Prevent the es_out from overriding the NowPlaying state by splitting
the meta into NowPlaying and ESNowPlaying.
The function input_item_GetNowPlayingFb can be used to return the
preferred meta value.
Re-license almost all of libVLC and libVLCcore to LGPLv2.1+
This move was authorized by the developers, either:
- by e-mail,
- by vote at the VideoLAN Dev Days 2011,
- on the license website,
- in a contract, oral or written.
No objection was raised, so far.
The developers agreeing are:
Justus Piater
Alexis Ballier
Alexander Bethke
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Alex Converse
Alexey Sokolov
Alexis de Lattre
Andre Pang
Anthony Loiseau
Cyril Deguet
André Weber
Boris Dorès
Brieuc Jeunhomme
Benjamin Drung
Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
Benoit Steiner
Benjamin Pracht
Bernie Purcell
Przemyslaw Fiala
Arnaud de Bossoreille de Ribou
Brad Smith
Nick Briggs
Christopher Rath
Christophe Courtaut
Christopher Mueller
Clement Chesnin
Andres Krapf
Damien Fouilleul
David Flynn
Sebastien Zwickert
Antoine Cellerier
Jérôme Decoodt
Jérome Decoodt
Dylan Yudaken
Eduard Babayan
Eugenio Jarosiewicz
Elliot Murphy
Eric Petit
Erwan Tulou
Etienne Membrives
Ludovic Fauvet
Fabio Ritrovato
Tobias Güntner
Jakub Wieczorek
Frédéric Crozat
Francois Cartegnie
Laurent Aimar
Florian G. Pflug
Felix Paul Kühne
Frank Enderle
Rafaël Carré
Simon Latapie
Gildas Bazin
Geoffroy Couprie
Julien / Gellule
Gildas Bazin
Arnaud Schauly
Toralf Niebuhr
Vicente Jimenez Aguilar
Derk-Jan Hartman
Henri Fallon
Ilkka Ollakka
Olivier Teulière
Rémi Duraffort
Jakob Leben
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Jean-Paul Saman
Jean-Philippe Grimaldi
Jean-François Massol
Gaël Hendryckx
Jakob Leben
Jean-Marc Dressler
Jai Menon
Johan Bilien
Johann Ransay
Joris van Rooij
JP Dinger
Jean-Philippe André
Adrien Grand
Juha Jeronen
Juho Vähä-Herttua
Kaarlo Raiha
Kaarlo Raiha
Kamil Baldyga
Keary Griffin
Ken Self
KO Myung-Hun
Pierre Ynard
Filippo Carone
Loïc Minier
Luca Barbato
Lucas C. Villa Real
Lukas Durfina
Adrien Maglo
Marc Ariberti
Mark Lee
Mark Moriarty
Martin Storsjö
Christophe Massiot
Michel Kaempf
Marian Ďurkovič
Mirsal Ennaime
Carlo Calabrò
Damien Lucas
Naohiro Koriyama
Basos G
Pierre Baillet
Vincent Penquerc'h
Olivier Aubert
Pankaj Yadav
Paul Corke
Pierre d'Herbemont
Philippe Morin
Antoine Lejeune
Michael Ploujnikov
Jean-Marc Dressler
Michael Hanselmann
Rafaël Carré
Ramiro Polla
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Renaud Dartus
Richard Shepherd
Faustino Osuna
Arnaud Vallat
Rob Jonson
Robert Jedrzejczyk
Steve Lhomme
Rocky Bernstein
Romain Goyet
Rov Juvano
Sam Hocevar
Martin T. H. Sandsmark
Sebastian Birk
Sébastien Escudier
Vincent Seguin
Fabio Ritrovato
Sigmund Augdal Helberg
Casian Andrei
Srikanth Raju
Hannes Domani
Stéphane Borel
Stephan Krempel
Stephan Assmus
Tony Castley
Pavlov Konstantin
Eric Petit
Tanguy Krotoff
Dennis van Amerongen
Michel Lespinasse
Can Wu
Xavier Marchesini
Sébastien Toque
Christophe Mutricy
Yoann Peronneau
Yohann Martineau
Yuval Tze
Scott Caudle
Clément Stenac
It is possible, that some minor piece of code was badly tracked, for
some reasons (SVN, mainly) or that some small developers did not answer.
However, as an "œuvre collective", defined as in "CPI 113-2 alinéa 3",
and seeing "Cour. Cass. 17 Mai 1978", and seeing that the editor and
the very vast majority of developers have agreed (> 99.99% of the code,
> 99% of developers), we are fine here.
When asked for more than one reference to an audio output instance, the
input resource will now return distinct instances, instead of multiple
references to a unique instance. This means each audio decoder will use
an audio output of its own. Earlier, audio decoders from the same input
would share their output through a mixer.
In practice, this change does not make much difference. Indeed, there
is normally only one active AUDIO_ES decoder_t/aout_input_t per input
in any case. There is one quirk to render multiple audio tracks:
# vlc --sout-all --sout '#display'
There are a few advantages to this approach:
- The output of each audio track can be controlled independently. For
instance, different tracks can be routed to different devices,
different ports, or in theory at least, to different output plugins.
- This enables simplification of the audio output subsystem as it can
now be assumed that there is only one (or zero) input per output.
Track mixing is not required anymore. This is not to be confused with
channel mixing!
- We can get rid of the audio mixer plugins completely.
There are also disadvantages. But there was no way to run into this
situation with VLC, except for the --sout-all quirk as far as I know:
- If the output does not support mixing internally, only one track can
be rendered at a time. But any sane operating system supports mixing in
hardware or software, so that more than one process can output audio.
- The audio tracks might not be in perfect synchronization anymore.
Note that the user interface does not support more than one output any
better than the input (ES output) core. The input resource currently
only keeps track of one audio output, but this could be fixed if
needed. If you use PulseAudio, you can control the extrar outputs using
an external PulseAudio mixer UI; I don't know about other systems.
The high level object must at least live as long as the input_resource,
I used playlist, vlm or libvlc_media_player.
It avoids invalid reparent of the vout, aout and sout on input changes.
It breaks support for per input options used for creating vout, aout
and sout (:sout= is not impacted). I will fix the vout case.
It breaks invalid usages of vlc_object_find(INPUT, PARENT) used
at least by :
- the sout modules describe and display.
- the sout statistics.
- the vout splitter change
- the snapshot vout display.
I will fix the vout related ones.
This removes a dangerous vlc_object_find(PARENT) and potentially
invalids var_DelCallback().
It also avoids useless callback destructions and so fixes some dvd menus.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Ludovic Fauvet
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Felix Paul Kühne
Laurent Aimar
Rafaël Carré