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When AAC is streamed over HTTP, using libavformat defaults is pathetically slow. One solution for that is skipping probing and using the mimetype to identify that it's AAC instead. This is what we did before this commit (and ffmpeg does it too, but their logic is too "inaccessible" for mpv). This is still pretty fragile though. Make it a bit more robust by requiring minimal probing. A probescore of 25 is reached after feeding 2 KB to libavformat (instead of > 500 KB for the normal probescore), so use that. This is done only when streaming AAC from HTTP to reduce the possibility of weird breakages for other formats. Also reduce analyzeduration. The default analyzeduration will make libavformat read lots of data, which makes playback start slow. So we set analyzeduration to a low value. On the other hand, doing that for other formats is risky, because there are unspecified effects with certain "strange" formats (like transport streams). So we do this only if we're streaming AAC from HTTP as well. tl;dr libavformat is shit for media players |
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mpv
Overview
mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
If you are wondering what's different from mplayer2 and MPlayer you can read more about the changes.
Compilation
Compiling with full features requires development files for several
external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements. For
more information see the output of ./configure --help for a list of options,
or look at the list of enabled and disabled features printed after running
./configure. If you think you have support for some feature installed
but configure fails to detect it, the file config.log may contain
information about the reasons for the failure.
Essential dependencies (incomplete list):
- gcc or clang
- X development headers (xlib, X extensions, libvdpau, libGL, libXv, ...)
- Audio output development headers (libasound, pulseaudio)
- fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
- libass
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libpostproc)
- libjpeg
- libquvi if you want to play Youtube videos directly
- libx264 if you want to use encoding (has to be explicitly enabled when compiling ffmpeg)
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal Linux distributions. However FFmpeg is an exception (distro versions may be too old to work at all or work well). For that reason you may want to use the separately available build wrapper (mpv-build) that first compiles FFmpeg libraries and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
If you are running Mac OSX and using homebrew we provide homebrew-mpv, an up to date formula that compiles mpv with sensible dependencies and defaults for OSX.
Bug reports
Please use the issue tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests.
Contributing
For small changes you can just send us pull requests through GitHub. For bigger changes come and talk to us on IRC before you start working on them. It will make code review easier for both parties later on.
Contacts
You can find us on IRC in #mpv-player on irc.freenode.net