Previously a DirectShow hardware encoder would get 'stuck' and couldn't
be recreated due to a strange issue with the graph filter not properly
shutting down the encoder. This would make it so that the user could
only use the encoder once, and then it wouldn't work anymore any time it
was initialized again. dshowcapture version 0.4.2 ensures that the
encoder can restart properly by manually shutting down the filter graph.
Add support for Static Z Software's Sound Siphon audio routing software
(http://staticz.com/soundsiphon/) which provides more advanced audio routing
possibilities.
If the PSAPI_VERSION macro is not set to 1 when using
GetProcessImageFileName, it will attempt to import it as
K32GetProcessImageFileName from kernel32.dll instead of psapi.dll, which
breaks compatibility with vista and xp.
Profile was being set as a bool rather than a string, resulting in an
embarrassing situation where the profile was being set to 'true' rather
than the actual profile name. ..There really needs to be a compiler
warning for using non-bools as bools. This is one of the reason I
started using !! to change non-bools to bools.
Having macros that state what these numbers mean is much more ideal than
just having a random number thrown in there, wondering why it was used
and what its purpose is (magic numbers).
The activate button is just silly for configuration in retrospect. It's
confusing to users, and was even confusing to some other developers.
Instead of using an 'Activate' button for game capture every time you
want to capture a window, just make the 'window' list have a default 'no
window' value (empty), and then have it always active when an actual
window is selected. The way syphon handles this on mac is actually
where I took the idea from (as suggested by Palana).
With the new code that checks to see if the source is visible, I didn't
realize that I actually didn't set the source variable, so it would end
up never actually drawing.
I didn't check to see if the size of the string was 0, when it's 0 it
won't create the converted string and it'll send a null pointer to
CFStringGetCString, causing it to crash.
If shared memory file mapping fails, I've found that it's somewhat
normal due to something in windows -- usually the capture will always
eventually start up after a few tries. Only seems to apply to some
games though, for example seems to happen with counterstrike a lot for
some strange reason. Capture always eventually starts back up though.
I remember seeing this with OBS1 as well in many cases but always
thought it was some sort of fluke
If using the auto-fullscreen feature to hook in to a fullscreen, I found
that if you don't wait a few seconds before initializing the hook that
you can catch the process when it's just starting up and loading
important libraries (especially things such as steam/uplay/etc), which
can cause a little bit of interference with the process and on rare
occasions cause it to crash.
To help prevent the likelihood of that happening, this just makes it so
that the hook waits at least 3 seconds before even attempting to inject
the hook when using auto-fullscreen mode. After some extensive testing
I haven't had any issues since.
The design to not retry the hooks on most general error is just bad.
There are plenty of legitimate cases where it should retry the hook.
This changes it so that if a general failure occurs or if it isn't
capturing when the inject helper exits, it retries and increases the
length of time between retries.
Variables that track time should not have the name 'interval', they
should have the name 'time' instead so it's crystal clear that the
variable is tracking time.
Adds a variable 'retry_interval' to game capture that allows the
interval at which game capture checks to update to longer intervals if
the hook initialization has some sort of failure.
The reason why I want to do this is because I don't really like it when
the hook updates too often in failure, it just leads to log file spam
that I feel can be reduced, and it frequent updates feel a bit invasive.
I just generally feel more comfortable reducing the interval at which
the hook retries after failure.
This makes a minor adjustment to the interval at which the inject helper
tries to post the inject message to the target process. Only 2 seconds
before, now up to 4 seconds, with the PostThreadMessage called every
half second for the duration.
The reason I did this is because I noticed that on rare occasions that
it wouldn't hook due to the low interval; usually just because the
target process is busy and isn't able to process its message queue, and
therefor the hook wouldn't go through due to the fact that
SetWindowsHookEx won't inject until the set event has occurred. The
inject helper program would just close before the thread message had
finally been processed, which would cancel the SetWindowsHookEx hooking.
The code neglected to take in to account that start_capture can also be
called when the texture updates its size/format in the hook and 'ready'
is signaled again, so it's possible that existing variables in the game
capture structure could be overwritten with new ones unintentionally.
The game capture 'Activate' button is likely to fool users in to
thinking it's not actually active if the game capture displays black, so
if it's active, rename the button to 'Reactivate' in order to sort of
hint at the user that it's actually active.
This is a bit of an optimization to reduce load a little bit if any of
the video capture sources are not currently being displayed on the
screen. They will simply not capture or update their texture data if
they are not currently being shown anywhere.
The mac and window game capture sources don't really apply due to the
fact that their textures aren't updated on the source's end (they update
inside of the hooks).
The DirectShow input source would always turn on first use, whether the
user wanted it to or not. I feel like having an activate/deactivate
option is a really nice thing to have, and makes configuration feel a
little bit less awkward.
I originally had it set the color space and color range in the video
info callback, but I forgot that it's a function that's called after the
encoder is initialized. You can change the color space and color range,
but you have to reconfigure the encoder, and there's no real reason to
do that.
Uses the output duplicator API in order to get a high performance
monitor capture on windows 8+. This is actually designed to be
interchangeable with regular GDI-based monitor capture (uses the same
source id).
Allow the user to select whether to buffer the source or not. The
settings are auto-detect, on, and off. Auto-Detect turns it off for
non-encoded devices, and on for encoded devices.
Webcams, internal devices, and other such things on windows do not
really need to be buffered, and buffering incurs a tiny bit of delay, so
turning off buffering is actually a little better for non-encoded
devices.
The 'sent_headers' member variable of the FLV output would not be reset
when the output was restarted, causing important data to not be written,
thus creating an invalid FLV file.
On i3wm, windows aren't unmapped when switching away from a window's
workspace, but it does cause OBS to lose the capture. Because
switching back will not trigger a MapNotify, the capture fails to
restart unless you resize or move the window (ConfigureNotify). An
Expose event is fired by the wm, however, so catching this correctly
restarts the capture.
Add a new helper library to handle the mouse cursor using xcb.
Since porting the old library without either keeping legacy code or
breaking the api would have been non-trivial, this is added as a
completely separate implementation. Once all code is ported over to
use this library, the old one can be removed.
