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.
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 last demuxed file position (demuxer->filepos) is used to estimate
the total playback percentage in files with possible timestamp resets
(like MPEG-PS). Until know, reading from any stream set this position
freely. This makes the position jump around.
Fix this by allowing icnreasing file position only. Reset it on seeking.
With crazy formats, this still could go wrong, but there's only so much
you can do.
Use the "native" underrun detection, instead of guessing by a low cache
duration. The new underrun detection (which was added with the original
commit) might have the problem that it's easy for the playloop to miss
the underrun event. The underrun is actually not stored as state, so if
the demuxer thread adds a new packet before the playloop happens to see
the state, it's as if it never happened. On the other hand, this means
that network was fast enough, so it should be just fine.
Also, should it happen that we don't know the cached range (the
ts_duration < 0 case), just wait until the demuxer goes idle (i.e.
read_packet() decides to stop). This pretty much should affect broken or
unusual files only, and there might be various things that could go
wrong. But it's more robust in the normal case: this situation also
happens when no packets have been read yet, and we don't want to
consider this as reason to resume playback.
The cache percentage was useless. It showed how much of the total stream
cache was in use, but since the cache size is something huge and
unrelated to the bitrate or network speed, the information content of
the percentage was rather low.
Replace this with printing the duration of the demuxer-cached data, and
the size of the stream cache in KB.
I'm not completely sure about the formatting; suggestions are welcome.
Note that it's not easy to know how much playback time the stream cache
covers, so it's always in bytes.
The "buffering" logic was active even if the stream cache was disabled.
This is contrary to what the manpage says. It also breaks playback
because of another bug: the demuxer cache is smaller than 2 seconds,
and thus the resume condition never becomes true.
Explicitly run this code only if the stream cache is enabled. Also, fix
the underlying problem of the breakage, and resume when the demuxer
thread stops reading in any case, not just on EOF.
Broken by previous commit. Unbreaks playback of local files.
Add the --cache-secs option, which literally overrides the value of
--demuxer-readahead-secs if the stream cache is active. The default
value is very high (10 seconds), which means it can act as network
cache.
Remove the old behavior of trying to pause once the byte cache runs
low. Instead, do something similar wit the demuxer cache. The nice
thing is that we can guess how many seconds of video it has cached,
and we can make better decisions. But for now, apply a relatively
naive heuristic: if the cache is below 0.5 secs, pause, and wait
until at least 2 secs are available.
Note that due to timestamp reordering, the estimated cached duration
of video might be inaccurate, depending on the file format. If the
file format has DTS, it's easy, otherwise the duration will seemingly
jump back and forth.
The purpose of the unconditional pthread_cond_signal() when reading
cached DEMUXER_CTRLs and STREAM_CTRLs was apparently to update the
stream cache state. Otherwise, the cached fields would never be updated
when the stream is e.g. paused.
The same could be said about other CTRLs, but these aren't as important,
since they are normally updated while reading packet data.
In order to reduce wakeups, make this logic explicit.
If a packet is appended to a stream, and there were already packets
queued, nothing about the state changed, as far as the user (i.e. the
player) is concerned. Thus no wakeup is needed.
The pthread_cond_signal() call following this is not interesting - it
will simply be a NOP if there are actually no waiters.
--demuxer-readahead-secs now controls how much the demuxer should
readahead by an amount of seconds. This is based on the raw packet
timestamps. It's not always very exact. For example, h264 in Matroska
does not store any linear timestamps (only PTS values which are going
to be reordered by the decoder), so this heuristic is usually off by
several hundred milliseconds.
The decision whether to readahead is basically OR-ed with the other
--demuxer-readahead-packets options. Change the manpage descriptions
to subtly convey these semantics.
Switching tracks caused cached_demux_control() to catch the command to
switch tracks, even if no thread was running. Thus, the tracks were
never really switched, and EOF happened immediately on playback start.
Fix it by not using the cache at all if the demuxer thread is disabled.
The cache code still has to be called somewhere, though, because it
handles stream metadata update.
Regression from today.
Because why not.
This can lead to reordering of operations between seeking and track
switching (happens when the demuxer wakes up after seek and track
switching operations were queued). Do the track switching strictly
before seeks if there is a chance of reordering, which guarantees that
the seek position will always start with key frames. The reverse
(seeking, then switching) does not really have any advantages.
(Not sure if the player relies on this behavior.)
This tells the demuxer thread that it should seek, instead of waiting
until the demuxer thread is ready.
Care has to be taken about the state between seek request and actual
seeking: newly demuxed packets have to be discarded. We can't just
flush when doing the actual seek, because the user thread could read
these packets.
I'm wondering if this could lead to issues due to relaxed ordering of
operations. But it should be fine, since seeking influences packet
reading only, and seeking is always strictly done before that.
Currently, this will have no advantages; unless audio is disabled. Then
seeking as well as normal playback can be non-blocking.
Instead of starting to fill the packet queue if at least 1 stream is
selected, wait until there is at least 1 stream had new packets
requested.
In theory this is cleaner, because it allows you to e.g. do a seek and
then reselect streams without losing packets. Seeking marks all streams
as inactive, and without this new logic, the thread would read new
packets anyway right after seek.
This fixes the same symptom as the previous commit, but when the demuxer
thread is enabled. In this case, if nothing was read from the demuxer,
the STREAM_CTRLs weren't updated either. To the player, this looked like
the stream cache was never making progress, so playback was kept paused.
It can happen that read_packet() doesn't read a packet, even if it
succeeds. Typically this is because a packet was read, but then thrown
away, because it's not part of a selected stream. The result would be a
bogus EOF condition.
Fix by explicitly checking for EOF.
In corner cases, it might be possible that a demux_read_packet_async()
call fails to make the demuxer thread to read more packets.
If a packet is queued, the function will simply return a packet, without
marking the stream as active. As a consequence, read_packet() might
decide not to read any further packets, and the demuxer will never read
a packet and wake up the playback thread.
This was originally done to align it with demux_read_packet() semantics;
just drop this.
demux_read_any_packet() attempts to call read_packet(), but if no stream
is active, it can decide not to read anything. The function will return
NULL, which implies EOF. Fix this by explicitly
setting demux_stream->active if needed.
Also use dequeue_packet() instead of demux_read_packet(), because it's
cleaner. (Shouldn't change behavior.)
Possibly fixes#938.
We told the demuxer that a pipe (if stream cache is enabled) is
seekable. This is because the stream cache is technically seekable, it's
just that seeking may fail at runtime if a non-cached byte range is
requested.
This caused libavformat to issue seeks on initialization (at least when
piping mp4 youtube videos). Initialization failed completely after
spamming tons of error messages.
So, if an unseekable stream is cached, tell the demuxer that the file is
not seekable. This gets reversed later (when printing a message about
caching an unseekable stream), so the user can still try his luck by
issuing a seek command. The important part is that libavformat
initialization will not take code paths that will unnecessarily seek for
whatever reasons.
CC: @mpv-player/stable: regression from 0.3.x
It was easy to get into a wakeup feedback loop on EOF. The reason that
EOF is complicated is that we try to retry reading when EOF is reached,
in case the EOF state actually disappears (e.g. when watching a
currently downloaded file).
This feature is probably worthless, since in practice you have to do a
seek to "unstuck" it anyway, but since the old code also did this, we
want to keep this behavior for now.
Avoid the feedback loop by introducing another EOF flag (last_eof), that
contains the actual previous EOF state, and is not overwritten when
retrying reading. Wakeup is skipped if the EOF state didn't change.
Also, actually call the wakeup callback when EOF is detected.
The line that adds "ds->active = false;" actually does nothing, but in
theory it's cleaner.
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.
It can happen that demux_fill_buffer() adds more than 1 packet, and then
the packets would add up. Affects demux_disc.c only (nothing else uses
this function).
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.
(Again.)
This time, we simply make it event-based, as it should be. This is done
for both demuxer metadata and stream metadata.
For some ogg-over-icy streams, 2 updates are reported on stream start.
This is because libavformat reports an update right on start, while
including the same info in the "static" metadata. I don't know if that's
a bug or a feature.
It's unlikely that files with multiple audio tracks and with replaygain
actually happen, but this change might help avoid minor corner cases
with later changes.
