QApplication is designed for GUI/widget programs and thus fails to launch
if no window system is available. For a true headless mode, we must swap
out with QCoreApplication. However, what complicates this is that
QCommandLineParser - the class we use to determine whether we should run
in GUI mode or not - requires an active application instance to work.
This creates an unfortunate catch-22 that ultimately ended in writing a
custom command line parser.
Now we can correctly swap out with QCoreApplication, however this has
exposed other issues regarding functions that unnecessarily rely on QWidget
functions. So they'll need to be sorted out eventually.
Implements the following:
- Sequences have pixel aspect ratios that work in tandem with footage PARs
to render footage correctly. Viewer and export also acknowledge PARs
- Sequences can have interlacing settings. This doesn't do anything yet,
eventually the renderer will need to interlace/deinterlace/reinterlace
appropriately in order to conform all the footage to the sequence. Export
acknowledges interlacing, but this only affects metadata, not the image.
Shifted from CacheTask to functionality built into RenderBackend. It was
a lot easier to control behavior this way without having to juggle a ton
of threads and race conditions.
Could likely be multithreaded further.
Previously the OpenGL instance was tied to each render/cache task,
creating and destroying it each time one started and stopped. This was
completely unnecessary since the instance holds no state and can be
shared by all of the render tasks without having to expensively start
a new one.
There were a lot of issues that arose from trying to make GUI changes
from another thread (even though we ran those functions in the right
thread). Now we store layout information until the end of the load and
make the changes then. This works much better from both a business logic
and user experience perspective.
Also prevents multiple sequences from taking focus during load and
starting a render job.
The nodes now have more control over how their accelerated shaders/sample
functions are run, as well as how items are popped off the value tables.
This allows for various optimizations that we didn't have access to before.
Viewers are now more aware of each other and can pause each others' cache tasks
when one of them plays, as well as wait for other viewers' cache tasks to
finish before starting their own.
Implemented a smarter auto-cache that's context sensitive. Caching will
automatically pause when playback begins or values are being changed and resume
when inactive.
Made various changes and fixes to the task system:
- Tasks are built around QtConcurrent rather than QThread. Reduces
code complexity significantly.
- Task error reporting is now streamlined in both TaskManager and
TaskDialog.
- Moved ProjectImport/Save/LoadManager to the app/task folder
Turned the two-step PCM transcode into one step and simplified/removed much of
the unnecessary infrastructure that supported it. This makes the code cleaner
and generally improves the code paths.
This required various changes to various parts of the infrastructure (mostly
using paths to finding the "root project" of any given object throughout).
Now theoretically infinite projects can be opened and accounted for at any
given time.
As opposed to simply leaving all values in the table, nodes can now "take"
values that they use to free up memory (e.g. "taking" input buffers if they're
used to produce an output buffer).
This is a fairly large change, expect regressions.
Works around an issue where media cache directories would be set before the
app name is set (which Qt uses to return the local appdata dirs used to
set the cache directories).
Implemented the ability to copy/paste blocks/clips in the timeline. This did
require some large scale changes and reworking of the copy/paste system
introduced a few commits ago, but should be largely functional now.
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