While being able to play videos on a framebuffer device would be nice,
I didn't need it, and couldn't even test it (buggy nvidia binary
drivers that disable framebuffers, buggy DirectFB that crashes when
using the X11 backend). It's just dead weight, get rid of it.
vo_directx was very horrible, and by today it's mostly useless. I didn't
remove it, because there was that-guy who told me in amazement how
awesome mplayer was, because it was the only video player fast enough
for fast playback on his system when using vo_directx. Sorry, that-guy.
When the internal mplayer MPEG demuxer was removed (commit 1fde09db),
the default demuxer when using dvdnav was set to libavformat. Now it
turns out that this doesn't work with libavformat. It will terminate
playback right after the audio runs out (instead of looping it like the
video, or whatever it's supposed to do). I'm not sure what exactly the
problem is, but since 1. even mplayer-svn can't handle DVD menus
directly (missing highlights), 2. DVD menus are essentially worthless,
and 3. I don't directly watch DVDs, don't bother with it and remove it.
For basic playback, there's still libdvdread support.
Also, use pkg-config for libdvdread, and drop support for in-tree
libdvdread. Remove support for in-tree libdvdcss as well.
It's not clear why this video filter supported OSD rendering.
The manpage says:
"Can be used for placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands."
But every single VO already does this if vf_expand adds black borders.
This feature is 100% pointless.
Rename -slave to -slave-broken to prevent slave mode applications from
working. Do this to prevent horrible user experiences, in case someone
should attempt to try this version of mplayer with smplayer and others.
This also makes it clear that we don't intend to keep slave mode
compatibility, because the slave mode protocol is horrible and bad.
See the changes in options.rst for further reasons and comments.
Since slave mode is not planned to be kept, this VO is useless and I'm
removing it.
This VO was useful for OSX GUIs. Since in cocoa you can't embed views in
windows from other processes, this VO was writing to a sharedbuffer with
mmap. The OSX GUIs would then read from the buffer and render the image
with an external renderer.
If in the future we will want to support GUIs we will need to reasearch the
IOSurface framework. This allows to share kernel managed image data
across processes and integrates well with OpenGL.
The documentation is mostly taken from the help text embedded in the
code of each output driver.
vo_v4l2 and ao_v4l2 have been removed.
Minor modifications to vo_xv, vo_directx and vo_gl.
Although slightly less precise, this sounds less clunky.
This change also causes the --screenshot-filetype option to be renamed
to --screenshot-format.
Teletext requires special OSD support. Because I can't even test
teletext, I can't restore support for it. Since teletext can be
considered ancient and obscure, and since it doesn't make sense to keep
the remaining teletext code without being able to use it, I'm removing
it.
While this was an interesting idea, it wasn't actually useful.
Basically it dumped the raw data (as requested by the demuxer) into a
file. The result is only useful if the file format was raw or maybe
some MPEG packet stream, but not with most modern file formats.
This was disabled by default, and could be enabled with -dr. It was
disabled by default because it was buggy: there were issues with OSD
corruption.
It wasn't entirely sane for OpenGL based VOs either. OpenGL can chose
to drop mapped pixel buffer objects, requiring the application to map
and fill the buffer again. But there was no mechanism in mplayer to
fill the lost buffer again. (It seems this rarely happened in practice,
though.)
On the other side, users liked the --dr flag, because it promised them
more speed. I'm not sure if it actually helped with speed, but it's
unlikely it had any real advantages on modern systems.
In order to evade the --dr cargo culting in mplayer config files, it's
best to get rid of it.
stream_cue, which provided the cue:// protocol handler, was extremely
hacky and didn't even manage to play some samples I tried.
Remove it, because it's plain unneeded. There is much better support
for .cue files elsewhere:
- libcdio can play pairs of .cue/.bin files:
mplayer cdda:// --cdrom-device=your_cue_file.cue
Note that if the .cue file is not accompanied by a .cue file, but
an encoded file for example, this most likely won't work.
- mplayer can play .cue files directly:
mplayer your_cue_file.cue
This works, even if the .cue file comes with encoded files that are
not .bin . Note that if you play .bin files, mplayer will assume a
specific raw audio format. If the format doesn't match, mplayer will
play noise and destroy your speakers. Note that format mismatches are
extremely common, because the endianness seems to be essentially
random. (libcdio uses a clever algorithm to detect the endian, and
doesn't have this problem.)
To quote the manpage: "This filter is untested, maybe even unusable."
And it seems they were never touched again after it was added many
years ago (except for cosmetic changes). Just get rid of them.
About a year ago, ubitux converted most of the old manpage from the
hard to maintain nroff format to reStructuredText. This was not merged
back into the master repository immediately. The argument was that the
new manpage still required work to be done. However, progress was very
slow. Even worse: the old manpage wasn't updated, because it was
scheduled for deletion, and updating it would have meant useless work.
Now the situation is that the new manpage still isn't finished, and the
old manpage is grossly out of sync with the player. This is not helpful
for users. Additionally, keeping the new manpage in a separate branch,
while the normal development repository for code had the old manpage,
was very inconvenient, because you couldn't just update the
documentation in the same commit as the code.
Even though the new manpage isn't finished yet, merging it now seems to
be the best course of action. Squash-merge the manpage development
branch [1], revision e89f5dd3f2, which branches from the mplayer2
master branch after revision 159102e0cb.
Committers:
* Clément Bœsch <ubitux@gmail.com> (Initial conversion to RST.)
* Uoti Urpala <uau@mplayer2.org> (Many updates.)
* Myself (Minor edits.)
Most text of the manpage has been directly taken from the old manpage,
because this is a conversion, not a complete rewrite.
[1] http://git.mplayer2.org/uau/mplayer2.git/log/?h=man
Conflicts:
.gitignore
bstr.c
cfg-mplayer.h
defaultopts.c
libvo/video_out.c
The conflict in bstr.c is due to uau adding a bstr_getline function in
commit 2ba8b91a97e7e8. This function already existed in this branch.
While uau's function is obviously derived from mine, it's incompatible.
His function preserves line breaks, while mine strips them. Add a
bstr_strip_linebreaks function, fix all other uses of bstr_getline, and
pick uau's implementation.
In .gitignore, change vo_gl3_shaders.h to use an absolute path
additional to resolving the merge conflict.
Delete all manpages and XML documentation in languages other than
English. The XML documentation was badly out of date. The content of
translated manpages was somewhat out of date, and manpage formatting
will change to use reStructuredText instead of raw troff format. If
updated translations are created for some languages later, I think
it's better to maintain those outside the main repository.
Add option --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat and corresponding property
ass_vsfilter_aspect_compat. The setting controls whether to enable the
emulation of traditional VSFilter behavior where subtitles are
stretched if the video is anamorphic (previously always enabled for
native SSA/ASS subtitles). Enabled by default. Add 'V' as a new
default keybinding to toggle the property.
Correct suboption stereo descriptions, and reformat to be compliant
with other sections.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33788 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33648 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Improve stereo3d interleaved man page description.
Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33689 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Change memcpy_pic to force it to never write to image parts between
width and stride if creating a row-interleaved format, otherwise
the second memcpy_pic might overwrite what the first wrote.
Changing the first should not be necessary but might result in
better performance.
Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33690 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
NOTE: the memory for the "file" argument will be leaked; dynamic
options are not automatically freed. Not fixing that now as I might
implement more general handling later. -uau
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33488 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33498 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Change some key names to upper case and to match the names used in
input.conf bindings. Most of them already were in this form.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@33382 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Due to libavcodec changes vo_xvmc would have needed some modifications
to keep working. However, I think there's little real demand for XvMC,
so I'll just drop XvMC support. XvMC only supported MPEG-2, making it
of very limited usefulness nowadays, plus the vo_xvmc implementation
was not high quality and never worked particularly well or reliably
anyway.
Change ao_pcm to use the new audio output driver API and clean up some
of the code. Rewrite the logic controlling how playback timing works
when using -ao pcm. Deprecate the "fast" suboption; its only effect
now is to print a warning, but it's still accepted so that specifying
it is not an error.
Before, timing with -ao pcm and video enabled had two possible
modes. In the default mode playback speed was rather arbitrary - not
realtime, but not particularly fast. -ao pcm:fast tried to play back
at maximum video playback speed - mostly succeeding, but not quite
guaranteed to work in all cases. Now the default is to play at
realtime speed. The -benchmark option can now be used to get faster
playback (same as the video-only case). In the audio-only case
playback is always maximum speed.
Instead of strictly limiting the number of total entries in the
internal fifo, make the overall buffer bigger and try to limit entries
based on how many bound commands they're expected to generate. Now
doubleclick and button down events aren't counted for that limit.
Normally the sequence down-doubleclick-up generates at most one
command, so this better matches the quantity we actually want to
limit. Also add a mechanism to clear the button combination state kept
by input.c when the fifo is full; this avoids "stuck button" problems
due to button release events being dropped.
The key combination state clearing is partially based on MPlayer 1
changes by Reimar Döffinger (though overall the effects of this commit
are quite different). It still doesn't make "stuck button" problems
completely impossible; at least if the VO gets closed while a button
was down then nothing will send a button up event or reset state.
The code combining button presses into multibutton commands prevented
single click commands from triggering if a doubleclick event had been
generated from the same button press. As a result using the mouse
wheel to seek worked very badly. Special-case doubleclick events in
the event interpretation code to avoid this issue. This changes the
sequence of generated "keys" for press-release-press-release from
MOUSE_BTN0 MOUSE_BTN0-MOUSE_BTN0_DBL MOUSE_BTN0_DBL to
MOUSE_BTN0 MOUSE_BTN0_DBL MOUSE_BTN0.
"Keys" like MOUSE_BTN0-MOUSE_BTN0_DBL will never be generated now; any
existing configuration files using those need to be changed.
For some reason the -lavfdopts option was documented under MEncoder
options (despite not being MEncoder-specific), and was removed
together with MEncoder documentation in commit d76ad5f227. Restore the
documentation and convert it from its own section to normal option
documentation form. Also fix the example to actually work with current
lavf.
Add option -osd-fractions which enables display of fractional seconds
when showing the current playback time on OSD.
Based on a patch from Christian <herr.mitterlehner@gsmpaaiml.com> but
with several modifications.
Drop support for specifying demuxer types by numeric ID (options
-demuxer, -audio-demuxer and -sub-demuxer). Stop printing the numeric
values in "-demuxer help" output. Convert the list of DEMUXER_TYPE_XXX
defines to "enum demuxer_type".
