--hls-bitrate=min/max lets you select the min or max bitrate. That's it.
Something more sophisticated might be possible, but is probably not even
worth the effort.
Because that might be a bad idea.
Note that remote playlists still can use any protocol marked with
is_safe and is_network, because the case of http-hosted playlists
containing URLs using other streaming protocols is not unusual.
Until now, you had to use --load-unsafe-playlists or --playlist to get
playlists loaded. Change this and always load playlists by default.
This still attempts to reject unsafe URLs. For example, trying to invoke
libavdevice pseudo-demuxer is explicitly prevented. Local paths and any
http links (and some more) are always allowed.
In theory, timestamps can be negative, so we shouldn't just return -1
as special value.
Remove the separate code for clearing decode buffers; use the same code
that is used for normal seek reset.
sub_reset() was called on cycling subtitle tracks and on seeking. Since
we don't want that subtitles disppear on cycling, sd_lavc.c didn't clear
its internal subtitle queue on reset, which meant that seeking with PGS
subtitles could leave the subtitle on screen (PGS subtitles usually
don't have a duration set).
Call it only on seeking, so we can also strictly clear the subtitle
queue in sd_lavc.
(This still can go very wrong if you disable a subtitle, seek, and
enable it again - for example, if used with libavformat that uses "SSA"
style demuxed ASS subtitle packets. That shouldn't happen with newer
libavformat versions, and the user can "correct" it anyway by executing
a seek while the subtitle is selected.)
The previous commit broke these things, and fixing them is separate in
this commit in order to reduce the volume of changes.
Move the image queue from the VO to the playback core. The image queue
is a remnant of the old way how vdpau was implemented, and increasingly
became more and more an artifact. In the end, it did only one thing:
computing the duration of the current frame. This was done by taking the
PTS difference between the current and the future frame. We keep this,
but by moving it out of the VO, we don't have to special-case format
changes anymore. This simplifies the code a lot.
Since we need the queue to compute the duration only, a queue size
larger than 2 makes no sense, and we can hardcode that.
Also change how the last frame is handled. The last frame is a bit of a
problem, because video timing works by showing one frame after another,
which makes it a special case. Make the VO provide a function to notify
us when the frame is done, instead. The frame duration is used for that.
This is not perfect. For example, changing playback speed during the
last frame doesn't update the end time. Pausing will not stop the clock
that times the last frame. But I don't think this matters for such a
corner case.
This also reduces some code duplication with other parts of the code.
The changfe is mostly cosmetic, although there are also some subtle
changes in behavior. At least one change is that the big desync message
is now printed after every seek.
Regression since commit 261506e3. Internally speaking, playback was
often not properly terminated, and the main part of handle_keep_open()
was just executed once, instead of any time the user tries to seek. This
means playback_pts was not set, and the "current time" was determined by
the seek target PTS.
So fix this aspect of video EOF handling, and also remove the now
unnecessary eof_reached field.
The pause check before calling pause_player() is a lazy workaround for
a strange event feedback loop that happens on EOF with --keep-open.
If you for example use --audio-file, disable the external track, seek,
and enable the external track again, the playback position of the
external file was off, and you would get major A/V desync. This was
actually supposed to work, but broke at some time ago (probably commit
2b87415f). It didn't work, because it attempted to seek the stream if it
was already selected, which was always true due to
reselect_demux_streams() being called before that.
Fix by putting the initial selection and the seek together.
This commit makes audio decoding non-blocking. If e.g. the network is
too slow the playloop will just go to sleep, instead of blocking until
enough data is available.
For video, this was already done with commit 7083f88c. For audio, it's
unfortunately much more complicated, because the audio decoder was used
in a blocking manner. Large changes are required to get around this.
The whole playback restart mechanism must be turned into a statemachine,
especially since it has close interactions with video restart. Lots of
video code is thus also changed.
(For the record, I don't think switching this code to threads would
make this conceptually easier: the code would still have to deal with
external input while blocked, so these in-between states do get visible
[and thus need to be handled] anyway. On the other hand, it certainly
should be possible to modularize this code a bit better.)
This will probably cause a bunch of regressions.
Broken by commit 1301a907. This commit added demuxer threading, and
changed some other things to make them simpler and more orthogonal. One
of these things was ntofications about streams that appear during
playback. That's an obscure corner case, but the change made handling of
it as natural as normal initialization.
This didn't work for two reasons:
1. When playing an ordered chapters file where the initial segment was
not from the main file, its streams were added to the track list. So
they were printed twice, and switching to the next segment didn't work,
because the right streams were not selected.
2. EDL, CUE, as well as possibly certain Matroska files don't have any
data or tracks in the "main" demuxer, so normally the first segment is
picked for the track list. This was simply broken.
Fix by sprinkling the code with various hacks.
Instead of blocking on the demuxer when reading a packet, let packets be
read asynchronously. Basically, it polls whether a packet is available,
and if not, the playloop goes to sleep until the demuxer thread wakes it
up.
Note that the player will still block for I/O, because audio is still
read synchronously. It's much harder to do the same change for audio
(because of the design of the audio decoding path and especially
initialization), so audio will have to be done later.
This adds a thread to the demuxer which reads packets asynchronously.
It will do so until a configurable minimum packet queue size is
reached. (See options.rst additions.)
For now, the thread is disabled by default. There are some corner cases
that have to be fixed, such as fixing cache behavior with webradios.
Note that most interaction with the demuxer is still blocking, so if
e.g. network dies, the player will still freeze. But this change will
make it possible to remove most causes for freezing.
Most of the new code in demux.c actually consists of weird caches to
compensate for thread-safety issues (with the previously single-threaded
design), or to avoid blocking by having to wait on the demuxer thread.
Most of the changes in the player are due to the fact that we must not
access the source stream directly. the demuxer thread already accesses
it, and the stream stuff is not thread-safe.
For timeline stuff (like ordered chapters), we enable the thread for the
current segment only. We also clear its packet queue on seek, so that
the remaining (unconsumed) readahead buffer doesn't waste memory.
Keep in mind that insane subtitles (such as ASS typesetting muxed into
mkv files) will practically disable the readahead, because the total
queue size is considered when checking whether the minimum queue size
was reached.
The final goal is all mp_msg calls produce complete lines. We want this
because otherwise, race conditions could corrupt the terminal output,
and it's inconvenient for the client API too. This commit works towards
this goal. There's still code that has this not fixed yet, though.
No reason to wait until the audio has been played. This isn't a problem
with gapless audio disabled, and since gapless is now default, this
behavior might be perceived as regression.
CC: @mpv-player/stable
DVD and Bluray (and to some extent cdda) require awful hacks all over
the codebase to make them work. The main reason is that they act like
container, but are entirely implemented on the stream layer. The raw
mpeg data resulting from these streams must be "extended" with the
container-like metadata transported via STREAM_CTRLs. The result were
hacks all over demux.c and some higher-level parts.
Add a "disc" pseudo-demuxer, and move all these hacks and special-cases
to it.
While I'm not very fond of "const", it's important for declarations
(it decides whether a symbol is emitted in a read-only or read/write
section). Fix all these cases, so we have writeable global data only
when we really need.
Convert all these commands to properties. (Except tv_last_channel, not
sure what to do with this.) Also, internally, don't access stream
details directly, but dispatch commands with stream ctrls.
Many of the new properties are a bit strange, because they're write-
only. Also remove some OSD output these commands produced, because I
couldn't be bothered to port these.
In general, this makes everything much cleaner, and will also make it
easier to e.g. move the demuxer to its own thread.
Don't bother updating input.conf, but changes.rst documents how old
commands map to the new ones.
Mostly untested, due to lack of hardware.
Basically, this allows gapless playback with similar files (including
the ordered chapter case), while still being robust in general.
The implementation is quite simplistic on purpose, in order to avoid
all the weird corner cases that can occur when creating the filter
chain. The consequence is that it might do not-gapless playback in
more cases when needed, but if that bothers you, you still can use
the normal gapless mode.
Just using "--gapless-audio" or "--gapless-audio=yes" selects the old
mode.
stream.start_pos was needed for optical media only, and (apparently) not
for very good reasons. Just get rid of it.
For stream_dvd, we don't need to do anything. Byte seeking was already
removed from it earlier.
For stream_cdda and stream_vcd, emulate the start_pos by offsetting the
stream pos as seen by the rest of mpv.
The bits in discnav.c and loadfile.c were for dealing with the code
seeking back to the start in demux.c. Handle this differently by
assuming the demuxer is always initialized with the stream at start
position, and instead seek back if initializing the demuxer fails.
Remove the --sb option, which worked by modifying stream.start_pos. If
someone really wants this option, it could be added back by creating a
"slice" stream (actually ffmpeg already has such a thing).
Some options change from percentages to number of kilobytes; there are
no cache options using percentages anymore.
Raise the default values. The cache is now 25000 kilobytes, although if
your connection is slow enough, the maximum is probably never reached.
(Although all the memory will still be used as seekback-cache.)
Remove the separate --audio-file-cache option, and use the cache default
settings for it.
Also remove MSGL_SMODE and friends.
Note: The indent in options.rst was added to work around a bug in
ReportLab that causes the PDF manual build to fail.
The interrupt callback will can be called from another thread if the
cache is enabled, and the stream disconnects. Then stream_reconnect()
will call this function from within the cache thread.
mp_input_check_interrupt() is not thread-safe due to read_events() not
being thread-safe. It will call input callbacks added with
mp_input_add_fd() - these callbacks lead to code not protected by locks,
such as reading X11 events.
Solve this by adding a stupid hack, which checks whether the calling
thread is the main playback thread (i.e. calling the input callbacks
will be safe). We can remove this hack later, but it requires at least
moving the VO to its own thread first.
And slightly adjust the semantics of MPV_EVENT_PAUSE/MPV_EVENT_UNPAUSE.
The real pause state can now be queried with the "core-idle" property,
the user pause state with the "pause" property, whether the player is
paused due to cache with "paused-for-cache", and the keep open event can
be guessed with the "eof-reached" property.
This property is set to "yes" if playback was paused due to --keep-open.
The change notification might not always be perfect; maybe that should
be improved.
Otherwise, the client API user could not know why playback was stopped.
Regarding the fact that 0 is used both for normal EOF and EOF on error:
this is because mplayer traditionally did not distinguish these, and in
general it's hard to tell the real reason. (There are various weird
corner cases which make it hard.)
And consistently use MP_NOPTS_VALUE as error value for the users of this
function. This is better than using -1, especially because negative
values can be valid timestamps.
Instead of comparing the current chapter every time, set the playback
end timestamp to the chapter end. Likewise, don't execute an extra seek
for the start chapter.
Maybe we could also use the timeline facility to restrict playback to
the given chapter range, but this would be strange when using
--chapter=N to start playback at a given chapter. Then you couldn't seek
back, which is possibly not what the user wants.
Instead, always use the mpctx->chapters array. Before this commit, this
array was used only for ordered chapters and such, but now it's always
populated if there are chapters.
Instead of parsing the ASS file in demux_libass.c and trying to pass the
ASS_Track to the subtitle renderer, just read all file data in
demux_libass.c, and let the subtitle renderer pass the file contents to
ass_process_codec_private(). (This happens to parse full files too.)
Makes the code simpler, though it also relies harder on the (messy)
probe logic in demux_libass.c.
Remove the ao_buffer_playable_samples field. This contained the number
of samples that fill_audio_out_buffers() wanted to write to the AO (i.e.
this data was supposed to be played at some point), but ao_play()
rejected it due to partial fill.
This could happen with many AOs, notably those which align all written
data to an internal period size (often called "outburst" in the AO
code), and the accepted number of samples is rounded down to period
boundaries. The left-over samples at the end were still kept in
mpctx->ao_buffer, and had to be played later.
The reason ao_buffer_playable_samples had to exist was to make sure that
at EOF, the correct number of left-over samples was played (and not
possibly other data in the buffer that had to be sliced off due to
endpts in fill_audio_out_buffers()). (You'd think you could just slice
the entire buffer, but I suspect this wasn't done because the end time
could actually change due to A/V sync changes. Maybe that was the reason
it's so complicated.)
Some commits ago, ao.c gained internal buffering, and ao_play() will
never return partial writes - as long as you don't try to write more
samples than ao_get_space() reports. This is always the case. The only
exception is filling the audio buffers while paused. In this case, we
decode and play only 1 sample in order to initialize decoding (e.g. on
seeking). Actually playing this 1 sample is in fact a bug, but even of
the AO doesn't have period size alignment, you won't notice it. In
summary, this means we can safely remove the code.
Until now, this was always conflated with uninit. This was ugly, and
also many AOs emulated this manually (or just ignored it). Make draining
an explicit operation, so AOs which support it can provide it, and for
all others generic code will emulate it.
For ao_wasapi, we keep it simple and basically disable the internal
draining implementation (maybe it should be restored later).
Tested on Linux only.
We want to move the AO to its own thread. There's no technical reason
for making the ao struct opaque to do this. But it helps us sleep at
night, because we can control access to shared state better.
For example, consider the case when audio initialization fails. Then the
audio track is deselected. Before this commit, this would have been
equivalent to the user disabling audio. This is bad when multiple files
are played at once (the next file would have audio disabled, even if it
works), or if playback resume is used (if e.g. audio output failed to
initialize, then audio would be disabled when resuming, even if the
system's audio driver was fixed).
Not sure about this... might redo.
At least this provides a case of a broadcasted event, which requires
per-event data allocation.
See github issue #576.
MP_CMD_COMMAND_LIST commands (used to implement key bindings with
multiple commands) were not checked for abort commands. Implement it.
Remove the remarks about multi-commands being special from the manpage.
Seek coalescing is handled differently now, and the issue with abort
commands is fixed with this commit.
When timeline was used, and the --start option was not used, the initial
seek (needed to switch to the first timeline segment) seeked to -1 due
to an oversight.
This is partial only, and it still accesses some MPContext internals.
Specifically, chapter and track lists are still read directly, and OSD
access is special-cased too.
The OSC seems to work fine, except using the fast-forward/backward
buttons. These buttons behave differently, because the OSC code had
certain assumptions how often its update code is called.
The Lua interface changes slightly.
Note that this has the odd property that Lua script and video start
at the same time, asynchronously. If this becomes an issue, explicit
synchronization could be added.
Add a client API, which is intended to be a stable API to get some rough
control over the player. Basically, it reflects what can be done with
input.conf commands or the old slavemode. It will replace the old
slavemode (and enable the implementation of a new slave protocol).
The code removed from handle_input_and_seek_coalesce() did two things:
1. If there's a queued seek, stop accepting non-seek commands, and delay
them to the next playloop iteration.
2. If a seek is executing (i.e. the seek was unqueued, and now it's
trying to decode and display the first video frame), stop accepting
seek commands (and in fact all commands that were queued after the
first seek command). This logic is disabled if seeking started longer
than 300ms ago. (To avoid starvation.)
I'm not sure why 1. would be needed. It's still possible that a command
immediately executed after a seek command sees a "seeking in progress"
state, because it affects queued seeks only, and not seeks in progress.
Drop this code, since it can easily lead to input starvation, and I'm
not aware of any disadvantages.
The logic in 2. is good to make seeking behave much better, as it
guarantees that the video display is updated frequently. Keep the core
idea, but implement it differently. Now this logic is applied to seeks
only. Commands after the seek can execute freely, and like with 1., I
don't see a reason why they couldn't. However, in some cases, seeks are
supposed to be executed instantly, so queue_seek() needs an additional
parameter to signal the need for immediate update.
One nice thing is that commands like sub_seek automatically profit from
the seek delay logic. On the other hand, hitting chapter seek multiple
times still does not update the video on chapter boundaries (as it
should be).
Note that the main goal of this commit is actually simplification of the
input processing logic and to allow all commands to be executed
immediately.
Instead of printing lines like:
Demuxer info GENRE changed to Alternative Rock
Just output all tags once they change. The assumption is that individual
tags rarely change, while all tags change in the common case.
This changes tag updates to use polling. This could be fixed later,
although the ICY stuff makes it a bit painful, so maybe it will remain
this way.
Also remove DEMUXER_CTRL_UPDATE_INFO. This was intended to check for tag
updates, but now we use a different approach.
If there's more than one edition, print the list of editions, including
the edition name, whether the edition is selected, whether the edition
is default, and the command line option to select the edition. (Similar
to stream list.)
Move reading the tags to a separate function process_tags(), which is
called when all other state is parsed. Otherwise, that tags will be lost
if chapters are read after the tags.
Do two things:
1. add locking to struct osd_state
2. make struct osd_state opaque
While 1. is somewhat simple, 2. is quite horrible. Lots of code accesses
lots of osd_state (and osd_object) members. To make sure everything is
accessed synchronously, I prefer making osd_state opaque, even if it
means adding pretty dumb accessors.
All of this is meant to allow running VO in their own threads.
Eventually, VOs will request OSD on their own, which means osd_state
will be accessed from foreign threads.
Starting a network stream could stall by executing uncacheable stream
control requests (STREAM_CTRL_GET_LANG and STREAM_CTRL_GET_DVD_INFO).
Being uncacheable means the player has to wait until the cache is done
reading the current block of data. These requests can't be cached
because they're too complicated, so the only way to avoid them is
special casing the DVD and Bluray streams (which are the only things
which need these requests), and not doing them in other cases.
(This is kind of inelegant, but so is the rest of the DVD/BD code.)
This fixes two things:
1. Dropping files on the VO window will auto-load subtitles (since most
drag & drop code prefixes the filenames with 'file://', and the
subtitle auto-load code considers 'file://' non-local)
2. Fix behavior of the %x screenshot filename template (similar problem)
One could force all that code to special-case 'file://' URLs, but just
replacing the filename on playback start is simpler.
Quvi subtitles are considered external subtitles (simply because they're
separate from the audio/video stream), but for the sake of subtitle
auto-selection, they should not be considered external.
Change this so that quvi subtitles are treated like muxed subtitles
(with default flag never set). This means subtitles won't be selected by
default, unless explicitly requested with --sid or --slang.
demux_subreader.c contains the old MPlayer subtitle parser, and I have
absolutely no confidence in this (very crappy) code. There might be
one or two security risks associated with running that code on
arbitrary input.
The Haali Matroska splitter is basically the reference implementation
for this crap, and it knows only:
application/vnd.ms-opentype
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-truetype-font
Two of them were missing in our code. One of them, "application/x-font",
is probably plain incorrect, but I can't really tell.
Also see: http://www.cccp-project.net/beta/test_files/fontsample.mkv
This applies the usual logic of resetting stream selections to default
when switching to a file with a different track layout. (This is to
prevent selecting random streams.)
Also, make sure that a track can't be selected twice. While this might
work in some situations, it certainly won't work with subtitles demuxed
from a stream.
Fixes#425.
This is relatively hacky, but it's Christmas, so it's ok. This does two
things: 1. allow selecting two subtitle tracks, and 2. include a hack
that renders the second subtitle always as toptitle. See manpage
additions how to use this.
Normally, there can be only one demuxer stream active for each demuxer
of an external file, but this assumption will be broken for multiple
subtitles support.
Normally we shouldn't load these files. But for some reason it was added
in commit b784346e some years ago, and disabling this hack would
probably be an inconvenience. So just print a warning.
There's a single mp_msg() in path.c, but all path lookup functions seem
to depend on it, so we get a rat-tail of stuff we have to change. This
is probably a good thing though, because we can have the path lookup
functions also access options, so we could allow overriding the default
config path, or ignore the MPV_HOME environment variable, and such
things.
Also take the chance to consistently add talloc_ctx parameters to the
path lookup functions.
Also, this change causes a big mess on configfiles.c. It's the same
issue: everything suddenly needs a (different) context argument. Make it
less wild by providing a mp_load_auto_profiles() function, which
isolates most of it to configfiles.c.
The TV code pretends to be part of stream/, but it's actually demuxer
code too. The audio_in code is shared between the TV code and
stream_radio.c, so stream_radio.c needs a small hack until stream.c is
converted.
Since m_option.h and options.h are extremely often included, a lot of
files have to be changed.
Moving path.c/h to options/ is a bit questionable, but since this is
mainly about access to config files (which are also handled in
options/), it's probably ok.
