mux: mp4: fix recording of rtsp
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1 /*****************************************************************************
2 * vlc.c: the VLC player
3 *****************************************************************************
4 * Copyright (C) 1998-2013 the VideoLAN team
5 * $Id$
7 * Authors: Vincent Seguin <seguin@via.ecp.fr>
8 * Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
9 * Gildas Bazin <gbazin@videolan.org>
10 * Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman at videolan dot org>
11 * Lots of other people, see the libvlc AUTHORS file
13 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
16 * (at your option) any later version.
18 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21 * GNU General Public License for more details.
23 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
25 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
26 *****************************************************************************/
28 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
29 # include "config.h"
30 #endif
32 #include <vlc/vlc.h>
33 #include <stdio.h>
34 #include <stdlib.h>
35 #include <stdbool.h>
36 #include <string.h>
37 #include <locale.h>
38 #include <signal.h>
39 #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_H
40 # include <pthread.h>
41 #endif
42 #include <unistd.h>
44 #ifdef __OS2__
45 # include <iconv.h>
47 # define pthread_t int
48 # define pthread_self() _gettid()
50 static char *FromSystem(const void *str)
52 iconv_t handle = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "");
53 if (handle == (iconv_t)(-1))
54 return NULL;
56 size_t str_len = strlen (str);
57 char *out = NULL;
58 for (unsigned mul = 4; mul < 8; mul++)
60 size_t in_size = str_len;
61 const char *in = str;
62 size_t out_max = mul * str_len;
63 char *tmp = out = malloc (1 + out_max);
64 if (!out)
65 break;
67 if (iconv (handle, &in, &in_size, &tmp, &out_max) != (size_t)(-1)) {
68 *tmp = '\0';
69 break;
71 free(out);
72 out = NULL;
74 if (errno != E2BIG)
75 break;
77 iconv_close(handle);
78 return out;
80 #endif
82 extern void vlc_enable_override (void);
84 static bool signal_ignored (int signum)
86 struct sigaction sa;
88 if (sigaction (signum, NULL, &sa))
89 return false;
90 return ((sa.sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO)
91 ? (void *)sa.sa_sigaction : (void *)sa.sa_handler) == SIG_IGN;
94 static void vlc_kill (void *data)
96 #ifndef __OS2__
97 pthread_t *ps = data;
99 pthread_kill (*ps, SIGTERM);
100 #else
101 // send a signal to the main thread
102 kill (getpid(), SIGTERM);
103 #endif
106 static void exit_timeout (int signum)
108 (void) signum;
109 signal (SIGINT, SIG_DFL);
112 /*****************************************************************************
113 * main: parse command line, start interface and spawn threads.
114 *****************************************************************************/
115 int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
117 /* The so-called POSIX-compliant MacOS X reportedly processes SIGPIPE even
118 * if it is blocked in all thread.
119 * Note: this is NOT an excuse for not protecting against SIGPIPE. If
120 * LibVLC runs outside of VLC, we cannot rely on this code snippet. */
121 signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
122 /* Restore SIGCHLD in case our parent process ignores it. */
123 signal (SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);
125 #ifndef NDEBUG
126 /* Activate malloc checking routines to detect heap corruptions. */
127 setenv ("MALLOC_CHECK_", "2", 1);
129 /* Disable the ugly Gnome crash dialog so that we properly segfault */
130 setenv ("GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG", "1", 1);
131 #endif
133 #ifdef TOP_BUILDDIR
134 setenv ("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH", TOP_BUILDDIR"/modules", 1);
135 setenv ("VLC_DATA_PATH", TOP_SRCDIR"/share", 1);
136 #endif
138 /* Clear the X.Org startup notification ID. Otherwise the UI might try to
139 * change the environment while the process is multi-threaded. That could
140 * crash. Screw you X.Org. Next time write a thread-safe specification. */
141 unsetenv ("DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID");
143 #ifndef ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT
144 if (geteuid () == 0)
146 fprintf (stderr, "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.\n"
147 "If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports\n"
148 "you can use %s-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and\n"
149 "cannot be run by non-trusted users first).\n", ppsz_argv[0]);
150 return 1;
152 #endif
154 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
156 if (isatty (STDERR_FILENO))
157 /* This message clutters error logs. It is printed only on a TTY.
158 * Fortunately, LibVLC prints version info with -vv anyway. */
159 fprintf (stderr, "VLC media player %s (revision %s)\n",
160 libvlc_get_version(), libvlc_get_changeset());
162 sigset_t set;
164 sigemptyset (&set);
165 /* VLC uses sigwait() to dequeue interesting signals.
166 * For this to work, those signals must be blocked in all threads,
167 * including the thread calling sigwait() (see the man page for details).
169 * There are two advantages to sigwait() over traditional signal handlers:
170 * - delivery is synchronous: no need to worry about async-safety,
171 * - EINTR is not generated: other threads need not handle that error.
172 * That being said, some LibVLC programs do not use sigwait(). Therefore
173 * EINTR must still be handled cleanly, notably from poll() calls.
175 * Signals that request a clean shutdown, and force an unclean shutdown
176 * if they are triggered again 2+ seconds later.
177 * We have to handle SIGTERM cleanly because of daemon mode. */
178 sigaddset (&set, SIGINT);
179 sigaddset (&set, SIGHUP);
180 sigaddset (&set, SIGQUIT);
181 sigaddset (&set, SIGTERM);
183 /* SIGPIPE can happen and would crash the process. On modern systems,
184 * the MSG_NOSIGNAL flag protects socket write operations against SIGPIPE.
185 * But we still need to block SIGPIPE when:
186 * - writing to pipes,
187 * - using write() instead of send() for code not specific to sockets.
188 * LibVLC code assumes that SIGPIPE is blocked. Other LibVLC applications
189 * shall block it (or handle it somehow) too.
191 sigaddset (&set, SIGPIPE);
193 /* SIGCHLD must be dequeued to clean up zombie child processes.
194 * Furthermore the handler must not be set to SIG_IGN (see above).
195 * We cannot pragmatically handle EINTR, short reads and short writes
196 * in every code paths (including underlying libraries). So we just
197 * block SIGCHLD in all threads, and dequeue it below. */
198 sigaddset (&set, SIGCHLD);
200 /* Block all these signals */
201 pthread_t self = pthread_self ();
202 pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL);
204 const char *argv[i_argc + 3];
205 int argc = 0;
207 argv[argc++] = "--no-ignore-config";
208 argv[argc++] = "--media-library";
209 #ifdef HAVE_DBUS
210 argv[argc++] = "--dbus";
211 #endif
212 ppsz_argv++; i_argc--; /* skip executable path */
214 #ifdef __OS2__
215 for (int i = 0; i < i_argc; i++)
216 if ((argv[argc++] = FromSystem (ppsz_argv[i])) == NULL)
218 fprintf (stderr, "Converting '%s' to UTF-8 failed.\n",
219 ppsz_argv[i]);
220 return 1;
222 #else
223 memcpy (argv + argc, ppsz_argv, i_argc * sizeof (*argv));
224 argc += i_argc;
225 #endif
226 argv[argc] = NULL;
228 vlc_enable_override ();
230 /* Initialize libvlc */
231 libvlc_instance_t *vlc = libvlc_new (argc, argv);
232 if (vlc == NULL)
233 return 1;
235 int ret = 1;
236 libvlc_set_exit_handler (vlc, vlc_kill, &self);
237 libvlc_set_app_id (vlc, "org.VideoLAN.VLC", PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_NAME);
238 libvlc_set_user_agent (vlc, "VLC media player", "VLC/"PACKAGE_VERSION);
240 libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "hotkeys,none");
241 #if !defined (__OS2__)
242 libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "globalhotkeys,none");
243 #endif
244 if (libvlc_add_intf (vlc, NULL))
245 goto out;
247 libvlc_playlist_play (vlc, -1, 0, NULL);
249 /* Qt insists on catching SIGCHLD via signal handler. To work around that,
250 * unblock it after all our child threads are created. */
251 sigdelset (&set, SIGCHLD);
252 pthread_sigmask (SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL);
254 /* Do not dequeue SIGHUP if it is ignored (nohup) */
255 if (signal_ignored (SIGHUP))
256 sigdelset (&set, SIGHUP);
257 /* Ignore SIGPIPE */
258 sigdelset (&set, SIGPIPE);
260 int signum;
261 sigwait (&set, &signum);
263 /* Restore default signal behaviour after 3 seconds */
264 sigemptyset (&set);
265 sigaddset (&set, SIGINT);
266 sigaddset (&set, SIGALRM);
267 signal (SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
268 signal (SIGALRM, exit_timeout);
269 pthread_sigmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
270 alarm (3);
272 ret = 0;
273 /* Cleanup */
274 out:
275 libvlc_release (vlc);
276 #ifdef __OS2__
277 for (int i = argc - i_argc; i < argc; i++)
278 free (argv[i]);
279 #endif
280 return ret;