VA-API needs AC and DC quant scales for both luma and chroma, and the loop
filter level for current frame, but these values are not available outside
the private GstVp9Parser structure. And these values may change from frame
to frame, so they are picture specific.
This patch add GstVp9Segmentation structure array to GstVp9Picture to expose
it to derived classes. This approach is safer than passing the parser at
picture handling flow.
Also, this patch, in order to solve Documentation CI, mark as private the
GstVp9Picture structure.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/merge_requests/1700>
In order to know the chroma format, besides profile, subsampling_x and
subsampling_y are needed (Spec 7.2.2 Color config semantics). These values are
in GstVp9Parser but not in GstVp9Framehdr.
Also, bit_depth is available in parser but not frame header. Evenmore, those
values are copied to picture structure later.
In case of VA-API, to configure the pipeline, it is require to know the chroma
format and depth.
It is possible to know chroma and depth through caps coming from vp9parser, but
it requires string parsing. It would be less error prone to get these values
through the parser structure at new_sequence() virtual method.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/merge_requests/1700>
... to prevent requesting decoding before the preparation.
For instance, baseclass should not request decoding a picture if there
is no parsed valid headers, since subclass is most likely
not ready to decoding it.
This introduce a library which contains a set of base classes which
handles the parsing and the state tracking for the purpose of decoding
different CODECs. Currently H264, H265 and VP9 are supported. These
bases classes are used to decode with low level decoding API like DXVA,
NVDEC, VDPAU, VAAPI and V4L2 State Less decoders. The new library is
named gstreamer-codecs-1.0 / libgstcodecs.
