Some profile, such as H265_MAIN_444 on new Intel platform, may only
support ENTRYPOINT_SLICE_ENCODE_LP entrypoint. This leads two
problems:
1. We need to specify the tune mode like `vaapih265enc tune=low-power`
every time when we need to use this kind of profile. Or we can not
create the encoder context successfully.
2. More seriously, we set the entrypoint to a fixed value in
init_context_info() and so the create_test_context_config() can not
create the test context for these profile and can not get the
supported video formats, either.
We now change the entrypoint setting based on the tune option of the
encoder. If no tune property provided, we just choose the first
available entrypoint.
Instead of init_context_info() setting the passed profile, it is
assumed that it has to be set by each encoder.
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
GstVaapiMiniObject and GstVaapiObject are deprecated.
This is the first step to remove them by porting GstVaapiCodedBuffer
as a GstMiniBuffer descendant.
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
This patch makes use of GST_PARAM_USER_SHIFT to define the internal
param in encoders to decide which parameters to expose. Thus
gstreamer-vaapi will not interfere with any change in GStreamer in the
future.
Also, the internal symbol was change to
GST_VAAPI_PARAM_ENCODER_EXPOSURE to keep the namespacing.
G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT make all properties init correctly, we do not
need to init the properties manually.
G_PARAM_FLAG_VAAPI_ENCODER_EXPOSURE is a vaapi encoder specific
flag, means need to expose the property to according encode class.
Install properties for h264 encoder class. Also set the new get/set
property functions for gobject class. Still use the old properties
way now and this new feature will be enabled later.
Replace all gstvaapiobject in vaapi encoders with standard gstobject.
Let the gstobject common logic to handle all the init and finalize
works. But the property install/set/get still use the old way, need
to be improved later.
gst_vaapi_profile_get_name() returns a proper name for
GstCaps. Nonetheless, there are many profiles which don't have a name
representation for that realm.
gst_vaapi_profile_get_va_name() returns the name of the profile
according to its VAProfile name.
This new funtion is used in the encoder error message.
ICQ is Intelligent Constant Quality. It will use the initial QP
vaule of icq-quality-factor to adjust QP at MB level intelligently
to improve subjective quality.
QVBR is Quality defined VBR. It will use qvbr-quality-factor to
adjust QP for each MB to get enough quality picture without waste
of bits.
g_assert will take no effect when glib's G_DISABLE_ASSERT macro is
defined. The function inside the g_assert will take no effect and
we will fail to set the correct slice number.
The advanced trellis algorithm is supported in VA driver. We add
its support as a property named "trellis" of encoder.
It only works for H264 now, should be more in future.
This patch fixes a regression from commit 5b1fe9c6.
max_qp, in rate control configuration, appeared in libva release
2.1 (API 1.1), thus it is required to guard the VA API version.
Fixes: #150
media-driver currently fails to set a correct value of max_qp when
min_qp is different to zero, in CBR and VBR mode, generating full
quality frames, thus unexpected huge output.
This patch sets max_qp to an arbitrary value to avoid this output
temporary.
Fixes: #144
Currently the minimal value for either min_qp and init_qp are 1,
but VA documentation specifiy that zero is also valid and means
to ignore the quantiser.
The default value is not changed though to avoid behaivor changes
to users.
GValueArray is deprecated. Use GstValueArray instead.
gst_param_spec_array can be deserialized from command line using:
vaapih264enc view-ids="<(uint)40,(uint)100>" num-views=2
While the g_param_spec_value_array() can not, and always get
error: "gst_value_deserialize_g_value_array: unimplemented"
Also fixed an out-of-range bug.
In order to flush the pending pictures, a new internal encoder vmethod
is used: get_pending_reordered()
This method follows an iterator pattern which will return the next
picture to encode and push.
The base encoder will call this function in a loop when flush() is called.
For now, only H.264 and H.265 encoders implement this flushing mechanism.
Check input buffers for ROI metas and pass them to VA. Also added a
new "default-roi-delta-qp" property in order to tell the encoder what
delta QP should be applied to ROI by default.
Enabled it for H264 and H265 encoders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768248
Increased max values of periodic key frame for h26x codecs.
This allow more fine tunning of encoder that in certian scenario
want higher periodic key frame.
For example: it doesn't want a key frame each 10 seconds but
each 120 seconds.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786320
Frames are encoded as different layers. Frame in a particular
layer will use pictures in lower or same layer as references.
Which means decoder can drop the frames in upper layer but still
decode lower layer frames.
B-frames, except the one in top most layer, are reference frames.
All the base layer frames are I or P.
eg: with 3 temporal layers
T3: B1 B3 B5 B7
T2: B2 B6
T1: I0 P4 P8
T1, T2, T3: Temporal Layers
P1...Pn: P-Frames:
B1...Bn: B-frames:
T1: I0->P4 , P4->P8 etc..
T2: I0--> B2 <-- P4
T3: I0--> B1 <-- B2, B2 --> B3 <-- P4
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Frames are encoded as different layers. A frame in a particular
layer will use pictures in lower or same layer as references.
Which means decoder can drop the frames in upper layer but still
decode lower layer frames.
eg: with 3 temporal layers
T3: P1 P3 P5 P7
T2: P2 P6
T1: P0 P4 P8
T1, T2, T3: Temporal Layers
P1...pn: P-Frames:
P0->P1 , P0->P2, P2->P3, P0->P4......repeat
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
The frame_num generation was not correctly implemented.
According to h264 spec, frame_num should get incremented
for each frame if previous frame is a referece frame.
For eg: IPBPB sequece should have the frame numbers 0,1,2,2,3
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds new property "prediction-type" to select different reference
picture selection modes like hierarchical-p, hierarchical-b etc.
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds some basic building blocks to ease the implementation
of hierarchical prediction modes.
-- add an utility method to find temporal level of each frame
-- define max_ref_frame count based on temporal level count
-- add temporal_level_div[] for finding temporal level each frame
to be encoded.
-- find ip_period based on temporal level count
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds new property "temporal-levels" to select the number of
temporal levels to be included in the encoded stream.
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Instead of handling the macroblock bitrate control as a integer, this
patch changes it as a enum, which is more self documented in the
GStreamer elements.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787855
Creates 2 properties, qp-ip and qp-ib for setting different QP for P/B
frames
and set slice_qp_delta for each frame according to the value provided.
In addition, remove the limitation of (<= 4) when setting
slice_qp_delta.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785923
Creates new variable for QP for I frame and keep it at configuration and
use this for pic_init_qp and slice_qp_delta setting.
Since changing min qp doesn't make sense, keep min qp as is.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785923
Follows the specification as below:
7.4.7.1 in Rec. ITU-T H.265 v4 (12/2016)
num_ref_idx_active_override_flag equal to 1 specifies that the syntax
element num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 is present for P and B slices and
that the syntax element num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 is present for B
slices.
num_ref_idx_active_override_flag equal to 0 specifies that the syntax
elements num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 and num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1
are not present.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783804
In VA-API 1.0 the enum VAEncPackedHeaderH264_SEI is deprecated, and
instead VAEncPackedHeaderRawData should be used.
This patch creates a compatibility symbol,
VA_ENC_PACKED_HEADER_H264_SEI, to expose the used enum according the
VA-API version.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784398
Coverity scan bug:
An assigned value that is never used may represent unnecessary
computation, an incorrect algorithm, or possibly the need for cleanup
or refactoring.
ip_period is assigned first to be rewritter inmediatly after. The
first assignation is spurious.
