The old way of using wayland in mpv relied on an external renderloop for
semi-accurate timings. This had multiple issues though. Display sync
would break whenever the window was hidden (since the frame callback
stopped being executed) which was really annoying. Also the entire
external renderloop logic was kind of fragile and didn't play well with
mpv's internal structure (i.e. using presentation time in that old
paradigm breaks stats.lua).
Basically the problem is that swap buffers blocks on wayland which is
crap whenever you hide the mpv window since it looks up the entire
player. So you have to make swap buffers not block, but this has a
different problem. Timings will be terrible if you use the unblocked
swap buffers call.
Based on some discussion in #wayland, the trick here is relatively
simple and works well enough for our purposes. Instead we basically
build a way to block with a timeout in the wayland buffer swap
functions.
A bool is set in the frame callback function that indicates whether or
not mpv is waiting for a frame to be displayed. In the actual buffer
swap function, we enter into a while loop waiting for this flag to be
set. At the same time, the wl_display is polled to block the thread and
wakeup if it receives any events from the compositor. This loop only
breaks if enough time has passed or if the frame callback bool is
received.
In the near future, it is better to set whether or not frame a frame has
been displayed in the presentation feedback. However as a first pass,
doing it in the frame callback is more than good enough.
The "downside" is that we render frames that aren't actually shown on
screen when the player is hidden (it seems like wayland people don't
like that). But who cares. Accurate timings are way more important. It's
probably not too hard to add that behavior back in the player though.
This commit rips out the entire mpv vulkan implementation in favor of
exposing lightweight wrappers on top of libplacebo instead, which
provides much of the same except in a more up-to-date and polished form.
This (finally) unifies the code base between mpv and libplacebo, which
is something I've been hoping to do for a long time.
Note: The ra_pl wrappers are abstract enough from the actual libplacebo
device type that we can in theory re-use them for other devices like
d3d11 or even opengl in the future, so I moved them to a separate
directory for the time being. However, the rest of the code is still
vulkan-specific, so I've kept the "vulkan" naming and file paths, rather
than introducing a new `--gpu-api` type. (Which would have been ended up
with significantly more code duplicaiton)
Plus, the code and functionality is similar enough that for most users
this should just be a straight-up drop-in replacement.
Note: This commit excludes some changes; specifically, the updates to
context_win and hwdec_cuda are deferred to separate commits for
authorship reasons.
This was confusing at best. Change it to output the actual choices.
(Seems like in the end it's always me who has to clean up other people's
bullshit.)
Context names were not unique - but they should be, so fix it. The whole
point of the original --opengl-backend option was to side-step the
tricky auto-detection, so you know exactly what you get. The goal of
this commit is to make --gpu-context work the same way. Fix the
non-unique names by appending "vk" to the names.
Keep in mind that this was not suitable for slecting the "UI" backend
anyway, since "x11" would force GLX, whereas people on not-NVIDIA
actually want "x11egl". Users trying to use --gpu-context=x11 to force
the X11 backend would always end up with GLX, which would at least break
VAAPI hardware decoding for them. Basically the idea that this option
could select the "UI" type is completely broken - it selects an
implementation, which implies a UI. Selecting the UI type This would
require a separate mechanism. (Although in theory this separate
mechanism could be part of the --gpu-context option - in any case,
someone would have to implement it.)
To achieve help output that can actually be understood, just duplicate
the code. Most of that code is duplicated anyway, and trying to share
just the list code with the result of making the output unreadable
doesn't make too much sense. If we wanted to save code/effort, we could
just remove the help output altogether.
--gpu-api has non-unique entries, and it would be nice to group them
(e.g. list all OpenGL capable contexts with "opengl"), but C makes this
simple idea too much of a pain, so don't do it.
Also remove a stray tab from the android entry on the manpage.
dudemanguy
Philip Langdale
Niklas Haas
wm4
James Ross-Gowan