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* manpage: fix option descriptionwm42013-05-051-1/+1
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* video: add --hwdec-codecs option to whitelist codecs for hw decodingwm42013-05-041-0/+12
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* stream_bluray: remove the broken -bluray-chapter optionreimar2013-04-271-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Remove the broken -bluray-chapter option. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@36175 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 Conflicts: DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 cfg-common.h
* manpage: fix references to --slavewm42013-04-261-2/+2
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* manpage: remove broken examplewm42013-04-241-3/+0
| | | | Weird video size presets have been removed.
* manpage: document --native-keyrepeatwm42013-04-241-0/+6
| | | | Forgotten in commit d853aba.
* manpage: clarify --cache behaviorwm42013-04-201-0/+6
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* sub: add --osd-blur and --sub-text-blur optionswm42013-04-131-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | These require bleeding edge libass (latest git version), and will be ignored otherwise. I'm not sure about the blur factor and scaling. The ASS/VSFilter semantics for blur scaling are a bad mess. Might require further investigation.
* core: add --reset-on-next-file optionwm42013-04-101-0/+24
| | | | | | | This option can be used to selectively reset settings when playing the next file in the playlist (i.e. restore mplayer and mplayer2 behavior). Might remove this option again should it turn out that nobody uses it.
* Remove some apple remote leftoverswm42013-04-051-4/+0
| | | | The options and key names don't do anything anymore.
* demux_mkv: try to show current subtitle when seekingwm42013-04-041-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Makes sure that seeking to a given time position shows the subtitle at that position. This can fail if the subtitle packet is not close enough to the seek target. Always enabled for hr-seeks, and can be manually enabled for normal seeks with --mkv-subtitle-preroll. This helps displaying subtitles correctly with ordered chapters. When switching ordered chapter segments, a seek is performed. If the subtitle is timed slightly before the start of the segment, it normally won't be demuxed. This is a problem with all seeks, but in this case normal playback is affected. Since switching segments always uses hr-seeks, the code added by this commit is always active in this situation. If no subtitles are selected or the subtitles come from an external file, the demuxer should behave exactly as before this commit.
* core: add --heartbeat-interval optionwm42013-04-041-1/+5
| | | | | | This closely follows MPlayer commit 36099, with some changes. Move a mutable static variable into MPContext.
* remove Apple Remote related codeStefano Pigozzi2013-03-311-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The OSX part of the Apple Remote was unmaintained for a long time and was not working anymore. I tried to update the cookies to what the current versions of OS X expect without much luck. I decided to remove it since Apple is not including the IR receiver anymore in new hardware and it's clear that wifi based remotes are the way to go. A third party iOS app should be used in it's place. In the future we could look into having a dedicated iOS Remote Control app like VLC and XBMC do. The Linux side (`appleir.c`) was relatively tidy but it looks like LIRC can be configured to work with any version of Apple Remote [1] and is more maintained. [1] LIRC Apple Remote configs: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/apple/
* osd: draw the OSD bar with ASS vector drawingswm42013-03-301-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drawing the bar with vector drawings (instead with characters from the OSD font) offers more flexibility and looks better. This also adds chapter marks to the OSD bar, which are visible as small triangles on the top and bottom inner border of the bar. Change the default position of the OSD bar below the center of the screen. This is less annoying than putting the bar directly into the center of the view, where it obscures the video. The new position is not quite on the bottom of the screen to avoid collisions with subtitles. The old centered position can be forced with ``--osd-bar-align-y=0``. Also make it possible to change the OSD bar width/height with the new --osd-bar-w and --osd-bar-h options. It's possible that the new OSD bar renders much slower than the old one. There are two reasons for this: 1. the character based bar allowed libass to cache each character, while the vector drawing forces it to redraw every time the bar position changes. 2., the bar position is updated at a much higher granularity (the bar position is passed along as float instead of as integer in the range 0-100, so the bar will be updated on every single video frame).
* core: output --playing-msg message only after at least one frame is shownwm42013-03-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This way it's possible to retrieve correct information about video, like actual width/height, which in general are available only after at least one frame has been sent to the video output, such as dwidth/dheight. mpv_identify.sh becomes a bit slower, because we let it decode enough audio and video to fill the audio buffers and to send one frame to the video output. Also, --playing-msg isn't shown anymore with --frames=0 (could be fixed by special-casing it, should this break any use cases). Note that in some corner cases, like when the demuxer for some reason returns lots of audio packets but no video packets at the start, but video actually starts later, the --playing-msg will still be output before video starts.
* mplayer: make --frames=1 work for audiowm42013-03-261-1/+4
| | | | | | | This has the same (useless) definition as frame stepping in audio-only mode: one frame means one playloop iteration. (It's relatively useless, because one playloop iteration has a random duration. But it makes --frames=1 work, which is useful again.)
* options: remove --no-vsyncwm42013-03-061-3/+0
| | | | | | Latest nvidia drivers ignore the application setting, so this switch makes even less sense than before. It's still possible to control this with VO specific suboptions.
* manpage: fix --no-dts typowm42013-03-041-1/+1
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* Add a --dtshd optionWessel Dankers2013-03-041-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | The spdif decoder was hardcoded to assume that the spdif output is capable of accepting high (>1.5Mbps) bitrates. While this is true for modern HDMI spdif interfaces, the original coax/toslink system cannot deal with this and will fail to work. This patch adds an option --dtshd which can be enabled if you use a DTS-capable receiver behind a HDMI link.
* video/out: remove video mode switching (--vm)wm42013-02-261-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allowed making the player switch the monitor video mode when creating the video window. This was a questionable feature, and with today's LCD screens certainly not useful anymore. Switching to a random video mode (going by video width/height) doesn't sound too useful either. I'm not sure about the win32 implementation, but the X part had several bugs. Even in mplayer-svn (where x11_common.c hasn't been receiving any larger changes for a long time), this code is buggy and doesn't do the right thing anyway. (And what the hell _did_ it do when using multiple physical monitors?) If you really want this, write a shell script that calls xrandr before and after calling mpv. vo_sdl still can do mode switching, because SDL has native support for it, and using it is trivial. Add a new sub-option for this.
* x11_common: always create a window, even with --widwm42013-02-261-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The --wid switch (for embedding the player into other applications) didn't create a new window, and instead tried to use the window that was passed via --wid directly. This made the code more complex, caused strange X errors (mpv and host application fighting for exclusive X resources), and actually could cause issues if the --wid window wasn't created with the X Visual needed for OpenGL. Always create a window instead. This makes it always possible to embed the player into foreign windows. --geometry doesn't work anymore - the controlling application should always create a new window to place the player inside it, and can control the video window by moving and resizing this window. w32_common.c actually did this right, and always creates a new window.
* Remove --rootwin option and rootwin propertywm42013-02-241-5/+0
| | | | | | | | You can just use --wid=0 if you really want this. This only worked/works for X11, and even then it might interact badly with most desktop environments. All the option did was setting --wid to 0, and the property did nothing.
* demux_rawvideo: allow setting video codecwm42013-02-241-0/+2
| | | | Can be used to decode some obscure image formats and similar stuff.
* demux_rawvideo: remove ancient video dimension presetswm42013-02-231-1/+0
| | | | I can't see much value in them. Just specify the size manually.
* options: drop --opt:subopt option nameswm42013-02-231-39/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For all suboptions, "flat" options were available by separating the parent option and the sub option with ":", e.g. "--rawvideo:w=123". Drop this syntax and use "-" as separator. This means even suboptions are available as normal options now, e.g. "--rawvideo-w=123". The old syntax doesn't work anymore. Note that this is completely separate from actual suboptions. For example, "-rawvideo w=123:h=123" still works. (Not that this syntax is worth supporting, but it's needed anyway, for for other things like vf and vo suboptions.) As a consequence of this change, we also have to add new "no-" prefixed options for flag suboptions, so that "--no-input-default-bindings" works. ("--input-no-default-bindings" also works as a consequence of allowing "-input no-default-bindings" - they are handled by the same underlying option.) For --input, always use the full syntax in the manpage. There exist suboptions other than --input (like --tv, --rawvideo, etc.), but since they might be handled differently in the future, don't touch these yet. M_OPT_PREFIXED becomes the default, so remove it. As a minor unrelated cleanup, get rid of M_OPT_MERGE too and use the OPT_SUBSTRUCT() macro in some places. Unrelated: remove the duplicated --tv:buffersize option, fix a typo in changes.rst.
* core: add fs-screen option for fullscreen display selectionStefano Pigozzi2013-02-211-12/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | `--fs-screen` allows to decide what display to go fullscreen into. The semantics of `--screen` changed and now it is only used to select the windowed display when starting the application. This is useful for people using mpv with an external TV. They will start windowed on their laptop's screen and switch to fullscreen on the TV. @wm4 worked on the x11 and w32 parts of the code. All is squashed in one commit for history clarity.
* options: parse C-style escapes for some optionswm42013-02-201-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | Being able to insert newline characters ("\n") is useful for --osd-status-msg, and possibly also for anything that prints to the terminal. Espcially --term-osd-esc looks relatively useless without being able to specify escapes. Maybe parsing escapes should happen during command line / config parsing instead (for all options).
* osd: add --osd-status-msg option for custom OSD statuswm42013-02-161-0/+6
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* osd: add --no-osd-bar option to disable the OSD barwm42013-02-161-0/+8
| | | | | In addition to disabling the OSD bar physically, also add some fallbacks to OSD text in places the OSD bar would have been used.
* osd: add --osd-bar-align-x/y options to control OSD bar positionwm42013-02-141-0/+6
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* core: redo how codecs are mapped, remove codecs.confwm42013-02-101-36/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use codec names instead of FourCCs to identify codecs. Rewrite how codecs are selected and initialized. Now each decoder exports a list of decoders (and the codec it supports) via add_decoders(). The order matters, and the first decoder for a given decoder is preferred over the other decoders. E.g. all ad_mpg123 decoders are preferred over ad_lavc, because it comes first in the mpcodecs_ad_drivers array. Likewise, decoders within ad_lavc that are enumerated first by libavcodec (using av_codec_next()) are preferred. (This is actually critical to select h264 software decoding by default instead of vdpau. libavcodec and ffmpeg/avconv use the same method to select decoders by default, so we hope this is sane.) The codec names follow libavcodec's codec names as defined by AVCodecDescriptor.name (see libavcodec/codec_desc.c). Some decoders have names different from the canonical codec name. The AVCodecDescriptor API is relatively new, so we need a compatibility layer for older libavcodec versions for codec names that are referenced internally, and which are different from the decoder name. (Add a configure check for that, because checking versions is getting way too messy.) demux/codec_tags.c is generated from the former codecs.conf (minus "special" decoders like vdpau, and excluding the mappings that are the same as the mappings libavformat's exported RIFF tables). It contains all the mappings from FourCCs to codec name. This is needed for demux_mkv, demux_mpg, demux_avi and demux_asf. demux_lavf will set the codec as determined by libavformat, while the other demuxers have to do this on their own, using the mp_set_audio/video_codec_from_tag() functions. Note that the sh_audio/video->format members don't uniquely identify the codec anymore, and sh->codec takes over this role. Replace the --ac/--vc/--afm/--vfm with new --vd/--ad options, which provide cover the functionality of the removed switched. Note: there's no CODECS_FLAG_FLIP flag anymore. This means some obscure container/video combinations (e.g. the sample Film_200_zygo_pro.mov) are played flipped. ffplay/avplay doesn't handle this properly either, so we don't care and blame ffmeg/libav instead.
* options: change --no-config option, make it apply to input.conf as wellwm42013-02-091-11/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify --no-config and make it a normal flag option, and doesn't take an argument anymore. You can get the same behavior by using --no-config and then --include to explicitly load a certain config file. Make --no-config work for input.conf as well. Make it so that --input:conf=file still works in this case. As a technically unrelated change, the file argument now works as one would expect, instead of making it relatively to "~/.mpv/". This makes for simpler code and easier to understand option semantics. We can also print better error messages.
* Remove BSD legacy TV/radio support (BT848 stuff)wm42013-02-061-13/+3
| | | | | FreeBSD actually supports V4L2, and V4L2 supports this chip. Also, this chip is from 1997. Farewell.
* core: remove --edlout functionalitywm42013-02-061-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This could write .edl files in MPlayer's format. Support for playing these files has been removed from mplayer2 quite a while ago. (mplayer2 can play its own, "new" .edl format, but does not support writing it.) Since this is a rather obscure functionality, and it's not really clear how it should behave (e.g. what should it do if a new file is played), and wasn't all that great to begin with (what if you made a mistake? the "edl_mark" command sucks for editing), get rid of it. Suggestions how to reimplement this in a nicer way are welcome. If it's just about retrieving timecodes, this in input.conf will do: KEY print_text "position: ${=time-pos}"
* manpage: fixeswm42013-01-311-0/+10
| | | | | | | Add missing documentation for --quvi-format switch. Fix description how hw decoding is enabled. The old way currently still works, but is deprecated.
* stream: implement some HTTP specific options for stream_lavfwm42013-01-241-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "http:" protocol has been switched to use ffmpeg's HTTP implementation some time ago. One problem with this was that many HTTP specific options stopped working, because they were obviously implemented for the internal HTTP implementation only. Add the missing things. Note that many options will work for ffmpeg only, as Libav's HTTP implementation is missing these. They will silently be ignored on Libav. Some options we can't fix: --ipv4-only-proxy, --prefer-ipv4, --prefer-ipv6 As far as I can see, not even libavformat internals distinguish between ipv4 and ipv6. --user, --passwd ffmpeg probably supports specifying these in the URL directly.
* video: remove -x/-y/-xy optionswm42013-01-231-14/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -x/-y were rather useless and obscure. The only use I can see is forcing a specific aspect ratio without having to calculate the aspect ratio float value (although --aspect takes values of the form w:h). This can be also done with --geometry and --no-keepaspect. There was also a comment that -x/-y is useful for -vm, although I don't see how this is useful as it still messes up aspect ratio. -xy is mostly obsolete. It does two things: a) set the window width to a pixel value, b) scale the window size by a factor. a) is already done by --autofit (--autofit=num does exactly the same thing as --xy=num, if num >= 8). b) is not all that useful, so we just drop that functionality.
* video: add --autofit and --autofit-larger optionswm42013-01-231-0/+48
| | | | | | | | | --autofit=WxH sets the window size to a maximum width and/or height, without changing the window's aspect ratio. --autofit-larger=WxH does the same, but only if the video size is actually larger than the window size that would result when using the --autofit=WxH option with the same arguments.
* options: allow using % for width and height in --geometrywm42013-01-231-13/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now all numbers in the --geometry specification can take percentages. Rewrite the parsing of --geometry, because adjusting the sscanf() mess would require adding all the combinations of using and not using %. As a side effect, using % and pixel values can be freely mixed. Keep the aspect if only one of width or height is set. This is more useful in general. Note: there is one semantic change: --geometry=num used to mean setting the window X position, but now it means setting the window width. Apparently this was a mplayer-specific feature (not part of standard X geometry specifications), and it doesn't look like an overly useful feature, so we are fine with breaking it. In general, the new parsing should still adhere to standard X geometry specification (as used by XParseGeometry()).
* manpage: fix places that still treat FourCCs and pixel formats equalwm42013-01-171-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The video filter chain traditionally used FourCCs for pixel formats. This was recently changed, but some parts of the manpage were not updated properly. Now there are two rypes of options: some which take a FourCC (as used with raw video formats), and some which take a symbolic format identifier (as used in the video filter chain). I realize that it's harder to specify FourCC for RGB formats now (TV stuff may need RGB). They use non-printable characters as part of the FourCC, and have to be specified as hexadecimal numbers (instead of a symbolic identifier). Because I can't be bothered to find out what these numbers are for the respective formats, just remove the old pseudo-FourCCs from the documentation.
* vd_lavc: remove -lavdopts vstats suboptionwm42013-01-131-2/+0
| | | | | | This printed per-frame statistics into a file, like bitrate or frame type. Not very useful and accesses obscure AVCodecContext fields (danger of deprecation/breakage), so get rid of it.
* vd_lavc: remove lowres decodingwm42013-01-131-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | This was a "broken misfeature" according to Libav developers. It wasn't implemented for modern codecs (like h264), and has been removed from Libav a while ago (the AVCodecContext field has been marked as deprecated and its value is ignored). FFmpeg still supports it, but isn't much useful due to aforementioned reasons. Remove the code to enable it.
* sub: add experimental --force-rgba-osd-rendering switchwm42013-01-131-0/+8
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* video: decouple internal pixel formats from FourCCswm42013-01-131-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mplayer's video chain traditionally used FourCCs for pixel formats. For example, it used IMGFMT_YV12 for 4:2:0 YUV, which was defined to the string 'YV12' interpreted as unsigned int. Additionally, it used to encode information into the numeric values of some formats. The RGB formats had their bit depth and endian encoded into the least significant byte. Extended planar formats (420P10 etc.) had chroma shift, endian, and component bit depth encoded. (This has been removed in recent commits.) Replace the FourCC mess with a simple enum. Remove all the redundant formats like YV12/I420/IYUV. Replace some image format names by something more intuitive, most importantly IMGFMT_YV12 -> IMGFMT_420P. Add img_fourcc.h, which contains the old IDs for code that actually uses FourCCs. Change the way demuxers, that output raw video, identify the video format: they set either MP_FOURCC_RAWVIDEO or MP_FOURCC_IMGFMT to request the rawvideo decoder, and sh_video->imgfmt specifies the pixel format. Like the previous hack, this is supposed to avoid the need for a complete codecs.cfg entry per format, or other lookup tables. (Note that the RGB raw video FourCCs mostly rely on ffmpeg's mappings for NUT raw video, but this is still considered better than adding a raw video decoder - even if trivial, it would be full of annoying lookup tables.) The TV code has not been tested. Some corrective changes regarding endian and other image format flags creep in.
* video: different way to enable hardware decoding, add software fallbackwm42013-01-131-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Deprecate the hardware specific video codec entries (like ffh264vdpau). Replace them with the --hwdec switch, which requests that a specific hardware decoding API should be used. The codecs.conf entries will be removed at a later time, but for now they are useful for testing and compatibility. Instead of --vc=ffh264vdpau, --hwdec=vdpau should be used. Add a fallback if hardware decoding fails. Most hardware decoders (including vdpau) support only a subset of h264, and having such a fallback is supposed to enable a better user experience.
* video: remove slice based filtering and video outputwm42013-01-131-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slices allowed filtering or drawing video in horizontal bands or blocks. This allowed working on the video in smaller units. In theory, this could bring a performance win by lowering cache pressure, as you didn't have to keep the whole video frame in cache while filtering, only the slice. In practice, the slice code path was barely used for the following reasons: - Multithreaded decoding with ffmpeg didn't use slices. The ffmpeg slice callback was disabled, because it can be called from another thread, and the mplayer video chain is not thread-safe. - There was nothing that would turn "full" images into appropriate slices, so slices were rarely used. - Most filters didn't actually support slices. On the other hand, supporting slices lead to code duplication and more complex code in general. I made some experiments and didn't find any actual measurable performance improvements when using slices. Even ffmpeg removed slices based filtering from libavfilter in favor of simpler code. The most broken thing about the slices code path is that slices can't be queued, like it is done for images in vo.c.
* mplayer: make --loop loop the playlist instead of each playlist entrywm42013-01-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | This is simpler and more useful. We could add a new switch for the old functionality, but that would probably be more confusing than helpful. When passing only a single file to the command line, this commit shouldn't change behavior. (Classic mplayer provided both features by duplicating the loop functionality in the "playtree".)
* manpage: document the dangers of some subtitle optionswm4