The window-scale property mirrors the respective option (not the
effective scale derived from the current window size), and as such
setting its value to the same value it had before has no effect.
Specifically - the window will not resize.
This is consistent as far as property-option bridge behavior goes,
but we do end up with an issue that we can't set an arbitrary scale
and expect the window to always resize accordingly.
We do also have a current-window-scale property which does reflect
the actual window size, however, it's been read-only till now.
This commit makes current-window-scale RW so that it's now always
possible to set an arbitrary scale and expect the window to resize
accordingly (without affecting window-scale - like manual resize).
Also, mention window-scale no-effect-if-not-changed at the docs.
Based on code by @Dudemanguy from commit 873ae0d, with same effect.
This reverts commit 873ae0de2a.
The next commit will restore this functionality, with the
following differences from the reverted commit:
- Smaller and simpler code change.
- On bad scale: use "Invalid value" (compared to "no such property").
- Doesn't combine the docs for window-scale and current-window-scale.
- Doesn't remove the docs for window-scale behavior prior to 0.31.0.
Somewhat confusingly, mpv has both a window-scale option and a
current-window-scale property. The documentation lists window-scale
under properties (and it is technically is one), but at its core it is
actually an option which means it behaves subtly different. Options in
mpv are runtime-configurable, but they only change anything if the value
of the option itself changes. window-scale is an option and not meant to
keep track of the actual scale of the window (intended behavior
introduced by d07b7f0). This causes window-scale to do nothing in
certain cases (ex: the window is manually resized and window-scale is
set to 1.00 again). This is logical and consistent with the behavior of
the rest of the mpv options, but it also makes it a poor candidate for
setting the mpv window scale dynamically.
As a remedy, we can just make current-window-scale writeable instead.
current-window-scale is intended to always report the actual scale of
the window and keep track of any window size changes made by the user.
By making this property also writeable, it allows the user to have more
intuitive behavior (i.e. setting current-window-scale to 1.00 always
sets the window to a scale of 1). Additionally, the default input.conf
is changed to use current-window-scale instead of window-scale. The
window-scale documentation under property list is removed since it is
already documented under options and users should probably set the
current-window-scale property instead in most cases.
When changing image-display-duration at runtime, make the new value take
effect immediately, rather than from the next playlist-position change.
This allows toggling the slideshow mode while viewing images (without
hacks like executing playlist-play-index current afterwards).
All the conditions are just to be safe since even if you set time_frame
while playing a video, it's immediately overwritten by the next value.
Modifies the sub-seek and sub-step commands with a second <flags>
argument to specify whether to seek/step on the primary or secondary
subtitles. The flag is used to index into the current_track array in
cmd_sub_step_seek.
Adds secondary-sub-start and secondary-sub-end properties by setting
the current_track index in the m_property's priv variable which later
gets accessed in get_times. Also adds a test of the secondary subtitle
time properties in tests/subtimes.js bound to 'T'.
For some reason, this never existed before. Add VOCTRL_GET_DISPLAY_RES
and use it to obtain the current display's resolution from each
vo/windowing backend if applicable. Users can then access the current
display resolution as display-width and display-height as per the client
api. Note that macOS/cocoa was not attempted in this commit since the
author has no clue how to write swift.
Some subproperties in osd-dimensions were returned as doubles despite
actually being integers. Additionally, correct a highly misleading line
in the osd-width/osd-height documentation.
Now loading cover art through mp_add_external_file requires an
additional argument to be set to true. This way not all video-add
commands end up being marked as cover art when they move through
mp_add_external_file, as originally changed in 55d7f9ded1 .
Additionally, this lets us clean up some logic that would otherwise be
duplicated between open_external_files and autoload_external_files, if
the logic had been kept split from mp_add_external_file.
Fixes#8358
Previously the mouse command never ended up in enter/leave keypresses
for the default section even when logically required, because input.c
does not know the area of the default section and relies on something
feeding it ENTER/LEAVE presses - which the VO typically does but the
mouse command didn't.
Now the mouse command feeds it ENTER/LEAVE if required.
It's possible to handle it differently and more consistently by:
1. reverting this commit.
2. Updating the default section area whenever the osd dimensions change.
3. Always ignore MOUSE_ENTER keys because the position is not known yet
(but MOSE_MOVE typically follows right away).
4. On mouse move: first generate ENTER/LEAVE if required.
That would guarantee consistency between mouse position and enter/leave
events but could be more sensitive to manage (the default section has
"infinite" area which is used to capture any event outside of specific
section areas), while this commit keeps consistency same as before and
depending on correct external feeding - which we now do better, even if
still not optimally (like before, it's still technically possible that
a script recieves MOUSE_ENTER and then reads the position before it got
updated after the ENTER).
Add a third field: "hover", which is updated from input.c after input
keys MP_KEY_MOUSE_LEAVE and MP_KEY_MOUSE_ENTER - which are typically
sent by the VO.
It's part of mouse-pos and not a new property because it's highly tied
to mouse-pos - it makes x/y invalid while the cursor doesn't hover the
window.
Unike mouse-move, no dummy command was generated, so we add dummy
command in order for observer notification to work even while nothing
is bound.
Like mouse-pos, clients could not detect whether the mouse pointer
hovers the window because the OSC force-binds the MOUSE_LEAVE key, and
now they can using the hover field.
The lua mp.get_mouse_pos() wrapper still returns only x, y because
that's what osc.lua needs. Other clients can simply read the property.
This is a read-only MPV_NODE value with integer fields: x, y.
The values are unmodified from mp_input_get_mouse_pos(...).
Observer notification of this property is tied to the INPUT_PROCESSED
event, which fires after mouse move even if no command is bound
(dummy commands are generated if nothing is bound to ensure that
mp_input_get_mouse_pos returns the latest values - see ac927e39 ).
This allows clients such as JSON IPC to observe mouse position even
while the OSC is enabled - the OSC force-binds mouse move for most
of the window area, making it impossible for other clients to bind
mouse move without breaking the OSC.
This introduces the delete-watch-later-config command, to complement
write-watch-later-config. This is an alternative to #8141.
The general problem that this change is attempting to help solve has
been described in #336, #3169 and #6574. Though persistent playback
position of a single file is generally a solved problem, this is not
the case for playlists, as described in #8138.
The motivation is facilitating intermittent playback of very large
playlists, consisting of hundreds of entries each many hours
long. Though the current "watch later" mechanism works well - provided
that the files each occur only once in that playlist, and are played
only via that playlist - the biggest issue is that the position is
lost completely should mpv exit uncleanly (e.g. due to a power
failure). Existing workarounds (in the form of Lua scripts which call
write-watch-later-config periodically) fail in the playlist case, due
to the mechanism used by mpv to determine where within a playlist to
resume playback from.
The missing puzzle piece needed to allow scripts to implement a
complete solution to this problem is simply a way to clean up the
watch-later configuration that the script asked mpv to write using
write-watch-later-config. With that in place, scripts can then
register an end-file event listener, check the stop playback reason,
and in the "eof" and "stop" case, invoke delete-watch-later-config to
delete any saved positions written by write-watch-later-config. The
script can then proceed to immediately write a new one when the next
file is loaded, which altogether allows mpv to resume from the correct
playlist and file position upon next startup.
Because events are delivered and executed asynchronously,
delete-watch-later-config takes an optional filename argument, to
allow scripts to clear watch-later configuration for files after mpv
had already moved on from playing them and proceeded to another file.
A Lua script which makes use of this change can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/2f71a97fb85ed42146f6d9f522bc34ef
(A modification of the one written by @Hakkin, in that this one takes
advantage of the new command, and also saves the state immediately
when a new file is loaded.)
Pause can be changed during a file change, such as with for example
--reset-on-next-file=pause, or in hooks, or by being quick, and in this
case the AO's pause state was not updated correctly. mpctx->ao_chain is
only set if playback is fully initialized, while the AO itself in
mpctx->ao can be reused across files.
Fix this by always running set_pause_state() if the pause option is
changed. Could cause new bugs since running this used to be explicitly
avoided outside of the loaded state. The handling of time_frame is
potentially worrisome.
Regression due to recent audio refactor; before that, the AO didn't have
a separate/persistent pause state.
Fixes: #8079
Add a property that returns whether the window is focused, currently
only for X11 and Wayland.
My use cause for this is having an equivalent of pause-when-minimize.lua
for tiling window managers: make mpv play only while it's in the current
workspace or is focused (I'm fine with either one but prefer focus).
On X I do this by observing display-names, which is empty when the
rectangles of the display and mpv don't intersect, but on Wayland its
value doesn't change when mpv leaves the current workspace (and the same
check doesn't work since the geometries still intersect).
This could later be made writable as requested in #6252.
Note that on Wayland se shouldn't consider an unactivated window with
keyboard input focused.
The wlroots compositors I tested set activated after changing the
keyboard focus, so if you set wl->focused only in
keyboard_handle_enter() and keyboard_handle_leave() to avoid adding the
"has_keyboard_input" member, focused isn't set to true when first
opening mpv until you focus another window and focus mpv again.
Conversely, if that order can't be assumed for all compositors, we
should toggle wl->focused when necessary in keyboard_handle_enter() and
keyboard_handle_leave() as well as in handle_toplevel_config().
Make it possible to feed a string to stdin of a subprocess. Out of
laziness, it can't be an arbitrary byte string. (Would require adding an
option type that takes in a Lua byte string.)
Do not set stdin of a subprocess to fd 0 (i.e. mpv's stdin) anymore,
because it makes things more consistent. Enabling stdin didn't make too
much sense in the first place, so this behavior change seems
justifiable.
win32 support missing.
Fixes: #8003
Options like --sub-ass-force-style and others could not be changed at
runtime (the changes didn't take any effect). Fix this by using the
brutal approach, and completely reinit the subtitle state when this
happens. Maybe a bit clunky, but for now I'd rather not put more effort
into this.
Fixes: #7689
Requested. Should be good for simple use cases. "sub2" is technically
inconsistent (since the option is called --secondary-sid), but fuck the
consistent name.
Make it possible to restore from profiles by backing up the option
values before profile application. This is sort of like unapplying a
profile. Since there might be multiple ways to do this, a profile needs
to explicitly provide the "profile-restore" option, which specifies how
exactly this should be done.
This is a big mess. There is not natural way to do this. Profile
application is "destructive" and simply changes the values of the
options. Maybe one could argue that the option system should have
hierarchical "overlays" of profiles instead, where unset options will
use the value of the lower profiles. Options set interactively by the
user would be the top profile. Default values would be in the lowest
profile. You could unapply a profile by simply removing it from this
overlay stack.
But uh, let's not, so here's something stupid. It reuses some code used
for file local options to reduce code size. At least the overlay idea
would still be possible in theory, and could be added as another
profile-restore mode.
This is used by the following commit.
Add env and detach arguments. This means the command.c code must use the
"new" mp_subprocess2(). So also take this as an opportunity to clean up.
win32 support gets broken by it, because it never made the switch to the
newer function.
The new detach parameter makes the "run" command fully redundant, but I
guess we'll keep it for simplicity. But change its implementation to use
mp_subprocess2() (couldn't do this earlier, because win32).
Privately, I'm going to use the "env" argument to add a key binding that
starts a shell with a FILE environment variable set to the currently
playing file, so this is very useful to me.
Note: breaks windows, so for example youtube-dl on windows will not work
anymore. mp_subprocess2() has to be implemented. The old functions are
gone, and subprocess-win.c is not built anymore. It will probably work
on Cygwin.
Commit 9d32d62b61 broke this when it changed OPT_TIME. I simply forgot
to adjust the command definition. The effect was that "no" was not
accepted as value.
Execution of "stop" command in the case when idle mode was not enabled
resulted in player termination scenario not honoring user setting
"save-position-on-quit" from config file. This patch addresses the
issue by checking for "save-position-on-quit" in cmd_stop and saving
state when idle mode is not enabled.
Remove the vaguely defined plane_bits and component_bits fields from
struct mp_imgfmt_desc. Add weird replacements for existing uses. Remove
the bytes[] field, replace uses with bpp[].
Fix some potential alignment issues in existing code. As a compromise,
split mp_image_pixel_ptr() into 2 functions, because I think it's a bad
idea to implicitly round, but for some callers being slightly less
strict is convenient.
This shouldn't really change anything. In fact, it's a 100% useless
change. I'm just cleaning up what I started almost 8 years ago (see
commit 00653a3eb0). With this I've decided to keep mp_imgfmt_desc,
just removing the weird parts, and keeping the saner parts.
See manpage additions. This was requested, sort of. Although what has
been requested might be something completely different. So this is
speculative.
This also changes sub_get_text() to return an allocated copy, because
the buffer shit was too damn messy.
Making OSD/subtitle bitmaps refcounted was planend a longer time ago,
e.g. the sub_bitmaps.packed field (which refcounts the subtitle bitmap
data) was added in 2016. But nothing benefited much from it, because
struct sub_bitmaps was usually stack allocated, and there was this weird
callback stuff through osd_draw().
Make it possible to get actually refcounted subtitle bitmaps on the OSD
API level. For this, we just copy all subtitle data other than the
bitmaps with sub_bitmaps_copy(). At first, I had planned some fancy
refcount shit, but when that was a big mess and hard to debug and just
boiled to emulating malloc(), I made it a full allocation+copy. This
affects mostly the parts array. With crazy ASS subtitles, this parts
array can get pretty big (thousands of elements or more), in which case
the extra alloc/copy could become performance relevant. But then again
this is just pure bullshit, and I see no need to care. In practice, this
extra work most likely gets drowned out by libass murdering a single
core (while mpv is waiting for it) anyway. So fuck it.
I just wanted this so draw_bmp.c requires only a single call to render
everything. VOs also can benefit from this, because the weird callback
shit isn't necessary anymore (simpler code), but I haven't done anything
about it yet. In general I'd hope this will work towards simplifying the
OSD layer, which is prerequisite for making actual further improvements.
I haven't tested some cases such as the "overlay-add" command. Maybe it
crashes now? Who knows, who cares.
In addition, it might be worthwhile to reduce the code duplication
between all the things that output subtitle bitmaps (with repacking,
image allocation, etc.), but that's orthogonal.
Apparently, this was a bit of a mess, which caused the bug fixed by
commit ec7f2388af. Try to improve this, and only use track selection
entries that exist.
Edition title is already exposed in demux_edition, it was just never
added to the display. If no edition title exists it will fall back
to the edition number.
While --input-file was removed for justified reasons, wanting to pass
down socket FDs this way is legitimate, useful, and easy to implement.
One odd thing is that
Fixes: #7592
Add an infrastructure for collecting performance-related data, use it in
some places. Add rendering of them to stats.lua.
There were two main goals: minimal impact on the normal code and normal
playback. So all these stats_* function calls either happen only during
initialization, or return immediately if no stats collection is going
on. That's why it does this lazily adding of stats entries etc. (a first
iteration made each stats entry an API thing, instead of just a single
stats_ctx, but I thought that was getting too intrusive in the "normal"
code, even if everything gets worse inside of stats.c).
You could get most of this information from various profilers (including
the extremely primitive --dump-stats thing in mpv), but this makes it
easier to see the most important information at once (at least in
theory), partially because we know best about the context of various
things.
Not very happy with this. It's all pretty primitive and dumb. At this
point I just wanted to get over with it, without necessarily having to
revisit it later, but with having my stupid statistics.
Somehow the code feels terrible. There are a lot of meh decisions in
there that could be better or worse (but mostly could be better), and it
just sucks but it's also trivial and uninteresting and does the job. I
guess I hate programming. It's so tedious and the result is always shit.
Anyway, enjoy.
That's where it comes from after all. The other property does not have
much of a reason to exist anymore, but there's no real reason to remove
it either.
Scripts such as the OSC can be loaded and unloaded at runtime by
toggling the option that enables them. (It even works, although normally
it's only used to control initial loading.)
Unloading was racy because it used the client name; fix this.
The load-script change is an accidental feature. And probably useless.
This time is set on every seek (but when initiating it). A new seek
longer than 2 seconds after this is counted as separate seek for the
sake of the revert seek command. If a seek takes a bit longer, this
removes time from these 2 seconds. This commits resets it on the end of
the seek. (Doing anything special for seeks that take longer than 2
seconds is out of scope of this commit.)
Should give a good deal more explicit control and insight over the
player state.
Some feel a bit pointless, and/or expose internal weirdness. However,
it's not like the existing weirdness didn't exist before, or can be made
go away. (In part, the weirdness is because certain in-between states
are visible. Hiding them would make things simpler, but less flexible.)
Maybe this actually gives users a better idea how the API _should_ look
like, too.
On a side note, this tries to really guarantee that mpctx->playing is
set between playback start/end. For that, the loadfile.c changes assume
that mpctx->playing is set (guaranteed by code above the change), and
that playing->filename is set (probably could never be false; was broken
before and actually would have crashed if that could ever happen; in any
case, also add an assert to playlist.c for this).
playlist_entry_to_index() now tolerates playlist_entrys that are not
part of the playlist. This is also needed for mpctx->playing.
It's odd that this state is observable, but is made implicit by making
the property unavailable. It's also odd that an API user cannot directly
put the player into such a state.
Just allow reading/writing -1 (or in fact, any out of bounds index) for
this case.
I'm also refraining from using OPT_CHOICE for the "no selection" case,
because although that would be cleaner in theory, it would cause only
problems to API users due to the more complex property type (worse is
better).
One reason for not restricting the integer range on the input property
anymore is that if there are no playlist elements, the range would
contain only 1 integer, which cannot be represented anymore since the
recent m_option change. This was actually broken with 1 element
playlists before (and still is, with the constricted type for OSD and
the add/cycle commands). Doesn't matter too much.
If the user manages to run a "loadfile x append" command before the loop
in mp_play_files() is entered, then the player could start playing
these. This isn't expected, because appending files to the playlist in
idle mode does not normally start playback. It could happen because
there is a short time window where commands are processed before the
loop is entered (such as running the command when a script is loaded).
The idle mode semantics are pretty weird: if files were provided in
advance (on the command line), then these should be played immediately.
But if idle mode was already entered, and something is appended to the
playlist using "append", i.e. without explicitly triggering playback,
then it should remain in idle mode.
Try to follow this by redefining PT_STOP to strictly mean idle mode.
Remove the playlist->current check from idle_loop(), since only the
stop_play field counts now (cf. what mp_set_playlist_entry() does).
This actually introduces the possibility that playlist->current, and
with it playlist-pos, are set to something, even though playback is not
active or being started. Previously, this was only possible during state
transitions, such as when changing playlist entries.
Very annoyingly, this means the current way MPV_EVENT_IDLE was sent
doesn't work anymore. Logically, idle mode can be "active" even if
idle_loop() was not entered yet (between the time after mp_initialize()
and before the loop in mp_play_files()). Instead of worrying about this,
redo the "idle-active" property, and deprecate the event.
See: #7543
Using mpv without libass isn't really supported, since it's not only
used to display ASS subtitles, but all text subtitles, and even OSD.
At least 1 user complained that the player printed a warning if built
without libass. Avoid trying to create the impression that using this
software without libass is in any way supported or desirable, and make
it fully mandatory.
(As far as making dependencies optional goes, I'd rather make ffmpeg
optional, which is an oversized and bloated library, rather than
something tiny like libass.)
Change all OPT_* macros such that they don't define the entire m_option
initializer, and instead expand only to a part of it, which sets certain
fields. This requires changing almost every option declaration, because
they all use these macros. A declaration now always starts with
{"name", ...
followed by designated initializers only (possibly wrapped in macros).
The OPT_* macros now initialize the .offset and .type fields only,
sometimes also .priv and others.
I think this change makes the option macros less tricky. The old code
had to stuff everything into macro arguments (and attempted to allow
setting arbitrary fields by letting the user pass designated
initializers in the vararg parts). Some of this was made messy due to
C99 and C11 not allowing 0-sized varargs with ',' removal. It's also
possible that this change is pointless, other than cosmetic preferences.
Not too happy about some things. For example, the OPT_CHOICE()
indentation I applied looks a bit ugly.
Much of this change was done with regex search&replace, but some places
required manual editing. In particular, code in "obscure" areas (which I
didn't include in compilation) might be broken now.
In wayland_common.c the author of some option declarations confused the
flags parameter with the default value (though the default value was
also properly set below). I fixed this with this change.
The option code is very old and was added to MPlayer in the early 2000s,
when C99 was still new. MPlayer did not use the "bool" type anywhere,l
and the logical option equivalent to bool, the "flag" option type, used
int, with the convention that only the values 0 and 1 are allowed.
mpv may have hammered many, many additional tentacles to the option
code, but some of the basics never changed, and m_option_type_flag still
uses int. This seems a bit weird, since mpv uses bool for booleans. So
finally introduce an m_option_type_bool. To avoid duplicating too much
code, change the flag code to bool, and "reimplement" m_option_type_flag
on top of m_option_type_bool.
As a "demonstration", change the --fullscreen option to this new type.
Ideally, all options would be changed too bool, and m_option_type_flag
would be removed. But that is a lot of monotonous thankless work, so I'm
not doing it, and making it a painful years long transition.
At the same time, I'm introducing a new concept for option declarations.
Instead of OPT_BOOL(), which define the full m_option struct contents,
there's OPTF_BOOL(), which only takes the option field name itself. The
name is provided via a normal struct field initializer. Other fields
(such as flags) can be provided via designated initializers.
The advantage of this is that we don't need tons of nested vararg
macros. We also don't need to deal with 0-sized varargs being a pain
(and in fact they are not a thing in standard C99 and probably C11).
There is no need to provide a mandatory flags argument either, which is
the reason why so many OPT_ macros are used with a "0" argument. (The
flag argument seems to confuse other developers; they either don't
immediately recognize what it is, and sometimes it's supposed to be the
option's default value.)
Not having to mess with the flag argument in such option macros is also
a reason for the removal of M_OPT_RANGE etc., for the better or worse.
The only place that special-cased the _flag option type was in
command.c; change it to use something effectively very similar that
automatically includes the new _bool option type. Everything else should
be transparent to the change. The fullscreen option change should be
transparent too, as C99 bool is basically an integer type that is
clamped to 0/1 (except in Swift, Swift sucks).
Commit 8d965a1bfb changed option/property min/max handling. As a
consequence, ranges that contain only 1 or 0 elements are not possible
anymore. Normally that's fine, because it makes no sense to have an
option that has only one or none allowed value (statically).
But edition switching used some sort of mechanism where the property can
return a different, dynamically decided range at runtime. That meant
that if there were <2 editions, edition switching with the "cycle"
command would always pick the same value. But with the recent commit,
this changed to having "no range set" and would cycle through all
integer values.
Work this around with a simple change. Now, edition switching on a file
without editions shows "edition: auto" instead of "edition: 0", which
may appear odd. But the former is the --edition default value, and
previous mpv versions rendered the edition property like this when not
using switching.
(Who the fuck uses editions?)
Before this commit, option declarations used M_OPT_MIN/M_OPT_MAX (and
some other identifiers based on these) to signal whether an option had
min/max values. Remove these flags, and make it use a range implicitly
on the condition if min<max is true.
This requires care in all cases when only M_OPT_MIN or M_OPT_MAX were
set (instead of both). Generally, the commit replaces all these
instances with using DBL_MAX/DBL_MIN for the "unset" part of the range.
This also happens to fix some cases where you could pass over-large
values to integer options, which were silently truncated, but now cause
an error.
This commit has some higher potential for regressions.
Move the "old" mostly command line parsing and option management related
code to m_config_frontend.c/h. Move the the code that enables other part
of the player to access options to m_config_core.c/h. "frontend" is out
of lack of creativity for a better name.
Unfortunately, the separation isn't quite clean yet. m_config_frontend.c
still references some m_config_core.c implementation details, and
m_config_new() is even left in m_config_core.c for now. There some odd
functions that should be removed as well (marked as "Bad functions").
Fixing these things requires more changes and will be done separately.
struct m_config is left with the current name to reduce diff noise.
Also, since there are a _lot_ source files that include m_config.h, add
a replacement m_config.h that "redirects" to m_config_core.h.
This is more or less a minimal hack to make _some_ text measurement
functionality available to scripts. Since libass does not support such a
thing, this simply uses the bounding box of the rendered text.
This is far from ideal. Problems include:
- using a bitmap bounding box
- additional memory waste and/or flushing caches
- dependency on window size
- odd small deviations with different window sizes (run osd-test.lua and
resize the window after each timer update; the bounding boxes aren't
adjusted in an overly useful way)
- inability to query the size _after_ actual rendering
But I guess it's a start. Since I'm aware that it's crap, add a threat
to the manpage that this may be changed/removed again. For now, I'm
interested whether anyone will have use for it in its current form, as
it's an often requested feature.
Instead of having f_decoder_wrapper create its own copy of the entire
mpv option tree, create a struct local to that file and move all used
options to there.
movie_aspect is used by the "video-aspect" deprecated property code. I
think it's probably better not to remove the property yet, but
fortunately it's easy to work around without needing special handling
for this option or so.
correct_pts is used to prevent use of hr-seek in playloop.c. Ignore
that, if you use --no-correct-pts you're asking for trouble anyway. This
is the only behavior change.
I may (optionally) move decoding to a separate thread in a future
change. It's a bit attractive to move the entire decoder wrapper to
there, so if the demuxer has a new packet, it doesn't have to wake up
the main thread, and can directly wake up the decoder. (Although that's
bullshit, since there's a queue in between, and libavcodec's
multi-threaded decoding plays cross-threads ping pong with packets
anyway. On the other hand, the main thread would still have to shuffle
the packets around, so whatever, just seems like better design.)
As preparation, there shouldn't be any mutable state exposed by the
wrapper. But there's still a large number of corner-caseish crap, so
just use setters/getters for them. This recorder thing will inherently
not work, so it'll have to be disabled if threads are used.
This is a bit painful, but probably still the right thing. Like
speculatively pulling teeth.
Hr-seek past the last frame instantly enters EOF, which means
handle_playback_time() will not set playback_pts to the video PTS (as
all video frames are skipped), which leads to the playback time being
taken from the last seek target. This results in confusing behavior,
especially since the seek time will be clipped to the file duration for
display, but not for further relative seeks.
Obviously, the time should be set to the last video frame, so use the
last video frame as fallback if both audio and video have ended. Also,
since the same problem exists with audio-only playback, add a fallback
for audio PTS too. We don't know which was the "last" fragment of media
played (to decide whether to use the audio or video PTS as the
fallback), but it doesn't matter since the maximum works.
This could lead to some undesired effects. In particular the audio PTS
is basically a bad guess, and is for example not clipped against --end.
(But the ridiculous way audio syncing and clamping currently works, I'm
not going to touch that shit unless I rewrite it completely.) The cover
art case is slightly broken: using --keep-open with keyframe seeks will
result in 0 as playback PTS (the video PTS). OK, who cares, it got late.
Also casually get rid of last_vo_pts, since that barely made any sense
at all.
Fixes: #7487
Until now, filter_sdh was simply a function that was called by sd_ass
directly (if enabled).
I want to add another filter, so it's time to turn this into a somewhat
more general subtitle filtering infrastructure.
I pondered whether to reuse the audio/video filtering stuff - but better
not. Also, since subtitles are horrible and tend to refuse proper
abstraction, it's still messed into sd_ass, instead of working on the
dec_sub.c level. Actually mpv used to have subtitle "filters" and even
made subtitle converters part of it, but it was fairly horrible, so
don't do that again.
In addition, make runtime changes possible. Since this was supposed to
be a quick hack, I just decided to put all subtitle filter options into
a separate option group (=> simpler change notification), to manually
push the change through the playloop (like it was sort of before for OSD
options), and to recreate the sub filter chain completely in every
change. Should be good enough.
One strangeness is that due to prefetching and such, most subtitle
packets (or those some time ahead) are actually done filtering when we
change, so the user still needs to manually seek to actually refresh
everything. And since subtitle data is usually cached in ASS_Track (for
other terrible but user-friendly reasons), we also must clear the
subtitle data, but of course only on seek, since otherwise all subtitles
would just disappear. What a fucking mess, but such is life. We could
trigger a "refresh seek" to make this more automatic, but I don't feel
like it currently.
This is slightly inefficient (lots of allocations and copying), but I
decided that it doesn't matter. Could matter slightly for crazy ASS
subtitles that render with thousands of events.
Not very well tested. Still seems to work, but I didn't have many test
cases.
As requested I guess. It behaves quite similar to the --loop* options.
Not quite happy with the idea that 1) the option is mutated on each
operation (but at least it's consistent with --loop* and doesn't require
more properties), and 2) the ab-loop command will do nothing once all
loop iterations are done. As a concession, the OSD shows something about
"disabled".
Fixes: #7360
This is a gross hack for the shitty design of how VO properties are
handled (which was fine with MPlayer, but became increasingly a shit tub
with mpv's VO thread).
The problem here is that console.lua reads display-hidpi-scale on every
render, but which may take a long time for video timing and vsync
blocking. It will also block the core, making osc.lua unable to react to
window resizing quickly enough.
This should be solved by not using the "classic" blocking VOCTRL
mechanism, and instead side-stepping it with something that doesn't
require any waiting (like for example the "fullscreen" property does).
But this require more thinking and work my "brain" can handle at the
moment. So for now add a shitty hack that will cause a lot of problems,
and which will have to be replaced later. Most importantly, it'll break
theoretic support for multiple screens with different DPI, or runtime
DPI changes. Possibly could affect the Cocoa backend; the X11 isn't
dynamic enough by nature, and other backends do not implement this.
This "bundles" all OSD properties. It also makes some previously
Lua-only values available (Lua has mp.get_osd_margins(), unsure if
anything uses it).
The main intention is actually to allow retrieving all fields in an
"atomic" way. (Could introduce a mechanism on the level of the mpv
client API to do this, but doing ti ad-hoc all the time like this commit
is easier.)
The change was not propagated to the OSD/subtitle code, since that still
uses an "old" method. Change it so that the propagation is actually
performed.
(One could argue the OSD/subtitle code should use other ways to update
the options, but that would probably be more effort for now.)
Although a linked list was ideal at first, there are cases where it
sucks, and became increasingly awkward (with the mpv command API
preferring integer indexes to access the list). In future, we probably
want to add more playlist-related functionality, so better change it to
an array now.
An array isn't always ideal either. Since playlist entries are still
separate objects (because in some cases you need a stable "iterator" to
it), but you still need to efficiently get the next/previous playlist
entry, there's a pl_index field, that needs to be maintained. E.g.
adding an entry at the start of the playlist => update the pl_index
field for all other entries. Well, it's not really worth to do something
more complicated to avoid these things.
This commit is probably buggy as shit. It's not like I bothered to test
everything. That's _your_ role.
Lua scripting has an undocumented mp.set_osd_ass() function, which is
used by osc.lua and console.lua. Apparently, 3rd party scripts also use
this. It's probably time to make this a public API.
The Lua implementation just bypassed the libmpv API. To make it usable
by any type of client, turn it into a command, "osd-overlay".
There's already a "overlay-add". Ignore it (although the manpage admits
guiltiness). I don't really want to deal with that old command. Its main
problem is that it uses global IDs, while I'd like to avoid that scripts
mess with each others overlays (whether that is accidentally or
intentionally). Maybe "overlay-add" can eventually be merged into
"osd-overlay", but I'm too lazy to do that now.
Scripting now uses the commands. There is a helper to manage OSD
overlays. The helper is very "thin"; I only want to force script authors
to use the ID allocation, which may help with putting multiple scripts
into a single .lua file without causing conflicts (basically, avoiding
singletons within a script's environment). The old set_osd_ass() is
emulated with the new API.
The JS scripting wrapper also provides a set_osd_ass() function, which
calls internal mpv API. Comment that part (to keep it compiling), but
I'm leaving it to @avih to finish the change.
For some inexplicable reason, the OSC runs the expand-text command a
_lot_. This command is logged at the log file default log level, so the
log file can quickly fill up with these messages. It directly violates
the mpv logging policy: per-frame (or similarly common) log messages
should not be enabled by default for the log file.
stats.lua uses the show-text command for some reason (instead of
creating its own OSD layer).
Explicitly reduce the log level for expand-text and some other commands.
Also reduce the log level for commands triggered by mouse movement.
The previous commit also contributed some to reduce log spam.
Fixes: #4771
Very primitive and dumb, but fulfils its purpose for the next commits.
I chose this specific implementation because it has the lowest footprint
in command.c, without resorting to crazy hacks such as sending messages
between scripts (which would be hard to coordinate especially on
startup).
These all have been replaced recently.
There was a leftover in window.swift. It couldn't have done anything
useful in the current state of the code, so drop these lines.
The generic change detection now handles this just as well.
The way how this function is manually called at init is slightly gross.
Make that part slightly more explicit to hopefully avoid confusion.
This is similar to the "edition" change.
I considered making this go through deprecation, but didn't have a good
idea how to do that. Maybe it's fine, because this is pretty obscure.
But it might break some API users/scripts (it certainly broke
stats.lua), and all I have to say is sorry for that.
See manpage/changelog changes.
The purpose of this change is to removes another case of inconsistent
property behavior. At first I wanted to make this go through deprecation
before making a technically incompatible change, but then I considered
this feature too obscure as that anyone would care.
Since the recent option changes (probably b16cea750f), using the "vf"
or "af" commands to change the filter chain did not write the option
value correctly. This led to the option value being reset the next time
an option changed.
This happened because the new option value was not copied to the
m_config_cache's internal storage. So on the next option update, it
looked like the option value changed, because the user-side value was
different from the internal value. It was copied back, which meant the
original option value was reinstated, and the previous "vf"/"af" command
was undone.
Fix this by using the correct way to store the option value. This also
takes care of property change notification (because the function is
specifically separate from m_config_cache_write_opt() to do that), so
remove the old call.
Fixes: #7220
Certain backends (i.e. wayland) will need to do special things with the
mouse. It makes sense to expose the values of these options to them, so
they can behave correctly.
I wanted to get this done quickly as I introduced the new VOCTRL
behaviour for minimize and maximize and it was immediately made
legacy, so best to purge it before anyone gets confused.
I did not sort out fullscreen as that's more involved and not something
I've educated myself about yet. But I did replace the VOCTRL_FULLSCREEN
usage with the new option change mechanism as that seemed simple
enough.
Properties should handle this themselves. This basically sent redundant
notifications. I found only two places where the "proper" notification
was missing.
Now that the option-to-property bridge is gone, this is not needed
anymore. It always took the "silent" path.
Also, at least as of before this commit, this didn't correctly print a
warning when accessing a deprecated option as property. This was because
m_config_get_co_raw() was used, which intentionally does not print any
warnings, so switch to the non-raw one. (Affects only options that have
.deprecation_message set.)
Instead of making m_config a special-case, it more or less uses the
underlying m_config_cache/m_config_shadow APIs properly. This makes the
player core a (relatively) equivalent user of the core option API. In
particular, this means that other threads can change core options with
m_config_cache_write_opt() calls (before this commit, this merely led to
diverging option values).
An important change is that before this commit, mpctx->opts contained
the "master copy" of all option data. Now it's just another copy of the
option data, and the shadow copy is considered the master. This is why
whenever mpctx->opts is written, the change needs to be copied to the
master (thus why this commits add a bunch of m_config_notify... calls).
If another thread (e.g. a VO) changes an option, async_change_cb is now
invoked, which funnels the change notification through the player's
layers.
The new self_notification parameter on mp_option_change_callback is so
that m_config_notify... doesn't trigger recursion, and it's used in
cases where the change was already "processed". It's still needed to
trigger libmpv property updates. (I considered using an extra
m_config_cache for that, but it'd only cause problems with no
advantages.)
I think the recent changes actually forgot to send libmpv property
updates in some cases. This should fix this anyway. In some cases,
property updates are reworked, and the potential for bugs should be
lower (probably).
The primary point of this change is to allow external updates, for
example by a VO writing the fullscreen option if the window state is
changed by the window manager (rather than mpv changing it). This is not
used yet, but the following commits will.
If we want to implement window pseudo-decorations via OSC, we need a
way to tell the vo to minimize and maximize the window. Today, we have
minimized as a read-only property, and no property for maximized.
Let's made minimized settable and add a maximized property to go with
it. In turn, that requires us to add VOCTRLs for minimizing or
maximizing a window, and an additional WIN_STATE to indicate a
maximized window.
The previous bunch of commits made this unnecessary, so this should be
a purely internal change with no user impact.
This may or may not open the way to future improvements. Even if not,
at least the property/option interaction should now be much less buggy.
Convert some remaining properties to work without the option-to-property
bridge. Behavior shouldn't change (except for the corner case that it
tries to reapply the new state when setting a property, while it used to
ignore redundant sets).
As it is the case with many of these changes, much of the code is not in
its final proper state yet, but is rather a temporary workaround. For
example, these "VO flag" properties should just be fully handled in the
VO backend. (Currently, the config or VO layers don't provide enough
mechanism yet as that all the backends like x11, win32, etc. could be
changed yet, but that's another refactoring mess for another time.)
Now nothing relies on this option-to-property bridge anymore, which
opens the way to even more refactoring, which eventually may result in
tiny improvements for the end user.
The behavior is slightly different in a messy way. The change is in line
with the option-to-property bridge removal mentioned some commits ago
and thus is deemed necessary.
This attempted to restore the old filter chain if setting a new one at
runtime failed. This is not needed anymore, because changing the filter
chain is done in a "transactional" way now.
This is preparation to get rid of the option-to-property bridge
(mp_on_set_option). This is a pretty insane thing that redirects
accesses to options to properties. It was needed in the ever ongoing
transition from something to... something else.
A good example for the need of this bridge is applying profiles at
runtime. This obviously goes through the config parser, but should also
make all changes effective, for which traditionally the property layer
is used.
There isn't much left that needs this bridge. This commit changes a
bunch of options (which also have a property implementation) to use
option change notifications instead. Many of the properties are still
left, but perform unrelated functions like OSD formatting.
This should be mostly compatible. There may be some subtle behavior
changes. For example, "hwdec" and "record-file" do not check for changes
anymore before applying them, so writing the current value to them
suddenly does something, while it was ignored before.
DVB changes untested, but should work.
Read-only information about all bindings. Somewhat hoping someone can
make a nice GUI-like overlay thing for it, which provides information
about mapped keys.
No reason to have this as bstr, just makes everything more complex.
Also clear mp_cmd.sender when it's copied. Otherwise it would be a
dangling pointer. Apparently it's never set to non-NULL in this
situation, but this is cleaner anyway.
Particularly for "any_unicode" mappings, so they don't have to
special-case keys like '#' and ' ', which are normally mapped to
symbolic names for input.conf reasons. (Though admittedly, this is a
pretty minor thing, since API users could map these manually.)
Used to contain flags for "save" setting of options at runtime. Now
there is nothing special needed anymore and it's 0. So drop it
completely, and remove anything that distinguishes between runtime and
initialization time.
They were used at some point, but then fell into disuse. In general,
these old flags are all a bit fuzzy, so it's a good idea to remove them
as much as possible.
The comment about MP_IMGFLAG_PAL isn't true anymore. The old meaning was
deprecated at some point, and the flag was removed from "pseudo
paletted" formats. I think mpv at one point changed its own flag from
AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PSEUDOPAL to AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PAL, when the former was
deprecated, and it became unnecessary to allocate a palette for
non-paletted formats. (The one who deprecated in FFmpeg was me, if you
wonder.)
MP_IMGFLAG_PLANAR was used in command.c, use a relatively similar flag
as replacement.
The justification for this is the fact that the `video-aspect` property
doesn't work well with `cycle_values` commands that include the value
"-1".
The "video-aspect" property has effectively no change in behavior, but
we may want to make it read-only in the future. I think it's probably
fine to leave as-is, though.
Fixes#6068.
This is realized by dvbin-channel-switch-offset,
which is a numeric offset on the channel initially tuned to.
Since the channel list is kept in the stream alone
depending on detected hardware and chosen card,
and no available backchannel to the player, there's no direct
property which could be switched.
Using input.conf like:
H cycle dvbin-channel-switch-offset up
K cycle dvbin-channel-switch-offset down
Q set dvbin-prog "ZDF HD"
allow fast and reliable channel switching again.
Reinitializes the player as is needed when
tuning to a new DVB channel.
Currently triggered when dvbin-prog is written to,
i.e. when the user explicity switches to a channel by name.
When the (float) bitrate is returned, it is implicitely converted to an
int64 value, merely discarding the fractional part.
However the bitrate of a CBR track can vary a bit due to timestamp
precision loss after clock conversion (this can affect MPEG-TS audio
tracks). So a bitrate like 191999.999... results in 191999 when
being returned - instead of 192000.
To fix this, apply proper rounding, as already done for the "old" case.
Hereby refactoring the "old" case to also use `llrint`.
The question came up on how a client would figure out where
screenshot-directory saved its screenshots if it contained
mpv-specific expansions. This command should remedy the situation
by providing a way for the client to ask mpv to do an expansion.
Until now they weren't observable and never reported any updates. Apply
a shitty hack to make them mostly-observable. It relies on the "idle"
event, which is basically triggered on every frame displayed, or
similar. This can lead to property change notifications not being sent
quickly enough.
The cleaner solution would be adding a notification mechanisms from
filters, but I'm too lazy for that.
For simplicity, these properties usually query the metadata from the
filter twice, even if it's not technically needed at all. The reason for
this is mostly the horrible (and legacy) sub-path access (which is why
tag_property() is so complex).
But for simple cases, we can easily avoid double querying, so do that.
The benefit is performance (well, won't matter), and supporting filters
that reset information on query (for later).
A dumb thing that the cursed property-option bridge accidentally did.
Normal deprecated options on the other hand are fine in the property
list, because they're wanted for compatibility.
Helper for the ab-loop-dump-cache command, see manpage additions.
This is kind of shit. Not only is this a very "special" feature, but it
also vomits more messy code into the big and already bloated demux.c,
and the implementation is sort of duplicated with the dump-cache code.
(Except it's different.) In addition, the results sort of depend what a
video player would do with the dump-cache output, or what the user wants
(for example, a user might be more interested in the range of output
audio, instead of the video).
But hey, I don't actually need to justify it. I'm only justifying it for
fun.
That's right, and it's probably not the end of it. I'll just claim that
I have no idea how to create a proper user interface for this, so I'm
creating multiple partially-orthogonal, of which some may work better in
each of its special use cases.
Until now, there was --record-file. You get relatively good control
about what is muxed, and it can use the cache. But it sucks that it's
bound to playback. If you pause while it's set, muxing stops. If you
seek while it's set, the output will be sort-of trashed, and that's by
design.
Then --stream-record was added. This is a bit better (especially for
live streams), but you can't really control well when muxing stops or
ends. In particular, it can't use the cache (it just dumps whatever the
underlying demuxer returns).
Today, the idea is that the user should just be able to select a time
range to dump to a file, and it should not affected by the user seeking
around in the cache. In addition, the stream may still be running, so
there's some need to continue dumping, even if it's redundant to
--stream-record.
One notable thing is that it uses the async command shit. Not sure
whether this is a good idea. Maybe not, but whatever. Also, a user can
always use the "async" prefix to pretend it doesn't.
Much of this was barely tested (especially the reinterleaving crap),
let's just hope it mostly works. I'm sure you can tolerate the one or
other crash?
The screenshot command has this weird behavior that it shows messages
both on terminal and OSD by default, but that a command prefix can be
used to disable the OSD message.
Move this mechanism to common code, and make this available to other
commands too (although as of this commit only the screenshot commands
use it).
This gets rid of the weird screenshot_ctx.osd field too, which was sort
of set on a command, and sometimes inconsistently restored after the
command.
Somewhat similar to the old --cache-file, except for the demuxer cache.
Instead of keeping packet data in memory, it's written to disk and read
back when needed.
The idea is to reduce main memory usage, while allowing fast seeking in
large cached network streams (especially live streams). Keeping the
packet metadata on disk would be rather hard (would use mmap or so, or
rewrite the entire demux.c packet queue handling), and since it's
relatively small, just keep it in memory.
Also for simplicity, the disk cache is append-only. If you're watching
really long livestreams, and need pruning, you're probably out of luck.
This still could be improved by trying to free unused blocks with
fallocate(), but since we're writing multiple streams in an interleaved
manner, this is slightly hard.
Some rather gross ugliness in packet.h: we want to store the file
position of the cached data somewhere, but on 32 bit architectures, we
don't have any usable 64 bit members for this, just the buf/len fields,
which add up to 64 bit - so the shitty union aliases this memory.
Error paths untested. Side data (the complicated part of trying to
serialize ffmpeg packets) untested.
Stream recording had to be adjusted. Some minor details change due to
this, but probably nothing important.
The change in attempt_range_joining() is because packets in cache
have no valid len field. It was a useful check (heuristically
finding broken cases), but not a necessary one.
Various other approaches were tried. It would be interesting to list
them and to mention the pros and cons, but I don't feel like it.
And add simpler aliases for the modes.
I'm not sure how to name things, and the option list is in general full
of different conventions. Some names are shortened, some are explicit
and long.
I guess options that have a chance to be used normally (i.e. not obscure
tuning or debugging) should have a short and convenient names.
In this specific case, play-direction is like a mixture of both. It
should be either playback-direction or play-dir, not shorten one word
but not the other.
The convenience aliases are because I got sick of typing out "backward".
I guess "back" would also do it, but there's no proper antonym (and
maybe it's "wrong" in the strict sense of the word).
This changes the behavior of the --ab-loop-a/b options. In addition, it
makes it work with backward playback mode.
The most obvious change is that the both the A and B point need to be
set now before any looping happens. Unlike before, unset points don't
implicitly use the start or end of the file. I think the old behavior
was a feature that was explicitly added/wanted. Well, it's gone now.
This is because of 2 reasons:
1. I never liked this feature, and it always got in my way (as user).
2. It's inherently annoying with backward playback mode.
In backward playback mode, the user wants to set A/B in the wrong order.
The ab-loop command will first set A, then B, so if you use this command
during backward playback, A will be set to a higher timestamps than B.
If you switch back to forward playback mode, the loop would stop
working. I want the loop to just continue to work, and the chosen
solution conflicts with the removed feature.
The order issue above _could_ be fixed by also switching the AB-loop
user option values around on direction switch. But there are no other
instances of option changes magically affecting other options, and doing
this would probably lead to unexpected misery (dying from corner cases
and such).
Another solution is sorting the A/B points by timestamps after copying
them from the user options. Then A/B options set in backward mode will
work in forward mode. This is the chosen solution. If you sort the
points, you don't know anymore whether the unset point is supposed to
signify the end or the start of the file.
The AB-loop code is slightly better abstracted now, so it should be easy
to restore the removed feature. It would still require coming up with a
solution for backwards playback, though.
A minor change is that if one point is set and the other is unset, I'm
rendering both the chapter markers and the marker for the set point.
Why? I don't know. My test file had chapters, and I guess I decided this
looked better.
This commit also fixes some subtle and obvious issues that I already
forgot about when I wrote this commit message. It cleans up some minor
code duplication and nonsense too.
Regarding backward playback, the code uses an unsanitary mix of internal
("transformed") and user timestamps. So the play_dir variable appears
more than usual.
To mention one unfixed issue: if you set an AB-loop that is completely
past the end of the file, it will get stuck in an infinite seeking loop
once playback reaches the end of the file. Fixing this reliably seemed
annoying, so the fix is "just don't do this". It's not a hard freeze
anyway.
See manpage additions. This is a huge hack. You can bet there are shit
tons of bugs. It's literally forcing square pegs into round holes.
Hopefully, the manpage wall of text makes it clear enough that the whole
shit can easily crash and burn. (Although it shouldn't literally crash.
That would be a bug. It possibly _could_ start a fire by entering some
sort of endless loop, not a literal one, just something where it tries
to do work without making progress.)
(Some obvious bugs I simply ignored for this initial version, but
there's a number of potential bugs I can't even imagine. Normal playback
should remain completely unaffected, though.)
How this works is also described in the manpage. Basically, we demux in
reverse, then we decode in reverse, then we render in reverse.
The decoding part is the simplest: just reorder the decoder output. This
weirdly integrates with the timeline/ordered chapter code, which also
has special requirements on feeding the packets to the decoder in a
non-straightforward way (it doesn't conflict, although a bugmessmass
breaks correct slicing of segments, so EDL/ordered chapter playback is
broken in backward direction).
Backward demuxing is pretty involved. In theory, it could be much
easier: simply iterating the usual demuxer output backward. But this
just doesn't fit into our code, so there's a cthulhu nightmare of shit.
To be specific, each stream (audio, video) is reversed separately. At
least this means we can do backward playback within cached content (for
example, you could play backwards in a live stream; on that note, it
disables prefetching, which would lead to losing new live video, but
this could be avoided).
The fuckmess also meant that I didn't bother trying to support
subtitles. Subtitles are a problem because they're "sparse" streams.
They need to be "passively" demuxed: you don't try to read a subtitle
packet, you demux audio and video, and then look whether there was a
subtitle packet. This means to get subtitles for a time range, you need
to know that you demuxed video and audio over this range, which becomes
pretty messy when you demux audio and video backwards separately.
Backward display is the most weird (and potentially buggy) part. To
avoid that we need to touch a LOT of timing code, we negate all
timestamps. The basic idea is that due to the navigation, all
comparisons and subtractions of timestamps keep working, and you don't
need to touch every single of them to "reverse" them.
E.g.:
bool before = pts_a < pts_b;
would need to be:
bool before = forward
? pts_a < pts_b
: pts_a > pts_b;
or:
bool before = pts_a * dir < pts_b * dir;
or if you, as it's implemented now, just do this after decoding:
pts_a *= dir;
pts_b *= dir;
and then in the normal timing/renderer code:
bool before = pts_a < pts_b;
Consequently, we don't need many changes in the latter code. But some
assumptions inhererently true for forward playback may have been broken
anyway. What is mainly needed is fixing places where values are passed
between positive and negative "domains". For example, seeking and
timestamp user display always uses positive timestamps. The main mess is
that it's not obvious which domain a given variable should or does use.
Well, in my tests with a single file, it suddenly started to work when I
did this. I'm honestly surprised that it did, and that I didn't have to
change a single line in the timing code past decoder (just something
minor to make external/cached text subtitles display). I committed it
immediately while avoiding thinking about it. But there really likely
are subtle problems of all sorts.
As far as I'm aware, gstreamer also supports backward playback. When I
looked at this years ago, I couldn't find a way to actually try this,
and I didn't revisit it now. Back then I also read talk slides from the
person who implemented it, and I'm not sure if and which ideas I might
have taken from it. It's possible that the timestamp reversal is
inspired by it, but I didn't check. (I think it claimed that it could
avoid large changes by changing a sign?)
VapourSynth has some sort of reverse function, which provides a backward
view on a video. The function itself is trivial to implement, as
VapourSynth aims to provide random access to video by frame numbers (so
you just request decreasing frame numbers). From what I remember, it
wasn't exactly fluid, but it worked. It's implemented by creating an
index, and seeking to the target on demand, and a bunch of caching. mpv
could use it, but it would either require using VapourSynth as demuxer
and decoder for everything, or replacing the current file every time
something is supposed to be played backwards.
FFmpeg's libavfilter has reversal filters for audio and video. These
require buffering the entire media data of the file, and don't really
fit into mpv's architecture. It could be used by playing a libavfilter
graph that also demuxes, but that's like VapourSynth but worse.
This is a minor benign hack that reorders the MPV_FORMAT_NODE output.
The order of members is not supposed to matter, but it's how the OSD
renders them as raw output. Normally this isn't used, but
demuxer-cache-state is a "prominent" case. Moving the seek ranges to the
end avoids that the more important other fields are not cut off by going
out of the screen on the bottom.
Also output the seek ranges in reverse. The order doesn't matter either
(as declared by input.rst). Currently, the demuxer orders them by least
recent use. Reversing it makes the most recently used range (the current
range) show up on top.
In other words, this commit does basically nothing but fudge stuff in a
cosmetic way to make debugging easier for me, and you've wasted your
time reading this commit message and the diff. Good.
Instead of going through those weird DEMUXER_CTRLs, query this
information directly. I'm not sure which kind of brain damage made me
use CTRLs for these. Since there are no other DEMUXER_CTRLs that make
sense for the frontend, remove the remaining infrastructure for them
too.
The stream size return was the only thing that still required doing
STREAM_CTRLs from frontend through the demuxer layer. This can be done
much easier, so rip it out. Also rip out the now unused infrastructure
for STREAM_CTRLs via demuxer layer.
The "program" property could switch between TS programs. It was rather
complex and rather obscure (even if you deal with TS captures, you
usually don't need it). If anyone actually needs it (did anyone ever
attempt to even use it?), it should be rewritten. The demuxer should
export a program list, and the frontend should handle the "cycling"
logic.
Linux analog TV support (via tv://) was excessively complex, and
whenever I attempted to use it (cameras or loopback devices), it didn't
work well, or would have required some major work to update it. It's
very much stuck in the analog past (my favorite are the frequency tables
in frequencies.c for analog TV channels which don't exist anymore).
Especially cameras and such work fine with libavdevice and better than
tv://, for example:
mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0
(adding --profile=low-latency --untimed even makes it mostly realtime)
Adding a new input layer that targets such "modern" uses would be
acceptable, if anyone is interested in it. The old TV code is just too
focused on actual analog TV.
DVB is rather obscure, but has an active maintainer, so don't remove it.
However, the demux/stream ctrl layer must go, so remove controls for
channel switching. Most of these could be reimplemented by using the
normal method for option runtime changes.
This removes anything related to DVD/BD/CD that negatively affected the
core code. It includes trying to rewrite timestamps (since DVDs and
Blurays do not set packet stream timestamps to playback time, and can
even have resets mid-stream), export of chapters, stream languages,
export of title/track lists, and all that.
Only basic seeking is supported. It is very much possible that seeking
completely fails on some discs (on some parts of the timeline), because
timestamp rewriting was removed.
Note that I don't give a shit about optical media. If you want to watch
them, rip them. Keeping some bare support for DVD/BD is the most I'm
going to do to appease the type of lazy, obnoxious users who will care.
There are other players which are better at optical discs.
Manual changes done:
* Merged the interface-changes under the already master'd changes.
* Moved the hwdec-related option changes to video/decode/vd_lavc.c.
The demuxer cache is the only cache now. Might need another change to
combat seeking failures in mp4 etc. The only bad thing is the loss of
cache-speed, which was sort of nice to have.
The player fully restarts playback when the edition or disk title is
changed. Before this, the player tried to reinitialized playback
partially. For example, it did not print a new "Playing: <file>"
message, and did not send playback end to libmpv users (scripts or
applications).
This playback restart code was a bit messy and could have unforeseen
interactions with various state. There have been bugs before. Since it's
a mostly cosmetic thing for an obscure feature, just change it to a full
restart. This works well, though since it may have consequences for
scripts or client API users, mention it in interface-changes.rst.
This is working towards a change intended in the future: nothing should
write to the option struct directly, but use functions that raise proper
notifications. Until this is complete it will take a while, and this
commit does not change all cases of direct access, just some simple
ones.
In all of these 3 changes, the actual write access is done by the
generic property-option bridge.
The --hwdec* options are a good fit for the vd_lavc local option
struct. This annoyingly requires manual prefixing of most of these
options with --vd-lavc (could be avoided by using more sub-struct
craziness, but let's not).
Before this, mpctx->playing was often used to determine whether certain
new state could be added to the playback state. In particular this
affected external files (which added tracks and demuxers). The variable
was checked to prevent that they were added before the corresponding
uninit code. We want to make a small part of uninit asynchronous, but
mpctx->playing needs to stay in the place where it is. It can't be used
for this purpose anymore.
Use mpctx->stop_play instead. Make it never have the value 0 outside of
loading/playback. On unloading, it obviously has to be non-0.
Change some other code in playloop.c to use this, because it seems
slightly more correct. But mostly this is preparation for the following
commit.
The player fully restarts playback when the edition or disk title is
changed. Before this, the player tried to reinitialized playback
partially. For example, it did not print a new "Playing: <file>"
message, and did not send playback end to libmpv users (scripts or
applications).
This playback restart code was a bit messy and could have unforeseen
interactions with various state. There have been bugs before. Since it's
a mostly cosmetic thing for an obscure feature, just change it to a full
restart. This works well, though since it may have consequences for
scripts or client API users, mention it in interface-changes.rst.
The properties/commands touched in this commit are all for obscure
special inputs (BD/DVD/DVB/TV), and they all block on the demuxer/stream
layer. For network streams, this blocking is very unwelcome. They will
affect playback and probably introduce pauses and frame drops. The
player can even freeze fully, and the logic that tries to make playback
abortable even if frozen complicates the player.
Since the mentioned accesses are not needed for network streams, but
they will block on network streams even though they're going to fail,
add a flag that coarsely enables/disables these accesses. Essentially it
establishes a whitelist of demuxers/streams which support them.
In theory you could to access BD/DVD images over network (or add such
support, I don't think it's a thing in mpv). In these cases these
controls still can block and could even "freeze" the player completely.
Writing to the "program" and "cache-size" properties still can block
even for network streams. Just don't use them if you don't want freezes.
Don't allow it to freeze everything when loading a playlist from network
(although you definitely shouldn't do that, but whatever).
This also affects the really obscure --ordered-chapters-files option.
The --playlist option on the other hand has no choice but to freeze the
shit, because there's no concept of aborting the player during command
line parsing.
Until now, they could be aborted only by ending playback, and calling
mpv_abort_async_command didn't do anything.
This requires furthering the mess how playback abort is done. The main
reason why mp_cancel exists at all is to avoid that a "frozen" demuxer
(blocked on network I/O or whatever) cannot freeze the core. The core
should always get its way. Previously, there was a single mp_cancel
handle, that could be signaled, and all demuxers would unfreeze. With
external files, we might want to abort loading of a certain external
file, which automatically means they need a separate mp_cancel. So give
every demuxer its own mp_cancel, and "slave" it to whatever parent
mp_cancel handles aborting.
Since the mpv demuxer API conflates creating the demuxer and reading the
file headers, mp_cancel strictly need to be created before the demuxer
is created (or we couldn't abort loading). Although we give every
demuxer its own mp_cancel (as "enforced" by cancel_and_free_demuxer),
it's still rather messy to create/destroy it along with the demuxer.
Before this change, only 1 command or so had named arguments. There is
no reason why other commands can't have them, except that it's a bit of
work to add them.
Commands with variable number of arguments are inherently incompatible
to named arguments, such as the "run" command. They still have dummy
names, but obviously you can't assign multiple values to a single named
argument (unless the argument has an array type, which would be
something different). For now, disallow using named argument APIs with
these commands. This might change later.
2 commands are adjusted to not need a separate default value by changing
flag constants. (The numeric values are C only and can't be set by
users.)
Make the command syntax in the manpage more consistent. Now none of the
allowed choice/flag names are in the command header, and all arguments
are shown with their proper name and quoted with <...>.
Some places in the manpage and the client.h doxygen are updated to
reflect that most commands support named arguments. In addition, try to
improve the documentation of the syntax and need for escaping etc. as
well.
(Or actually most uses of the word "argument" should be "parameter".)
Many asynchronous commands are potentially long running operations, such
as loading something from network or running a foreign process.
Obviously it shouldn't just be possible for them to freeze the player if
they don't terminate as expected. Also, there will be situations where
you want to explicitly stop some of those operations explicitly. So add
an infrastructure for this.
Commands have to support this explicitly. The next commit uses this to
actually add support to a command.
We keep mp.subprocess() with roughly the same semantics for
compatibility with scripts (including the internal ytdl script).
Seems to work with rhe ytdl wrapper. Not tested further.
This supports named arguments. It benefits from the infrastructure of
async commands.
The plan is to reimplement Lua's utils.subprocess() on top of it.
Basically reimplement the async behavior on top of the async command
code. With this, all screenshot commands are async, and the "async"
prefix basically does nothing. The prefix now behaves exactly like with
other commands that use spawn_thread.
This also means using the prefix in the preset input.conf is pointless
(without effect) and misleading, so remove that.
The each_frame mode was actually particularly painful in making this
change, since the player wants to block for it when writing a
screenshot, and generally doesn't fit into the new infrastructure. It
was still relatively easy to reimplement by copying the original command
and then repeating it on each frame. The waiting is reentrant now, so
move the call in video.c to a "safer" spot.
One way to observe how the new semantics interact with everything is
using the mpv repl script and sending a screenshot command through it.
Without async flag, the script will freeze while writing the screenshot
(while playback continues), while with async flag it continues.
Commands are not a monolithic giant switch() statement anymore, but
individual functions. There's no reason to have the command handlers
themselves in command.c, with a weird under-defined API in between.
(In the future, I'd like to split up command.c further, and when I do
that, scrrenshot.c will probably gets its own mp_cmd_def[] array, and
define the commands locally instead of exporting the raw handlers.)
Pretty trivial, since commands can be async now, and the common code
even provides convenience like running commands on a worker thread.
The only ugly thing is that mp_add_external_file() needs an extra flag
for locking. This is because there's still some code which calls this
synchronously from the main thread, and unlocking the core makes no
sense there.
This enables two types of command behavior:
1. Plain async behavior, like "loadfile" not completing until the file
is fully loaded.
2. Running parts of the command on worker threads, e.g. for I/O, such as
"sub-add" doing network accesses on a thread while the core
continues.
Both have no implementation yet, and most new code is actually inactive.
The plan is to implement a number of useful cases in the following
commits.
The most tricky part is handling internal keybindings (input.conf) and
the multi-command feature (concatenating commands with ";"). It requires
a bunch of roundabout code to make it do the expected thing in
combination with async commands.
There is the question how commands should be handled that come in at a
higher rate than what can be handled by the core. Currently, it will
simply queue up input.conf commands as long as memory lasts. The client
API is limited by the size of the reply queue per client. For commands
which require a worker thread, the thread pool is limited to 30 threads,
and then will queue up work in memory. The number is completely
arbitrary.
Could make it behave differently (and leak memory) in certain cases.
Basically, m_option_parse() randomly returns 0 or 1, but most time 1,
with the difference due to legacy reasons that don't matter anymore.
The "if (prop.name)" check is redundant, because an assert above it
implies that it never can be NULL.
Deduplicate some code for initializing the "prop" variable.
This gets rid of run_command() and its big switch statement, which was
an idiotically big function of almost 1000 lines.
The switch is replaced with a callback per command, and each command is
now implemented in its own function. Command IDs are not needed anymore,
so the mp_command_type enum disappears.
There should be no functional changes, but since this refactors 64
commands, regressions are possible.
The handler() parameter is void*, because in theory the input code is
supposed to be independent of the player core code. For example, you
should be able to reuse the command parser code for some other part of
mpv. In practice, the variable containing command list is defined in the
player core anyway, so you could say this doesn't work. But I'm still
trying to hold onto this idea, so I went with void*.
The plan is to remove the command ID enum. This will happen by replacing
the big switch statement in command.c with dispatching to per-command
callbacks. As preparation, remove uses of the command IDs outside of the
actual dispatching mechanism.
Also remove some instances of checking cmd->def for NULL. We now require
this always to be set.
Instead of using an internal counter to keep track of the value that was
set last, attempt to find the current value of the property/option in
the value list, and then set the next value in the list.
There are some potential problems. If a property refuses to accept a
specific value, the cycle-values command will fail, and start from the
same position again. It can't know that it's supposed to skip the next
value. The same can happen to properties which behave "strangely", such
as the "aspect" property, which will return the current aspect if you
write "-1" to it. As a consequence, cycle-values can appear to get
"stuck".
I still think the new behavior is what users expect more, and which is
generally more useful. We won't restore the ability to get the old
behavior, unless we decide to revert this commit entirely.
Fixes#5772, and hopefully other complaints.
If playback has not been initialized yet (decoders not initialized
etc.), or if in idle mode, let the track properties cycle through "no"
and "auto". This should be slightly more helpful than making it simply
exit.
Depending on the stage of loading, more could be done. For example, if
youtube-dl loads additional subtitle files, it can happen that these get
added before the main file, and this could be cycled through to an
extent. This is probably too clever, and also sort of dangerous
(unintended interactions with messy in-loading state), so don't do it.
Also rename stereo3d to stereo_in. The only real change is that the
vo_gpu OSD code now uses the actual stereo 3D mode, instead of the
--video-steroe-mode value. (Why does this vo_gpu code even exist?)
ffmpeg marks audio tracks which are not meant to be played standalone
as DEPENDENT. these are typically used in DVB broadcasts for audio
descriptions, and are meant to be mixed into the main audio track during
playback.
There was a "generic" function to run a hook and to wait for its
completion, yet there were two duplicated functions doing the same
anyway. Replace them with a single function.
They differed in how stop_play was handled, but it was broken anyway.
stop_play is set when playback is stopped due to quitting or changing
the playlist entry - but we still can't stop hook processing, because
that would mean asynchronously doing something else while the user hook
code is still busy and might still have the expectation that running the
hook stops everything else. So not waiting until the hook ends properly
is against the whole hook idea. That this was done inconsistently is
even worse. (Though it could be argued that when quitting the player,
everything should just be stopped violently. But I still think that's
up to the hook handler.)
process_hooks() does not return anything, since hook processing doesn't
really have a result (it's all about blocking and letting some other
code synchronously do something). Just let the caller check whether
loading was aborted in the meantime.
Also change the potentially misleading name of mp_hook_run().
As it turns out, there are multiple libmpv users who saw a need to
use the hook API. The API is kind of shitty and was never meant to be
actually public (it was mostly a hack for the ytdl script).
Introduce a proper API and deprecate the old one. The old one will
probably continue to work for a few releases, but will be removed
eventually.
There are some slight changes to the old API, but if a user followed
the manual properly, it won't break.
Mostly untested. Appears to work with ytdl_hook.
Move all of this stuff to a common function. This makes the error
messages less specific, but I don't think anyone will miss it.
The OSD flag handling is annoying, but it's nothing that should be
changed with this commit.
I think this will help with reducing code duplication (see following
commit). The error messages loses the multiplication factor, but the
error message will be replaced by a generic one in the following commit
anyway.
There is some sort-of awkwardness here, because option access needs to
happen in a synchronized manner, and the framedrop flag is not in the VO
option struct. Remove the mp_read_option_raw() call and the awkward
change notification via VO_EVENT_WIN_STATE from command.c, and pass it
through as new vo_frame flag.
Removes the awkward notification through VO_EVENT_WIN_STATE.
Unfortunately, some awkwardness remains in mp_property_display_fps(),
because the property has conflicting semantics with the option.
