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Property change notification works by having the mpv core wake up all clients observing a property when the property potentially changes. The clients then read the property's value, and determine if there was an actual change. (The latter part depends what the property returned for the previous change notification, so it depends on the client, and cannot be generated by the core itself.) Until now, reading the property value was done in a pseudo-async way by queuing a callback back to the core, running it there, and then waking up the client thread again. I cannot comprehend why this was done in such a complicated, fragile way. Maybe it's a leftover from times when client.c had to do this (in short, because properties could access vo_opengl, which has thread-local state). One past idea was to make the implementation of true async properties easier (for which you would need such a state machine anyway). But they don't exist yet, and I doubt the current mess would be really helpful when actually implementing them. Simplify this, and run the update in the client's thread directly. In addition to the fundamental change, many roundabout things can be removed as a consequence. Unfortunately, I noticed that lock order issues force you to release ctx->lock before doing so, which makes things more complex due to possible concurrent mpv_unobserve_property() calls. Solve this by removing properties lazily, which means you may have to do multiple mpv_wait_event() calls before the property entry is actually destroyed. This should not matter in practice, and does not affect the semantics. It could also cause "leaks" by observing/unobserving properties in a loop, without ever calling mpv_wait_event(). Just don't do this, duh. (I considered making this dependent on whether the previous mpv_wait_event() call returned the property being removed, but a separate code path seemed too complicated. I also considered copying the name and property data when returning a MPV_EVENT_PROPERTY_CHANGE, but actually this doesn't solve the problem of update_prop() being interrupted by mpv_unobserve_property(); there are ways around it, but I just said no.) This was made using the cowboy coding software engineering methodology. If you find any bugs, keep them yourself. |
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mpv
- External links
- Overview
- System requirements
- Downloads
- Changelog
- Compilation
- Release cycle
- Bug reports
- Contributing
- License
- Contact
External links
Overview
mpv is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
Releases can be found on the release list.
System requirements
- A not too ancient Linux, Windows 7 or later, or OSX 10.8 or later.
- A somewhat capable CPU. Hardware decoding might help if the CPU is too slow to
decode video in realtime, but must be explicitly enabled with the
--hwdec
option. - A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are
many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter,
etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are
current. In some cases, ancient fallback video output methods can help
(such as
--vo=xv
on Linux), but this use is not recommended or supported.
Downloads
For semi-official builds and third-party packages please see mpv.io/installation.
Changelog
There is no complete changelog; however, changes to the player core interface are listed in the interface changelog.
Changes to the C API are documented in the client API changelog.
The release list has a summary of most of the important changes on every release.
Changes to the default key bindings are indicated in restore-old-bindings.conf.
Compilation
Compiling with full features requires development files for several external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements.
The mpv build system uses waf, but we don't store it in the
repository. The ./bootstrap.py
script will download the latest version
of waf that was tested with the build system.
For a list of the available build options use ./waf configure --help
. If
you think you have support for some feature installed but configure fails to
detect it, the file build/config.log
may contain information about the
reasons for the failure.
NOTE: To avoid cluttering the output with unreadable spam, --help
only shows
one of the two switches for each option. If the option is autodetected by
default, the --disable-***
switch is printed; if the option is disabled by
default, the --enable-***
switch is printed. Either way, you can use
--enable-***
or --disable-**
regardless of what is printed by --help
.
To build the software you can use ./waf build
: the result of the compilation
will be located in build/mpv
. You can use ./waf install
to install mpv
to the prefix after it is compiled.
Example:
./bootstrap.py
./waf configure
./waf
./waf install
Essential dependencies (incomplete list):
- gcc or clang
- X development headers (xlib, xrandr, xext, xscrnsaver, xinerama, libvdpau, libGL, GLX, EGL, xv, ...)
- Audio output development headers (libasound/ALSA, pulseaudio)
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavfilter and either libswresample or libavresample)
- zlib
- iconv (normally provided by the system libc)
- libass (OSD, OSC, text subtitles)
- Lua (optional, required for the OSC pseudo-GUI and youtube-dl integration)
- libjpeg (optional, used for screenshots only)
- uchardet (optional, for subtitle charset detection)
- nvdec and vaapi libraries for hardware decoding on Linux (optional)
Libass dependencies:
- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
- fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass)
- harfbuzz (optional, required for correct rendering of combining characters, particularly for correct rendering of non-English text on OSX, and Arabic/Indic scripts on any platform)
FFmpeg dependencies:
- gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64
- OpenSSL or GnuTLS (have to be explicitly enabled when compiling FFmpeg)
- libx264/libmp3lame/libfdk-aac if you want to use encoding (have to be explicitly enabled when compiling FFmpeg)
- For native DASH playback, FFmpeg needs to be built with --enable-libxml2 (although there are security implications, and DAHS support has lots of bugs).
- AV1 decoding support requires dav1d.
- For good nvidia support on Linux, make sure nv-codec-headers is installed and can be found by configure.
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal Linux distributions. For ease of compiling the latest git master of everything, you may wish to use the separately available build wrapper (mpv-build) which first compiles FFmpeg libraries and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW, or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See Windows compilation.
Release cycle
Every other month, an arbitrary git snapshot is made, and is assigned a 0.X.0 version number. No further maintenance is done.
The goal of releases is to make Linux distributions happy. Linux distributions are also expected to apply their own patches in case of bugs and security issues.
Releases other than the latest release are unsupported and unmaintained.
See the release policy document for more information.
Bug reports
Please use the issue tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests. Follow the template's instructions or the issue will likely be ignored or closed as invalid.
Using the bug tracker as place for simple questions is fine but IRC is recommended (see Contact below).
Contributing
Please read contribute.md.
For small changes you can just send us pull requests through GitHub. For bigger changes come and talk to us on IRC before you start working on them. It will make code review easier for both parties later on.
You can check the wiki or the issue tracker for ideas on what you could contribute with.
License
GPLv2 "or later" by default, LGPLv2.1 "or later" with --enable-lgpl
.
See details.
Contact
Most activity happens on the IRC channel and the github issue tracker.
- GitHub issue tracker: issue tracker (report bugs here)
- User IRC Channel:
#mpv
onirc.freenode.net
- Developer IRC Channel:
#mpv-devel
onirc.freenode.net