=head1 NAME AnyEvent::MPV - remote control mpv (https://mpv.io) =head1 SYNOPSIS use AnyEvent::MPV; =head1 DESCRIPTION This module allows you to remote control F (a video player). It also is an L user, you need to make sure that you use and run a supported event loop. There are other modules doing this, and I haven't looked much at them other than to decide that they don't handle encodings correctly, and since none of them use AnyEvent, I wrote my own. When in doubt, have a look at them, too. Knowledge of the L is required to use this module. Features of this module are: =over =item uses AnyEvent, so integrates well into most event-based programs =item supports asynchronous and synchronous operation =item allows you to properly pass binary filenames =item accepts data encoded in any way (does not crash when mpv replies with non UTF-8 data) =item features a simple keybind/event system =back =head2 OVERVIEW OF OPERATION This module forks an F process and uses F<--input-ipc-client> (or equivalent) to create a bidirectional communication channel between it and the F process. It then speaks the somewhat JSON-looking (but not really being JSON) protocol that F implements to both send it commands, decode and handle replies, and handle asynchronous events. Here is a very simple client: use AnyEvent; use AnyEvent::MPV; my $videofile = "./xyzzy.mp4"; my $mpv = AnyEvent::MPV->new (trace => 1); $mpv->start ("--", $videofile); my $timer = AE::timer 2, 0, my $quit = AE::cv; $quit->recv; This starts F with the two arguments C<--> and C<$videofile>, which it should load and play. It then waits two seconds by starting a timer and quits. The C argument to the constructor makes F more verbose and also prints the commands and responses, so you cna have an idea what is going on. This is not usually very useful (you could just run F as a simple shell command), so let us load the file at runtime: use AnyEvent; use AnyEvent::MPV; my $videofile = "./xyzzy.mp4"; my $mpv = AnyEvent::MPV->new ( trace => 1, args => ["--pause", "--idle=yes"], ); $mpv->start; $mpv->cmd_recv (loadfile => $mpv->escape_binary ($videofile)); $mpv->cmd ("set", "pause", "no"); my $timer = AE::timer 2, 0, my $quit = AE::cv; $quit->recv; This specifies extra arguments in the constructor - these arguments are used every time you C<< ->start >> F, while the arguments to C<< ->start >> are only used for this specific clal to0 C. The argument F<--pause> keeps F in pause mode (i.e. it does not play the file after loading it), and C<--idle=yes> tells F to not quit when it does not have a playlist - as no files are specified on the command line. To load a file, we then send it a C command, which accepts, as first argument, the URL or path to a video file. To make sure F does not misinterpret the path as a URL, it was prefixed with F<./> (similarly to "protecting" paths in perls C). Since commands send I F are send in UTF-8, we need to escape the filename (which might be in any encoding) using the C method - this is not needed if your filenames are just ascii, or magically get interpreted correctly, but if you accept arbitrary filenamews (e.g. from the user), you need to do this. The C method then queues the command, waits for a reply and returns the reply data (or croaks on error). F would, at this point, load the file and, if everything was successful, show the first frame and pause. Note that, since F is implement rather synchronously itself, do not expect commands to fail in many circumstances - for example, fit he file does not exit, you will likely get an event, but the C command itself will run successfully. To unpause, we send another command, C, to set the C property to C, this time using the C method, which queues the command, but instead of waiting for a reply, it immediately returns a condvar that cna be used to receive results. This should then cause F to start playing the video. It then again waits two seconds and quits. Now, just waiting two seconds is rather, eh, unuseful, so let's look at receiving events (using a somewhat embellished example): use AnyEvent; use AnyEvent::MPV; my $videofile = "xyzzy.mp4"; my $quit = AE::cv; my $mpv = AnyEvent::MPV->new ( trace => 1, args => ["--pause", "--idle=yes"], on_event => sub { my ($mpv, $event, $data) = @_; if ($event eq "start-file") { $mpv->cmd ("set", "pause", "no"); } elsif ($event eq "end-file") { print "end-file<$data->{reason}>\n"; $quit->send; } }, ); $mpv->start; $mpv->cmd (loadfile => $mpv->escape_binary ($videofile)); $quit->recv; This example uses a global condvar C<$quit> to wait for the file to finish playing. Also, most of the logic is now in an C callback, which receives an event name and the actual event object. The two events we handle are C, which is emitted by F once it has loaded a new file, and C, which signals the end of a file. In the former event, we again set the C property to C so the movie starts playing. For the latter event, we tell the main program to quit by invoking C<$quit>. This should conclude the basics of operation. There are a few more examples later in the documentation. =head2 ENCODING CONVENTIONS As a rule of thumb, all data you pass to this module to be sent to F is expected to be in unicode. To pass something that isn't, you need to escape it using C. Data received from C<$mpv>, however, is I decoded to unicode, as data returned by F is not generally encoded in unicode, and the encoding is usually unspecified. So if you receive data and expect it to be in unicode, you need to first decode it from UTF-8, but note that this might fail. This is not a limitation of this module - F simply does not specify nor guarantee a specific encoding, or any encoding at all, in its protocol. =head2 METHODS =over =cut package AnyEvent::MPV; use common::sense; use Fcntl (); use Scalar::Util (); use AnyEvent (); use AnyEvent::Util (); our $JSON = eval { require JSON::XS; JSON::XS:: } || do { require JSON::PP; JSON::PP:: }; our $JSON_CODER = our $VERSION = '0.1'; our $mpv_path; # last mpv path used our $mpv_optionlist; # output of mpv --list-options =item $mpv = AnyEvent::MPV->new (key => value...) Creates a new C object, but does not yet do anything. The support key-value pairs are: =over =item mpv => $path The path to the F binary to use - by default, C is used and therefore, uses your C to find it. =item args => [...] Arguments to pass to F. These arguments are passed after the hardcoded arguments used by this module, but before the arguments passed ot C. It does not matter whether you specify your arguments using this key, or in the C call, but when you invoke F multiple times, typically the arguments used for all invocations go here, while arguments used for specific invocations (e..g filenames) are passed to C. =item trace => false|true|coderef Enables tracing if true. In trace mode, output from F is printed to standard error using a C<< mpv> >> prefix, and commands sent to F are printed with a C<< >mpv >> prefix. If a code reference is passed, then instead of printing to standard errort, this coderef is invoked with a first arfgument being either C<< mpv> >> or C<< >mpv >>, and the second argument being a string to display. The default implementation simply does this: sub { warn "$_[0] $_[1]\n"; } =item on_eof => $coderef->($mpv) =item on_event => $coderef->($mpv, $event, $data) =item on_key => $coderef->($mpv, $string) These are invoked by the default method implementation of the same name - see below. =back =cut sub new { my ($class, %kv) = @_; bless { mpv => "mpv", args => [], %kv, }, $class } =item $string = $mpv->escape_binary ($string) This module excects all command data sent to F to be in unicode. Some things are not, such as filenames. To pass binary data such as filenames through a comamnd, you need to escape it using this method. The simplest example is a C command: $mpv->cmd_recv (loadfile => $mpv->escape_binary ($path)); =cut # can be used to escape filenames sub escape_binary { shift; local $_ = shift; # we escape every "illegal" octet using U+10e5df HEX. this is later undone in cmd s/([\x00-\x1f\x80-\xff])/sprintf "\x{10e5df}%02x", ord $1/ge; $_ } =item $started = $mpv->start (argument...) Starts F, passing the given arguemnts as extra arguments to F. If F is already running, it returns false, otherwise it returns a true value, so you can easily start F on demand by calling C just before using it, and if it is already running, it will not be started again. The arguments passwd to F are a set of hardcoded built-in arguments, followed by the arguments specified in the constructor, followed by the arguments passwd to this method. The built-in arguments currently are F<--no-input-terminal>, F<--really-quiet> (or F<--quiet> in C mode), and C<--input-ipc-client> (or equivalent). Some commonly used and/or even useful arguments you might want to pass are: =over =item F<--idle=yes> or F<--idle=once> to keep F from quitting when you don't specify a file to play. =item F<--pause>, to keep F from instantly starting to play a file, in case you want to inspect/change properties first. =item F<--force-window=no> (or similar), to keep F from instantly opening a window, or to force it to do so. =item F<--audio-client-name=yourappname>, to make sure audio streams are associated witht eh right program. =item F<--wid=id>, to embed F into another application. =item F<--no-terminal>, F<--no-input-default-bindings>, F<--no-input-cursor>, F<--input-conf=/dev/null>, F<--input-vo-keyboard=no> - to ensure only you control input. =back The return value can be used to decide whether F needs initializing: if ($mpv->start) { $mpv->bind_key (...); $mpv->cmd (set => property => value); ... } You can immediately starting sending commands when this method returns, even if F has not yet started. =cut sub start { my ($self, @extra_args) = @_; return 0 if $self->{fh}; # cache optionlist for same "path" ($mpv_path, $mpv_optionlist) = ($self->{mpv}, scalar qx{\Q$self->{mpv}\E --list-options}) if $self->{mpv} ne $mpv_path; my $options = $mpv_optionlist; my ($fh, $slave) = AnyEvent::Util::portable_socketpair or die "socketpair: $!\n"; AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking $fh, 1; $self->{pid} = fork; if ($self->{pid} eq 0) { AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking $slave, 0; fcntl $slave, Fcntl::F_SETFD, 0; my $input_file = $options =~ /\s--input-ipc-client\s/ ? "input-ipc-client" : "input-file"; exec $self->{mpv}, qw(--no-input-terminal), ($self->{trace} ? "--quiet" : "--really-quiet"), "--$input_file=fd://" . (fileno $slave), @{ $self->{args} }, @extra_args; exit 1; } $self->{fh} = $fh; my $trace = delete $self->{trace} || sub { }; $trace = sub { warn "$_[0] $_[1]\n" } if $trace && !ref $trace; my $buf; my $wbuf; Scalar::Util::weaken $self; $self->{rw} = AE::io $fh, 0, sub { if (sysread $fh, $buf, 8192, length $buf) { while ($buf =~ s/^([^\n]+)\n//) { $trace->("mpv>" => "$1"); if ("{" eq substr $1, 0, 1) { eval { my $reply = $JSON->new->latin1->decode ($1); if (exists $reply->{event}) { if ( $reply->{event} eq "client-message" and $reply->{args}[0] eq "AnyEvent::MPV" ) { if ($reply->{args}[1] eq "key") { (my $key = $reply->{args}[2]) =~ s/\\x(..)/chr hex $1/ge; $self->on_key ($key); } } else { $self->on_event ($reply->{event}, $reply); } } elsif (exists $reply->{request_id}) { my $cv = delete $self->{cmd_cv}{$reply->{request_id}}; unless ($cv) { warn "no cv found for request id <$reply->{request_id}>\n"; next; } if (exists $reply->{data}) { $cv->send ($reply->{data}); } elsif ($reply->{error} eq "success") { # success means error... eh.. no... $cv->send; } else { $cv->croak ($reply->{error}); } } else { warn "unexpected reply from mpv, pleasew report: <$1>\n"; } }; warn $@ if $@; } else { $trace->("mpv>" => "$1"); } } } else { $self->stop; $self->on_eof; } }; $self->{_send} = sub { $wbuf .= "$_[0]\n"; $trace->(">mpv" => "$_[0]"); $self->{ww} ||= AE::io $fh, 1, sub { my $len = syswrite $fh, $wbuf; substr $wbuf, 0, $len, ""; undef $self->{ww} unless length $wbuf; }; }; 1 } =item $mpv->stop Ensures that F is being stopped, by killing F with a C signal if needed. After this, you can C<< ->start >> a new instance again. =cut sub stop { my ($self) = @_; delete $self->{rw}; delete $self->{ww}; if ($self->{pid}) { close delete $self->{fh}; # current mpv versions should cleanup on their own on close kill TERM => $self->{pid}; } delete $self->{pid}; delete $self->{cmd_cv}; } =item $mpv->on_eof This method is called when F quits - usually unexpectedly. The default implementation will call the C code reference specified in the constructor, or do nothing if none was given. For subclassing, see I, below. =cut sub on_eof { my ($self) = @_; $self->{on_eof}($self) if $self->{on_eof}; } =item $mpv->on_event ($event, $data) This method is called when F sends an asynchronous event. The default implementation will call the C code reference specified in the constructor, or do nothing if none was given. The first/implicit argument is the C<$mpv> object, the second is the event name (same as C<< $data->{event} >>, purely for convenience), and the third argument is the full event object as sent by F. See L in its documentation. For subclassing, see I, below. =cut sub on_event { my ($self, $key) = @_; $self->{on_event}($self, $key) if $self->{on_event}; } =item $mpv->on_key ($string) Invoked when a key declared by C<< ->bind_key >> is pressed. The default invokes the C code reference specified in the constructor with the C<$mpv> object and the key name as arguments, or do nothing if none was given. For more details and examples, see the C method. For subclassing, see I, below. =cut sub on_key { my ($self, $key) = @_; $self->{on_key}($self, $key) if $self->{on_key}; } =item $mpv->cmd ($command => $arg, $arg...) Queues a command to be sent to F, using the given arguments, and immediately return a condvar. See L for details on individual commands. The condvar can be ignored: $mpv->cmd (set_property => "deinterlace", "yes"); Or it can be used to synchronously wait for the command results: $cv = $mpv->cmd (get_property => "video-format"); $format = $cv->recv; # or simpler: $format = $mpv->cmd (get_property => "video-format")->recv; # or even simpler: $format = $mpv->cmd_recv (get_property => "video-format"); Or you can set a callback: $cv = $mpv->cmd (get_property => "video-format"); $cv->cb (sub { my $format = $_[0]->recv; }); On error, the condvar will croak when C is called. =cut sub cmd { my ($self, @cmd) = @_; my $cv = AE::cv; my $reqid = ++$self->{reqid}; $self->{cmd_cv}{$reqid} = $cv; my $cmd = $JSON->new->utf8->encode ({ command => ref $cmd[0] ? $cmd[0] : \@cmd, request_id => $reqid*1 }); # (un-)apply escape_binary hack $cmd =~ s/\xf4\x8e\x97\x9f(..)/sprintf sprintf "\\x%02x", hex $1/ges; # f48e979f == 10e5df in utf-8 $self->{_send}($cmd); $cv } =item $result = $mpv->cmd_recv ($command => $arg, $arg...) The same as calling C and immediately C on its return value. Useful when you don't want to mess with F asynchronously or simply needs to have the result: $mpv->cmd_recv ("stop"); $position = $mpv->cmd_recv ("get_property", "playback-time"); =cut sub cmd_recv { &cmd->recv } =item $mpv->bind_key ($INPUT => $string) This is an extension implement by this module to make it easy to get key events. The way this is implemented is to bind a C witha first argument of C and the C<$string> you passed. This C<$string> is then passed ot the C handle when the key is proessed, e.g.: my $mpv = AnyEvent::MPV->new ( on_key => sub { my ($mpv, $key) = @_; if ($key eq "letmeout") { print "user pressed escape\n"; } }, ); $mpv_>bind_key (ESC => "letmeout"); The key configuration is lost when F is stopped and must be (re-)done after every C. =cut sub bind_key { my ($self, $key, $event) = @_; $event =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_])/sprintf "\\x%02x", ord $1/ge; $self->cmd (keybind => $key => "no-osd script-message AnyEvent::MPV key $event"); } =back =head2 SUBCLASSING Like most perl objects, C objects are implemented as hashes, with the constructor simply storing all passed key-value pairs in the object. If you want to subclass to provide your own C methods, be my guest and rummage around in the internals as much as you wish - the only guarantee that this module dcoes is that it will not use keys with double colons in the name, so youc an use those, or chose to simply not care and deal with the breakage. If you don't want to go to the effort of subclassing this module, you can also specify all event handlers as constructor keys. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L. =head1 AUTHOR Marc Lehmann http://home.schmorp.de/ =cut 1