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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2018-05-13 12:46:50 +0200
committerwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2018-05-24 19:56:34 +0200
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ipc: some user-visible changes to prepare for making all commands async
I wanted to put all commands through mpv_command_node_async() instead of mpv_command_node(). Using synchronous commands over a synchronous transport doesn't make sense anyway. This would have used the request_id field in IPC requests as reply ID for the async commands. But the latter need to be [u]int64, while the former can be any type. To avoid that we need an extra lookup table for mapping reply IDs to request_id values, we now require that request_id fields are integers. Since this would be an incompatible change, just deprecate non-integers for now, and plan the change for a later time.
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of 3D content doesn't justify such an option anyway.
- change cycle-values command to use the current value, instead of an
internal counter that remembered the current position.
+ - ipc: require that "request_id" fields are integers. Other types are still
+ accepted for compatibility, but this will stop in the future. Also, if no
+ request_id is provided, 0 will be assumed.
--- mpv 0.28.0 ---
- rename --hwdec=mediacodec option to mediacodec-copy, to reflect
conventions followed by other hardware video decoding APIs