* Due to the needs to provide a peaceful UX, i moved out the
notifications mechanism from the Media preflet and i have
integrated it with the launch and shutdown functions of MediaDefs.h.
* This implied to introduce a new launch_media_server function
similar to the shutdown_media_server allowing to specify a custom
notification function too.
* Both functions then are reworked to send by default notifications
to the Deskbar, this was needed because in a lot of situations
the mechanism failed without correctly noticing the user.
* The one argument launch_media_server is considered to be deprecated,
the default argument is removed to mantain binary compatibility but
make new apps to automatically use the new one with just the default
arguments. This is needed due to conflicts in overloading.
* Improve notifications by indirectly extending localization
to old BeOS apps.
* This is done by watching to registrar notifications
and providing a minimal service to contact the
media roster in private API. The roster use this
service to automatically reconnect to the media_server.
- This allows a BMediaDecoder (e.g. FFMPEG Plugin) to communicate back format
changes to its clients.
For a more thorough explanation and discussion see haiku-development mailing
list: http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Request-for-protest-Media-Kit-Extend-media-header-struct
- Backwards compatibility is taken into account and preserved by reducing the
relevant _reserved[] fields.
- Code changes that will actually make use of these extensions are due for the
following commits. As these structure extensions affect several Haiku
components (e.g. media_server, MediaPlayer, etc.) and third party apps (e.g.
StampTV, etc.) I refrain from committing them in one batch with this commit.
This should make it easier to track down bugs originating in this code
change.
(cherry picked from commit 806b6888d2dcf84b4934f8f137a48d3381864d1c)
BBufferConsumer::BufferReceived() cannot know whom to send the "buffer is
late" notification (unless we only have a single input). To solve this, the
media_header now contains extra fields that can be used to create a
media_source object.
* Unfortunately, BBufferProducer::SendBuffer() cannot know the output either in
case there is more than one. Hence, I deprecated the existing SendBuffer()
call and moved it into "private" - IOW old sources using it won't compile
anymore under Haiku.
* I introduced a new SendBuffer() variant that also gets the media_source as
argument.
* Updated all sources (that are part of the image) to use the new variant.
* Removed some purposely commented out code in the audio mixer.
* Implemented late buffer notification, as well as late buffer handling in the
audio mixer; this is a bit of work in progress, so the debug output is left
in there.
* Some cleanup.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@36184 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
multiple reader add-ons are probed to recognize a media file
FormatManager does the translation from media_format to media_description
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@5667 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
