af_format is the old audio conversion filter. It could do all possible
conversions supported by the audio chain. However, ever since the
addition of af_lavrresample, most conversions are done by
libav/swresample, and af_format is used as fallback.
Separate out the fallback cases and remove af_format. af_convert24 does
24 bit <-> 32 bit conversions, while af_convertsignendian does sign and
endian conversions. Maybe the way the conversions are split sounds a bit
odd. But the former changes the size of the audio data, while the latter
is fully in-place, so there's at least different buffer management.
This requires a quite complicated algorithm to make sure all these
"partial" conversion filters can actually get from one format to
another. E.g. s24le->s32be always requires convertsignendian and
convert24, but af.c has no idea what the intermediate format should
be. So I added a graph search (trying every possible format and
filter) to determine required format and filter. When I wrote this,
it seemed this was still better than messing everything into
af_lavrresample, but maybe this is overkill and I'll change my
opinion. For now, it seems nice to get rid of af_format though.
The AC3->IEC61937 conversion isn't supported anymore, but I don't think
this is needed anywhere. Most AOs test all formats explicitly, or use
the AF_FORMAT_IS_IEC61937() macro (which includes AC3).
One positive consequence of this change is that conversions always
include dithering (done by libav/swresample), instead of possibly going
through af_format, which doesn't do anything fancy.
Rename af_force to af_format. It's essentially compatible with command
line uses of af_format. We retain a compatibility alias for af_force.
Now that talloc has been removed, the license can be switched back to
GPLv2+. Actually, there never was a GPLv2+ licensed MPlayer (fork or
not) until now, but removal of some GPLv2-only code makes this possible
now. Rewrite the Copyright file to explain the reasons for the licenses
MPlayer and forks use. The old Copyright file didn't contain anything
interesting anymore, and all information it contained is available at
other places in the source tree.
The reason for the license change itself is that it should improve
interoperability with differently licensed code in general.
This essentially reverts commit 1752808.
The argument or this change is that --loop should set how often the
file is played, not the number of additional repeats.
Based on pull request 277, with additions to the manpage and removal
of "--loop=0".
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
This commit adds the --force-window option, which will cause mpv always
to create a window when started. This can be useful when pretending that
mpv is a GUI application (which it isn't, but users pretend anyway), and
playing audio files would run mpv in the background without giving a
window to control it.
This doesn't actually create the window immediately: it only does so
only after initializing playback and when it is clear that there won't
be any actual video. This could be a problem when starting slow or
completely stuck network streams (mpv would remain frozen in the
background), or if video initialization somehow is stuck forever in
an in-between state (like when the decoder doesn't output a video
frame, but doesn't return an error either). Well, we can pretend only
so much that mpv is a GUI application.
This is preliminary. There are still tons of issues, and any aspect
of scripting may change in the future. I decided to merge this
(preliminary) work now because it makes it easier to develop it, not
because it's done. lua.rst is clear enough about it (plus some
sarcasm).
This requires linking to Lua. Lua has no official pkg-config file, but
there are distribution specific .pc files, all with different names.
Adding a non-pkg-config based configure test was considered, but we'd
rather not.
One major complication is that libquvi links against Lua too, and if
the Lua version is different from mpv's, you will get a crash as soon
as libquvi uses Lua. (libquvi by design always runs when a file is
opened.) I would consider this the problem of distros and whoever
builds mpv, but to make things easier for users, we add a terrible
runtime test to the configure script, which probes whether libquvi
will crash. This is disabled when cross-compiling, but in that case
we hope the user knows what he is doing.
This code is actually quite inefficient: it reuses the (slow, simple)
screenshot code. It uses an inefficient method to read the image
(vaGetImage() instead of vaDeriveImage()), allocates new memory for
each frame that is read, and it tries all image formats again each
time.
Also, in my tests it always picked NV12 as image format, which is not
ideal if you actually want to filter the video, and vo_xv can't handle
this format without conversion either.
However, a user confirmed that it worked for him, so everything is fine.
Merged from pull request #246 by xylosper. Minor cosmetic changes, some
adjustments (compatibility with older libva versions), and manpage
additions by wm4.
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
By default, libavformat uses UDP for rtsp playback. This doesn't work
very well. Apparently the reason is that the buffer sizes libavformat
chooses for UDP are way too small, and switching to TCP gets rid of this
issue entirely (thanks go to Reimar Döffinger for figuring this out).
In theory, you can set buffer sizes as libavformat options, but that
doesn't seem to help.
Add an option to select the rtsp transport, and make TCP the default.
Also remove an outdated comment from stream.c.
Allows for example: --status-msg='${?pause==yes:(Paused) } ...' to
emulate the normal terminal status line. It's useful in other situations
too.
I'm a bit worried about extending this mini-DSL, and sure hope nobody
will implement a generic formula evaluator at some point in the future.
But for now we're probably safe.
Note that this is intentionally never done if the AO or softvolume is
different, or if the current volume control method is thought to control
system wide volume (such as ALSA) or otherwise user controllable (such
as PulseAudio). The intention is to keep things robust and to avoid
messing with the user's audio settings as far as possible, while still
providing the ability to resume volume if it makes sense.
Commit broke text subtitles without embedded fonts. Will look for a better
solution later. Revert it for now, since I'm starting to get bug reports.
This reverts commit 4a9f618d9f.
Improves display of images and video with alpha channel, especially if
the transparent regions contain (supposed to be invisible) garbage
color values.
This is to avoid the 30s hang while mpv caches fonts. In practice all the
fonts an average user is going to use are embedded in mkv files so there is
no reason to build fontconfig's cache on all of OS X system directories.
I might add something similar for terminal usage, but I am highly undecided.
These would have to be updated manually all the time. Replacing them
automatically would be possible, but additional work, and would force
regeneration of the manpage way too often.
We decided that we don't need these fields.
Instead of containing a format string within %w{...}, simply allow %w
to specify one item of a time format string. This is simpler, more like
other format specifiers (%t), and probably easier to use too.
This is commonly used to disable the screensaver with broken/non-
standard X screensavers. During pause, the screensaver should not be
disabled, so not calling this command while paused seems sensible.
See github issue #236.
The --deinterlace option does on playback start what the "deinterlace"
property normally does at runtime. You could do this before by using the
--vf option or by messing with the vo_vdpau default options, but this
new option is supposed to be a "foolproof" way.
The main motivation for adding this is so that the deinterlace property
can be restored when using the video resume functionality
(quit_watch_later command).
Implementation-wise, this is a bit messy. The video chain is rebuilt in
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo(), where we don't have access to MPContext, so the
usual mechanism for enabling deinterlacing can't be used. Further,
mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() is called by the video decoder, which doesn't
have access to MPContext either. Moving this call to mplayer.c isn't
currently possible either (see below). So we just do this before frames
are filtered, which potentially means setting the deinterlacing every
frame. Fortunately, setting deinterlacing is stable and idempotent, so
this is hopefully not a problem. We also add a counter that is
incremented on each reconfig to reduce the amount of additional work per
frame to nearly zero.
The reason we can't move mpcodecs_reconfig_vo() to mplayer.c is because
of hardware decoding: we need to check whether the video chain works
before we decide that we can use hardware decoding. Changing it so that
this can be decided in advance without building a filter chain sounds
like a good idea and should be done, but we aren't there yet.
Retrieve per-chapter metadata, but don't do much with it. We just make
the metadata of the _current_ chapter available as chapter-metadata
property. Returning the full chapter list with metadata would be no
problem, except that the property interface isn't really good with
structured data, so it's not available for now.
Not sure if it's worth it, but it was requested via github issue #201.
This option makes the cursor always visible in windowed mode.
Apparently, this is what (some?) Windows and OSX users expect. It's
disabled by default for now.
Restructure the cursor hide logic a bit for this purpose.
The --volume option accepted values up to 10000, but internally, the
value is always clipped to 0-100 range. What makes this even worse is
that --softvol-max suggests that it extends the range of --volume, which
is not the case. (And passing a volume larger than 100 to --volume
didn't even print a warning.)
When enabling --save-position-on-quit, playback position stored not only
on quit, but in any case playback of a file was stopped. This includes
going to the next file with playlist navigation commands.
After some discussion on IRC, it turned out that nobody thought this was
good behavior. Disable it, and really make it save only on quit.
Maybe the option is useless now, as the user could remap the CLOSE_WIN
key binding. On the other hand, CLOSE_WIN sounds and _is_ a bit obscure.