When possible, refer to booleans with "Whether..." since it can refer to
both yes (using input.conf and mp.get_property) and true (using the JSON
IPC or mp.get_property_native/bool), else explicitly say yes/true.
Say "true" for subprocess and osd-overlay named arguments since you
can't use them in input.conf and you will typically use them with the
boolean true in the named arguments, like the subprocess example in the
manpage does (though the string "yes" also works).
Subproperties that can't be accessed with the / syntax like
demuxer-cache-state's bof-cached and eof-cached always return true,
never yes.
Based on the implementation of ffmpeg's sixel backend output written
by Hayaki Saito
https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL/blob/sixel/libavdevice/sixel.c
Sixel is a protocol to display graphics in a terminal. This commit
adds support to play videos on a sixel enabled terminal using libsixel.
With --vo=sixel, the output will be in sixel format.
The input frame will be scaled to the user specified resolution
(--vo-sixel-width and --vo-sixel-height) using swscaler and then
encoded using libsixel and output to the terminal. This method
requires high cpu and there are high frame drops for 720p and
higher resolution videos and might require using lesser colors and
have drop in quality. Docs have all the supported options listed
to fine tune the output quality.
TODO: A few parameters of libsixel such as the sixel_encode_policy
and the SIXEL_XTERM16 variables are hardcoded, might want to
expose them as command line options. Also the initialization
resolution is not automatic and if the user doesn't specify the
dimensions, it picks 320x240 as the default resolution which is not
optimal. So need to automatically pick the best fit resolution for
the current open terminal window size.
This allows keybindings such as:
a script-message-to console type "seek :0 absolute" 6
% script-message-to console type "seek absolute-percent" 6
The cursor position 0 isn't allowed because it has the weird effect of
filling the console with the text twice, leaving the cursor in the
middle.
Negative positions would put the cursor n characters before the end, and
positions greater than the text's length at the end. They seem to work
at first, but the console breaks when you move the cursor, so they
aren't allowed.
It seems that float values don't cause issues, but I'm using the
argument's floor anyway to be safe. Using >= 1 instead of > 0 ignores
values like 0.5.
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.)
The original documentation here is unclear, so let's describe the
behaviour we actually have. Inspired by wm4's updated docs but
obviously not identical because we're not changing any of the
behaviours.
Pointless feature that can be done with environment variables. It was
also implemented incorrectly and broke autoprobing.
This reverts commit 015b676875.
As per the client API, a client can connect to any arbitrary wayland
socket. mpv has always just passed NULL which connected to the
compositor currently in use, but one could just as easily pass the name
of a different socket (i.e. the value of WAYLAND_DISPLAY). Here, we just
expose this argument as a user configurable option. If the user passes a
socket name that does not exist, then print a warning and fall back to
NULL.
Picks up files like "cover.jpg". It's made part of normal external file
loading, so I'm adding 3 new options that are direct equivalents for the
options that control loading of external subtitle and audio files. Even
though I bet nobody wants them and they just increase confusion... I
guess the world is actually hell, so this outcome should be fine.
It prefers non-specific external files like "cover.jpg" over embedded
cover art. Not sure if that's wanted or unwanted.
There's some pain over explicitly marking such files as external
pictures. This is basically an optimization: in most cases, a heuristic
would treat an image file loaded with --external-file the same (it's a
heuristic because ffmpeg can't tell us whether something is an image or
a video). However, even with this heuristic, it would decode the cover
art picture again on each seek, which would essentially slow down
seeking in audio files. This bothered me greatly, which is why I'm
adding these additional options at all, and bothered with the previous
commit.
Fixes: #3056
on macOS 10.15 setting the activation policy behaves quite weirdly. the
call changes the current active App to a nameless process, which
probably also the reason that prevents the not focusing to work.
a workaround for that, is to refocus the previous active app.
Fixes#7725
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().
--audio-stream-silence is a shitty feature compensating for awful
consumer garbage, that mutes PCM at first to check whether it's
compressed audio, using formats advocated and owned by malicious patent
troll companies (who spend more money on their lawyers than paying any
technicians), wrapped in a wasteful way to make it constant bitrate
using a standard whose text is not freely available, and only rude users
want it. This feature has been carelessly broken, because it's
complicated and stupid. What would Jesus do? If not getting an aneurysm,
or pushing over tables with expensive A/V receivers on top of them, he'd
probably fix the feature. So let's take inspiration from Jesus Christ
himself, and do something as dumb as wasting some of our limited
lifetime on this incredibly stupid fucking shit.
This is tricky, because state changes like end-of-audio are supposed to
be driven by the AO driver, while playing silence precludes this. But it
seems code paths for "untimed" AOs can be reused.
But there are still problems. For example, underruns will just happen
normally (and stop audio streaming), because we don't have a separate
heuristic to check whether the buffer is "low enough" (as a consequence
of a network stall, but before the audio output itself underruns).
Transparent windows on X11/EGL/native Mesa GL didn't work for various
reasons. From what I remember, the current code did work with nvidia at
least. Mesa has made attempts to fix this, but they never really made it
in.
But it turns out you can make EGL/Mesa list the EGLConfigs that use X11
RGBA visuals, and context_x11egl.c contains code that explicitly selects
them if alpha is requested (see pick_xrgba_config()).
The reason EGL/Mesa did not list them (and thus breaking transparency)
is because we requested a EGL_ALPHA_SIZE != 0 if alpha is requested. But
the transparent EGLConfigs use EGL_ALPHA_SIZE == 0. That's because EGL
doesn't actually support the concept of transparent windows; the alpha
size parameter is something else (memory rendering without FBOs or
something, I don't care enough to look up the real reasons).
This still won't work on Wayland. Every EGL backend needs platform
specific code. (Good job, EGL, such an awesome platform independent
standard.)
Fixes: #6590
Accepting ":" in addition to "," seems confusing and dumb. It only
causing problems when you want to pass a value that contains ":". Remove
support for ":", it is now treated like any other normal character. This
affects all options that are listed as "Key/value list" in the option
list.
It's possible that this breaks for someone who happened to use ":" as
separator. But this was undocumented, and never recommended. Originally,
the option treated many other characters in a special way, but this was
changed in commit a3d561f950. I'm, not sure why ":" was explicitly
included. Maybe because -the absurd -vf/--af syntax uses ":" as list
separator. But "," was always recommended and used in examples for
key/value options.
Fixes: #8021 (if you consider it a bug)
This allows users to control whether full dialogue subtitles are displayed
with an audio track already in their preferred subtitle language.
Additionally, this improves handling for the forced flag, automatically
selecting between forced and unforced subtitle streams based on the user's
settings and the selected audio.
Add support for reading a byte range from a stream via
the `slice://` protocol.
Syntax is `slice://start[-end]@URL` where end is a maximum
(read until end or eof).
Size suffixes support in `m_option` is reused so they can
be used with start/end.
This can be very useful with e.g. large MPEGTS streams with
corruption or time-stamp jumps or other issues in them.
Signed-off-by: Mohammad AlSaleh <CE.Mohammad.AlSaleh@gmail.com>
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
Seems like this is requested all the time.
It seems libass allows out of range values, but does allows the subtitle
to go out of the screen at the bottom (only when moving it to the top
it's "clamped"). Too bad, don't do that then. The bitmap sub rendering
code on the other hand is under our control, and will not move a
subtitle out of the screen.
Fixes: #7986
Requested. Should be good for simple use cases. "sub2" is technically
inconsistent (since the option is called --secondary-sid), but fuck the
consistent name.
Uses the mechanism introduced in the previous commit. The hope was to
make auto-profiles easier to use, and to get rid of the need for
manually created inverse profiles. Not sure if the end result is useful.
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.
