Summary:
- There is no playtree anymore. It's reduced to a simple list.
- Options are now always global. You can still have per-file options,
but these are optional and require special syntax.
- The slave command pt_step has been removed, and playlist_next
and playlist_prev added. (See etc/input.conf changes.)
This is a user visible incompatible change, and will break slave-mode
applications.
- The pt_clear slave command is renamed to playlist_clear.
- Playtree entries could have multiple files. This is not the case
anymore, and playlist entries have always exactly one entry. Whenever
something adds more than one file (like ASX playlists or dvd:// or
dvdnav:// on the command line), all files are added as separate
playlist entries.
Note that some of the changes are quite deep and violent. Expect
regressions.
The playlist parsing code in particular is of low quality. I didn't try
to improve it, and merely spent to least effort necessary to keep it
somehow working. (Especially ASX playlist handling.)
The playtree code was complicated and bloated. It was also barely used.
Most users don't even know that mplayer manages the playlist as tree,
or how to use it. The most obscure features was probably specifying a
tree on command line (with '{' and '}' to create/close tree nodes). It
filled the player code with complexity and confused users with weird
slave commands like pt_up.
Replace the playtree with a simple flat playlist. Playlist parsers that
actually return trees are changed to append all files to the playlist
pre-order.
It used to be the responsibility of the playtree code to change per-file
config options. Now this is done by the player core, and the playlist
code is free of such details.
Options are not per-file by default anymore. This was a very obscure and
complicated feature that confused even experienced users. Consider the
following command line:
mplayer file1.mkv file2.mkv --no-audio file3.mkv
This will disable the audio for file2.mkv only, because options are
per-file by default. To make the option affect all files, you're
supposed to put it before the first file.
This is bad, because normally you don't need per-file options. They are
very rarely needed, and the only reasonable use cases I can imagine are
use of the encode backend (mplayer encode branch), or for debugging. The
normal use case is made harder, and the feature is perceived as bug.
Even worse, correct usage is hard to explain for users.
Make all options global by default. The position of an option isn't
significant anymore (except for options that compensate each other,
consider --shuffle --no-shuffle).
One other important change is that no options are reset anymore if a
new file is started. If you change settings with slave mode commands,
they will not be changed by playing a new file. (Exceptions include
settings that are too file specific, like audio/subtitle stream
selection.)
There is still some need for per-file options. Debugging and encoding
are use cases that profit from per-file options. Per-file profiles (as
well as per-protocol and per-VO/AO options) need the implementation
related mechanisms to backup and restore options when the playback file
changes.
Simplify the save-slot stuff, which is possible because there is no
hierarchical play tree anymore. Now there's a simple backup field.
Add a way to specify per-file options on command line. Example:
mplayer f1.mkv -o0 --{ -o1 f2.mkv -o2 f3.mkv --} f4.mkv -o3
will have the following options per file set:
f1.mkv, f4.mkv: -o0 -o3
f2.mkv, f3.mkv: -o0 -o3 -o1 -o2
The options --{ and --} start and end per-file options. All files inside
the { } will be affected by the options equally (similar to how global
options and multiple files are handled). When playback of a file starts,
the per-file options are set according to the command line. When
playback ends, the per-file options are restored to the values when
playback started.
The command lists the audio and subtitle tracks in the current file on the
OSD. It also marks the currently active streams.
Video streams are not shown, as files with more than one video stream are
exceedingly rare.
The command lists the chapters in the current file on the OSD. It also
marks the current chapter.
This is actually a cheap replacement for the chapter select libmenu
functionality.
While DOCS/tech/ contains lots of documentation about mplayer's
internals, most of it seems outdated, and hasn't been touched in many
years. On the other hand, there still might be useful things in there,
but it's hard to tell which parts.
Instead of deleting all it, rename the directory to "warn" potential
developers that the documentation is completely outdated.
This contained _some_ documentation, but it was all old, crappy,
barely maintained. Even if it was maintained, uau hasn't merged
back changes for years.
Conflicts:
.gitignore
bstr.c
cfg-mplayer.h
defaultopts.c
libvo/video_out.c
The conflict in bstr.c is due to uau adding a bstr_getline function in
commit 2ba8b91a97. This function already existed in this branch.
While uau's function is obviously derived from mine, it's incompatible.
His function preserves line breaks, while mine strips them. Add a
bstr_strip_linebreaks function, fix all other uses of bstr_getline, and
pick uau's implementation.
In .gitignore, change vo_gl3_shaders.h to use an absolute path
additional to resolving the merge conflict.
Delete all manpages and XML documentation in languages other than
English. The XML documentation was badly out of date. The content of
translated manpages was somewhat out of date, and manpage formatting
will change to use reStructuredText instead of raw troff format. If
updated translations are created for some languages later, I think
it's better to maintain those outside the main repository.
The player can read codec mapping (codecs.conf) from an external file
or use embedded defaults. Before, the defaults were stored in the
player binary in the form of final already-parsed data structures.
Simplify things by storing the text of the codecs.conf file instead,
and parse that at runtime the same way an external file would be
parsed.
To create the previous parsed form, the build system first compiled a
separate binary named "codec-cfg", which parsed etc/codecs.conf and
then wrote the results as a C data structure that could be compiled
into the program. The new simple conversion of codecs.conf into a C
string is handled by the new script TOOLS/file2string.py.
After removing the codec-cfg binary, HOST_CC is no longer used for
anything. Remove the --host-cc configure option and associated logic.
Also remove the codec2html and codec-cfg-test functionality. Building
those was already broken and nobody cared.
There was a broken 3-character-long "fourcc" entry in etc/codecs.conf.
This happened to be accepted before but triggered a parse error after
the changes. Remove the broken entry and make the parsing functions
explicitly test for this error.
The screenshot command normally converts the currently displayed video
frame to an image. Add support for an alternative screenshot mode
that is supposed to capture the real window contents. Such a
screenshot contains a possibly scaled version of the frame, the OSD,
and subtitles.
Add a default key binding Alt+s for taking screenshots in this mode.
This needs special VO support, and might not work with all VOs (this
commit does not yet contain an implementation for any VO, only the
infrastructure).
Something like the OSD menu functionality could be useful. However the
current implementation has several problems and would require a
relatively large amount of work to get into good shape. As far as I
know there are few users of the existing functionality. Nobody is
working on the existing code and keeping it compiling at all while
changing other code would require extra work. So delete the menu code
and some related code elsewhere that's used by nothing else.
Rewrite control of the colorspace and input/output level parameters
used in YUV-RGB conversions, replacing VO-specific suboptions with new
common options and adding configuration support to more cases.
Add new option --colormatrix which selects the colorspace the original
video is assumed to have in YUV->RGB conversions. The default
behavior changes from assuming BT.601 to colorspace autoselection
between BT.601 and BT.709 using a simple heuristic based on video
size. Add new options --colormatrix-input-range and
--colormatrix-output-range which select input YUV and output RGB range.
Disable the previously existing VO-specific colorspace and level
conversion suboptions in vo_gl and vo_vdpau. Remove the
"yuv_colorspace" property and replace it with one named "colormatrix"
and semantics matching the new option. Add new properties matching the
options for level conversion.
Colorspace selection is currently supported by vo_gl, vo_vdpau, vo_xv
and vf_scale, and all can change it at runtime (previously only
vo_vdpau and vo_xv could). vo_vdpau now uses the same conversion
matrix generation as vo_gl instead of libvdpau functionality; the main
functional difference is that the "contrast" equalizer control behaves
somewhat differently (it scales the Y component around 1/2 instead of
around 0, so that contrast 0 makes the image gray rather than black).
vo_xv does not support level conversion. vf_scale supports range
setting for input, but always outputs full-range RGB.
The value of the slave properties is the policy setting used for
conversions. This means they can be set to any value regardless of
whether the current VO supports that value or whether there currently
even is any video. Possibly separate properties could be added to
query the conversion actually used at the moment, if any.
Because the colorspace and level settings are now set with a single
VF/VO control call, the return value of that is no longer used to
signal whether all the settings are actually supported. Instead code
should set all the details it can support, and ignore the rest. The
core will use GET_YUV_COLORSPACE to check which colorspace details
have been set and which not. In other words, the return value for
SET_YUV_COLORSPACE only signals whether any kind of YUV colorspace
conversion handling exists at all, and VOs have to take care to return
the actual state with GET_YUV_COLORSPACE instead.
To be changed in later commits: add missing option documentation.
Add option --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat and corresponding property
ass_vsfilter_aspect_compat. The setting controls whether to enable the
emulation of traditional VSFilter behavior where subtitles are
stretched if the video is anamorphic (previously always enabled for
native SSA/ASS subtitles). Enabled by default. Add 'V' as a new
default keybinding to toggle the property.
Correct suboption stereo descriptions, and reformat to be compliant
with other sections.
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Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
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Improve stereo3d interleaved man page description.
Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
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Change memcpy_pic to force it to never write to image parts between
width and stride if creating a row-interleaved format, otherwise
the second memcpy_pic might overwrite what the first wrote.
Changing the first should not be necessary but might result in
better performance.
Patch by Steaphan Greene [sgreene cs.binghamton.edu]
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NOTE: the memory for the "file" argument will be leaked; dynamic
options are not automatically freed. Not fixing that now as I might
implement more general handling later. -uau
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Change some key names to upper case and to match the names used in
input.conf bindings. Most of them already were in this form.
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Due to libavcodec changes vo_xvmc would have needed some modifications
to keep working. However, I think there's little real demand for XvMC,
so I'll just drop XvMC support. XvMC only supported MPEG-2, making it
of very limited usefulness nowadays, plus the vo_xvmc implementation
was not high quality and never worked particularly well or reliably
anyway.
Change ao_pcm to use the new audio output driver API and clean up some
of the code. Rewrite the logic controlling how playback timing works
when using -ao pcm. Deprecate the "fast" suboption; its only effect
now is to print a warning, but it's still accepted so that specifying
it is not an error.
Before, timing with -ao pcm and video enabled had two possible
modes. In the default mode playback speed was rather arbitrary - not
realtime, but not particularly fast. -ao pcm:fast tried to play back
at maximum video playback speed - mostly succeeding, but not quite
guaranteed to work in all cases. Now the default is to play at
realtime speed. The -benchmark option can now be used to get faster
playback (same as the video-only case). In the audio-only case
playback is always maximum speed.
Instead of strictly limiting the number of total entries in the
internal fifo, make the overall buffer bigger and try to limit entries
based on how many bound commands they're expected to generate. Now
doubleclick and button down events aren't counted for that limit.
Normally the sequence down-doubleclick-up generates at most one
command, so this better matches the quantity we actually want to
limit. Also add a mechanism to clear the button combination state kept
by input.c when the fifo is full; this avoids "stuck button" problems
due to button release events being dropped.
The key combination state clearing is partially based on MPlayer 1
changes by Reimar Döffinger (though overall the effects of this commit
are quite different). It still doesn't make "stuck button" problems
completely impossible; at least if the VO gets closed while a button
was down then nothing will send a button up event or reset state.
The code combining button presses into multibutton commands prevented
single click commands from triggering if a doubleclick event had been
generated from the same button press. As a result using the mouse
wheel to seek worked very badly. Special-case doubleclick events in
the event interpretation code to avoid this issue. This changes the
sequence of generated "keys" for press-release-press-release from
MOUSE_BTN0 MOUSE_BTN0-MOUSE_BTN0_DBL MOUSE_BTN0_DBL to
MOUSE_BTN0 MOUSE_BTN0_DBL MOUSE_BTN0.
"Keys" like MOUSE_BTN0-MOUSE_BTN0_DBL will never be generated now; any
existing configuration files using those need to be changed.
For some reason the -lavfdopts option was documented under MEncoder
options (despite not being MEncoder-specific), and was removed
together with MEncoder documentation in commit d76ad5f227. Restore the
documentation and convert it from its own section to normal option
documentation form. Also fix the example to actually work with current
lavf.
Add option -osd-fractions which enables display of fractional seconds
when showing the current playback time on OSD.
Based on a patch from Christian <herr.mitterlehner@gsmpaaiml.com> but
with several modifications.
Drop support for specifying demuxer types by numeric ID (options
-demuxer, -audio-demuxer and -sub-demuxer). Stop printing the numeric
values in "-demuxer help" output. Convert the list of DEMUXER_TYPE_XXX
defines to "enum demuxer_type".
The XML documentation was badly outdated, with various obsolete,
useless and and sometimes actively harmful advice. Delete a lot of the
obsolete stuff, without spending much effort to replace it for now.
In the FAQ section I removed some questions completely; in other cases
I only removed the answer if I thought the entry might be worth
keeping but the answer would need to be updated.
About the only useful part of the BUGS section on the manpage was a
link to mplayerhq.hu, and that doesn't really apply any more (includes
references to Subversion etc). Remove that section and update/remove
some outdated info.
There were multiple files specific to Zoran support, and they also
depended on internal FFmpeg headers (so it would probably have been
hard to get them to compile now even if you tried). It's obsolete now,
so just drop the whole mess.
dxr2 support had been broken quite a while and nobody noticed. There
were finally commits to fix it in the svn repo, but rather than apply
those I'll just drop dxr2 support.
By now VIDIX is too obscure to justify the amount of code and
complexity it requires in the sources. Although there is no pressing
need to drop it just now from a code point of view, I'll rather remove
it before release than release with VIDIX support and then drop it
later.
Some of the manpage mentions of VIDIX were in "this option supported
for these VOs" lists that looked outdated and failed to mention vdpau
for example. Replace such incorrect lists with a generic "not
supported for all VOs" mention.
Add some notes about BE/LE colorspaces and fix a small typo.
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Remove AAC/FAAD2 installation instructions.
There is nothing special about building and installing FAAD2, so there is
no longer a need to keep maintaining instructions for it.
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* sub:
sub/OSD: move some related files to sub/
subtitles: options: enable -ass by default
subtitles: change default libass rendering style
demux_mkv, chapters: change millisecond arithmetic to ns
cleanup: rename ass_* functions to mp_ass_*
subs: use correct font aspect ratio for libass + converted subs
cleanup: some random minor code simplification and cleanup
vf_vo: fix EOSD change detection bug
sd_ass: remove subreader use, support plaintext markup
subtitles: style support for common SubRip tags and MicroDVD
core: ordered chapters: fix bad subtitle parameter
subs/demux: don't try to enable sub track when creating it
subtitles/demux: store duration instead of endpts in demux packets
subtitles: add framework for subtitle decoders
options: add special -leak-report option
subtitles: remove code trying to handle text subs with libavcodec
cleanup: move MP_NOPTS_VALUE definition to mpcommon.h
subtitles: move global ass_track to struct osd_state
core: move most mpcommon.c contents to mplayer.c
core: move global "subdata" and "vo_sub_last" to mpctx
subtitles: remove sub_last_pts hack
options: move -noconfig to option struct, simplify
There are still some problems with -ass. For example some other
subtitle options won't work the same way or at all with it enabled,
and inserting the video filter for VOs that lack native rendering
support won't work with different colorspaces. However I think that
the benefit from styling support outweights those disadvantages, and
also that the "discoverability" of features is better this way; it
will be easier for people who encounter problems to find -noass than
for people who see no styling to find out that they could add it with
-ass.
Enable -ass by default. Also fix other outdated information in the
manpage entries for -ass and -fontconfig.
This really should have been added to the manpage at the start of the
previous decade. There's still bad advice about -playlist in the XML
docs, but I'll remove that later when purging more obsolete/wrong
stuff from there.
Allow negative values of the "deint" parameter and make them select
the same deinterlacing mode as the corresponding positive value, but
without enabling deinterlace on startup. This is useful for
configuration files. Also tweak the overall manpage description of
vo_vdpau a bit to make it sound less as if the VO would be for
hardware acceleration only.
* hr-seek:
input: add default keybindings Shift+[arrow] for small exact seeks
input: support bindings with modifier keys for X input
core: audio: make ogg missing audio timing workaround more complex
core: add support for precise non-keyframe-limited seeks
core: add struct for queued seek info
commands: add generic option -> property wrapper
options: add "choice" option type, use for -pts-association-mode
core: remove looping in update_video(), modify command handling a bit
core: seek: use accurate seek mode with audio-only files
core: avoid using sh_video->pts as "current pts"
libvo: register X11 connection fd in input event system
core: timing: add special handling of long frame intervals
core: move central play loop to a separate function
Conflicts:
DOCS/tech/slave.txt
Add support for seeking to an arbitrary non-keyframe position by
decoding video starting from the previous keyframe. Whether to use
this functionality when seeking is controlled by the new option
-hr-seek and a new third argument to the "seek" command. The default
is to use it for absolute seeks (like chapter seeks) but not for
relative ones. Because there's currently no support for cutting
encoded audio some desync is expected if encoded audio passthrough is
used. Currently precise seeks always go to the first frame with
timestamp equal to or greater than the target position; there's no
support for "matching or earlier" backwards seeks at frame level.
Make "-lavdopts threads=0" mean an autodetected number of threads, and
make that the default value of the option. Also increase the upper
limit of the option from 8 to 16. Add new file osdep/numcores.c which
tries to determine the number of cores available on the machine.
numcores.c is based (heavily modified) on public domain numcpus.c by
Philip Willoughby <pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk>, downloaded from
http://csgsoft.doc.ic.ac.uk/numcpus/
