Change the last parameter from a bool to an int, which is supposed to
take bit-flags. The at this point only flag is MPSEEK_FLAG_DELAY, which
replaces the previous bool parameter. The old false parameter becomes 0,
the old true parameter becomes MPSEEK_FLAG_DELAY.
Since the old "immediate" parameter is now essentially inverted, two
coalesced immediate and delayed seeks end up as delayed instead of
immediate. This change doesn't matter, since there are no relative
immediate seeks anyway.
When switching tracks, we normally have the problem that data gets lost
due to readahead buffering. (Which in turn is because we're stubborn and
instruct the demuxers to discard data on unselected streams.) The
demuxer layer has a hack that re-reads discarded buffered data if a
stream is enabled mid-stream, so track switching will seem instant.
A somewhat similar problem is when all tracks of an external files were
disabled - when enabling the first track, we have to seek to the target
position.
Handle these with the same mechanism. Pass the "current time" to the
demuxer's stream switch function, and let the demuxer figure out what to
do. The demuxer will issue a refresh seek (if possible) to update the
new stream, or will issue a "normal" seek if there was no active stream
yet.
One case that changes is when a video/audio stream is enabled on an
external file with only a subtitle stream active, and the demuxer does
not support rrefresh seeks. This is a fuzzy case, because subtitles are
sparse, and the demuxer might have skipped large amounts of data. We
used to seek (and send the subtitle decoder some subtitle packets
twice). This case is sort of obscure and insane, and the fix would be
questionable, so we simply don't care.
Should mostly fix#3392.
Assume you use a large value like --audio-delay=20. Then until now the
player would just have seeked normally to a "too late" position, and
played silence for about 20 seconds until audio in the correct time
range is coming again.
Change this by offsetting seeks by the right amount. This works for both
external and muxed files. If a seek isn't precise, then it works only
for external files.
This might cause issues with very large delay options. Hr-seek skipping
could take a lot of time (especially because it affects video too), the
demuxer queue could overflow, and other weird corner cases could appear.
But we just try this on best-effort basis, and if the user uses extreme
values we don't guarantee good behavior.
mixer.c didn't really deserve to be separate anymore, as half of its
contents were unnecessary glue code after recent changes. It also
created a weird split between audio.c and af.c due to the fact that
mixer.c could insert audio filters. With the code being in audio.c
directly, together with other code that unserts filters during runtime,
it will be possible to cleanup this code a bit and make it work like the
video filter code.
As part of this change, make the balance code work like the volume code,
and add an option to back the current balance value. Also, since the
balance semantics are unexpected for most users (panning between the
audio channels, instead of just changing the relative volume), and there
are some other volumes, formally deprecate both the old property and the
new option.
Calculate the buffering percentage in the same code which determines
whether the player is or should be buffering. In particular it can't
happen that percentage and buffering state are slightly out of sync due
to calling DEMUXER_CTRL_GET_READER_STATE and reusing it with the
previously determined buffering state.
Now it's also easier to guarantee that the buffering state is updated
properly.
Add some more verbose output as well.
(Damn I hate this code, why did I write it?)
Ever since a change in mplayer2 or so, relative seeks were translated to
absolute seeks before sending them to the demuxer in most cases. The
only exception in current mpv is DVD seeking.
Remove the SEEK_ABSOLUTE flag; it's not the implied default. SEEK_FACTOR
is kept, because it's sometimes slightly useful for seeking in things
like transport streams. (And maybe mkv files without duration set?)
DVD seeking is terrible because DVD and libdvdnav are terrible, but
mostly because libdvdnav is terrible. libdvdnav does not expose seeking
with seek tables. (Although I know xbmc/kodi use an undocumented API
that is not declared in the headers by dladdr()ing it - I think the
function is dvdnav_jump_to_sector_by_time().) With the current mpv
policy if not giving a shit about DVD, just revert our half-working seek
hacks and always use dvdnav_time_search(). Relative seeking might get
stuck sometimes; in this case --hr-seek=always is recommended.
Some oddity that is not needed anymore. The only thing which still
referenced them was avoiding loading external files more than once,
which is now prevented by checking the list of tracks instead.
When playback of a video ends, and the next file has no video at all (no
cover art or anything), then the window must be cleared.
This also resizes the window forcibly, which is by design.
Fixes#2825.
See --lavfi-complex option.
This is still quite rough. There's no support for dynamic configuration
of any kind. There are probably corner cases where playback might freeze
or burn 100% CPU (due to dataflow problems when interaction with
libavfilter).
Future possible plans might include:
- freely switch tracks by providing some sort of default track graph
label
- automatically enabling audio visualization
- automatically mix audio or stack video when multiple tracks are
selected at once (similar to how multiple sub tracks can be selected)
Slightly helps with timeline stuff, like EDL. There is no need to keep
network (or even just disk I/O) busy for all segments at the same time,
because 1. the data won't be needed any time soon, and 2. will probably
be discarded anyway if the stream is seeked when segment is resumed.
Partially fixes#2692.
Eventually we want the VO be driven by a A->V filter, so a decoder
doesn't even have to exist. Some features definitely require a decoder
though (like reporting the decoder in use, hardware decoding, etc.), so
for each thing which accessed d_video, it has to be redecided if and how
it can access decoder state.
At least the "framedrop" property slightly changes semantics: you can
now always set this property, even if no video is active.
Some untested changes in this commit, but our bio-based distributed
test suite has to take care of this.
Basically reimplement it. The old implementation was quite stupid, and
was probably done this way because video filtering and output used to be
way less decoupled. Now we can reimplement it in a very simple way: when
backstepping, seek to current time, but keep the last frame that was
supposed to be discarded when reaching the target time. When the seek
finishes, prepend the saved frame to the video frame queue.
A disadvantage is that the new implementation fails to skip over
timeline boundaries (ordered chapters etc.), but this never worked
properly anyway. It's possible that this will be fixed some time in the
future.
This is mainly a refactor. I'm hoping it will make some things easier
in the future due to cleanly separating codec metadata and stream
metadata.
Also, declare that the "codec" field can not be NULL anymore. demux.c
will set it to "" if it's NULL when added. This gets rid of a corner
case everything had to handle, but which rarely happened.
This slightly changes behavior when seeking with external audio/subtitle
tracks if transport streams and mpeg files are played, as well as
behavior when seeking with such external tracks.
get_main_demux_pts() is evil because it always blocks on the demuxer (if
there isn't already a packet queued). Thus it could lock up the player,
which is a shame because all other possible causes have been removed.
The reduced "precision" when seeking in the ts/mpeg cases (where
SEEK_FACTOR is used, resulting in byte seeks instead of timestamp seeks)
might lead to issues. We should probably drop this heuristic. (It was
introduced because there is no other way to seek in files with PTS
resets with libavformat, but its value is still questionable.)
PT_RELOAD_FILE is a somewhat obscure case when using DVB or when
switching Matroska editions. Both cases were broken, because the
asynchronous playback abort mechanism was still triggered. This
mechanism is used to force the demuxer and stream layers to exit
immediately (instead of blocking on I/O possibly forever), and
is normally disabled on playback start. The reopen path is a bit
strange, and needs to reset it manually.
Pointed out in #2568.
If you do "mpv /bla/", and then branch out into sub-directories using
playlist navigation, and then used quit and watch later, then playing
the same directory did not resume from the previous point. This was
because resuming is based on the path hash, so a path prefix can't be
detected when resuming the parent directory.
Solve this by writing each path prefix when playing directories is
involved. (This includes all parent paths, so interestingly, "mpv /"
would also resume in the above example.)
Something like this was requested multiple times, and I want it too.
When using --start with timeline/ordered chapters, then the
timeline_switch_to_time() function will look at playback_initialized
whether to rselect the currently selected streams on the demuxer level.
So we need to set this field to true at an earlier stage during
initialization, and in particular before the code for --start is called.
This includes the case of switching ordered chapter boundaries. It will
now be recreated on each timeline part switch. This shouldn't be much of
a problem with modern libass. (Older libass versions use fontconfig for
memory fonts, and will be very slow to reinitialize memory fonts.)
Since commit 6d9cb893, subtitle state doesn't survive timeline switches
(ordered chapters etc.). So there is no point in caching the state per
sh_stream anymore (which would be required to deal with multiple
segments). Move the cache to struct track.
(Whether it's worth caching the subtitle state just for the situation
when subtitle tracks get reselected is questionable. But for now, it's
nice to have the subtitles immediately show up when reselecting a
subtitle.)
When crossing timeline boundaries (such as switching to a new segment or
chapter with ordered chapters), clear the internal text subtitle list.
This breaks the sub-seek command, but is otherwise not too harmful.
Fixes Sub-OC-test-final7.mkv. (The internal text subtitle list is
basically a cache to make subtitles show up at the right time when
seeking back.)
I suspect this was caused by 76fcef61. The sample file times subtitles
slightly before the video frame when it should show up. This is to avoid
problems with subtitles showing up a frame later than intended. It also
means that a subtitle which is supposed to show up on the start of a
timeline part boundary actually might first be shown in a different
part. Since we now manipulate the packet timestamps, instead of
manipulating timestamps after the subtitle decoder, this means this
subtitle event would have 2 timestamps, which our code of course does
not handle.
If the two parts come one after another, this would actually work (since
the subtitle would have the same timestamps in the old and new part),
but it breaks if the new part (which follows the old part in the
physical file) is has a completely different start time in the timeline.
Essentially, the trick used to time subtitles correctly is incompatible
with the way we cache subtitles (to make them survive seeks).
The simple solution is just clearing the cached subtitles when crossing
chapter boundaries.
The demuxer infrastructure was originally single-threaded. To make it
suitable for multithreading (specifically, demuxing and decoding on
separate threads), some sort of tripple-buffering was introduced. There
are separate "struct demuxer" allocations. The demuxer thread sets the
state on d_thread. If anything changes, the state is copied to d_buffer
(the copy is protected by a lock), and the decoder thread is notified.
Then the decoder thread copies the state from d_buffer to d_user (again
while holding a lock). This avoids the need for locking in the
demuxer/decoder code itself (only demux.c needs an internal, "invisible"
lock.)
Remove the streams/num_streams fields from this tripple-buffering
schema. Move them to the internal struct, and protect them with the
internal lock. Use accessors for read access outside of demux.c.
Other than replacing all field accesses with accessors, this separates
allocating and adding sh_streams. This is needed to avoid race
conditions. Before this change, this was awkwardly handled by first
initializing the sh_stream, and then sending a stream change event. Now
the stream is allocated, then initialized, and then declared as
immutable and added (at which point it becomes visible to the decoder
thread immediately).
This change is useful for PR #2626. And eventually, we should probably
get entirely of the tripple buffering, and this makes a nice first step.
Use the demux_set_ts_offset() added in the previous commit to base each
timeline segment to use timestamps according to its relative position
within the overall timeline. As a consequence we don't need to care
about these timestamps anymore, and everything becomes simpler.
(Another minor but delicious nugget of sanity.)
Most of this is explained in the DOCS additions.
This gives us slightly more sanity, because there is less interaction
between the various parts. The goal is getting rid of the video_offset
entirely.
The simplification extends to the user API. In particular, we don't need
to fix missing parts in the API, such as the lack for a seek command
that seeks relatively to the start time. All these things are now
transparent.
(If someone really wants to know the real timestamps/start time, new
properties would have to be added.)
Get rid of get_past_frame_durations(), which was a bit too messy. Add
a past_frames array, which contains the same information in a more
reasonable way. This also means that we can get the exact current and
past frame durations without going through awful stuff. (The main
problem is that vo_pts_history contains future frames as well, which is
needed for frame backstepping etc., but gets in the way here.)
Also disable the automatic disabling of display-sync if the frame
duration changes, and extend the frame durations allowed for display
sync. To allow arbitrarily high durations, vo.c needs to be changed
to pause and potentially redraw OSD while showing a single frame, so
they're still limited.
In an attempt to deal with VFR, calculate the overall speed using the
average FPS. The frame scheduling itself does not use the average FPS,
but the duration of the current frame. This does not work too well,
but provides a good base for further improvements.
Where this commit actually helps a lot is dealing with rounded
timestamps, e.g. if the container framerate is wrong or unknown, or
if the muxer wrote incorrectly rounded timestamps. While the rounding
errors apparently can't be get rid of completely in the general case,
this is still much better than e.g. disabling display-sync completely
just because some frame durations go out of bounds.
The stop command didn't always stop. In this case, opening a HLS URL and
then sending "stop" during loading would actually make it fallback to
parsing it as a playlist, and then continued to play the playlist items.
(This corner case makes several unfortunate factors come together to
produce this really odd behavior.)
Another issue is that the "stop" was not always explicitly set. This
could be a problem when sending several commands at once. Only the
"quit" command should have priority over the "stop" command, so this is
still checked.
This was in sub/, because the code used to be specific to subtitles. It
was extended to automatically load external audio files too, and moving
the file and renaming it was long overdue.
The previous commit was incomplete (and I didn't notice due to a broken
test procedure).
The annoying part is that actually creating the VO was separate; redo
this and merge the code for this into handle_force_window() as well.
This will also make implementing proper reaction to runtime option
changes easier. (Only the part for actually listening to option changes
is missing.)
This is a bad hack; the correct way to handle this would be implementing
profiles differently, and then listen to option changes and act on them
dynamically.
If this mode is enabled, the player tries to strictly synchronize video
to display refresh. It will adjust playback speed to match the display,
so if you play 23.976 fps video on a 24 Hz screen, playback speed is
increased by approximately 1/1000. Audio wll be resampled to keep up
with playback.
This is different from the default sync mode, which will sync video to
audio, with the consequence that video might skip or repeat a frame once
in a while to make video keep up with audio.
This is still unpolished. There are some major problems as well; in
particular, mkv VFR files won't work well. The reason is that Matroska
is terrible and rounds timestamps to milliseconds. This makes it rather
hard to guess the framerate of a section of video that is playing. We
could probably fix this by just accepting jittery timestamps (instead
of explicitly disabling the sync code in this case), but I'm not ready
to accept such a solution yet.
Another issue is that we are extremely reliant on OS video and audio
APIs working in an expected manner, which of course is not too often
the case. Consequently, the new sync mode is a bit fragile.
For video sync, we want separate playback speed controls for user-
requested speed and the "correction" speed for video timing. Further, we
use this separation to make sure only a resampler is inserted if
playback speed is only changed for video sync correction.
As of this commit, this is basically inactive code. It's just
preparation for the video sync code (the following commit).
Additionally to taking the average, this tries to use the demuxer FPS to
eliminate jitter, and applies some other heuristics to check if the
result is sane.
This code will also be used for the display sync code (it will actually
make use of the require_exact parameter).
(The value of doing this over keeping the simpler demux_mkv hack is
somewhat questionable. But at least it allows us to deal with other
container formats that use jittery timestamps, such as mp4 remuxed
from mkv.)
Instead of opening a stream and then a demuxer, do both at once with
demux_open_url().
This requires some awkward additions to demuxer_params, because there
are some weird features associated with opening the main file. E.g. the
relatively useless --stream-capture features requires enabling capturing
on the stream before the demuxer is opened, but on the other hand
shouldn't be done on secondary files like external subtitles.
Also relatively bad: since demux_open_url() returns just a demuxer
pointer or NULL, additional error reporting is done via demuxer_params.
Still, at least conceptually, it's ok, and simpler than before.
Nobody wanted to restore this, so it gets the boot.
If anyone still wants to volunteer to restore menu support, this would
be welcome. (I might even try it myself if I feel masochistic and like
wasting a lot of time for nothing.) But if it does get restored, it
should be done differently. There were many stupid things about how it
was done. For example, it somehow tried to pull mp_nav_events through
all the layers (including needing to "buffer" them in the demuxer),
which was needlessly complicated. It could be done simpler.
This code was already inactive, so this commit actually changes nothing.
Also keep in mind that normal DVD/BD playback still works.
This is a real pain: if a quit command is received, it's set to PT_QUIT.
And then other code could overwrite it, making it not quit. The annoying
bit is that stop_play is written and read in many places. Just not
overwriting it unconditionally seems to be the best course of action.
For the sake of removing the separate stream/demuxer loading code.
This could probably be reimplemented in some other way, but I have no
DVB hardware for testing. The most preferred way would be making DVB to
not quit, and just rerun the stream selection.
The final goal is making opening the demuxer and opening the stream the
same operation.
Stream dumping is a rather uninteresting feature, but has a small
number of vocal users, and it's easy to keep.
At least Matroska files have a "forced" flag (in addition to the
"default" flag). Export this flag. Treat it almost like the default
flag, but with slightly higher priority.
Adding an external audio track before loading the main file didn't work
right. For one, mp_switch_track() assumes it is called after the main
file is loaded. (The difference is that decoders are only initialized
once the main file is loaded, and we avoid doing this before that for
whatever reason.)
To avoid further messiness, just allow mp_switch_track() to be called at
any time. Also make it do what mp_mark_user_track_selection() did, since
the latter requires current_track to be set. (One could probably simply
allow current_track to be set at this point, but it'd interfere with
default track selection anyway and thus would be pointless.)
Fixes#1984.
mp_find_config_file() will print the filename lookup and its result in
verbose mode. This is wanted, but gets inconvenient when it is done for
every playlist entry (for resuming).
Lookup the watch_later subdir only once and cache the result instead.
This drops the logic for loading the resume file from other locations,
which should generally be unnecessary, though might lead to confusion if
the user has mixed old and new config paths (which the user shouldn't).
Also add a mp_find_user_config_file() function for a more
straightforward and reliable way to get actual local configpaths,
instead of possibly global and unwritable locations.
Also, for symmetry, check the resume option in mp_load_playback_resume()
just like mp_check_playlist_resume() does.
Should help with debugging, and might be slightly more userfriendly.
Note that this is called manually in multiple entry-points, instead of
the functions doing the actual work (like mp_remove_track()). This is
done so that exiting the player or calling the sub_reload command won't
print redundant in-between states.
This could make the player crash on exit if the "sub_reload" command was
used successfully. the reason was that the mpctx->sources array could
have dangling pointers to the unloaded demuxers.
Also fix a memory leak by actually always freeing the per-stream
subtitle decoders (which are a hack to make ordered chapters behave
better).
It was possible to make the player play local files by putting rar://
links into remote playlists, and some other potentially unsafe things.
Redo the handling of it. Now the rar-redirector (the thing in
demux_playlist.c) sets disable_safety, which makes the player open any
playlist entries returned. This is fine, because it redirects to the
same file anyway (just with different selection/interpretation of the
contents). On the other hand, rar:// itself is now considered fully
unsafe, which means that it is ignored if found in normal playlists.
Commit f54220d9 attempted to improve this, but it got worse. Now there
was a crash when ytdl_hook.lua added external tracks. This happened
because close_unused_demuxers() assumed that sources[0] was the main
demuxer (so that it didn't close it). This assumption failed, because
the ytdl script can add external tracks before the main file is loaded.
The easy fix would have been to check for master_demuxer, and not i==0.
But instead give up on the old idea, make some stricter assumptions how
demuxers and external tracks map, and simplify the code.
Do timeline building (scanning & opening reference files for ordered
chapters, and more) in a thread. As a result, this process can actually
be stopped without having to kill the player.
This is pretty simple: just reuse the demuxer opening thread. We have
to give up on the idea that open_demux_reentrant() is reusable, though.
(Althoughthe timeline readers still need some fixes before they react to
the quit request.)
These functions do blocking work on a separate thread, but wait until
they return. So they are not async or non-blocking. But they do react to
user-input and client API accesses, which makes them reentrant.
Includes some logic for not starting the demuxer thread for fully read
subtitles. (Well, the cache will still waste _lots_ of resources, and
the cache always has to be created, because we don't know whether it'll
be needed _before_ opening the file.)
See #1597.
Instead of accessing MPContext in player/timeline/*, create a separate
context struct, which the timeline loaders fill out. It turns out that
there's not much in the way too big MPContext that these need to access.
One major PITA is managing (and closing) the set of open demuxers. The
problem is that we need a list of all demuxers to make sure no unneeded
streams are enabled.
This adds a callback to the demuxer_desc struct, with the intention of
leaving to to the demuxer to call the right loader, instead of
explicitly checking the demuxer type and dispatching manually in common
code. I also considered making the timeline part of the demuxer state,
but decided against: it's too much of a mess wrt. memory management and
threading, and also doesn't make it clear who owns the child demuxers.
With the struct timeline decoupled from the demuxer state, it's at least
somewhat clear that the child demuxers are independent from the "main"
demuxer.
The actual changes to player/timeline/* are separated in the following
commits, because they're quite verbose. Some artifacts will be removed
later as soon as there's only 1 timeline loading mechanism.
Also effects some other cases.
The real reason for this is for keeping track of which demuxers can be
closed (see following commit). Since I don't want to use reference
counting for this, some sort of simplistic mark-and-sweep is done to
determine whether a demuxer is still needed.
This removes the delay when switching audio tracks in mkv or mp4 files.
Other formats are not enabled, because it's not clear whether the
demuxers fulfill the requirements listed in demux.h. (Many formats
definitely do not with libavformat.)
Background:
The demuxer packet cache buffers a certain amount of packets. This
includes only packets from selected streams. We discard packets from
other streams for various reasons. This introduces a problem: switching
to a different audio track introduces a delay. The delay is as big as
the demuxer packet cache buffer, because while the file was read ahead
to fill the packet buffer, the process of reading packets also discarded
all packets from the previously not selected audio stream. Once the
remaining packet buffer has been played, new audio packets are available
and you hear audio again.
We could probably just not discard packets from unselected streams. But
this would require additional memory and CPU resources, and also it's
hard to tell when packets from unused streams should be discarded (we
don't want to keep them forever; it'd be a memory leak).
We could also issue a player hr-seek to the current playback position,
which would solve the problem in 1 line of code or so. But this can be
rather slow.
So what we do in this commit instead is: we just seek back to the
position where our current packet buffer starts, and start demuxing from
this position again. This way we can get the "past" packets for the
newly selected stream. For streams which were already selected the
packets are simply discarded until the previous position is reached
again.
That latter part is the hard part. We really want to skip packets
exactly until the position where we left off previously, or we will skip
packets or feed packets to the decoder twice. If we assume that the
demuxer is deterministic (returns exactly the same packets after a seek
to a previous position), then we can try to check whether it's the same
packet as the one at the end of the packet buffer. If it is, we know
that the packet after it is where we left off last time.
Unfortunately, this is not very robust, and maybe it can't be made
robust. Currently we use the demux_packet.pos field as unique packet
ID - which works fine in some scenarios, but will break in arbitrary
ways if the basic requirement to the demuxer (as listed in the demux.h
additions) are broken. Thus, this is enabled only for the internal mkv
demuxer and the libavformat mp4 demuxer.
(libavformat mkv does not work, because the packet positions are not
unique. Probably could be fixed upstream, but it's not clear whether
it's a bug or a feature.)
Requested. See manpage additions.
This also makes the magical loop_times constants slightly saner, but
shouldn't change the semantics of any existing --loop option values.
Autoload external audio files only if there's at least a video track
(which is not coverart pseudo-video).
Enable external audio file autoloading by default. Now that we actively
avoid doing stupid things like loading an external audio file for an
audio-only file, this should be fine.
Additionally, don't autoload subtitles if a subtitle is played.
Although you currently can't play subtitles without audio or video,
it's disturbing and stupid that the player might load subtitle files
with different extension and then fail.
In ancient times, this was needed because it was not default, and many
VOs had problems with it. But it was always default in mpv, and all VOs
are required to deal with it. Also, running --fixed-vo=no is not useful
and just creates weird corner cases. Get rid of it.
These commands are counterparts of sub_add/sub_remove/sub_reload which
work for external audio file.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
(minor simplification)
Opening the stream and opening the demuxer are both done asynchronously,
meaning the player reacts to client API requests. They also can
potentially take a while. Thus it's better to process outstanding
property changes, so that change events are sent for properties that
were changed during opening.
mpctx->audio_delay always has the same value as opts->audio_delay. (This
was not the case a long time ago, when the audio-delay property didn't
actually write to opts->audio_delay. I think.)
This is for the ordered chapters case only. In theory this could have
resulted in initial audio, video or subs missing, although it didn't
happen in practice (because no streams were selected, thus the demuxer
thread didn't actually try to read anything). It's still better to make
this explicit.
Also, timeline_set_part() can be private to loadfile.c.
mpv needs at least an audio or video track to play something. If the
track selection is basically insufficient, the player will immediately
skip to the next file (or quit).
One slightly annoying thing might be that trying to play a subtitle file
will close the VO window, and then go to the next file immediately (so
"mpv 1.mkv 2.srt 3.mkv" would flash the video window when 2.srt is
skipped). Move the check to before the video window is possibly closed.
This is a minor cosmetic issue; one can use --force-window to avoid
closing the video window at all.
Fixes#1459.
Enable asynchronous reading for external files. This excludes subtitle
files (so it's effectively enabled for audio files only), because most
subtitle files are fully read on loading, and running a thread for them
would just cause slowdowns and increase resource usage, without having
any advantages.
In theory, an external file could provide multiple tracks from the same
demuxer, but demux_start_thread() is idempotent, so the code can be
kept simple.
Should help with playing DASH with ytdl_hook.
This attempts to increase user-friendliness by excluding useless tags.
It should be especially helpful with mp4 files, because the FFmpeg mp4
demuxer adds tons of completely useless information to the metadata.
Fixes#1403.
Until now, these options took effect only at program start. This could
be confusing when e.g. doing "mpv list.m3u --shuffle". Make them always
take effect when a playlist is loaded either via a playlist file, or
with the "loadlist" command.
The code in the demuxer etc. was changed to update all metadata/tags at
once, instead of changing each metadata field. As a consequence,
printing of the tags to the terminal was also changed to print
everything on each change.
Some users didn't like this. Add a very primitive way to avoid printing
fields with the same value again if metadata is marked as changed. This
is not always correct (could print unchanged fields anyway), but usually
works.
(In general, a rather roundabout way to reflect a changed title with ICY
streaming...)
Fixes#813 (let's call it a "policy change").
The player thinks an error happened because no audio or video was played
after finishing the file, but this obviously makes no sense with stream
dumping. (error_playing follows the client API convention that negative
values are errors.)
Ordered chapter EOF was handled as special-case of ending the last
segment. This broke --kee-open, because it set AT_END_OF_FILE in an
"inconvenient" place (after checking for --keep-open, and before the
code that exits playback if EOF is reached).
We don't actually need to handle the last segment specially. Instead, we
remain in the same segment if it ends. The normal playback logic will
recognize EOF, because the end of the segment "cuts off" the file.
Now timeline_set_from_time() never "fails", and we can remove the old
segment EOF handling code in mp_seek().
libass won't use embedded fonts, unless ass_set_fonts() (called by
mp_ass_configure_fonts()) is called. However, we call this function when
the ASS_Renderer is initialized, which is long before the .ass file is
actually loaded. (I'm not sure why it tries to keep 1 ASS_Renderer, but
it always did this.)
Fix by calling mp_ass_configure_fonts() after loading them. This also
means this function will be called multiple times - hopefully this is
harmless (it will reinit fontconfig every time, though).
While we're at it, also initialize the ASS_Renderer lazily.
Fixes#1244.
The purpose of temporarily setting stop_play was to make the audio
uninit code to explicitly drain audio if needed. This was the only way
to do it before ao_drain() was made a separate function; now we can just
do it explicitly instead.
Instead of defining a separate data structure in the core.
For some odd reason, demux_chapter exported the chapter time in
nano-seconds. Change that to the usual timestamps (rename the field
to make any code relying on this to fail compilation), and also remove
the unused chapter end time.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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)
This reverts commit 45c8b97efb.
Some else complained (github issue #1163).
The feature requested in #1148 will be implemented differently in
the following commit.
Now any action that stops playback of a file (even playlist navigation)
will save the position. Normal EOF is of course excluded from this, as
well as commands that just reload the current file.
The option name is now slightly off, although you could argue what the
word "quit" means.
Fixes#1148 (or at least this is how I understood it).
Run opening the stream and opening the demuxer in a separate thread.
This should remove the last code paths in which the player can normally
get blocked on network.
When the stream is opened, the player will still react to input and so
on. Commands to abort opening can also be handled properly, instead of
using some of the old hacks in input.c. The only thing the user can
really do is aborting loading by navigating the playlist or quitting.
Whether playback abort works depends on the stream implementation; with
normal network, this will depend on what libavformat (via "interrupt"
callback) does.
Some pain is caused by DVD/BD/DVB. These want to reload the demuxer
sometimes. DVB wants it in order to discard old, inactive streams.
DVD/BD for the same reason, and also for reloading stream languages
and similar metadata. This means the stream and the demuxer have to
be loaded separately.
One minor detail is that we now need to copy all global options. This
wasn't really needed before, because the options were accessed on
opening only, but since opening is now on a separate thread, this
obviously becomes a necessity.
Also recreate ASS_Library on every file played. This means we can move
the code out of main.c as well.
Recreating the ASS_Library object has no disadvantages, because it
literally stores only the message callback, the (per-file) font
attachment as byte arrays, and the set of style overrides. Hopefully
this thing can be removed from the libass API entirely at some point.
The only reason why the player core creates the ASS_Renderer, instead
of the subtitle renderer, is because we want to cache the loaded fonts
across ordered chapter transitions, so this probably still has to stay
around for now.
Each subsystem (or similar thing) had an INITIALIZED_ flag assigned. The
main use of this was that you could pass a bitmask of these flags to
uninit_player(). Except in some situations where you wanted to
uninitialize nearly everything, this wasn't really useful. Moreover, it
was quite annoying that subsystems had most of the code in a specific
file, but the uninit code in loadfile.c (because that's where
uninit_player() was implemented).
Simplify all this. Remove the flags; e.g. instead of testing for the
INITIALIZED_AO flag, test whether mpctx->ao is set. Move uninit code
to separate functions, e.g. uninit_audio_out().
This mechanism originates from MPlayer's way of dealing with blocking
network, but it's still useful. On opening and closing, mpv waits for
network synchronously, and also some obscure commands and use-cases can
lead to such blocking. In these situations, the stream is asynchronously
forced to stop by "interrupting" it.
The old design interrupting I/O was a bit broken: polling with a
callback, instead of actively interrupting it. Change the direction of
this. There is no callback anymore, and the player calls
mp_cancel_trigger() to force the stream to return.
libavformat (via stream_lavf.c) has the old broken design, and fixing it
would require fixing libavformat, which won't happen so quickly. So we
have to keep that part. But everything above the stream layer is
prepared for a better design, and more sophisticated methods than
mp_cancel_test() could be easily introduced.
There's still one problem: commands are still run in the central
playback loop, which we assume can block on I/O in the worst case.
That's not a problem yet, because we simply mark some commands as being
able to stop playback of the current file ("quit" etc.), so input.c
could abort playback as soon as such a command is queued. But there are
also commands abort playback only conditionally, and the logic for that
is in the playback core and thus "unreachable". For example,
"playlist_next" aborts playback only if there's a next file. We don't
want it to always abort playback.
As a quite ugly hack, abort playback only if at least 2 abort commands
are queued - this pretty much happens only if the core is frozen and
doesn't react to input.
The purpose is making accessing the current playlist entry saner when
commands are executed during initialization, termination, or after
playlist navigation commands.
For example, the "playlist_remove current" command will invalidate
playlist->current - but some things still access the playlist entry even
on uninit. Until now, checking stop_play implicitly took care of it, so
it worked, but it was still messy.
Introduce the mpctx->playing field, which points to the current playlist
entry, even if the entry was removed and/or the playlist's current entry
was moved (e.g. due to playlist navigation).
Continues commit 348dfd93. Replace other places where input was manually
fetched with common code.
demux_was_interrupted() was a weird function; I'm not entirely sure
about its original purpose, but now we can just replace it with simpler
code as well. One difference is that we always look at the command
queue, rather than just when cache initialization failed. Also, instead
of discarding all but quit/playlist commands (aka abort command), run
all commands. This could possibly lead to unwanted side-effects, like
just ignoring commands that have no effect (consider pressing 'f' for
fullscreen right on start: since the window is not created yet, it would
get discarded). But playlist navigation still works as intended, and
some if not all these problems already existed before that in some
forms, so it should be ok.
Somehow, there was a larger misunderstanding in the code: ao_buffer
does not need to be preserved over audio reinit for proper support of
gapless audio. The actual AO internal buffer takes care of this.
In fact, preserving ao_buffer just breaks audio resync. In the ordered
chapter case, end_pts is used, which means not all audio data in the
buffer is played, thus some data is left over when audio decoding
resumes on the next segment. This triggers some code that aborts resync
if there's "audio decoded" (ao_buffer contains something), but no PTS
is known (nothing was actually decoded yet).
Simplify, and always bind the output buffer to the decoder.
CC: @mpv-player/stable (maybe)
--hls-bitrate=min/max lets you select the min or max bitrate. That's it.
Something more sophisticated might be possible, but is probably not even
worth the effort.
Because that might be a bad idea.
Note that remote playlists still can use any protocol marked with
is_safe and is_network, because the case of http-hosted playlists
containing URLs using other streaming protocols is not unusual.
Until now, you had to use --load-unsafe-playlists or --playlist to get
playlists loaded. Change this and always load playlists by default.
This still attempts to reject unsafe URLs. For example, trying to invoke
libavdevice pseudo-demuxer is explicitly prevented. Local paths and any
http links (and some more) are always allowed.
In theory, timestamps can be negative, so we shouldn't just return -1
as special value.
Remove the separate code for clearing decode buffers; use the same code
that is used for normal seek reset.
sub_reset() was called on cycling subtitle tracks and on seeking. Since
we don't want that subtitles disppear on cycling, sd_lavc.c didn't clear
its internal subtitle queue on reset, which meant that seeking with PGS
subtitles could leave the subtitle on screen (PGS subtitles usually
don't have a duration set).
Call it only on seeking, so we can also strictly clear the subtitle
queue in sd_lavc.
(This still can go very wrong if you disable a subtitle, seek, and
enable it again - for example, if used with libavformat that uses "SSA"
style demuxed ASS subtitle packets. That shouldn't happen with newer
libavformat versions, and the user can "correct" it anyway by executing
a seek while the subtitle is selected.)
The previous commit broke these things, and fixing them is separate in
this commit in order to reduce the volume of changes.
Move the image queue from the VO to the playback core. The image queue
is a remnant of the old way how vdpau was implemented, and increasingly
became more and more an artifact. In the end, it did only one thing:
computing the duration of the current frame. This was done by taking the
PTS difference between the current and the future frame. We keep this,
but by moving it out of the VO, we don't have to special-case format
changes anymore. This simplifies the code a lot.
Since we need the queue to compute the duration only, a queue size
larger than 2 makes no sense, and we can hardcode that.
Also change how the last frame is handled. The last frame is a bit of a
problem, because video timing works by showing one frame after another,
which makes it a special case. Make the VO provide a function to notify
us when the frame is done, instead. The frame duration is used for that.
This is not perfect. For example, changing playback speed during the
last frame doesn't update the end time. Pausing will not stop the clock
that times the last frame. But I don't think this matters for such a
corner case.
This also reduces some code duplication with other parts of the code.
The changfe is mostly cosmetic, although there are also some subtle
changes in behavior. At least one change is that the big desync message
is now printed after every seek.
Regression since commit 261506e3. Internally speaking, playback was
often not properly terminated, and the main part of handle_keep_open()
was just executed once, instead of any time the user tries to seek. This
means playback_pts was not set, and the "current time" was determined by
the seek target PTS.
So fix this aspect of video EOF handling, and also remove the now
unnecessary eof_reached field.
The pause check before calling pause_player() is a lazy workaround for
a strange event feedback loop that happens on EOF with --keep-open.
If you for example use --audio-file, disable the external track, seek,
and enable the external track again, the playback position of the
external file was off, and you would get major A/V desync. This was
actually supposed to work, but broke at some time ago (probably commit
2b87415f). It didn't work, because it attempted to seek the stream if it
was already selected, which was always true due to
reselect_demux_streams() being called before that.
Fix by putting the initial selection and the seek together.
This commit makes audio decoding non-blocking. If e.g. the network is
too slow the playloop will just go to sleep, instead of blocking until
enough data is available.
For video, this was already done with commit 7083f88c. For audio, it's
unfortunately much more complicated, because the audio decoder was used
in a blocking manner. Large changes are required to get around this.
The whole playback restart mechanism must be turned into a statemachine,
especially since it has close interactions with video restart. Lots of
video code is thus also changed.
(For the record, I don't think switching this code to threads would
make this conceptually easier: the code would still have to deal with
external input while blocked, so these in-between states do get visible
[and thus need to be handled] anyway. On the other hand, it certainly
should be possible to modularize this code a bit better.)
This will probably cause a bunch of regressions.
Broken by commit 1301a907. This commit added demuxer threading, and
changed some other things to make them simpler and more orthogonal. One
of these things was ntofications about streams that appear during
playback. That's an obscure corner case, but the change made handling of
it as natural as normal initialization.
This didn't work for two reasons:
1. When playing an ordered chapters file where the initial segment was
not from the main file, its streams were added to the track list. So
they were printed twice, and switching to the next segment didn't work,
because the right streams were not selected.
2. EDL, CUE, as well as possibly certain Matroska files don't have any
data or tracks in the "main" demuxer, so normally the first segment is
picked for the track list. This was simply broken.
Fix by sprinkling the code with various hacks.
Instead of blocking on the demuxer when reading a packet, let packets be
read asynchronously. Basically, it polls whether a packet is available,
and if not, the playloop goes to sleep until the demuxer thread wakes it
up.
Note that the player will still block for I/O, because audio is still
read synchronously. It's much harder to do the same change for audio
(because of the design of the audio decoding path and especially
initialization), so audio will have to be done later.
This adds a thread to the demuxer which reads packets asynchronously.
It will do so until a configurable minimum packet queue size is
reached. (See options.rst additions.)
For now, the thread is disabled by default. There are some corner cases
that have to be fixed, such as fixing cache behavior with webradios.
Note that most interaction with the demuxer is still blocking, so if
e.g. network dies, the player will still freeze. But this change will
make it possible to remove most causes for freezing.
Most of the new code in demux.c actually consists of weird caches to
compensate for thread-safety issues (with the previously single-threaded
design), or to avoid blocking by having to wait on the demuxer thread.
Most of the changes in the player are due to the fact that we must not
access the source stream directly. the demuxer thread already accesses
it, and the stream stuff is not thread-safe.
For timeline stuff (like ordered chapters), we enable the thread for the
current segment only. We also clear its packet queue on seek, so that
the remaining (unconsumed) readahead buffer doesn't waste memory.
Keep in mind that insane subtitles (such as ASS typesetting muxed into
mkv files) will practically disable the readahead, because the total
queue size is considered when checking whether the minimum queue size
was reached.
The final goal is all mp_msg calls produce complete lines. We want this
because otherwise, race conditions could corrupt the terminal output,
and it's inconvenient for the client API too. This commit works towards
this goal. There's still code that has this not fixed yet, though.
No reason to wait until the audio has been played. This isn't a problem
with gapless audio disabled, and since gapless is now default, this
behavior might be perceived as regression.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
DVD and Bluray (and to some extent cdda) require awful hacks all over
the codebase to make them work. The main reason is that they act like
container, but are entirely implemented on the stream layer. The raw
mpeg data resulting from these streams must be "extended" with the
container-like metadata transported via STREAM_CTRLs. The result were
hacks all over demux.c and some higher-level parts.
Add a "disc" pseudo-demuxer, and move all these hacks and special-cases
to it.
While I'm not very fond of "const", it's important for declarations
(it decides whether a symbol is emitted in a read-only or read/write
section). Fix all these cases, so we have writeable global data only
when we really need.
Convert all these commands to properties. (Except tv_last_channel, not
sure what to do with this.) Also, internally, don't access stream
details directly, but dispatch commands with stream ctrls.
Many of the new properties are a bit strange, because they're write-
only. Also remove some OSD output these commands produced, because I
couldn't be bothered to port these.
In general, this makes everything much cleaner, and will also make it
easier to e.g. move the demuxer to its own thread.
Don't bother updating input.conf, but changes.rst documents how old
commands map to the new ones.
Mostly untested, due to lack of hardware.
Basically, this allows gapless playback with similar files (including
the ordered chapter case), while still being robust in general.
The implementation is quite simplistic on purpose, in order to avoid
all the weird corner cases that can occur when creating the filter
chain. The consequence is that it might do not-gapless playback in
more cases when needed, but if that bothers you, you still can use
the normal gapless mode.
Just using "--gapless-audio" or "--gapless-audio=yes" selects the old
mode.
stream.start_pos was needed for optical media only, and (apparently) not
for very good reasons. Just get rid of it.
For stream_dvd, we don't need to do anything. Byte seeking was already
removed from it earlier.
For stream_cdda and stream_vcd, emulate the start_pos by offsetting the
stream pos as seen by the rest of mpv.
The bits in discnav.c and loadfile.c were for dealing with the code
seeking back to the start in demux.c. Handle this differently by
assuming the demuxer is always initialized with the stream at start
position, and instead seek back if initializing the demuxer fails.
Remove the --sb option, which worked by modifying stream.start_pos. If
someone really wants this option, it could be added back by creating a
"slice" stream (actually ffmpeg already has such a thing).
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.
Also remove MSGL_SMODE and friends.
Note: The indent in options.rst was added to work around a bug in
ReportLab that causes the PDF manual build to fail.
The interrupt callback will can be called from another thread if the
cache is enabled, and the stream disconnects. Then stream_reconnect()
will call this function from within the cache thread.
mp_input_check_interrupt() is not thread-safe due to read_events() not
being thread-safe. It will call input callbacks added with
mp_input_add_fd() - these callbacks lead to code not protected by locks,
such as reading X11 events.
Solve this by adding a stupid hack, which checks whether the calling
thread is the main playback thread (i.e. calling the input callbacks
will be safe). We can remove this hack later, but it requires at least
moving the VO to its own thread first.
And slightly adjust the semantics of MPV_EVENT_PAUSE/MPV_EVENT_UNPAUSE.
The real pause state can now be queried with the "core-idle" property,
the user pause state with the "pause" property, whether the player is
paused due to cache with "paused-for-cache", and the keep open event can
be guessed with the "eof-reached" property.
This property is set to "yes" if playback was paused due to --keep-open.
The change notification might not always be perfect; maybe that should
be improved.
Otherwise, the client API user could not know why playback was stopped.
Regarding the fact that 0 is used both for normal EOF and EOF on error:
this is because mplayer traditionally did not distinguish these, and in
general it's hard to tell the real reason. (There are various weird
corner cases which make it hard.)
And consistently use MP_NOPTS_VALUE as error value for the users of this
function. This is better than using -1, especially because negative
values can be valid timestamps.
Instead of comparing the current chapter every time, set the playback
end timestamp to the chapter end. Likewise, don't execute an extra seek
for the start chapter.
Maybe we could also use the timeline facility to restrict playback to
the given chapter range, but this would be strange when using
--chapter=N to start playback at a given chapter. Then you couldn't seek
back, which is possibly not what the user wants.
Instead, always use the mpctx->chapters array. Before this commit, this
array was used only for ordered chapters and such, but now it's always
populated if there are chapters.
Instead of parsing the ASS file in demux_libass.c and trying to pass the
ASS_Track to the subtitle renderer, just read all file data in
demux_libass.c, and let the subtitle renderer pass the file contents to
ass_process_codec_private(). (This happens to parse full files too.)
Makes the code simpler, though it also relies harder on the (messy)
probe logic in demux_libass.c.
Remove the ao_buffer_playable_samples field. This contained the number
of samples that fill_audio_out_buffers() wanted to write to the AO (i.e.
this data was supposed to be played at some point), but ao_play()
rejected it due to partial fill.
This could happen with many AOs, notably those which align all written
data to an internal period size (often called "outburst" in the AO
code), and the accepted number of samples is rounded down to period
boundaries. The left-over samples at the end were still kept in
mpctx->ao_buffer, and had to be played later.
The reason ao_buffer_playable_samples had to exist was to make sure that
at EOF, the correct number of left-over samples was played (and not
possibly other data in the buffer that had to be sliced off due to
endpts in fill_audio_out_buffers()). (You'd think you could just slice
the entire buffer, but I suspect this wasn't done because the end time
could actually change due to A/V sync changes. Maybe that was the reason
it's so complicated.)
Some commits ago, ao.c gained internal buffering, and ao_play() will
never return partial writes - as long as you don't try to write more
samples than ao_get_space() reports. This is always the case. The only
exception is filling the audio buffers while paused. In this case, we
decode and play only 1 sample in order to initialize decoding (e.g. on
seeking). Actually playing this 1 sample is in fact a bug, but even of
the AO doesn't have period size alignment, you won't notice it. In
summary, this means we can safely remove the code.
Until now, this was always conflated with uninit. This was ugly, and
also many AOs emulated this manually (or just ignored it). Make draining
an explicit operation, so AOs which support it can provide it, and for
all others generic code will emulate it.
For ao_wasapi, we keep it simple and basically disable the internal
draining implementation (maybe it should be restored later).
Tested on Linux only.
We want to move the AO to its own thread. There's no technical reason
for making the ao struct opaque to do this. But it helps us sleep at
night, because we can control access to shared state better.
For example, consider the case when audio initialization fails. Then the
audio track is deselected. Before this commit, this would have been
equivalent to the user disabling audio. This is bad when multiple files
are played at once (the next file would have audio disabled, even if it
works), or if playback resume is used (if e.g. audio output failed to
initialize, then audio would be disabled when resuming, even if the
system's audio driver was fixed).
Not sure about this... might redo.
At least this provides a case of a broadcasted event, which requires
per-event data allocation.
See github issue #576.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marcin Kurczewski
Niklas Haas
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Stefano Pigozzi
Alessandro Ghedini
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