32 bit integers are going to overflow, especially the PCR offset to
the first PCR will overflow after about 159 seconds. This makes playback
of streams stop at 159 seconds as suddenly the timestamps are starting
again from 0. Now we have a few more years time until it happens again
and 64 bits are too small.
It was previously a mix and match of both variants, introducing just too much
confusion.
The prefix are from now on:
* GstMpegts for structures and type names (and not GstMpegTs)
* gst_mpegts_ for functions (and not gst_mpeg_ts_)
* GST_MPEGTS_ for enums/flags (and not GST_MPEG_TS_)
* GST_TYPE_MPEGTS_ for types (and not GST_TYPE_MPEG_TS_)
The rationale for chosing that is:
* the namespace is shorter/direct (it's mpegts, not mpeg_ts nor mpeg-ts)
* the namespace is one word under Gst
* it's shorter (yah)
This allows:
* Better duration estimation
* More accurate PCR location
* Overall more accurate running-time location and calculation
Location and values of PCR are recorded in groups (PCROffsetGroup)
with notable PCR/Offset observations in them (when bitrate changed
for example). PCR and offset are stored as 32bit values to
reduce memory usage (they are differences against that group's
first_{pcr|offset}.
Those groups each contain a global PCR offset (pcr_offset) which
indicates how far in the stream that group is.
Whenever new PCR values are observed, we store them in a sliding
window estimator (PCROffsetGroupCurrent).
When a reset/wrapover/gap is detected, we close the current group with
current values and start a new one (the pcr_offset of that new group
is also calculated).
When a notable change in bitrate is observed (+/- 10%), we record
new values in the current group. This is a compromise between
storing all PCR/offset observations and none, while at the same time
providing better information for running-time<=>offset calculation
in VBR streams.
Whenever a new non-contiguous group is start (due to seeking for example)
we re-evaluate the pcr_offset of each groups. This allows detecting as
quickly as possible PCR wrapover/reset.
When wanting to find the offset of a certain running-time, one can
iterate the groups by looking at the pcr_offset (which in essence *is*
the running-time of that group in the overall stream).
Once a group (or neighbouring groups if the running-time is between two
groups) is found, once can use the recorded values to find the most
accurate offset.
Right now this code is only used in pull-mode , but could also
be activated later on for any seekable stream, like live timeshift
with queue2.
Future improvements:
* some heuristics to "compress" the stored values in groups so as to keep
the memory usage down while still keeping a decent amount of notable
points.
* After a seek compare expected and obtained PCR/Offset and if the
difference is too big, re-calculate position with newly observed
values and seek to that more accurate position.
Note that this code will *not* provide keyframe-accurate seeking, but
will allow a much more accurate PCR/running-time/offset location on
any random stream.
For past (observed) values it will be as accurate as can be.
For future values it will be better than the current situation.
Finally the more you seek, the more accurate your positioning will be.
Helps with debugging issues. And also remove unused variable (opcr)
This will also allow us in the future to properly detect:
* random-access location (to enable keyframe observation and
potentially seeking
* discont location (to properly handle resets)
* splice location (to properly handle new stream changes)
* packet.origts is no longer used since the PCR refactoring done ages ago
* known_packet_size is a duplicate of packet_size != 0
* caps was never used outside of the packetizer
We had two issues with the previous code:
1) We were badly handling PUSI-flagged packets. We were discarding the
initial data (if pointer != 0) whereas we should have been accumulating
it with the previous data (if there was a continuity of course).
=> First series of information loss
2) We were not checking whether there were more sections after the end
of one (i.e. when the following byte was not a stuff byte).
This fixes those two issues.
Fixes#677443https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677443
* Only mpeg-ts section packetization remains.
* Improve code to detect duplicated sections as early as possible
* Add FIXME for various issues that need fixing (but are not regressions)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702724
In some cases (NIT on highly-populated DVB-C operator for example), there
will be more than one section emitted for the same subtable and version
number.
In order not to lose those updates for the same version number, we checked
against the CRC of the previous section we parsed.
The problem is that, while it made sure we didn't lose any information, it
also meant that if the same section came back (same version, same CRC) later
on we would re-process it, re-parse it and re-emit it.
This version improves on that by keeping a list of previously observed CRC
for identical PID/subtable/version-number and will only process sections if
they really were never seen in the past (as opposed to just before).
On a 30s clip, this brings down the number of NIT section parsing from 4541
down to 663.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614479
The overhead of creating/using 188 byte GstBuffer from GstAdapter
is too expensive.
We now peek the next packet, and provide a data/size which is only
valid until the packetizerpacket is cleared.
In addition, cleanup all the internal code to deal with that new
behaviour and remove double-checks which are no longer needed.
The section_length is now the corrected section_length (i.e. with
the additional 3 bytes).
Avoid using gst_adapter_prev_timestamp and instead track
the timestamp ourself.
Allows PCR<=>PTS<=>offset estimation/calculation
Right now the calculation is very naive, but can be extended later on
without disrupting the code in tsdemux/mpegtsbase
* Don't take into account packets that arrived at the same time as
previous ones for clock skew estimation
* Add convenience method for processing the next ts packet
buffer timestamps are converted to GstClockTime to cover pcr/pts wraps.
multiple pcr/pts wraps are handled with an index which ensures at most
a single pcr wraparound between two entries.
the last seen pcr is recorded to have a nearby index point for short seeks
resuming playback might be delayed if the postion is not a keyframe
TODO: replace manual packet scanning and parsing in the initial duration estimation
