Using the IPC with a program, it's not often obvious that a newline must
be sent to terminate a command. Print a warning if the connection is
closed while there is still uninterpreted data in the buffer.
Print the OS reported error if reading/writing the socket fails. Print
an erro if JSON parsing fails.
I considered silencing write errors if the write end is closed (EPIPE),
because a client might send a bunch of commands, and then close the
socket without wanting to read the reply. But then, mpv disconnects
without reading further commands that might still be buffered, so it's
probably a good idea to always print the error.
Before this commit, this was defined to trigger undefined behavior. This
was nice because it required less code; but on the other hand, Lua as
well as IPC support had to check these things manually. Do it directly
in the API to avoid code duplication, and to make the API more robust.
(The total code size still grows, though...)
Since all of the failure cases were originally meant to ruin things
forever, there is no way to return error codes. So just print the
errors.
If the user has LEFT/RIGHT/etc. bound in his input.conf, then these were
overriding the menu keys in dvdnav mode.
This hack works because the dvdnav crap happens to be the only user of
MP_INPUT_ON_TOP. If it finds a default key binding in the dvdnav menu
section, it will use that, instead of continuing search and possibly
finding the user key bindings meant for normal playback.
...because everything is terrible.
strerror() is not documented as having to be thread-safe by POSIX and
C11. (Which is pretty much bullshit, because both mandate threads and
some form of thread-local storage - so there's no excuse why
implementation couldn't implement this in a thread-safe way. Especially
with C11 this is ridiculous, because there is no way to use threads and
convert error numbers to strings at the same time!)
Since we heavily use threads now, we should avoid unsafe functions like
strerror().
strerror_r() is in POSIX, but GNU/glibc deliberately fucks it up and
gives the function different semantics than the POSIX one. It's a bit of
work to convince this piece of shit to expose the POSIX standard
function, and not the messed up GNU one.
strerror_l() is also in POSIX, but only since the 2008 standard, and
thus is not widespread.
The solution is using avlibc (libavutil, by its official name), which
handles the unportable details for us, mostly. We avoid some pain.
Simpler, and leaves the decision to repeat or not fully to the script
(instead of requiring the user to care about it when remapping a script
binding).
Otherwise, mouse button bindings added by mp.add_key_binding() would be
ignored.
It's possible that this "breaks" some older scripts using undocumented
Lua script functions, but it should be safe otherwise.
Fixes#1283.
The fact that it's a generic command prefix that is parsed even when
using the client API is a bit unclean (because this flag makes sense
for actual key-bindings only), but it's less code this way.
This command was actually requested on IRC ages ago, but I forgot about
it.
The main purpose is that the decoding state can be reset without issuing
a seek, in particular in situations where you can't seek.
This restarts decoding from the middle of the packet stream; since it
discards the packet buffer intentionally, and the decoder will typically
not output "incomplete" frames until it has recovered, it can skip a
large amount of data.
It doesn't clear the byte stream cache - I'm not sure if it should.
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.
The ipc_thread can exit any time, and will free the mp_ipc_ctx when
doing this, leaving a dangling pointer. This was somewhat handled in the
original commit by setting mpctx->ipc_ctx to NULL when the thread
exited, but that was still a race condition.
Handle it by freeing most things after joining the ipc_thread. This
means some resources will not be freed until player exit, but that
should be ok (it's an exceptional error situation).
Also, actually close the pipe FDs in mp_init_ipc() on another error
path.
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)
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.
Commit 64b7811c tried to do the "right thing" with respect to whether
keyboard input should be enabled or not. It turns out that X11 does
something stupid by design. All modern toolkits work around this native
X11 behavior, but embedding breaks these workarounds.
The only way to handle this correctly is the XEmbed protocol. It needs
to be supported by the toolkit, and probably also some mpv support. But
Qt has inconsistent support for it. In Qt 4, a X11 specific embedding
widget was needed. Qt 5.0 doesn't support it at all. Qt 5.1 apparently
supports it via QWindow, but if it really does, I couldn't get it to
work.
So add a hack instead. The new --input-x11-keyboard option controls
whether mpv should enable keyboard input on the X11 window or not. In
the command line player, it's enabled by default, but in libmpv it's
disabled.
This hack has the same problem as all previous embedding had: move the
mouse outside of the window, and you don't get keyboard input anymore.
Likewise, mpv will steal all keyboard input from the parent application
as long as the mouse is inside of the mpv window.
Also see issue #1090.
Originally, all options were copied to ensure that input_ctx remins
thread-safe, even if options are changed asynchronously. But this got
a bit inconsistent. Copy them automatically and reduce some weirdness.
wm4
James Ross-Gowan
Alessandro Ghedini
Stefano Pigozzi