The new cutoff timing fix means that streaming/recording has to remain
active for bit until the stream/recording has reached the expecting stop
timestamp. This means that the buttons would continue to say "Stop
streaming/recording" while waiting for the output to stop itself at the
appropriate timing.
So instead of letting it do that and confusing the user, the buttons
will now say "stopping" when the button is pressed to indicate to the
user that the stream/recording is in the process of stopping.
When stream delay is active, the "Start/Stop Streaming" button is
changed in to a menu button, which allows the user to select either the
option to stop the stream (which causes it to count down), or forcibly
stop the stream (which immediately stops the stream and cuts off all
delayed data).
If the user decides they want to start the stream again while in the
process of counting down, they can safely do so without having to wait
for it to stop, and it will schedule it to start up again with the same
delay after the stop.
On the status bar, it will now show whether delay is active, and its
duration. If the stream is in the process of stopping/starting, it will
count down to the stop/start.
If the option to preserve stream cutoff point on unexpected
disconnections/reconnections is enabled, it will update the current
delay duration accordingly.
Due to certain design changes for delay, it's better to simply determine
whether outputs are active via booleans rather than an activeRefs
variable, which could get decremented more than once if say, the signal
for stopping the stream gets called more than once for whatever reason
(which may happen in the case of delay due to the way delay works)
Adds an 'advanced' mode to the output settings to allow more powerful
and complex streaming and recording options:
- Optionally use a different encoder for recording than for streaming to
allow the recording to use a different encoder or encoder settings if
desired (though at the cost if increased CPU usage depending on the
encoders being used)
- Use encoders other than x264
- Rescale the recording or streaming encoders in case the user wishes to
stream and record at different resolutions
- Select the specific mixer to use for recording and for streaming,
allowing the stream and recording to use separate mixers (to for
example allow a user to stream the game/mic audio but only record the
game audio)
- Use FFmpeg output for the recording button instead of only recording
h264/aac to FLV, allowing the user to output to various different
types of file formats or remote URLs, as well as allowing the user to
select and use different encoders and encoder settings that are
available in the FFmpeg library
- Optionally allow the use of multiple audio tracks in a single output
if the file formats or stream services support it
To accommodate multiple types of outputs, there has to be some level of
abstraction. The BasicOutputHandler structure will give us a way that
we can switch between different output configurations.
