On macOS, the older version of the browser plugin used to reside in a
different directory. This would cause two versions of obs-browser to
load if you installed the new version of OBS over the old version of
OBS. This fixes that bug with an slightly unsightly hack by
blacklisting that older module if it tries to load an obs-module that
resides in that specific older directory.
Correct "regsiter" to "register" in a couple function names. These
functions are currently unused. Let's correct these names before they
start getting used.
This allows the ability for certain types of modules (particularly
scripting-related modules) to initialize extra data when all other
modules have loaded. Because front-ends may wish to have custom
handling for loading modules, the front-end must manually call
obs_post_load_modules after it has completed loading all plug-in
modules.
Closesjp9000/obs-studio#965
(Note: This commit also modifies coreaudio-encoder, win-capture, and
win-mf modules)
This reduces logging to the user's log file. Most of the things
specified are not useful for examining log files, and make reading log
files more painful.
The things that are useful to log should be up to the front-end to
implement. The core and core plugins should have minimal mandatory
logging.
(Note: test and UI are also modified by this commit)
API Changed (removed "enum obs_source_type type" parameter):
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obs_source_get_display_name
obs_source_create
obs_get_source_output_flags
obs_get_source_defaults
obs_get_source_properties
Removes the "type" parameter from these functions. The "type" parameter
really doesn't serve much of a purpose being a parameter in any of these
cases, the type is just to indicate what it's used for.
(Note: This commit breaks libobs compilation. Skip if bisecting)
Adds a "composite" source type which is used for sources that composite
one or more sub-sources. The audio_render callback is called for
composite sources to allow those types of sources to do custom
processing of the audio of its sub-sources.
This is useful for allowing the ability to have private data associated
with the object type definition structures. This private data can be
useful for things like plugin wrappers for other languages, or providing
dynamically generated object types.
When getting a blank module data file (indicating you want to get the
path to the module data directory itself), on certain operating systems
(windows) it will fail if you end the path with '/' or '\'. So simply
make sure that if a blank module sub-path is used, don't try to append a
slash.
The rationale for rejecting these register calls is that these functions
may be required for the plugin to work properly, which can't be
guaranteed when libobs doesn't know about them.
This behavior may be revisited once the plugin manager is implemented,
to e.g. make it configurable (potentially per plugin) to allow loading
newer plugins in case they are known to work with the older libobs
When globbing for modules, the intent was to ignore the . and ..
directories that might also be included in the glob search. It was
mistakenly doing a string compare on the 'path' variable which contains
the full path, rather than the 'file' variable which just contains the
found file itself, so the string compare always failed.
Typedef pointers are unsafe. If you do:
typedef struct bla *bla_t;
then you cannot use it as a constant, such as: const bla_t, because
that constant will be to the pointer itself rather than to the
underlying data. I admit this was a fundamental mistake that must
be corrected.
All typedefs that were pointer types will now have their pointers
removed from the type itself, and the pointers will be used when they
are actually used as variables/parameters/returns instead.
This does not break ABI though, which is pretty nice.
With the recent change to module handling by BtbN, I felt that having
this information might be useful in case someone is actually using make
install to set up their libraries.
Changed API:
- char *obs_find_plugin_file(const char *sub_path);
Changed to: char *obs_module_file(const char *file);
Cahnge it so you no longer need to specify a sub-path such as:
obs_find_plugin_file("module_name/file.ext")
Instead, now automatically handle the module data path so all you need
to do is:
obs_module_file("file.ext")
- int obs_load_module(const char *name);
Changed to: int obs_open_module(obs_module_t *module,
const char *path,
const char *data_path);
bool obs_init_module(obs_module_t module);
Change the module loading API so that if the front-end chooses, it can
load modules directly from a specified path, and associate a data
directory with it on the spot.
The module will not be initialized immediately; obs_init_module must
be called on the module pointer in order to fully initialize the
module. This is done so a module can be disabled by the front-end if
the it so chooses.
New API:
- void obs_add_module_path(const char *bin, const char *data);
These functions allow you to specify new module search paths to add,
and allow you to search through them, or optionally just load all
modules from them. If the string %module% is included, it will
replace it with the module's name when that string is used as a
lookup. Data paths are now directly added to the module's internal
storage structure, and when obs_find_module_file is used, it will look
up the pointer to the obs_module structure and get its data directory
that way.
Example:
obs_add_module_path("/opt/obs/my-modules/%module%/bin",
"/opt/obs/my-modules/%module%/data");
This would cause it to additionally look for the binary of a
hypthetical module named "foo" at /opt/obs/my-modules/foo/bin/foo.so
(or libfoo.so), and then look for the data in
/opt/obs/my-modules/foo/data.
This gives the front-end more flexibility for handling third-party
plugin modules, or handling all plugin modules in a custom way.
- void obs_find_modules(obs_find_module_callback_t callback, void
*param);
This searches the existing paths for modules and calls the callback
function when any are found. Useful for plugin management and custom
handling of the paths by the front-end if desired.
- void obs_load_all_modules(void);
Search through the paths and both loads and initializes all modules
automatically without custom handling.
- void obs_enum_modules(obs_enum_module_callback_t callback,
void *param);
Enumerates currently opened modules.
This function is used to simplify the process when using the default
locale handling for modules. It will automatically search in the plugin
data directory associated with the specific module specified, load the
default locale text (for example english if its default language is
english), and then it will load the set locale on top of the default
locale, which will cause text to use the default locale if the desired
locale text is not found.
The module callback obs_module_set_locale will be called after loading
the module, and any time the locale is manually changed via core API.
When this function is called, the module is expected to load new text
lookup values for all the text it uses based upon the current locale.
- Updated the services API so that it links up with an output and
the output gets data from that service rather than via settings.
This allows the service context to have control over how an output is
used, and makes it so that the URL/key/etc isn't necessarily some
static setting.
Also, if the service is attached to an output, it will stick around
until the output is destroyed.
- The settings interface has been updated so that it can allow the
usage of service plugins. What this means is that now you can create
a service plugin that can control aspects of the stream, and it
allows each service to create their own user interface if they create
a service plugin module.
- Testing out saving of current service information. Saves/loads from
JSON in to obs_data_t, seems to be working quite nicely, and the
service object information is saved/preserved on exit, and loaded
again on startup.
- I agonized over the settings user interface for days, and eventually
I just decided that the only way that users weren't going to be
fumbling over options was to split up the settings in to simple/basic
output, pre-configured, and then advanced for advanced use (such as
multiple outputs or services, which I'll implement later).
This was particularly painful to really design right, I wanted more
features and wanted to include everything in one interface but
ultimately just realized from experience that users are just not
technically knowledgable about it and will end up fumbling with the
settings rather than getting things done.
Basically, what this means is that casual users only have to enter in
about 3 things to configure their stream: Stream key, audio bitrate,
and video bitrate. I am really happy with this interface for those
types of users, but it definitely won't be sufficient for advanced
usage or for custom outputs, so that stuff will have to be separated.
- Improved the JSON usage for the 'common streaming services' context,
I realized that JSON arrays are there to ensure sorting, while
forgetting that general items are optimized for hashing. So
basically I'm just using arrays now to sort items in it.
Add API for streaming services. The services API simplifies the
creation of custom service features and user interface.
Custom streaming services later on will be able to do things such as:
- Be able to use service-specific APIs via modules, allowing a more
direct means of communicating with the service and requesting or
setting service-specific information
- Get URL/stream key via other means of authentication such as OAuth,
or be able to build custom URLs for services that require that sort
of thing.
- Query information (such as viewer count, chat, follower
notifications, and other information)
- Set channel information (such as current game, current channel title,
activating commercials)
Also, I reduce some repeated code that was used for all libobs objects.
This includes the name of the object, the private data, settings, as
well as the signal and procedure handlers.
I also switched to using linked lists for the global object lists,
rather than using an array of pointers (you could say it was..
pointless.) ..Anyway, the linked list info is also stored in the shared
context data structure.
