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* demux: add a on-disk cachewm42019-09-191-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Somewhat similar to the old --cache-file, except for the demuxer cache. Instead of keeping packet data in memory, it's written to disk and read back when needed. The idea is to reduce main memory usage, while allowing fast seeking in large cached network streams (especially live streams). Keeping the packet metadata on disk would be rather hard (would use mmap or so, or rewrite the entire demux.c packet queue handling), and since it's relatively small, just keep it in memory. Also for simplicity, the disk cache is append-only. If you're watching really long livestreams, and need pruning, you're probably out of luck. This still could be improved by trying to free unused blocks with fallocate(), but since we're writing multiple streams in an interleaved manner, this is slightly hard. Some rather gross ugliness in packet.h: we want to store the file position of the cached data somewhere, but on 32 bit architectures, we don't have any usable 64 bit members for this, just the buf/len fields, which add up to 64 bit - so the shitty union aliases this memory. Error paths untested. Side data (the complicated part of trying to serialize ffmpeg packets) untested. Stream recording had to be adjusted. Some minor details change due to this, but probably nothing important. The change in attempt_range_joining() is because packets in cache have no valid len field. It was a useful check (heuristically finding broken cases), but not a necessary one. Various other approaches were tried. It would be interesting to list them and to mention the pros and cons, but I don't feel like it.
* command: show number of hidden items in OSD listswm42019-09-191-6/+12
| | | | Affects the "classic" OSD rendering of some properties, like playlists.
* options: rename --play-direction to --play-dirwm42019-09-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | And add simpler aliases for the modes. I'm not sure how to name things, and the option list is in general full of different conventions. Some names are shortened, some are explicit and long. I guess options that have a chance to be used normally (i.e. not obscure tuning or debugging) should have a short and convenient names. In this specific case, play-direction is like a mixture of both. It should be either playback-direction or play-dir, not shorten one word but not the other. The convenience aliases are because I got sick of typing out "backward". I guess "back" would also do it, but there's no proper antonym (and maybe it's "wrong" in the strict sense of the word).
* player: modify/simplify AB-loop behaviorwm42019-09-191-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This changes the behavior of the --ab-loop-a/b options. In addition, it makes it work with backward playback mode. The most obvious change is that the both the A and B point need to be set now before any looping happens. Unlike before, unset points don't implicitly use the start or end of the file. I think the old behavior was a feature that was explicitly added/wanted. Well, it's gone now. This is because of 2 reasons: 1. I never liked this feature, and it always got in my way (as user). 2. It's inherently annoying with backward playback mode. In backward playback mode, the user wants to set A/B in the wrong order. The ab-loop command will first set A, then B, so if you use this command during backward playback, A will be set to a higher timestamps than B. If you switch back to forward playback mode, the loop would stop working. I want the loop to just continue to work, and the chosen solution conflicts with the removed feature. The order issue above _could_ be fixed by also switching the AB-loop user option values around on direction switch. But there are no other instances of option changes magically affecting other options, and doing this would probably lead to unexpected misery (dying from corner cases and such). Another solution is sorting the A/B points by timestamps after copying them from the user options. Then A/B options set in backward mode will work in forward mode. This is the chosen solution. If you sort the points, you don't know anymore whether the unset point is supposed to signify the end or the start of the file. The AB-loop code is slightly better abstracted now, so it should be easy to restore the removed feature. It would still require coming up with a solution for backwards playback, though. A minor change is that if one point is set and the other is unset, I'm rendering both the chapter markers and the marker for the set point. Why? I don't know. My test file had chapters, and I guess I decided this looked better. This commit also fixes some subtle and obvious issues that I already forgot about when I wrote this commit message. It cleans up some minor code duplication and nonsense too. Regarding backward playback, the code uses an unsanitary mix of internal ("transformed") and user timestamps. So the play_dir variable appears more than usual. To mention one unfixed issue: if you set an AB-loop that is completely past the end of the file, it will get stuck in an infinite seeking loop once playback reaches the end of the file. Fixing this reliably seemed annoying, so the fix is "just don't do this". It's not a hard freeze anyway.
* Implement backwards playbackwm42019-09-191-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See manpage additions. This is a huge hack. You can bet there are shit tons of bugs. It's literally forcing square pegs into round holes. Hopefully, the manpage wall of text makes it clear enough that the whole shit can easily crash and burn. (Although it shouldn't literally crash. That would be a bug. It possibly _could_ start a fire by entering some sort of endless loop, not a literal one, just something where it tries to do work without making progress.) (Some obvious bugs I simply ignored for this initial version, but there's a number of potential bugs I can't even imagine. Normal playback should remain completely unaffected, though.) How this works is also described in the manpage. Basically, we demux in reverse, then we decode in reverse, then we render in reverse. The decoding part is the simplest: just reorder the decoder output. This weirdly integrates with the timeline/ordered chapter code, which also has special requirements on feeding the packets to the decoder in a non-straightforward way (it doesn't conflict, although a bugmessmass breaks correct slicing of segments, so EDL/ordered chapter playback is broken in backward direction). Backward demuxing is pretty involved. In theory, it could be much easier: simply iterating the usual demuxer output backward. But this just doesn't fit into our code, so there's a cthulhu nightmare of shit. To be specific, each stream (audio, video) is reversed separately. At least this means we can do backward playback within cached content (for example, you could play backwards in a live stream; on that note, it disables prefetching, which would lead to losing new live video, but this could be avoided). The fuckmess also meant that I didn't bother trying to support subtitles. Subtitles are a problem because they're "sparse" streams. They need to be "passively" demuxed: you don't try to read a subtitle packet, you demux audio and video, and then look whether there was a subtitle packet. This means to get subtitles for a time range, you need to know that you demuxed video and audio over this range, which becomes pretty messy when you demux audio and video backwards separately. Backward display is the most weird (and potentially buggy) part. To avoid that we need to touch a LOT of timing code, we negate all timestamps. The basic idea is that due to the navigation, all comparisons and subtractions of timestamps keep working, and you don't need to touch every single of them to "reverse" them. E.g.: bool before = pts_a < pts_b; would need to be: bool before = forward ? pts_a < pts_b : pts_a > pts_b; or: bool before = pts_a * dir < pts_b * dir; or if you, as it's implemented now, just do this after decoding: pts_a *= dir; pts_b *= dir; and then in the normal timing/renderer code: bool before = pts_a < pts_b; Consequently, we don't need many changes in the latter code. But some assumptions inhererently true for forward playback may have been broken anyway. What is mainly needed is fixing places where values are passed between positive and negative "domains". For example, seeking and timestamp user display always uses positive timestamps. The main mess is that it's not obvious which domain a given variable should or does use. Well, in my tests with a single file, it suddenly started to work when I did this. I'm honestly surprised that it did, and that I didn't have to change a single line in the timing code past decoder (just something minor to make external/cached text subtitles display). I committed it immediately while avoiding thinking about it. But there really likely are subtle problems of all sorts. As far as I'm aware, gstreamer also supports backward playback. When I looked at this years ago, I couldn't find a way to actually try this, and I didn't revisit it now. Back then I also read talk slides from the person who implemented it, and I'm not sure if and which ideas I might have taken from it. It's possible that the timestamp reversal is inspired by it, but I didn't check. (I think it claimed that it could avoid large changes by changing a sign?) VapourSynth has some sort of reverse function, which provides a backward view on a video. The function itself is trivial to implement, as VapourSynth aims to provide random access to video by frame numbers (so you just request decreasing frame numbers). From what I remember, it wasn't exactly fluid, but it worked. It's implemented by creating an index, and seeking to the target on demand, and a bunch of caching. mpv could use it, but it would either require using VapourSynth as demuxer and decoder for everything, or replacing the current file every time something is supposed to be played backwards. FFmpeg's libavfilter has reversal filters for audio and video. These require buffering the entire media data of the file, and don't really fit into mpv's architecture. It could be used by playing a libavfilter graph that also demuxes, but that's like VapourSynth but worse.
* command: put seek ranges at the end of outputwm42019-09-191-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a minor benign hack that reorders the MPV_FORMAT_NODE output. The order of members is not supposed to matter, but it's how the OSD renders them as raw output. Normally this isn't used, but demuxer-cache-state is a "prominent" case. Moving the seek ranges to the end avoids that the more important other fields are not cut off by going out of the screen on the bottom. Also output the seek ranges in reverse. The order doesn't matter either (as declared by input.rst). Currently, the demuxer orders them by least recent use. Reversing it makes the most recently used range (the current range) show up on top. In other words, this commit does basically nothing but fudge stuff in a cosmetic way to make debugging easier for me, and you've wasted your time reading this commit message and the diff. Good.
* demux, command: export bof/eof flagswm42019-09-191-0/+3
| | | | | Export these flags with demuxer-cache-state. Useful for debugging, but any client API users could also make use of it.
* command: make demuxer-cache-state property observablewm42019-09-191-1/+1
| | | | The update is throttled by the normal playloop cache update mechanism.
* command: report unknown file size as unavailable, not -1wm42019-09-191-0/+2
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* demux: simplify API for returning cache statuswm42019-09-191-17/+11
| | | | | | | | Instead of going through those weird DEMUXER_CTRLs, query this information directly. I'm not sure which kind of brain damage made me use CTRLs for these. Since there are no other DEMUXER_CTRLs that make sense for the frontend, remove the remaining infrastructure for them too.
* demux: return stream file size differently, rip out stream ctrlswm42019-09-191-3/+1
| | | | | | | The stream size return was the only thing that still required doing STREAM_CTRLs from frontend through the demuxer layer. This can be done much easier, so rip it out. Also rip out the now unused infrastructure for STREAM_CTRLs via demuxer layer.
* command: make playlist builtin OSD property show titles instead of URLswm42019-09-191-5/+8
| | | | Useful for ytdl.
* command, demux: remove program propertywm42019-09-131-58/+0
| | | | | | | | | The "program" property could switch between TS programs. It was rather complex and rather obscure (even if you deal with TS captures, you usually don't need it). If anyone actually needs it (did anyone ever attempt to even use it?), it should be rewritten. The demuxer should export a program list, and the frontend should handle the "cycling" logic.
* Remove classic Linux analog TV support, and DVB runtime controlswm42019-09-131-185/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linux analog TV support (via tv://) was excessively complex, and whenever I attempted to use it (cameras or loopback devices), it didn't work well, or would have required some major work to update it. It's very much stuck in the analog past (my favorite are the frequency tables in frequencies.c for analog TV channels which don't exist anymore). Especially cameras and such work fine with libavdevice and better than tv://, for example: mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0 (adding --profile=low-latency --untimed even makes it mostly realtime) Adding a new input layer that targets such "modern" uses would be acceptable, if anyone is interested in it. The old TV code is just too focused on actual analog TV. DVB is rather obscure, but has an active maintainer, so don't remove it. However, the demux/stream ctrl layer must go, so remove controls for channel switching. Most of these could be reimplemented by using the normal method for option runtime changes.
* Remove optical disc fancification layerswm42019-09-131-145/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes anything related to DVD/BD/CD that negatively affected the core code. It includes trying to rewrite timestamps (since DVDs and Blurays do not set packet stream timestamps to playback time, and can even have resets mid-stream), export of chapters, stream languages, export of title/track lists, and all that. Only basic seeking is supported. It is very much possible that seeking completely fails on some discs (on some parts of the timeline), because timestamp rewriting was removed. Note that I don't give a shit about optical media. If you want to watch them, rip them. Keeping some bare support for DVD/BD is the most I'm going to do to appease the type of lazy, obnoxious users who will care. There are other players which are better at optical discs.
* Merge branch 'master' into pr6360Jan Ekström2019-03-111-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Manual changes done: * Merged the interface-changes under the already master'd changes. * Moved the hwdec-related option changes to video/decode/vd_lavc.c.
| * command: notify on multiplyDan Oscarsson2019-01-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | doing multiply on a property is also a set property command and the change should be notified so others can observe the change
* | demux, stream: readd cache-speed in some other formwm42018-12-061-0/+21
| | | | | | | | it's more like an input speed rather than a cache speed, but who cares.
* | Merge commit '559a400ac36e75a8d73ba263fd7fa6736df1c2da' into ↵Anton Kindestam2018-12-051-392/+557
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | wm4-commits--merge-edition This bumps libmpv version to 1.103
| * demux, stream: rip out the classic stream cachewm42018-08-311-134/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | The demuxer cache is the only cache now. Might need another change to combat seeking failures in mp4 etc. The only bad thing is the loss of cache-speed, which was sort of nice to have.
| * command: avoid some direct MPOpts write accesseswm42018-05-241-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is working towards a change intended in the future: nothing should write to the option struct directly, but use functions that raise proper notifications. Until this is complete it will take a while, and this commit does not change all cases of direct access, just some simple ones. In all of these 3 changes, the actual write access is done by the generic property-option bridge.
| * vd_lavc: move hwdec opts to local config, don't use global MPOptswm42018-05-241-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The --hwdec* options are a good fit for the vd_lavc local option struct. This annoyingly requires manual prefixing of most of these options with --vd-lavc (could be avoided by using more sub-struct craziness, but let's not).
| * ao: use a local option structwm42018-05-241-1/+8
| | | | | | | | Instead of accessing MPOpts.
| * m_config: remove extra default_data fieldwm42018-05-241-3/+4
| | | | | | | | Just wastes memory (a few KB, because there are so many options).
| * input: remove now unused "abort command" and cancel infrastructurewm42018-05-241-5/+5
| | | | | | | | The previous commit removed all uses.
| * player: change the role of the "stop_play" and "playing" variablewm42018-05-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this, mpctx->playing was often used to determine whether certain new state could be added to the playback state. In particular this affected external files (which added tracks and demuxers). The variable was checked to prevent that they were added before the corresponding uninit code. We want to make a small part of uninit asynchronous, but mpctx->playing needs to stay in the place where it is. It can't be used for this purpose anymore. Use mpctx->stop_play instead. Make it never have the value 0 outside of loading/playback. On unloading, it obviously has to be non-0. Change some other code in playloop.c to use this, because it seems slightly more correct. But mostly this is preparation for the following commit.
| * player: simplify edition switchingwm42018-05-241-2/+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: whitelist some blocking accesses for certain demuxers/streamswm42018-05-241-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The properties/commands touched in this commit are all for obscure special inputs (BD/DVD/DVB/TV), and they all block on the demuxer/stream layer. For network streams, this blocking is very unwelcome. They will affect playback and probably introduce pauses and frame drops. The player can even freeze fully, and the logic that tries to make playback abortable even if frozen complicates the player. Since the mentioned accesses are not needed for network streams, but they will block on network streams even though they're going to fail, add a flag that coarsely enables/disables these accesses. Essentially it establishes a whitelist of demuxers/streams which support them. In theory you could to access BD/DVD images over network (or add such support, I don't think it's a thing in mpv). In these cases these controls still can block and could even "freeze" the player completely. Writing to the "program" and "cache-size" properties still can block even for network streams. Just don't use them if you don't want freezes.
| * command: make loadlist command async and abortablewm42018-05-241-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't allow it to freeze everything when loading a playlist from network (although you definitely shouldn't do that, but whatever). This also affects the really obscure --ordered-chapters-files option. The --playlist option on the other hand has no choice but to freeze the shit, because there's no concept of aborting the player during command line parsing.
| * player: make various commands for managing external tracks abortablewm42018-05-241-4/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now, they could be aborted only by ending playback, and calling mpv_abort_async_command didn't do anything. This requires furthering the mess how playback abort is done. The main reason why mp_cancel exists at all is to avoid that a "frozen" demuxer (blocked on network I/O or whatever) cannot freeze the core. The core should always get its way. Previously, there was a single mp_cancel handle, that could be signaled, and all demuxers would unfreeze. With external files, we might want to abort loading of a certain external file, which automatically means they need a separate mp_cancel. So give every demuxer its own mp_cancel, and "slave" it to whatever parent mp_cancel handles aborting. Since the mpv demuxer API conflates creating the demuxer and reading the file headers, mp_cancel strictly need to be created before the demuxer is created (or we couldn't abort loading). Although we give every demuxer its own mp_cancel (as "enforced" by cancel_and_free_demuxer), it's still rather messy to create/destroy it along with the demuxer.
| * command: give named arguments to almost all commandswm42018-05-241-170/+225
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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".)
| * command: make "subprocess" explicitly abortablewm42018-05-241-5/+7
| | | | | | | | Now mpv_abort_async_command() can be used to stop the process.
| * command: add a way to abort asynchronous commandswm42018-05-241-4/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many asynchronous commands are potentially long running operations, such as loading something from network or running a foreign process. Obviously it shouldn't just be possible for them to freeze the player if they don't terminate as expected. Also, there will be situations where you want to explicitly stop some of those operations explicitly. So add an infrastructure for this. Commands have to support this explicitly. The next commit uses this to actually add support to a command.
| * lua: reimplement mp.subprocess() by invoking the new subprocess commandwm42018-05-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We keep mp.subprocess() with roughly the same semantics for compatibility with scripts (including the