Now that talloc has been removed, the license can be switched back to
GPLv2+. Actually, there never was a GPLv2+ licensed MPlayer (fork or
not) until now, but removal of some GPLv2-only code makes this possible
now. Rewrite the Copyright file to explain the reasons for the licenses
MPlayer and forks use. The old Copyright file didn't contain anything
interesting anymore, and all information it contained is available at
other places in the source tree.
The reason for the license change itself is that it should improve
interoperability with differently licensed code in general.
This essentially reverts commit 1752808.
The problem with DVD/BD and playback resume is that most often, the
filename is just "dvd://", while the actual path to the DVD disk image
is given with --dvd-device. But playback resume works on the filename
only.
Add a pretty bad hack that includes the path to the disk image if the
filename starts with dvd://, and the same for BD respectively. (It's a
bad hack, but I want to go to bed, so here we go. I might revert or
improve it later, depending on user feedback.)
We have to cleanup the global variable mess around the dvd_device.
Ideally, this should go into MPOpts, but it isn't yet. Make the code
paths in mplayer.c take MPOpts anyway.
By default, libavformat uses UDP for rtsp playback. This doesn't work
very well. Apparently the reason is that the buffer sizes libavformat
chooses for UDP are way too small, and switching to TCP gets rid of this
issue entirely (thanks go to Reimar Döffinger for figuring this out).
In theory, you can set buffer sizes as libavformat options, but that
doesn't seem to help.
Add an option to select the rtsp transport, and make TCP the default.
Also remove an outdated comment from stream.c.
Mainly for debugging. Usually, we just set options for all possible
protocols, and we can't really know whether a certain protocol is used
beforehand. That's also the reason why avio_open2() takes a dictionary,
instead of letting the user set options directly with av_opt_set(). Or
in other words, we don't know whether an option that could be set is an
error or not, thus we print the messages only at verbose level.
I have a sample where some final chapters are missing. This was causing a
segmentation fault when trying to fetch chapter times for them.
This makes the code ignore those chapters.
MPlayer handles this correctly, because MPlayer still has the FourCC
codec dispatch (codecs.conf). We need to handle this case specially,
because the libavformat rawvideo decoder will of course not eat mjpeg.
mjpeg is the only supported format, though. (Even MPlayer needs to
convert between V4L2 formats and MPlayer FourCCs, and mjpeg is the only
non-raw format.)
Until now, stream_peek() read only the bare minimum it had to read from
the stream. But this could cause problems, such as being very
inefficient when peeking a lot, or conflicting with ability to seek
back. (The latter issue can be caused by peeking a few bytes, and then
doing a stream_read() with a size that is 1 byte longer: this would read
the peeked data, then call stream_fill_buffer(), which throws away the
previously peeked bytes - so you can't seek back anymore. This is
mitigated by a hack in demux_open(): it peeks a full buffer, to avoid
that peeking/reading during demuxer probing [or before that, in a stream
filter] can cause the buffer to be dropped.)
Apparently, it is popular to store large files in uncompressed rar
archives. Extracting files is not practical, and some media players
suport playing directly from uncompressed rar (at least VLC and some
DirectShow components).
Storing or accessing files this way is completely idiotic, but it is
a common practice, and the ones subjected to this practice can't do
much to change this (at least that's what I assume/hope). Also, it's
a feature request, so we say yes.
This code is mostly taken from VLC (commit f6e7240 from their git tree).
We also copy the way this is done: opening a rar file by itself yields
a playlist, which contains URLs to the actual entries in the rar file.
Compressed entries are simply skipped.
Add a stream filter concept, in which streams can be opened on top of
an underlying "source" stream. Change the open code to make this
easier, and also to account for some mechanisms that will be needed
for this.
The following commit will add stream_rar, which contains such a stream
filter.
This is really not needed. While we really can't take a loaded buffer
over to the cache, there's no reason why the cache couldn't read this
buffer normally.
On the other hand, this code could cause trouble when probing from a
stream before the cache has been enabled.
The way the url_options field was handled was not entirely sane: it's
actually a flexible array member, so it points to garbage for streams
which do not initialize this member (it just points to the data right
after the struct, which is garbage in theory and practice). This was
not actually a problem, since the field is only used if priv_size is
set (due to how this stuff is used). But it doesn't allow setting
priv_size only, which might be useful in some cases.
Also, make the protocols array not a fixed size array. Most stream
implementations have only 1 protocol prefix, but stream_lavf.c has
over 10 (whitelists ffmpeg protocols). The high size of the fixed
size protocol array wastes space, and it is _still_ annoying to
add new prefixes to stream_lavf (have to bump the maximum length),
so make it arbitrary length.
The two changes (plus some more cosmetic changes) arte conflated into
one, because it was annoying going over all the stream implementations.
Modeled after the old playlist_parser.c, but actually new code, and it
works a bit differently.
Demuxers (and sometimes streams) are the component that should be used
to open files and to determine the file format. This was already done
for subtitles, but playlists still use a separate code path.
Instead of always skipping in STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE blocks, allow an
arbitrary size. This allows - in theory - faster forward seeking in
pipes.
(Maybe not a very significant change, but it reduces the number of
things that depend on STREAM_BUFFER_SIZE for no good reason. Though
we still use that value as minimum read size.)
stream_file.c contains some code meant for forward seeking with pipes.
This simply reads data until the seek position is reached. Move this
code to stream.c. This stops stream_file from doing strange things
(messing with stream internals), and removes the code duplication too.
We also make stream_seek_long() use the new skip code. This is shorter
and much easier to follow than the old code, which basically did strange
things.
Using the radio set/step channel commands would have crashed (that was
broken for about a year, nobody ever noticed). The "capture" part of
a radio:// URI was incorrectly passed (this was broken quite recently).
Still couldn't test it fully. I have no radio device. I suspect nobody
uses this feature or will ever use it again.
So for example "file:///file%20name.mkv" will open "file name.mkv".
I'm not sure whether we want/need this. The old code didn't do it.
Also, it's not really clear whether this is handled correctly. It
seems the corresponding freedesktop.org "standard" allows a (useless)
hostname part, which we should skip in theory. The number of slashes
is not really clear either. We can open relative filenames (by removing
one of the slashes from the example above), which is perhaps an
unneeded feature. How does this even work with Windows paths?
This issues can probably be corrected later.
The URL unescape code is based on code from m_option.c removed with
a recent commit.
Move the URL parsing code from m_option.c to stream.c, and simplify it
dramatically. This code originates from times when http code used this,
but now it's just relict from other stream implementations reusing this
code. Remove the unused bits and simplify the rest.
stream_vcd is insane, and the priv struct is different on every
platform, so drop the URL parsing. This means you can't specify a track
anymore, only the device. (Does anyone use stream_vcd? Not like this
couldn't be fixed, but it doesn't seem worth the effort, especially
because it'd require potentially touching platform specific code.)
The URL option parser only accesses certain fields. Remove the fields
that are not accessed, and thus are completely unused and inaccessible.
Historically, these fields were supposed to be settable using an extra
list of options passed to open_stream(). Commit f518cf7 removed these
extra options. Apparently nothing ever actually used this facility.
In general, this warning can hint to actual bugs. We don't enable it
yet, because it would conflict with some unmerged code, and we should
check with clang too (this commit was done by testing with gcc).
These were printed only with -v. Most streams had them set to useless
or redundant values, so it's just badly maintained bloat.
Since we remove the "author" field too, and since this may have
copyright implications, we add the contents of the author fields to
the file headers, except if the name is already part of the file header.
Stream implementations could set this to a unix file descriptor. The
generic stream code could use it as fallback for a few things. This
was confusing and insane. In most cases, the stream implementations
defined all callbacks, so setting the fd member didn't have any
advantages, other than avoiding defining a private struct to store it.
It appears that even if the stream implementation used close() on the
fd (or something equivalent), stream.c would close() it a second time
(and on windows, even would call closesocket()), which should be proof
for the insanity of this code.
For stream_file.c, additionally make sure we don't close stdin or
stdout if "-" is used as filename.
For stream_vcd.c, remove the control() code. This code most likely
didn't make the slightest sense, because it used a different type
for stream->priv. It also leaked memory. Maybe it worked, but it's
incorrect and insignificant anyway, so kill it. This code was added
with commit 9521c19 (svn commit 31019).
Untested for all protocols other than stream_file.c.
Get rid of the strange and messy reliance on DEMUXER_TYPE_ constants.
Instead of having two open functions for the demuxer callbacks (which
somehow are both optional, but you can also decide to implement both...),
just have one function. This function takes a parameter that tells the
demuxer how strictly it should check for the file headers. This is a
nice simplification and allows more flexibility.
Remove the file extension code. This literally did nothing (anymore).
Change demux_lavf so that we check our other builtin demuxers first
before libavformat tries to guess by file extension.
This removes the dependency on DEMUXER_TYPE_* and the file_format
parameter from the stream open functions.
Remove some of the playlist handling code. It looks like this was
needed only for loading linked mov files with demux_mov (which was
removed long ago).
Delete a minor bit of dead network-related code from stream.c as well.
