This code doesn't define the profile used by the internal encoder, but
it used to "predict" which is going to be used and to get the caps
restrictions.
Before the profile was predicted by checking the donwstream caps, but
sometimes they are not defined, setting an unknown profile. In order
to enhances this situation, the encoder asks to internal encoder if it
has one. If so, it is used.
To ask the internal encoder's profile a new accessor function was
added: gst_vaapi_encoder_get_profile()
There are many profile levels that can support
more than 102400 kbps. Thus, increase the max
allowed bitrate property value from 102400 kbps
to 2048000 kbps (same as msdk encoder plugins).
Allow users to set the target-percentage for
variable rate controls. The default value is
70 (as hard-coded prior).
v2: minimum allowed value changed from 0 to 1
v3: target-percentage unchanged if CBR used
Resolves#129
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.
Coverity scan bug:
If the function actually returns a null value, a null pointer
dereference will occur.
In gst_vaapi_encoder_ensure_param_roi_regions(): Return value of
function which returns null is dereferenced without checking
gst_vaapi_encoder_put_frame() and gst_vaapi_encoder_flush() duplicates
the same code segment where the coded buffer is created, the picture
encoded on it and pushed to the async queue.
The function gst_vaapi_encoder_encode_and_queue() refactor this.
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
In case of streaming, controlling bitrate dynamically for encoder might be
important to manage quality of the streaming.
This patch is to support such a scenario.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786321
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
This patch fixes a regression introduced in commit 148f867c, since the
props variable is set to object's member variable
encoder->properties. And it is set in the instance initialization,
thus it will not be leaked.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787733
Add a new vitrual method ensure_secondary_context to the
base encoder which is only required for the FEI entrypoint, that too
only when user configures the ENC+PAK mode. ENC+PAK mode is not something
supported directly by libva or driver, but this can be enabled
from the middleware.
Original Author of this idea: Leilei Shang <leilei.shang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Leilei Shang <leilei.shang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: xiaominc <xiaomin.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785712https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784667
In VA-API 1.0 the union bits in VAEncMiscParameterBufferROI has
renamed one member from roi_value_is_qp_delat to
roi_value_is_qp_delta, which is the correct name.
In order to keep back compatibility a macro has added to access this
union member.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784398
This function will query VAConfigAttribEncMaxRefFrames to get the
maximum number of reference frames supported in the driver.
This will be used for h264/h265 encoding.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783803
There are some symbols that are not used when compiling with old
version of libva and those generates a compilation error.
Original-patch-by: Matt Staples <staples255@gmail.com>
Change the hard-coded range of quality-level from {1-8} to {1-7},
since it is the range Intel Open source driver supports.
Also perform the range clamping only if the user provided
quality-level is greater than the max-range suppored by the driver,
because there could be non-intel drivers giving lower value than
the hard-coded max value 7.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783567
Just set the framerate parameter if the framerate numerator and
denominator are bigger than zero.
Otherwise, in Intel Gen6 driver, a warning is raised disabling the
bitrate control.
Original-patch-by: Hyunjun Ko <zzoon@igalia.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
This is patch pretends to decouple the assignation of the values
in the parameter structures and the VA buffer's parameters setting.
It may lead to some issues since HRD, framerate or controlrate may
not be handled by the specific encoder, but they are set in
the VA buffer's parameters.
I leave as it because this patch is just a transitional patch.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783449
Instead of using a proxy to story the buffer quality level, the
encoder now uses the native VA structure, which is copied to the
dynamically allocated VAEncMiscParameterBuffer.
This approach is computationally less expensive.
Right now, H264 and HEVC can set as a property the number of slices to
process. But each driver can set a maximum number of slices, depending
on the supported profile & entry point.
This patch verifies the current num_slices to process against the maximum
permitted by the driver and the media size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780955
Queries if the driver supports "Region of Interest" (ROI) during the config
creation.
This attribute conveys whether the driver supports region-of-interest (ROI)
encoding, based on user provided ROI rectangles. The attribute value is
partitioned into fields as defined in the VAConfigAttribValEncROI union.
If ROI encoding is supported, the ROI information is passed to the driver
using VAEncMiscParameterTypeROI.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768248
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
This patch adds the handling of VAEncMiscParameterTypeQualityLevel,
in gstreamer-vaapi encoders:
The encoding quality could be set through this structure, if the
implementation supports multiple quality levels. The quality level set
through this structure is persistent over the entire coded sequence, or
until a new structure is being sent. The quality level range can be queried
through the VAConfigAttribEncQualityRange attribute. A lower value means
higher quality, and a value of 1 represents the highest quality. The quality
level setting is used as a trade-off between quality and speed/power
consumption, with higher quality corresponds to lower speed and higher power
consumption.
The quality level is set by the element's parameter "quality-level" with a
hard-coded range of 1 to 8.
Later, when the encoder is configured in run time, just before start
processing, the quality level is scaled to the codec range. If
VAConfigAttribEncQualityRange is not available in the used VA backend, then
the quality level is set to zero, which means "disabled".
All the available codecs now process this parameter if it is available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778733
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
When the function gst_vaapi_encoder_get_surface_formats() was added
it was under the assumption that any VA profile of the specific codec
supported the same format colors. But it is not, for example the
profiles that support 10bit formats.
In other words, different VA profiles of a same codec may support
different color formats in their upload surfaces.
In order to expose all the possible color formats, if no profile is
specified via source caps, or if the encoder doesn't have yet a
context, all the possible VA profiles for the specific codec are
iterated and their color formats are merged.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771291
In order to get the supported surface formats within a specific
profile this patch adds the GstVaapiProfile as property to
gst_vaapi_encoder_get_surface_formats().
Currently the extracted formats are only those related with the
default profile of the element's codec.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771291
Instead of creating (if it doesn't exist, yet) the encoder's context
the method gst_vaapi_encoder_get_surface_formats() now it creates
dummy contexts, unless the encoder has it already created.
The purpose of this is to avoid setting a encoder's context with a
wrong profile.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771291
In order to generate vaapi contexts iterative, the function
init_context_info() is refactored to pass, as parameters the
GstVaapiContextInfo and the GstVaapiProfile.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771291
Instead of initialize the chroma_type with a undefined value, which
will be converted to GST_VAAPI_CHROMA_TYPE_YUV420 by GstVaapiContext,
this patch queries the VA config, given the received
GstVaapiContextInfo's parameters, and gets the first response.
In order to get the GstVaapiChromaType value, also it was needed to
add a new utility function: to_GstVaapiChromaType(), which, given a
VA_RT_FORMAT_* will return the associated GstVaapiChromaType.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771291
Currently, it set rate control information even when query fails.
In addition, it doesn't update any more since the flag
got_rate_control_mask is set to TRUE.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779120
The encoder should be able to change its caps even it is already
processing a stream.
This is suppose to happen after a flush so the codedbuf_queue should
be empty.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775490
This method will return the valid surface formats in the current
config. If the are no VAConfig it is created with the information
available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769266
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
Split set_context_info() adding init_context_info() which only
initialises the GstVaapiContextInfo structure inside GstVaapiEncoder
required for VAConfig.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769266
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
