Crossfading is a bit more complex than just having two pads with the
right keyframes as the blending is not exactly the same.
The difference is in the way we compute the alpha channel, in the case
of crossfading, we have to compute an additive operation between
the destination and the source (factored by the alpha property of both
the input pad alpha property and the crossfading ratio) basically so
that the crossfade result of 2 opaque frames is also fully opaque at any
time in the crossfading process, avoid bleeding through the layer
blending.
Some rationnal can be found in https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7773.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784827
When caps changes while streaming, the new caps was getting processed
immediately in videoaggregator, but the next buffer in the queue that
corresponds to this new caps was not necessarily being used immediately,
which resulted sometimes in using an old buffer with new caps. Of course
there used to be a separate buffer_vinfo for mapping the buffer with its
own caps, but in compositor the GstVideoConverter was still using wrong
info and resulted in invalid reads and corrupt output.
This approach here is more safe. We delay using the new caps
until we actually select the next buffer in the queue for use.
This way we also eliminate the need for buffer_vinfo, since the
pad->info is always in sync with the format of the selected buffer.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780682
When set, it causes videoaggregator to repeatedly aggregate the last buffer on
an EOS pad instead of skipping it and outputting silence. This is useful, for
instance, while playing back files seamless one after the other, to avoid
videoaggregator ever outputting silence (the checkerboard pattern).
It is to be noted that if all the pads on videoaggregator have this property set
on them, the mixer will never forward EOS downstream for obvious reasons. Hence,
at least one pad with 'ignore-eos' set to FALSE must send EOS to the mixer
before it will be forwarded downstream.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748946
This gives more flexibility to the subclasses and permits to remove the
GstVideoAggregatorClass->disable_frame_conversion ugly API.
WARNING: This breaks the API as it removes the disable_frame_conversion
field
API:
+ GstVideoAggregatorClass->find_best_format
+ GstVideoAggregatorPadClass->set_format
+ GstVideoAggregatorPadClass->prepare_frame
+ GstVideoAggregatorPadClass->clean_frame
- GstVideoAggregatorClass->disable_frame_conversion
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740768
