Reason: I never liked it being recursive. Generally, this seems to
cause more problems than trouble, and is less flexible for access
outside of the chain.
They didn't do anything.
vf_screenshot.c actually did release the previous image, but that's not
really required. At worst you could take a screenshot and get an old
frame when there's no new frame yet.
All filters now either use the generic option parser, or don't have
options. This finally finishes a transition started in 2003 (see git
commit 33b62af947).
Why are MPlayer devs so monumentally lazy? Sorry, but this takes the
cake. You had 10 years.
Remove screenshot_force and associated logic. Always try to use the
screenshot video filter before trying taking screenshots with the VO,
which means that --vf=screenshot now takes the role of --vf=screenshot_force.
(To make this clear, not adding a video filter is still the recommended
way to take screenshots; we just change how VF screenshots are forced.)
Preferring VO over VF and having --vf=screenshot_force used to make
sense when not all VOs supported screenshots, and some VOs had somewhat
broken screenshots (like vo_xv taking screenshots with OSD in it). But
all these issues are fixed now, so just get rid of the cruft.
Instead of using a callback to "capture" the image next time the filter
function is called, do it the other way around: on every filter
invocation, create a reference to the image, and return it if a
screenshot is requested. This also fixes the 1-frame delay when taking
screenshots with the filter.
This also allows simplifying screenshot.c.
Change the entire filter API to use reference counted images instead
of vf_get_image().
Remove filter "direct rendering". This was useful for vf_expand and (in
rare cases) vf_sub: DR allowed these filters to pass a cropped image to
the filters before them. Then, on filtering, the image was "uncropped",
so that black bars could be added around the image without copying. This
means that in some cases, vf_expand will be slower (-vf gradfun,expand
for example).
Note that another form of DR used for in-place filters has been replaced
by simpler logic. Instead of trying to do DR, filters can check if the
image is writeable (with mp_image_is_writeable()), and do true in-place
if that's the case. This affects filters like vf_gradfun and vf_sub.
Everything has to support strides now. If something doesn't, making a
copy of the image data is required.
Setting the size of a mp_image must be done with mp_image_set_size()
now. Do this to guarantee that the redundant fields (like chroma_width)
are updated consistently. Replacing the redundant fields by function
calls would probably be better, but there are too many uses of them,
and is a bit less convenient.
Most code actually called mp_image_setfmt(), which did this as well.
This commit just makes things a bit more explicit.
Warning: the video filter chain still sets up mp_images manually,
and vf_get_image() is not updated.
Slices allowed filtering or drawing video in horizontal bands or
blocks. This allowed working on the video in smaller units. In theory,
this could bring a performance win by lowering cache pressure, as you
didn't have to keep the whole video frame in cache while filtering,
only the slice.
In practice, the slice code path was barely used for the following
reasons:
- Multithreaded decoding with ffmpeg didn't use slices. The ffmpeg
slice callback was disabled, because it can be called from another
thread, and the mplayer video chain is not thread-safe.
- There was nothing that would turn "full" images into appropriate
slices, so slices were rarely used.
- Most filters didn't actually support slices.
On the other hand, supporting slices lead to code duplication and more
complex code in general. I made some experiments and didn't find any
actual measurable performance improvements when using slices. Even
ffmpeg removed slices based filtering from libavfilter in favor of
simpler code.
The most broken thing about the slices code path is that slices can't
be queued, like it is done for images in vo.c.
Until now, screenshots with the video filter didn't add subs (unclear
whether that was an oversight or feature). Fix this and make behavior
when taking screenshots with vf_screenshot more consistent with VO
screenshots.
The change in vf_screenshot is needed, because add_subs() checks this
flag to decide whether it's allowed to mutate the image.
This commit has another user visible side effect. When taking a
screenshot each frame (using the "each-frame" mode of the screenshot
command), a normal screenshot command will stop the each-frame mode.
mp_image has this confusing distinction between the w/h and width/height
fields. w/h are the actual width and height, while width/height have a
very special meaning inside the video filter code: it's the actually
allocated width, which is also used for stride padding.
Screenshot related code abused the w/h fields to store the aspect
corrected size. Some code confused the role of w/h and width/height.
Fix these issues. For aspect corrected size, display_w/h are used, while
width/height should never be used outside vf.c internals and related
code.
This also fixes an actual bug when taking screenshots of anamorphic
video with vf_screenshot, as well as using vo_image with such videos.
Finish renaming directories and moving files. Adjust all include
statements to make the previous commit compile.
The two commits are separate, because git is bad at tracking renames
and content changes at the same time.
Also take this as an opportunity to remove the separation between
"common" and "mplayer" sources in the Makefile. ("common" used to be
shared between mplayer and mencoder.)
Tis drops the silly lib prefixes, and attempts to organize the tree in
a more logical way. Make the top-level directory less cluttered as
well.
Renames the following directories:
libaf -> audio/filter
libao2 -> audio/out
libvo -> video/out
libmpdemux -> demux
Split libmpcodecs:
vf* -> video/filter
vd*, dec_video.* -> video/decode
mp_image*, img_format*, ... -> video/
ad*, dec_audio.* -> audio/decode
libaf/format.* is moved to audio/ - this is similar to how mp_image.*
is located in video/.
Move most top-level .c/.h files to core. (talloc.c/.h is left on top-
level, because it's external.) Park some of the more annoying files
in compat/. Some of these are relicts from the time mplayer used
ffmpeg internals.
sub/ is not split, because it's too much of a mess (subtitle code is
mixed with OSD display and rendering).
Maybe the organization of core is not ideal: it mixes playback core
(like mplayer.c) and utility helpers (like bstr.c/h). Should the need
arise, the playback core will be moved somewhere else, while core
contains all helper and common code.
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