Opening the stream and opening the demuxer are both done asynchronously,
meaning the player reacts to client API requests. They also can
potentially take a while. Thus it's better to process outstanding
property changes, so that change events are sent for properties that
were changed during opening.
mpctx->audio_delay always has the same value as opts->audio_delay. (This
was not the case a long time ago, when the audio-delay property didn't
actually write to opts->audio_delay. I think.)
This is for the ordered chapters case only. In theory this could have
resulted in initial audio, video or subs missing, although it didn't
happen in practice (because no streams were selected, thus the demuxer
thread didn't actually try to read anything). It's still better to make
this explicit.
Also, timeline_set_part() can be private to loadfile.c.
mpv needs at least an audio or video track to play something. If the
track selection is basically insufficient, the player will immediately
skip to the next file (or quit).
One slightly annoying thing might be that trying to play a subtitle file
will close the VO window, and then go to the next file immediately (so
"mpv 1.mkv 2.srt 3.mkv" would flash the video window when 2.srt is
skipped). Move the check to before the video window is possibly closed.
This is a minor cosmetic issue; one can use --force-window to avoid
closing the video window at all.
Fixes#1459.
Enable asynchronous reading for external files. This excludes subtitle
files (so it's effectively enabled for audio files only), because most
subtitle files are fully read on loading, and running a thread for them
would just cause slowdowns and increase resource usage, without having
any advantages.
In theory, an external file could provide multiple tracks from the same
demuxer, but demux_start_thread() is idempotent, so the code can be
kept simple.
Should help with playing DASH with ytdl_hook.
This attempts to increase user-friendliness by excluding useless tags.
It should be especially helpful with mp4 files, because the FFmpeg mp4
demuxer adds tons of completely useless information to the metadata.
Fixes#1403.
Until now, these options took effect only at program start. This could
be confusing when e.g. doing "mpv list.m3u --shuffle". Make them always
take effect when a playlist is loaded either via a playlist file, or
with the "loadlist" command.
The code in the demuxer etc. was changed to update all metadata/tags at
once, instead of changing each metadata field. As a consequence,
printing of the tags to the terminal was also changed to print
everything on each change.
Some users didn't like this. Add a very primitive way to avoid printing
fields with the same value again if metadata is marked as changed. This
is not always correct (could print unchanged fields anyway), but usually
works.
(In general, a rather roundabout way to reflect a changed title with ICY
streaming...)
Fixes#813 (let's call it a "policy change").
The player thinks an error happened because no audio or video was played
after finishing the file, but this obviously makes no sense with stream
dumping. (error_playing follows the client API convention that negative
values are errors.)
Ordered chapter EOF was handled as special-case of ending the last
segment. This broke --kee-open, because it set AT_END_OF_FILE in an
"inconvenient" place (after checking for --keep-open, and before the
code that exits playback if EOF is reached).
We don't actually need to handle the last segment specially. Instead, we
remain in the same segment if it ends. The normal playback logic will
recognize EOF, because the end of the segment "cuts off" the file.
Now timeline_set_from_time() never "fails", and we can remove the old
segment EOF handling code in mp_seek().
libass won't use embedded fonts, unless ass_set_fonts() (called by
mp_ass_configure_fonts()) is called. However, we call this function when
the ASS_Renderer is initialized, which is long before the .ass file is
actually loaded. (I'm not sure why it tries to keep 1 ASS_Renderer, but
it always did this.)
Fix by calling mp_ass_configure_fonts() after loading them. This also
means this function will be called multiple times - hopefully this is
harmless (it will reinit fontconfig every time, though).
While we're at it, also initialize the ASS_Renderer lazily.
Fixes#1244.
The purpose of temporarily setting stop_play was to make the audio
uninit code to explicitly drain audio if needed. This was the only way
to do it before ao_drain() was made a separate function; now we can just
do it explicitly instead.
Instead of defining a separate data structure in the core.
For some odd reason, demux_chapter exported the chapter time in
nano-seconds. Change that to the usual timestamps (rename the field
to make any code relying on this to fail compilation), and also remove
the unused chapter end time.
Note that you can't pass .cue or .edl files to it, at least not yet.
Requested in context of allowing to specify custom chapters. For that
to work well, we probably need to add some sort of chapter metadata
pseudo-demuxer.
If you played e.g. an audio-only file and something bad happened that
interrupted playback, the exit message could say "No files played".
This was awkward, so show a different message in this case.
Also overhaul how the exit status is reported in order to make this
easier. This includes things such as not reporting a playback error
when loading playlists (playlists contain no video or audio, which
was considered an error).
Not sure if I'm happy with this, but for now it seems like a slight
improvement.
This is probably what libmpv users want; and it also improves error
reporting (or we'd have to add a way to communicate such mid-playback
failures as events).
This was probably done incorrectly in cases when the currently selected
channel had no data. I'm not sure if this codepath is functional at all,
though. Maybe not.
Untested due to lack of DVB hardware.
Using magic integer values was an attempt to keep the API less verbose.
But it was probably not a good idea.
Reason 1 (restart) is not made explicit, because it is not used anymore
starting with the previous commit. For ABI compatibility, the value is
left as a hole in the enum.
Use the codepath that is normally used for DVD/BD title switching and
DVB channel switching. Removes some extra artifacts from the client API:
now MPV_EVENT_END_FILE will never be called on reloads (and neither is
MPV_EVENT_START_FILE).
No development activity (or even any sign of life) for almost a year.
A replacement based on youtube-dl will probably be provided before the
next mpv release. Ask on the IRC channel if you want to test.
Simplify the Lua check too: libquvi linking against a different Lua
version than mpv was a frequent issue, but with libquvi gone, no
direct dependency uses Lua, and such a clash is rather unlikely.
Apparently using the stream index is the best way to refer to the same
streams across multiple FFmpeg-using programs, even if the stream index
itself is rarely meaningful in any way.
For Matroska, there are some possible problems, depending how FFmpeg
actually adds streams. Normally they seem to match though.
This was probably commented as an oversight. Since the subtitle renderer
was uninitialized on reinitialization anyway, this had no negative
consequences, except a memory on exit.
A vague idea to get something similar what libquvi did.
Undocumented because it might change a lot, or even be removed. To give
an idea what it does, a Lua script could do the following:
-- type ID priority
mp.commandv("hook_add", "on_load", 0, 0)
mp.register_script_message("hook_run", function(param, param2)
-- param is "0", the user-chosen ID from the hook_add command
-- param2 is the magic value that has to be passed to finish
-- the hook
mp.resume_all()
-- do something, maybe set options that are reset on end:
mp.set_property("file-local-options/name", "value")
-- or change the URL that's being opened:
local url = mp.get_property("stream-open-filename")
mp.set_property("stream-open-filename", url .. ".png")
-- let the player (or the next script) continue
mp.commandv("hook_ack", param2)
end)
This reverts commit 45c8b97efb.
Some else complained (github issue #1163).
The feature requested in #1148 will be implemented differently in
the following commit.
Now any action that stops playback of a file (even playlist navigation)
will save the position. Normal EOF is of course excluded from this, as
well as commands that just reload the current file.
The option name is now slightly off, although you could argue what the
word "quit" means.
Fixes#1148 (or at least this is how I understood it).
Run opening the stream and opening the demuxer in a separate thread.
This should remove the last code paths in which the player can normally
get blocked on network.
When the stream is opened, the player will still react to input and so
on. Commands to abort opening can also be handled properly, instead of
using some of the old hacks in input.c. The only thing the user can
really do is aborting loading by navigating the playlist or quitting.
Whether playback abort works depends on the stream implementation; with
normal network, this will depend on what libavformat (via "interrupt"
callback) does.
Some pain is caused by DVD/BD/DVB. These want to reload the demuxer
sometimes. DVB wants it in order to discard old, inactive streams.
DVD/BD for the same reason, and also for reloading stream languages
and similar metadata. This means the stream and the demuxer have to
be loaded separately.
One minor detail is that we now need to copy all global options. This
wasn't really needed before, because the options were accessed on
opening only, but since opening is now on a separate thread, this
obviously becomes a necessity.
Also recreate ASS_Library on every file played. This means we can move
the code out of main.c as well.
Recreating the ASS_Library object has no disadvantages, because it
literally stores only the message callback, the (per-file) font
attachment as byte arrays, and the set of style overrides. Hopefully
this thing can be removed from the libass API entirely at some point.
The only reason why the player core creates the ASS_Renderer, instead
of the subtitle renderer, is because we want to cache the loaded fonts
across ordered chapter transitions, so this probably still has to stay
around for now.
Each subsystem (or similar thing) had an INITIALIZED_ flag assigned. The
main use of this was that you could pass a bitmask of these flags to
uninit_player(). Except in some situations where you wanted to
uninitialize nearly everything, this wasn't really useful. Moreover, it
was quite annoying that subsystems had most of the code in a specific
file, but the uninit code in loadfile.c (because that's where
uninit_player() was implemented).
Simplify all this. Remove the flags; e.g. instead of testing for the
INITIALIZED_AO flag, test whether mpctx->ao is set. Move uninit code
to separate functions, e.g. uninit_audio_out().
This mechanism originates from MPlayer's way of dealing with blocking
network, but it's still useful. On opening and closing, mpv waits for
network synchronously, and also some obscure commands and use-cases can
lead to such blocking. In these situations, the stream is asynchronously
forced to stop by "interrupting" it.
The old design interrupting I/O was a bit broken: polling with a
callback, instead of actively interrupting it. Change the direction of
this. There is no callback anymore, and the player calls
mp_cancel_trigger() to force the stream to return.
libavformat (via stream_lavf.c) has the old broken design, and fixing it
would require fixing libavformat, which won't happen so quickly. So we
have to keep that part. But everything above the stream layer is
prepared for a better design, and more sophisticated methods than
mp_cancel_test() could be easily introduced.
There's still one problem: commands are still run in the central
playback loop, which we assume can block on I/O in the worst case.
That's not a problem yet, because we simply mark some commands as being
able to stop playback of the current file ("quit" etc.), so input.c
could abort playback as soon as such a command is queued. But there are
also commands abort playback only conditionally, and the logic for that
is in the playback core and thus "unreachable". For example,
"playlist_next" aborts playback only if there's a next file. We don't
want it to always abort playback.
As a quite ugly hack, abort playback only if at least 2 abort commands
are queued - this pretty much happens only if the core is frozen and
doesn't react to input.
The purpose is making accessing the current playlist entry saner when
commands are executed during initialization, termination, or after
playlist navigation commands.
For example, the "playlist_remove current" command will invalidate
playlist->current - but some things still access the playlist entry even
on uninit. Until now, checking stop_play implicitly took care of it, so
it worked, but it was still messy.
Introduce the mpctx->playing field, which points to the current playlist
entry, even if the entry was removed and/or the playlist's current entry
was moved (e.g. due to playlist navigation).
Continues commit 348dfd93. Replace other places where input was manually
fetched with common code.
demux_was_interrupted() was a weird function; I'm not entirely sure
about its original purpose, but now we can just replace it with simpler
code as well. One difference is that we always look at the command
queue, rather than just when cache initialization failed. Also, instead
of discarding all but quit/playlist commands (aka abort command), run
all commands. This could possibly lead to unwanted side-effects, like
just ignoring commands that have no effect (consider pressing 'f' for
fullscreen right on start: since the window is not created yet, it would
get discarded). But playlist navigation still works as intended, and
some if not all these problems already existed before that in some
forms, so it should be ok.
Somehow, there was a larger misunderstanding in the code: ao_buffer
does not need to be preserved over audio reinit for proper support of
gapless audio. The actual AO internal buffer takes care of this.
In fact, preserving ao_buffer just breaks audio resync. In the ordered
chapter case, end_pts is used, which means not all audio data in the
buffer is played, thus some data is left over when audio decoding
resumes on the next segment. This triggers some code that aborts resync
if there's "audio decoded" (ao_buffer contains something), but no PTS
is known (nothing was actually decoded yet).
Simplify, and always bind the output buffer to the decoder.
CC: @mpv-player/stable (maybe)
