after destroying them all.
Wether and when the text of a button should be squeezed when it
gets too long can now be configured in the layout:
lo.button.maxchars = <number>
nil = no squeezing (default)
If the button text has more than <maxchars> characters, it will
be squeezed to the estimated width of <maxchars>.
The player was supposed to exit playback if both video and audio failed
to initialize (or if one of the streams was not selected when the other
stream failed). This didn't work; for one this check was missing from
one of the failure paths. And more importantly, both checked the
current_track array incorrectly.
Fix these issues, and move the failure handling code into a common
function.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Because Lua is so terrible, it's easy to confuse temporary values pushed
to the Lua stack with arguments if the arguments are checked after that.
Add a hack that should fix this.
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.
Due to the way video-rotate currently works, the state will be
automatically updated once new video is decoded. So the filter chain
doesn't need to be reinitialized automatically, but there is a need to
trigger the video instant refresh code path instead.
Also move the support function closer to an annoying similar yet
different function. They probably can be unified next time major changes
are done to this code.
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.
Getting subtitle scaling and positioning right even if there are video
filters, which completely change the image (like cropping), doesn't seem
to have a single, correct solution. To some degree, the results are
arbitrary, so we may as well do what is most useful to the user.
In this case, if the PGS resolution aspect ratio and the video output
aspect ratio mismatch, letter-box it, instead of stretching the subs
over the video frame. (This will require additional fixes, should it
turn out that there are PGS subtitles which are stretched by design.)
Fixes#1205.
It turns out the glibc people are very clever and return an error if the
thread name exceeds the maximum supported kernel length, instead of
truncating the name. So everyone has to hardcode the currently allowed
Linux kernel name length limit, even if it gets extended later.
Also the Lua script filenames could get too long; use the client name
instead.
Another strange thing is that on Linux, unrelated threads "inherit" the
name by the thread they were created. This leads to random thread names,
because there's not necessarily a strong relation between these threads
(e.g. script command leads to filter recreation -> the filter's threads
are tagged with the script's thread name). Unfortunate.
Especially with other components (libavcodec, OSX stuff), the thread
list can get quite populated. Setting the thread name helps when
debugging.
Since this is not portable, we check the OS variants in waf configure.
old-configure just gets a special-case for glibc, since doing a full
check here would probably be a waste of effort.
Thanks to the recently introduced mp_lua_PITA(), this is "simple" now.
It fixes leaks on Lua errors. The hack to avoid stack overflows
manually isn't needed anymore, and the Lua error handler will take
care of this.
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.
Using the Lua API is a big PITA because it uses longjmp() error
handling. That is, a Lua API function could any time raise an error and
longjmp() to a lower part of the stack. This kind of "exception
handling" is completely foreign to C, and there are no proper ways to
clean up the "skipped" stack frames.
Other than avoiding such situations entirely, the only way to deal with
this is using Lua "userdata", which is basically a malloc'ed data block
managed by the Lua GC, and which can have a destructor function
associated (__gc metamethod).
This requires an awful lot of code (because the Lua API is just so
terrible), so I avoided this utnil now. But it looks like this will make
some of the following commits much easier, so here we go.
mp_stat() instead of stat() was used in the normal code (i.e. even
on Unix), because MinGW-w64 has an unbelievable macro-mess in place,
which prevents solving this elegantly.
Add some dirty workarounds to hide mp_stat() from the normal code
properly. This now requires replacing all functions that use the
struct stat type. This includes fstat, lstat, fstatat, and possibly
others. (mpv currently uses stat and fstat only.)
It possibly goes to sleep without actually starting to decode audio.
Possibly fixes a problem with --no-osc --no-video reported on IRC.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
This was probably commented as an oversight. Since the subtitle renderer
was uninitialized on reinitialization anyway, this had no negative
consequences, except a memory on exit.
A vague idea to get something similar what libquvi did.
Undocumented because it might change a lot, or even be removed. To give
an idea what it does, a Lua script could do the following:
-- type ID priority
mp.commandv("hook_add", "on_load", 0, 0)
mp.register_script_message("hook_run", function(param, param2)
-- param is "0", the user-chosen ID from the hook_add command
-- param2 is the magic value that has to be passed to finish
-- the hook
mp.resume_all()
-- do something, maybe set options that are reset on end:
mp.set_property("file-local-options/name", "value")
-- or change the URL that's being opened:
local url = mp.get_property("stream-open-filename")
mp.set_property("stream-open-filename", url .. ".png")
-- let the player (or the next script) continue
mp.commandv("hook_ack", param2)
end)
OSD cycling attempted to remove the current message by setting an empty
message with duration 0. Duration 0 tripped up a corner case causing no
OSD to be displayed (until the next message was set), so exclude this
explicitly.
This could produce an extra frame, because reaching the maximum merely
signals the playloop to exit, without strictly enforcing the limit.
Fixes#1181.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Showed "Volume: (unavailable)%". That was dumb.
The message string is now a bit convoluted; mostly because the property
expand syntax can't do "if-else", just "if".
CC: @mpv-player/stable
This does nothing good. This reverts a change made over a year ago - I
don't remember why this was originally done this way.
The main problem is that even if the volume option is set (something
like "--volume=75"), the volume property will always return "100" until
audio is initialized. If audio is uninitialized again, the volume
property will remain frozen at its last value.
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.
Manually setting can break things forever, because it puts the VO cursor
state out of sync with the remembered state by handle_cursor_autohide().
Use the normal autohide code during idle mode too instead. (Originally
the idea was to make the cursor always visible in idle mode, but not so
important.)
Regression since e1e8b07c. Fixes#1166.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
Seems logical. For some reason, the player allows deselecting both audio
and video stream without quitting (a deliberate feature of which I have
no idea why it was added years ago), so this is needed.
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 ).
