They were more or less grouped by usefulness, but since everything
else in the manpage is sorted alphabetically, it's better to be
consistent and sort these options as well.
Commit c02f25 switched the "http://" protocol to use ffmpeg's HTTP
implementation (stream_lavf.c), instead of the mplayer internal one
(http.c). Unfortunately, it turns out that there are some network
related options that are not respected by stream_lavf.c, and
consequently do not work anymore for "http://" URLs. This might be
fixed later. Mark them as deprecated for now, as it might take
arbitrarily long until this is taken care of.
ffmpeg pretends that image attachments (such as contained in ID3v2
metadata) are video streams. It injects the attached pictures as packets
into the packet stream received with av_read_frame().
Add the --audio-display option to allow configuring whether attached
pictures should be displayed. The default behavior doesn't change
(images are displayed).
Identify video streams, that are actually image attachments, with "[P]"
in the terminal output.
Modify the default stream selection such that real video streams are
preferred over attached pictures. (This is just for robustness; I do not
know of any samples where images are added before actual video streams
and could lead to bad default stream selection with the old code.)
libavformat wants to read a full ~400KB of data to determine whether
it's really AAC. This causes slow startup with AAC web radio streams [1]
(possible due to a broken initial packet). There are similar issues
with other file formats.
Make the probe "score" (libavformat's mechanism for testing file
formats) configurable with the -lavfdtops:probescore option. This allows
lowering the amount of data read on probing. If the probe score is below
the probescore option value, demux_lavf will try to get a higher score
by feeding more data to libavformat, until the required score or the
max. probe size is reached.
Remove the lavf_preferred demuxer entry. This had a purpose in
mplayer-svn, but now there doesn't seem to be any good reason for it
to exist. Make sure that our native "good" demuxers are above
demux_lavf in demuxer_list[] instead (so that they are preferred).
[1] http://lr2mp0.latvijasradio.lv:8000
ffmpeg recently added a demuxer that can read vobsubs (pairs of .sub and
.idx files). Get rid of the internal vobsub reader, and use the ffmpeg
demuxer instead.
Sneak in an unrelated manpage change (autosub default).
Remove the options --utf8 and --unicode which had no effect any more
(what they once did should be doable with --subcp). The only use of
corresponding variables left in code was subreader.c code using
sub_utf8 as a flag indicating whether iconv conversion was active.
Change the code to test the existence of iconv context instead.
Conflicts:
DOCS/man/en/options.rst
core/cfg-mplayer.h
sub/sub.c
sub/sub.h
sub/subreader.c
Merged from mplayer2 commit ea7311.
Note: --unicode was already removed
When the cache fill status goes below a certain threshold, automatically
pause the player. When the cache is filled again, unpause again.
This is intended to help with streaming from http. It's better to pause
a while, rather than exposing extremely crappy behavior when packet
reads during decoding block the entire player.
In theory, we should try to increase the cache if underruns happen too
often. Unfortunately, changing the cache implementation would be very
hard, because it's insane code (forks, uses shared memory and "volatile"
etc.). So for now, this just reduces the frequency of the stuttering if
the network is absolutely too slow to play the stream in realtime.
MPlayer/mplayer2 still show DVD subtitles in gray. Depending on who you
ask, this can be considered a bug or a feature. Include rendering in
gray as explicit feature, so the user can decide what is better.
This affects all indexed sub bitmaps entering the OSD rendering path.
Currently, this means all image subs are affected by this option, but
nothing else.
Apparently the -spugauss option was popular. The code originally
implementing this is gone (scaler stuff in spudec.c). Reimplement it
using libswscale to scale and blur image subtitles if the --sub-gauss
option is set.
The code does some rather lazy padding to allow the blur to spread
pixels past the original image bounding box. (This problem exists with
normal bilinear scaling too, but is barely noticable.)
Technically, this doesn't just blur subtitles, but anything RGBA (or
indexed) that enters the OSD rendering path. But only image subtitles
produce these OSD formats currently, so no explicit check is done to
prevent blurring in other cases.
Make more aspects of the OSD font customizable. This also affects the
font used for unstyled subtitles (such as SRT), or when using the
--no-ass option. This adds back some customizability that was lost with
commit 74e7a1 (osd: use libass for OSD rendering).
Removed options:
--ass-border-color
--ass-color
--font
--subfont
--subfont-text-scale
Added options:
--osd-color
--osd-border
--osd-back-color
--osd-shadow-color
--osd-font
--osd-font-size
--osd-border-size
--osd-margin-x
--osd-margin-y
--osd-shadow-offset
--osd-spacing
--sub-scale
The font size is now specified in pixels as it would be rendered on a
window with a height of 720 pixels. OSD and subtitles are always scaled
with the window height, so specifying or expecting an absolute font
size doesn't make sense.
Such scaled pixel units are used to specify font border etc. as well.
(Note: the font size is directly passed to libass. How the fonts are
actually rasterized is outside of our control, but in theory ASS font
sizes map to "script" pixels and then are scaled to screen size.)
The default settings should be about the same, with slight difference
due to rounding to the new scales.
The OSD and subtitle fonts are not separately configurable. It has
limited use and would double the number of newly added options, which
would be more confusing than helpful. It could be easily added later,
should the need arise.
Other small details that change:
- ASS_Style.Encoding is not set to -1 for subs anymore
(assuming subs use VSFilter direction in -no-ass mode too)
- use a different WrapStyle for OSD
- ASS forced styles are not applied to OSD
The --start and --end switch now accept a chapter number. The chapter
number is prefixed with '#', e.g. "--start=#2" jumps to chapter 2.
The chapter support might be able to replace --chapter completely, but
for now I am not sure how well this works out with e.g. DVDs and BDs,
and a separate --chapter option is useful interface-wise.
(This was supposed to be added in 51503a, but apparently the fixup
commit adding it was lost in a rebase. This might also be the reason
for the mess-up fixed in 394285.)
Enable autoprobing for demux_mf, so that image files can be directly
displayed with e.g. "mpv file.jpg --pause". (The --pause switch is
needed to prevent the window from closing immediately.)
Since demux_mf doesn't have any real file format probing and goes by
file extension only, move the demuxer down the demuxer list to ensure
it's checked last. (ffmpeg's demux_mf equivalent, "image2", probes by
file extensions too, and there doesn't seem to be anything that can
probe typical image file formats from binary data.)
Remove the --mf "w" and "h" suboptions. Don't pass the width/height to
the video stream header. Both of these are useless, because the decoder
reads the real image size at a later point from the file headers.
Remove setting the BITMAPINFOHEADER as well, as vd_lavc doesn't need
this.
Enable --correct-pts by default. This fixes displaying a single image
with vo_vdpau (as mentioned by uau).
Keep around a pointer to the sh_video stream header instead of
accessing demuxer->video->sh_video. Fixes a crash when deselecting the
video track.
Note that the format probing is incorrect when opening images from HTTP
locations. File extensions don't have to match the actual file format.
A correct implementation would require to check the MIME type, or to
probe the binary data correctly.
The --keep-open option causes mpv not to close the current file.
Instead, it will pause, and allow the user to seek around. When
seeking beyond the end of the file, mpv does a precise seek back to
the previous last known position that produced video output.
In some corner cases, mpv might not be able to produce video output at
all, despite having created a VO. (Possibly when only 1 frame could be
decoded, but the video filter chain queues frames. Then a VO would be
created, without sending an actual video frame to the VO.) In these
cases, the VO window will not redraw, not even OSD.
Based on a patch by coax [1].
[1] http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/210#comment:4
"--autosub-match" is close to "--autosub", and reflects what this
option does slightly better. Replace the magic number option values
with choices:
--sub-fuzziness=0 becomes --autosub-match=exact
--sub-fuzziness=1 becomes --autosub-match=fuzzy
--sub-fuzziness=2 becomes --autosub-match=all
Rename the -ss option to -start, and -endpos to -length. Add a -end
option. The -end option always specifies an absolute end time, as
opposed to -endpos/-length.
All these options (--start, --end, --length) now accept relative times.
Percent positions (e.g. "--start=30%") are interpreted as fractions of
the file duration. Negative times (e.g. "--start=-1:00) are interpreted
relative to the end of the file. Chapters (e.g. "--start=#3") yield the
chapter's time position.
The chapter support might be able to replace --chapter completely, but
for now I am not sure how well this works out with e.g. DVDs and BDs,
and a separate --chapter option is useful interface-wise.
Remove the code that attempted to read cookie files from well-known
browser locations. This code was written for ancient browsers, and only
knew about Mozilla and Netscape. While it's possible that these browsers
are still alive and still use the same config locations and cookie file
formats, the only Mozilla-based browser that still matters is Firefox.
Firefox uses a sqlite database for cookies, located in a slightly
different config path.
Just remove this code.
The -zoom option enabled scaling with vo_x11. Remove the -zoom option,
and make its behavior default. Since vo_x11 has to use libswscale for
colorspace conversion anyway, which doesn't do actual extra scaling when
vo_x11 is run in windowed mode, there should be no speed difference with
this change.
The code removed from vf_scale attempted to scale the video to d_width/
d_height, which matters for anamorphic video and the --xy option only.
vo_x11 can handle these natively. The only case for which the removed
vf_scale code could matter is encoding with vo_lavc, but since that
didn't set VOFLAG_SWSCALE, nothing actually changes.
The -ni option does something with the AVI demuxer only.
Also fix misleading error messages when the packet queue overflows (it
suggests using -ni, which in the typical case of playing NI AVI files
will not work, as demux_lavf is used by default).
This controlled the generation of the palette for DVD subs if no palette
was found. The option name and description is confusing, and it was
probably barely useful. Remove the option, and hardcode the behavior to
the option's default value.
The code for this option attempted to emulate the old as-documented
behavior. It wasn't very good at it, and now that the old OSD code has
been removed, it's entirely pointless.
This removes the factor 1.7 with which --subfont-text-scale was
multiplied.
Most of these cased working when the OSD was switched to libass, or
didn't do anything even before that.
Also don't recursively include subreader.h in sub.h.
To ease changing all the VOs to the new OSD rendering, fallbacks,
conversions, support code etc. was left all over the code. Now that
all VOs have been changed, all that code is inactive. Remove it.
Strip down spudec.c. We don't need the old grayscale and scaling stuff
anymore. (Not removing spudec itself yet - I'm not confident that the
libavcodec DVD sub decoder is sufficient, and it would also require
some hacks to get DVD palette and resolution information from libdvdread
to libavcodec.)
The option --spuaa, --spualign, --spugauss were used with the old sub
scaling code, and don't do anything anymore.
This was an extremely obscure setting, as it was used only with vo_gl
if its scaled-osd suboption was used. If you really want this, you can
set the desired ass-hinting value directly, and there will be literally
no loss in functionality.
Note that this didn't actually test whether the EOSD was scaled.
Basically, it only checked whether vo_gl had the scaled-osd suboption
set.
Useless. It complicated the code and caused flicker, and was useless
otherwise. The manpage describes this option as "should not normally
be used".
One possibly useful effect from the point of view of the user was that
vsync was disabled. You can do this with the --vsync option, or by
changing X/driver settings directly.
In input test mode, key bindings won't be executed, but are shown on the
OSD. The OSD includes various information, such as the name of the key,
the command itself, whether it's builtin, and the config file location
it was defined.
The input test mode can be enabled with "--input=test". No effort is
spent trying to react to key bindings that normally exit the player;
they are treated just like any other binding.
This changes the name of this project to mpv. Most user-visible mentions
of "MPlayer" and "mplayer" are changed to "mpv". The binary name and the
default config file location are changed as well.
The new default config file location is: ~/.mpv/
Remove etc/mplayer.desktop. Apparently this was for the MPlayer GUI,
which has been removed from mplayer2 ages ago.
We don't have a logo, and the MS Windows resource files sort-of require
one, so leave etc/mplayer.ico/.xpm as-is.
Remove the debian and rpm packaging scripts. These contained outdated
dependencies and likely were more harmful than useful. (Patches which
add working and well-tested packaging are welcome.)
There are a number of options which modify ASS subtitle rendering. Most
of these do things that can interfere with the styling done by subtitle
scripts, resulting in incorrect rendering. Add the --ass-style-override
option to make it easy to disable all overrides. This helps trouble-
shooting, and makes it more practical to use the override features. (You
can simply toggle the ass-style-override property at runtime, should
one of the style override options break subtitle rendering at a certain
point.)
This mainly affects whether most --ass-* options are applied, as well
as --sub-pos. Some things, like explicit style overrides loaded with
--ass-force-style, can't be changed at runtime using the
ass-style-override property.
Replaces the status line with a custom string.
This is probably useful for hacking old slave mode applications into
working again. Even if not, this might be generally useful.
Make more properties use the property-to-option bridge to reduce code
size and to enforce consistency. Some options are renamed to the same
as the properties (the property names are better in all cases).
Do some other minor cleanups. One bigger issue was memory management of
strings: M_PROPERTY_TO_STRING assumed the strings were statically
allocated, and no dynamic allocations could be returned. Fix this in
case the need for such properties arises in the future. Get rid of
m_property_string_ro(), because it's not always clear that the "action"
parameter is M_PROPERTY_SET and the string argument will be used.
wm4
Uoti Urpala
Rudolf Polzer
Stefano Pigozzi