The dynamic resolution changes when
the sequence starts when the decoder detects a coded frame with one or
more of the following parameters different from those previously
established (and reflected by corresponding queries):
1.coded resolution (OUTPUT width and height),
2.visible resolution (selection rectangles),
3.the minimum number of buffers needed for decoding,
4.bit-depth of the bitstream has been changed.
Although gstreamer parser has parsed the stream resolution.
but there are some case that we need to handle resolution change event.
1. bit-depth is different from the negotiated format.
2. the capture buffer count can meet the demand
3. there are some hardware limitations that the decoded resolution may
be larger than the display size. For example, the stream size is
1920x1080, but some vpu may decode it to 1920x1088.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1381>
v4l2videodec do some refactoring so that it can support
dynamic resolution change event.
1.wrap the setup process of capture as a function,
as decoder need setup the capture again when
dynamic resolution change event is received.
2.move the function "remove_padding"
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1381>
As this element is single threaded, we only need to stop the objects to
allow changing the format again. Fixes assertion notably on shutdown and
on some other situation where the format may be set twice without
actually activating the element.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1567>
If the video4linux device supports norms but has no norm set, norm is
returned as an uninitialized variable after the ioctl call, leading to
gst_v4l2_tuner_get_norm_by_std_id() returning a random norm from the
supported norms. Catch this case and instead return NULL to indicate
that no norm is setup.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1625>
This is due to an unsafe usage of the pad task. We didn't ensure proper
ownership of the task. That race involved the task being released too early,
and was detected, luckily, by the glib mutex implementationt that
reported the mutex being disposed while being locked.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1478>
Also ignore 0x0 sizes in the fallback case and assume the size can be
anything between 1x1 and MAXxMAX.
This fixes the case where a width=0, height=0 caps are created. Whith
this patch the caps will contain width=[1,MAX], height=[1,MAX].
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1396>
The `gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_dqbuf` function contains this ominous comment:
/* get our GstBuffer with that index from the pool, if the buffer was
* outstanding we have a serious problem.
*/
outbuf = pool->buffers[group->buffer.index];
Unfortunately it is common for buffers in _output_ buffer pools to be
both queued and outstanding at the same time. This can happen if the
upstream element keeps a reference to the buffer, or in an encoder
element itself when it keeps a reference to the input buffer for each
frame.
Since the current code doesn't handle this case properly we can end up
with crashes in other elements such as:
(gst-launch-1.0:32559): CRITICAL **: 17:33:35.740: gst_video_frame_map_id: assertion 'GST_IS_BUFFER (buffer)' failed
and:
(gst-launch-1.0:231): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 00:16:20.882: write map requested on non-writable buffer
Both these crashes are caused by a race condition related to releasing
the same buffer twice from two different threads. If a buffer is queued
and outstanding this situation is possible:
**Thread 1**
- Calls `gst_buffer_unref` decrementing the reference count to zero.
- The core GstBufferPool object marks the buffer non-outstanding.
- Calls the V4L2 release buffer function.
- If the buffer is _not_ queued:
- Release it back to the free pool (containing non-queued buffers).
**Thread 2**
- Dequeues the queued output buffer.
- Marks the buffer as not queued.
- If the buffer is _not_ outstanding:
- Calls the V4L2 release buffer function.
- Release it back to the free pool (containing non-queued buffers).
If both of these threads run at exactly the same time there is a small
window where the buffer is marked both not outstanding and not queued
but before it has been released. In this case the buffer will be freed
twice causing the above crashes.
Unfortunately the variable recording whether a buffer is outstanding is
part of the core `GstBuffer` object and is managed by `GstBufferPool` so
it's not as straightforward as adding a mutex. Instead we can fix this
by additionally recording the buffer state in `GstV4l2BufferPool`, and
handle "internal" and "external" buffer release separately so we can
detect when a buffer becomes not outstanding.
In the new solution:
- The "external" buffer pool release and the "dqbuf" functions
atomically update the buffer state and determine if a buffer is still
queued or outstanding.
- Subsequent code and a new
`gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_complete_release_buffer` function can proceed to
release (or not) a buffer knowing that it's not racing with another
thread.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1010>
