Up to now, tttocea608 supported text/utf8, and no interface to
control the positioning of closed captions apart from new lines
in the input text.
CEA 608 supports a larger set of features than that, such as
positioning CC precisely in its 32 x 15 grid, styling text,
switching from one mode to another, resetting the base row
in roll-up mode etc ..
A custom, JSON-based format is now supported by the element
(caps application/x-json, format=cea608), allowing users to
control those features in a pretty advanced manner.
A side effect of this is that the approach previously used
by the element to ensure frame-accurate CC display is now
untenable: where we knew before that an input buffer would
at most span 74 buffers and calculate a somewhat reasonable
latency based on that, this is no longer possible. Instead
we pick the approach most CC encoders seem to pick, and
accept a certain latency at display time: for example the
flipping of the back buffer to the display buffer for a
10-character text buffer will occur 7 frames after its
PTS. This has obvious benefits in terms of code complexity
and should generally be acceptable.
+ Removes a now irrelevant test, updates other tests
+ Extracts the Mode enum to the root of the crate, it will
be used by another element in a follow-up commit
style preambles look like:
|P|0|0|1|C|0|ROW| |P|1|N|0|STYLE|U|
and column preambles look like:
|P|0|0|1|C|0|ROW| |P|1|N|1|CURSR|U|
Both preambles go through eia608_row_pramble(), the value they
pass as the x parameter is supposed to hold 4 bits, either
0|STYLE
or 1|CURSR
This value then gets bit-shifted by 1 and or'd in the second byte.
The value is also and' with 0x1E to ensure it can't leak into
the upper bits.
The previous code resulted in x being a 5-bit value, 0x10 (0b10000).
This resulted in outputting a style preamble, as 0x10 << 1 & 0x1E
is 0b00000. When the indent was 0 (the usual case), this went
undetected, but with any other value it resulted in no indent being
applied, but the text getting colored or italicized.
This patch fixes x to have the correct value of 0x8 | indent.
cargo-c will produce a pkg-config file making it easier to statically
link plugins.
Also add 'static' features for plugins depending on < 1.14 as this is the
minimal required version to use static linking because of ABI changes in
core.
Various SCC files have invalid drop frame timecodes.
Every full minute the first two timecodes are skipped, except for every
tenth minute, which means that e.g. "00:01:00;00" is not a valid
timecode and the next valid timecode would be "00:01:00;02".
There is no way to dynamically ask Cargo to build static or dynamic lib
so we have to build both and pick the one we care when doing the meson
processing.
Fix#88
Only two uses of unsafely setting the pad functions is left:
- fallbacksrc for overriding the chain function of the proxy pad of a
ghost pad
- threadshare for overriding the pad functions after creationg, which
probably needs some fixing at some point
I thought I could spare some bandwidth by letting renderers pick
the base row, but it turns out this triggers some unwanted behaviours
with compliant renderers.
Instead, we now follow the protocol laid out in EIA/CEA-608-B,
section B.8.1
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/355>
Useful complement to cea708overlay, that can only render native
708.
The element isn't an aggregator, and simply parses and renders
closed caption meta on its input video buffers.
No property is exposed, the rendering is done using a monospace
font, over a 32 x 15 grid with the font size fitted to fill as
much of the viewport as possible.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/343>
In roll-up mode, the element expects input text without layout
(eg new lines), and the characters it outputs are displayed
immediately, without double-buffering as in pop-on mode.
Once the last column is reached, the element simply outputs
a carriage return and the text scrolls up, potentially splitting
words with no hyphenation.
The main advantage of this mode is its simplicity and the near-zero
latency it introduces.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/347>
