don't use extension checking preference for low level loading functions,
otherwise a user preference may impact a script loading a file for example.
looked into making this an argument and passing it in, but theres no
real advantage and its simpler just to remove.
CHANGE: writing an animation in the ogg movie format now defaults to .ogv (ogg/video) which is recommended by Xiph.org for video
CHANGE: for .ogg files a check is added whether Blender can read it as a movie (is avi or ffmpeg movie), otherwise assume audio
CHANGE: the anim player now filters for the same extensions as the file browser
We now support the combined layer of Photoshop files (stored as layer 0
in the file). This way users can keep their files as multilayer PSD and
Blender always handle them as flat images.
For perfect alpha this requires an OpenImageIO update:
342cc2633f
Photoshop sample files:
https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio-images
Brecht has some pending fixes to push for OIIO as well, so we may as
well wait to update our libraries.
What works:
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* 8bit images (with or without alpha)
* 16bits images (alpha discarded)
* Photoshop files saved with 'Maximum Compatibility'
* Cycles, Blender internal, BGE (and player)
Known limitations
(due to OIIO dependency):
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* Images with less than 4 channels show a wrong thumbnail (bug may be in OIIO)
* Packed images are not supported
* We do not write PSD files.
Note: old Blenders have support for PSD via Quicktime library. But due
to license issues this was discontinued.
Many thanks for Brecht van Lommel for reviewing the patch, suggesting
multiple improvements and to help solving the alpha issue.
- reading bmp images was failing (needed to increase the size of the header to 64 bytes)
- the dnd image was being incorrectly checked (was always returning true even when none was used).
Animplayer treated .tif extensions as movie files, so that didn't work.
Added another hardcoded check for it, like for png tga exr jpg etc.
Why FFmpeg thinks .tif is a movie... that's for another day :)
Quicktime QTKit did same btw.
Patch makes it possible to compile blender with recent ffmpeg
and libav libraries, mainly by getting rid of deprecated API.
Original patch by Campbell Barton with own modifications to
support compilation with older ffmpeg versions.
This patch could break compatibility of FFV1 videos playing
back in older players, mainly because of alpha support changes.
Preserving compatibility with such players became a headache
and think it's high time to get rid of workarounds here.
- Add check for header field in BMP decoder. This is needed to distinguish
whether file is indeed BMP image or not.
Without this check Blender could easily crash when it'll try to load
non-BMP image.
Tested with files from own HDD, but all of them has got BM header field,
more testing would be welcome.
- Made Jpeg2000 aware of J2K codec. Originally was needed to verify .j2c
files here in the studio, but having support of this codec would be
nice in general.
Currently supports only reading in this codec, writing would still
using jp2 codec.
- Make FFmpeg initialization called from creator, not from functions
which requires FFmpeg. Makes it easier to follow when initialization
should happen.
- Enable DNxHD codec. It was commented a while ago due to some strange
behavior on some platforms. Re-tested it on Linux and Windows and
it seemd to be working quite nice. Would let it be tested further,
if it wouldn't be stable enough, easy to comment it again.
- Make non-error messages from writeffmpeg.c printed only if ffmpeg
debug argument was passed to blender. Reduces console pollution
with messages which are not useful for general troubleshooting.
Error messages would still be printed to the console.
- Show FFmpeg error message when video stream failed to allocate.
makes it easier to understand what exactly is wrong from Blender
interface, no need to restart blender with FFmpeg debug flag and
check for console messages.
Used custom log callback for this which stores last error message
in static variable. This is not thread safe, but with current
design FFmpeg routines could not be called form several threads
anyway, so think it's fine solution/
This switches some areas of Blender which are related on FFmpeg stuff
from deprecated symbols to currently supported one.
Pretty straightforward changes based on documentation of FFmpeg's
API which symbols should be now used.
This should make Blender compatible with recent FFmpeg 0.11.
Should be no functional changes.
Thanks Lockal for finding faulty stat function which helped a lot.
Now there BLI_stat. I will replace all other stat later.
*** Please use BLI_xxxx() functions ***
for file operations
Reported by Leon Cheung, Lockal, Believil
--debug
--debug-ffmpeg
--debug-python
--debug-events
--debug-wm
This makes debug output easier to read - event debug prints would flood output too much before.
For convenience:
--debug-all turns all debug flags on (works as --debug did before).
also removed some redundant whitespace in debug prints and prefix some prints with __func__ to give some context.
Not all file formats/calls are supported yet. It will be expended.
Please from now on use BLI_fopen, BLI_* for file manipulations.
For non-windows systems BLI_fopen just calls fopen.
For Windows, the utf-8 string is translated to utf-16 string in order to call UTF version of the function.
This patch adds:
* support for proxy building again (missing feature from Blender 2.49)
additionally to the way, Blender 2.49 worked, you can select several
strips at once and make Blender build proxies in the background (using
the job system)
Also a new thing: movie proxies are now build into AVI files, and
the proxy system is moved into ImBuf-library, so that other parts
of blender can also benefit from it.
* Timecode support: to fix seeking issues with files, that have
a) varying frame rates
b) very large GOP lengths
c) are broken inbetween
d) use different time code tracks
the proxy builder can now also build timecode indices, which are
used (optionally) for seeking.
For the first time, it is possible, to do frame exact seeking on
all file types.
* Support for different video-streams in one video file (can be
selected in sequencer, other parts of blender can also use it,
but UI has to be added accordingly)
* IMPORTANT: this patch *requires* ffmpeg 0.7 or newer, since
older versions don't support the pkt_pts field, that is essential
for building timecode indices.
Windows and Mac libs are already updated, Linux-users have to build
their own ffmpeg verions until distros keep up.
