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* player: remove deprecated vo/ao auto profileswm42018-05-241-0/+2
| | | | | These were deprecated almost 2 years ago. Now they happen to be in the way.
* player: make playback termination asynchronouswm42018-05-241-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now, stopping playback aborted the demuxer and I/O layer violently by signaling mp_cancel (bound to libavformat's AVIOInterruptCB mechanism). Change it to try closing them gracefully. The main purpose is to silence those libavformat errors that happen when you request termination. Most of libavformat barely cares about the termination mechanism (AVIOInterruptCB), and essentially it's like the network connection is abruptly severed, or file I/O suddenly returns I/O errors. There were issues with dumb TLS warnings, parsers complaining about incomplete data, and some special protocols that require server communication to gracefully disconnect. We still want to abort it forcefully if it refuses to terminate on its own, so a timeout is required. Users can set the timeout to 0, which should give them the old behavior. This also removes the old mechanism that treats certain commands (like "quit") specially, and tries to terminate the demuxers even if the core is currently frozen. This is for situations where the core synchronized to the demuxer or stream layer while network is unresponsive. This in turn can only happen due to the "program" or "cache-size" properties in the current code (see one of the previous commits). Also, the old mechanism doesn't fit particularly well with the new one. We wouldn't want to abort playback immediately on a "quit" command - the new code is all about giving it a chance to end it gracefully. We'd need some sort of watchdog thread or something equally complicated to handle this. So just remove it. The change in osd.c is to prevent that it clears the status line while waiting for termination. The normal status line code doesn't output anything useful at this point, and the code path taken clears it, both of which is an annoying behavior change, so just let it show the old one.
* player: simplify edition switchingwm42018-05-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The player fully restarts playback when the edition or disk title is changed. Before this, the player tried to reinitialized playback partially. For example, it did not print a new "Playing: <file>" message, and did not send playback end to libmpv users (scripts or applications). This playback restart code was a bit messy and could have unforeseen interactions with various state. There have been bugs before. Since it's a mostly cosmetic thing for an obscure feature, just change it to a full restart. This works well, though since it may have consequences for scripts or client API users, mention it in interface-changes.rst.
* command: give named arguments to almost all commandswm42018-05-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this change, only 1 command or so had named arguments. There is no reason why other commands can't have them, except that it's a bit of work to add them. Commands with variable number of arguments are inherently incompatible to named arguments, such as the "run" command. They still have dummy names, but obviously you can't assign multiple values to a single named argument (unless the argument has an array type, which would be something different). For now, disallow using named argument APIs with these commands. This might change later. 2 commands are adjusted to not need a separate default value by changing flag constants. (The numeric values are C only and can't be set by users.) Make the command syntax in the manpage more consistent. Now none of the allowed choice/flag names are in the command header, and all arguments are shown with their proper name and quoted with <...>. Some places in the manpage and the client.h doxygen are updated to reflect that most commands support named arguments. In addition, try to improve the documentation of the syntax and need for escaping etc. as well. (Or actually most uses of the word "argument" should be "parameter".)
* ipc: some user-visible changes to prepare for making all commands asyncwm42018-05-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* encode: remove old timestamp handlingwm42018-05-031-0/+3
| | | | | This effectively makes --ocopyts the default. The --ocopyts option itself is also removed, because it's redundant.
* cocoa: change deprecation warning from opengl-cb to libmpvAkemi2018-04-291-2/+2
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* command: change cycle-value command behaviorwm42018-04-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of using an internal counter to keep track of the value that was set last, attempt to find the current value of the property/option in the value list, and then set the next value in the list. There are some potential problems. If a property refuses to accept a specific value, the cycle-values command will fail, and start from the same position again. It can't know that it's supposed to skip the next value. The same can happen to properties which behave "strangely", such as the "aspect" property, which will return the current aspect if you write "-1" to it. As a consequence, cycle-values can appear to get "stuck". I still think the new behavior is what users expect more, and which is generally more useful. We won't restore the ability to get the old behavior, unless we decide to revert this commit entirely. Fixes #5772, and hopefully other complaints.
* options: remove broken --video-stereo-mode optionwm42018-04-291-0/+4
| | | | | See changelog for minor explanation. Basically, 3D is unused crap and nobody cares.
* encoding: deprecate a bunch of obscure optionswm42018-04-201-0/+1
| | | | | --audio-delay does not work correctly yet, but hopefully this can be fixed later.
* scripting: change when/how player waits for scripts being loadedwm42018-04-181-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fundamentally, scripts are loaded asynchronously, but as a feature, there was code to wait until a script is loaded (for a certain arbitrary definition of "loaded"). This was done in scripting.c with the wait_loaded() function. This called mp_idle(), and since there are commands to load/unload scripts, it meant the player core loop could be entered recursively. I think this is a major complication and has some problems. For example, if you had a script that does 'os.execute("sleep inf")', then every time you ran a command to load an instance of the script would add a new stack frame of mp_idle(). This would lead to some sort of reentrancy horror that is hard to debug. Also misc/dispatch.c contains a somewhat tricky mess to support such recursive invocations. There were also some bugs due to this and due to unforeseen interactions with other messes. This scripting stuff was the only thing making use of that reentrancy, and future commands that have "logical" waiting for something should be implemented differently. So get rid of it. Change the code to wait only in the player initialization phase: the only place where it really has to wait is before playback is started, because scripts might want to set options or hooks that interact with playback initialization. Unloading of builtin scripts (can happen with e.g. "set osc no") is left asynchronous; the unloading wasn't too robust anyway, and this change won't make a difference if someone is trying to break it intentionally. Note that this is not in mp_initialize(), because mpv_initialize() uses this by locking the core, which would have the same problem. In the future, commands which logically wait should use different mechanisms. Originally I thought the current approach (that is removed with this commit) should be used, but it's too much of a mess and can't even be used in some cases. Examples are: - "loadfile" should be made blocking (needs to run the normal player code and manually unblock the thread issuing the command) - "add-sub" should not freeze the player until the URL is opened (needs to run opening on a separate thread) Possibly the current scripting behavior could be restored once new mechanisms exist, and if it turns out that anyone needs it. With this commit there should be no further instances of recursive playloop invocations (other than the case in the following commit), since all mp_idle()/mp_wait_events() calls are done strictly from the main thread (and not commands/properties or libmpv client API that "lock" the main thread).
* f_lavfi: add an option to use old audio PTS handling for af_lavfiwm42018-04-151-1/+1
| | | | | The fix-pts option basically uses the old af_lavfi's (before filter rewrite) timestamp logic. The rest is explained in the manpage.
* DOCS/interface-changes.rst: adjust some audio filter change noteswm42018-04-151-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | The first change is about spdif - I mostly ignore spdif issues these days, but it seems like the recent changes made handling of it slightly better (but I didn't really test). The second change is about broken libavfilter filters. We won't restore the old behavior, because people were complaining about the old behavior in the past. Possibly we could make libavfilter export this was metadata and use the old behavior if we know they're broken - but it doesn't exist yet.
* config: replace config dir lua-settings/ with dir script-opts/Avi Halachmi (:avih)2018-04-071-0/+1
| | | | lua-settings/ is still supported, with deprecation warning.
* ao_opensles: remove useless cfg_sample_rateTom Yan2018-04-051-0/+1
| | | | We should always use the ao-neutral --audio-samplerate option.
* client API: add a first class hook API, and deprecate old APIwm42018-03-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As it turns out, there are multiple libmpv users who saw a need to use the hook API. The API is kind of shitty and was never meant to be actually public (it was mostly a hack for the ytdl script). Introduce a proper API and deprecate the old one. The old one will probably continue to work for a few releases, but will be removed eventually. There are some slight changes to the old API, but if a user followed the manual properly, it won't break. Mostly untested. Appears to work with ytdl_hook.
* command: remove an old compatibility hackwm42018-03-261-0/+2
| | | | | Was removed 3 releases ago and was spamming warning messages that it'll be dropped, so it's fine to remove it now.
* DOCS/interface-changes: add note about desyncing audio filterswm42018-03-031-0/+2
| | | | For example af_loudnorm is a known filter with this behavior.
* client API: deprecate opengl-cb API and introduce a replacement APIwm42018-02-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The purpose of the new API is to make it useable with other APIs than OpenGL, especially D3D11 and vulkan. In theory it's now possible to support other vo_gpu backends, as well as backends that don't use the vo_gpu code at all. This also aims to get rid of the dumb mpv_get_sub_api() function. The life cycle of the new mpv_render_context is a bit different from mpv_opengl_cb_context, and you explicitly create/destroy the new context, instead of calling init/uninit on an object returned by mpv_get_sub_api(). In other to make the render API generic, it's annoyingly EGL style, and requires you to pass in API-specific objects to generic functions. This is to avoid explicit objects like the internal ra API has, because that sounds more complicated and annoying for an API that's supposed to never change. The opengl_cb API will continue to exist for a bit longer, but internally there are already a few tradeoffs, like reduced thread-safety. Mostly untested. Seems to work fine with mpc-qt.
* vf_vavpp: select best quality deinterlacing algorithm by defaultwm42018-02-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | This switches the default away from "bob" to the best algorithm reported as supported by the driver. This is convenient for users, and there is no reason to use something worse by default. Untested.
* video: make --deinterlace and HW deinterlace filters always deinterlacewm42018-02-131-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this, we made deinterlacing dependent on the video codec metadata (AVFrame.interlaced_frame for libavcodec). So even if --deinterlace=yes was set, we skipped deinterlacing if the flag wasn't set. This is very unreliable and there are many streams with flags incorrectly set. The potential problem is that this might upset people who alwase enabled deinterlace and hoped it worked. But it's likely these people were screwed by this setting anyway. The new behavior is less tricky and easier to understand, and this preferable. Maybe one day we could introduce a --deinterlace=auto, which does the right thing, but of course this would be hard to implement (esecially with hwdec). Fixes #5219.
* DOCS/interface-changes.rst: fix typowm42018-02-131-1/+1
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* cocoa-cb: initial implementation via opengl-cb APIAkemi2018-02-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this is meant to replace the old and not properly working vo_gpu/opengl cocoa backend in the future. the problems are various shortcomings of Apple's opengl implementation and buggy behaviour in certain circumstances that couldn't be properly worked around. there are also certain regressions on newer macOS versions from 10.11 onwards. - awful opengl performance with a none layer backed context - huge amount of dropped frames with an early context flush - flickering of system elements like the dock or volume indicator - double buffering not properly working with a none layer backed context - bad performance in fullscreen because of system optimisations all the problems were caused by using a normal opengl context, that seems somewhat abandoned by apple, and are fixed by using a layer backed opengl context instead. problems that couldn't be fixed could be properly worked around. this has all features our old backend has sans the wid embedding, the possibility to disable the automatic GPU switching and taking screenshots of the window content. the first was deemed unnecessary by me for now, since i just use the libmpv API that others can use anyway. second is technically not possible atm because we have to pre-allocate our opengl context at a time the config isn't read yet, so we can't get the needed property. third one is a bit tricky because of deadlocking and it needed to be in sync, hopefully i can work around that in the future. this also has at least one additional feature or eye-candy. a properly working fullscreen animation with the native fs. also since this is a direct port of the old backend of the parts that could be used, though with adaptions and improvements, this looks a lot cleaner and easier to understand. some credit goes to @pigoz for the initial swift build support which i could improve upon. Fixes: #5478, #5393, #5152, #5151, #4615, #4476, #3978, #3746, #3739, #2392, #2217
* player: replace old lavfi wrapper with new filter codewm42018-01-301-0/+5
| | | | | lavfi.c is not necessary anymore, because f_lavfi.c (which was actually converted from it) can be used now.
* audio: rewrite filtering glue codewm42018-01-301-0/+22
| | | | Use the new filtering code for audio too.
* video: rewrite filtering glue codewm42018-01-301-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of the old vf.c code. Replace it with a generic filtering framework, which can potentially handle more than just --vf. At least reimplementing --af with this code is planned. This changes some --vf semantics (including runtime behavior and the "vf" command). The most important ones are listed in interface-changes. vf_convert.c is renamed to f_swscale.c. It is now an internal filter that can not be inserted by the user manually. f_lavfi.c is a refactor of player/lavfi.c. The latter will be removed once --lavfi-complex is reimplemented on top of f_lavfi.c. (which is conceptually easy, but a big mess due to the data flow changes). The existing filters are all changed heavily. The data flow of the new filter framework is different. Especially EOF handling changes - EOF is now a "frame" rather than a state, and must be passed through exactly once. Another major thing is that all filters must support dynamic format changes. The filter reconfig() function goes away. (This sounds complex, but since all filters need to handle EOF draining anyway, they can use the same code, and it removes the mess with reconfig() having to predict the output format, which completely breaks with libavfilter anyway.) In addition, there is no automatic format negotiation or conversion. libavfilter's primitive and insufficient API simply doesn't allow us to do this in a reasonable way. Instead, filters can use f_autoconvert as sub-filter, and tell it which formats they support. This filter will in turn add actual conversion filters, such as f_swscale, to perform necessary format changes. vf_vapoursynth.c uses the same basic principle of operation as before, but with worryingly different details in data flow. Still appears to work. The hardware deint filters (vf_vavpp.c, vf_d3d11vpp.c, vf_vdpaupp.c) are heavily changed. Fortunately, they all used refqueue.c, which is for sharing the data flow logic (especially for managing future/past surfaces and such). It turns out it can be used to factor out most of the data flow. Some of these filters accepted software input. Instead of having ad-hoc upload code in each filter, surface upload is now delegated to f_autoconvert, which can use f_hwupload to perform this. Exporting VO capabilities is still a big mess (mp_stream_info stuff). The D3D11 code drops the redundant image formats, and all code uses the hw_subfmt (sw_format in FFmpeg) instead. Although that too seems to be a big mess for now. f_async_queue is unused.
* command: add --osd-on-seek option defaulting to barKevin Mitchell2018-01-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Restores behaviour prior to aef2ed5dc13e37dec0670c451b4369b151d5c65f. That change was apparently unpopular. However, given the amount of complaining over how hard it is to change the defaults by rebinding every key, I think the extra option introduced by this commit is justified. Technically not all behaviour is restored, because now --no-osd-bar will not instead display the msg text on seek. I think that feature was a little weird and is now easy enough to remedy with the --osd-on-seek option.
* af_lavrresample: deprecate this filterwm42018-01-131-0/+2
| | | | | | The future direction might be not having such a user-visible filter at all, similar to how vf_scale went away (or actually, redirects to libavfilter's vf_scale).
* options: deprecate --vf-defaults and --af-defaultswm42018-01-131-0/+6
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* audio: add global options for resampler defaultswm42018-01-131-0/+2
| | | | | | | | This is part of trying to get rid of --af-defaults, and the af resample filter. It requires a complicated mechanism to set the defaults on the resample filter for backwards compatibility.
* client API: remove ytdl=no defaultwm42018-01-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent changes to the script it does not incur a startup delay by default due to starting youtube-dl and waiting for it. This was the main reason for making libmpv have a different default. Starting sub processes from a library can still be a bit fishy, but I think it's ok. Still mention it in the libmpv header. There were already other cases where libmpv would start its own processes, such as the X11 backend calling xdg-screensaver. (The reason why this is fishy is because UNIX process management sucks: SIGCHLD and the wait() syscall make sub processes non-transparent and could potentially introduce conflicts with code trying to use them.)
* player: strictly never autoselect tracks from --external-fileswm42018-01-061-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this commit, some autoselection of tracks coming from files loaded with --external-files was still done. This commit removes all of it, and the only way to select a track is via the explicit stream selection options like --vid/--sid/--aid. I think this was always the original intention. The change could in theory still unintentionally surprise some users, so add a changelog entry. This does not affect --audio-file/--sub-file, even if these contain mismatching track types. E.g. if audio files passed to --audio-file contain subtitles, these should still be selected. Past feature requests indicate that users want this.
* encode: rename option --ometadata to --ocopy-metadataTheAMM2017-12-261-0/+1
| | | | | | --copy-metadata describes the result of the option better, (copying metadata from the source file to the output file). Marks the old --no-ometadata OPT_REMOVED with a suggestion for the new --no-ocopy-metadata.
* DOCS/interface-changes.rst: fix minor typoswm42017-12-251-2/+2
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* options: drop some previously deprecated optionswm42017-12-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | A release has been made, so drop options deprecated for that release. Also drop some options which have been deprecated a much longer time before. Also fix a typo in client-api-changes.rst.
* options: deprecate --ff- options and propertieswm42017-12-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Some old crap which nobody needs and which probably nobody uses. This relies on a GCC extension: using "## __VA_ARGS__" to remove the comma from the argument list if the va args are empty. It's supported by clang, and there's some chance newer standards will introduce a proper way to do this. (Even if it breaks somewhere, it will be a problem only for 1 release, since I want to drop the deprecated properties immediately.)
* vd_lavc: rename --hwdec=rpi to --hwdec=mmalwm42017-12-151-0/+2
| | | | | | Annoying exception that makes no sense to keep. Normally, users or client applications will either use --hwdec=auto, or not set the option at all, which both leads to the expected result.
* vd_lavc: rewrite how --hwdec is handledwm42017-12-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change it from explicit metadata about every hwaccel method to trying to get it from libavcodec. As shown by add_all_hwdec_methods(), this is a quite bumpy road, and a bit worse than expected. This will probably cause a bunch of regressions. In particular I didn't check all the strange decoder wrappers, which all cause some sort of special cases each. You're volunteering for beta testing by using this commit. One interesting thing is that we completely get rid of mp_hwdec_ctx in vd_lavc.c, and that HWDEC_* mostly goes away (some filters still use it, and the VO hwdec interops still have a lot of code to set it up, so it's not going away completely for now).
* vo_gpu: make it possible to load multiple hwdec interop driverswm42017-12-011-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the VO<->decoder interface capable of supporting multiple hwdec APIs at once. The main gain is that this simplifies autoprobing a lot. Before this change, it could happen that the VO loaded the "wrong" hwdec API, and the decoder was stuck with the choice (breaking hw decoding). With the change applied, the VO simply loads all available APIs, so autoprobing trickery is left entirely to the decoder. In the past, we were quite careful about not accidentally loading the wrong interop drivers. This was in part to make sure autoprobing works, but also because libva had this obnoxious bug of dumping garbage to stderr when using the API. libva was fixed, so this is not a problem anymore. The --opengl-hwdec-interop option is changed in various ways (again...), and renamed to --gpu-hwdec-interop. It does not have much use anymore, other than debugging. It's notable that the order in the hwdec interop array ra_hwdec_drivers[] still matters if multiple drivers support the same image formats, so the option can explicitly force one, if that should ever be necessary, or more likely, for debugging. One example are the ra_hwdec_d3d11egl and ra_hwdec_d3d11eglrgb drivers, which both support d3d11 input. vo_gpu now always loads the interop lazily by default, but when it does, it loads them all. vo_opengl_cb now always loads them when the GL context handle is initialized. I don't expect that this causes any problems. It's now possible to do things like changing between vdpau and nvdec decoding at runtime. This is also preparation for cleaning up vd_lavc.c hwdec autoprobing. It's another reason why hwdec_devices_request_all() does not take a hwdec type anymore.
* DOCS/interface-changes.rst: fix typoKevin Mitchell2017-11-291-1/+1
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* DOCS/interface-changes.rst: update according to recent commitswm42017-11-291-0