mpv/player
wm4 aa03ee7300 demux: redo timed metadata
The old implementation didn't work for the OGG case. Discard the old
shit code (instead of fixing it), and write new shit code. The old code
was already over a year old, so it's about time to rewrite it for no
reason anyway.

While it's true that the old code appears to be broken, the main reason
to rewrite this is to make it simpler. While the amount of code seems to
be about the same, both the concept and the actual tag handling are
simpler. The result is probably a bit more correct.

The packet struct shrinks by 8 byte. That fact that it wasted 8 bytes
per packet for a rather obscure use case was the reason I started this
at all (and when I found that OGG updates didn't work). While these 8
bytes aren't going to hurt, the packet struct was getting too bloated.
If you buffer a lot of data, these extra fields will add up. Still quite
some effort for 8 bytes. Fortunately, it's not like there are any
managers that need to be convinced whether it's worth doing. The freedom
to waste time on dumb shit.

The old implementation attached the current metadata to each packet.
When the decoder read the packet, the packet's metadata was made
current. The new implementation stores metadata as separate list, and
requires that the player frontend tells it the current playback time,
which will be used to find the currently valid metadata. In both cases,
the objective was to correctly update metadata even if a lot of data is
buffered ahead (and to update them correctly when seeking within the
demuxer cache).

The new implementation is actually slightly more correct, because it
uses the playback time for the metadata lookup. Consider if you have an
audio filter which buffers 15 seconds (unfortunately such a filter
exists), then the old code would update the current title 15 seconds too
early, while the new one does it correctly.

The new code also simplifies mixing the 3 metadata sources (global, per
stream, ICY). We assume these aren't mixed in a meaningful way. The old
code tried to be a bit more "exact". I didn't bother to look how the old
code did this, but the new code simply always "merges" with the previous
metadata, so if a newer tag removes a field, it's going to stick around
anyway.

I tried to keep it simple. Other approaches include making metadata a
special sh_stream with metadata packets. This would have been
conceptually clean, but the implementation would probably have been
unnatural (and doesn't match well with libavformat's API anyway). It
would have been nice to make the metadata updates chapter points (makes
a lot of sense for the intended use case, web radio current song
information), but I don't think it would have been a good idea to make
chapters suddenly so dynamic. (Still an idea to keep in mind; the new
code actually makes it easier to work towards this.)

You could mention how subtitles are timed metadata, and actually are
implemented as sparse packet streams in some formats. mp4 implements
chapters as special subtitle stream, AFAIK. (Ironically, this is very
not-ideal for files. It would be useful for streaming like web radio,
but mp4 is extremely bad for streaming by design for other reasons.)

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2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
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javascript js: expose mpv_abort_async_command() (match dbe831bd) 2019-09-11 21:08:04 +03:00
lua demux_edl, cue, mkv: clean up timeline stuff slightly 2019-09-19 20:37:04 +02:00
audio.c player: ensure backward playback state is propagated on track switching 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
client.c client: fix potential mpv_cmd/async leak 2019-07-08 16:42:47 +02:00
client.h command: add infrastructure for async commands 2018-05-24 19:56:34 +02:00
command.c command: show number of hidden items in OSD lists 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
command.h command: add a way to abort asynchronous commands 2018-05-24 19:56:34 +02:00
configfiles.c Remove optical disc fancification layers 2019-09-13 17:31:59 +02:00
core.h player: fix --loop with backward playback 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
external_files.c external_files: add .lrc subtitle extension 2019-09-02 01:25:43 +03:00
external_files.h player: get rid of mpv_global.opts 2018-05-24 19:56:35 +02:00
javascript.c js: expose mpv_abort_async_command() (match dbe831bd) 2019-09-11 21:08:04 +03:00
loadfile.c demux: redo timed metadata 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
lua.c lua: expose mpv_abort_async_command() 2018-05-24 19:56:34 +02:00
main.c Implement backwards playback 2019-09-19 20:37:04 +02:00
misc.c player: fix --loop with backward playback 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
osd.c player: modify/simplify AB-loop behavior 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
playloop.c player: ensure backward playback state is propagated on track switching 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
screenshot.c image_writer: move convert_image() to player/screenshot.c 2019-09-14 23:02:39 +02:00
screenshot.h image_writer: move convert_image() to player/screenshot.c 2019-09-14 23:02:39 +02:00
scripting.c scripting: change when/how player waits for scripts being loaded 2018-04-18 01:17:41 +03:00
sub.c player: ensure backward playback state is propagated on track switching 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00
video.c player: ensure backward playback state is propagated on track switching 2019-09-19 20:37:05 +02:00