Add support for dynamic growth of the VA surfaces pool. For decoding,
this implies the recreation of the underlying VA context, as per the
requirement from VA-API. Besides, only increases are supported, not
shrinks.
It is a requirement from VA-API specification that the VA context got
from vaCreateContext(), for decoding purposes, binds the supplied set
of VA surfaces. This means that if the set of VA surfaces is to be
changed for the current decode session, then the VA context needs to
be recreated with the new set of VA surfaces.
Request the correct chroma format for decoding grayscale streams.
i.e. make lookups of the VA chroma format more generic, thus possibly
supporting more formats in the future.
This means that, if a VA driver doesn't support grayscale formats,
it is now going to fail. We cannot safely assume that maybe grayscale
was implemented on top of some YUV 4:2:0 with the chroma components
all set to 0x80.
Don't force allocation of VA surfaces in YUV 4:2:0 format. Rather, allow
for the upper layer to specify the desired chroma type. If the chroma
type field is not set (or yields zero), then YUV 4:2:0 format is used
by default.
Add gst_vaapi_get_config_attribute() helper function that takes a
GstVaapiDisplay and the rest of the arguments with VA types. The aim
is to have thread-safe VA helpers by default.
Make sure to configure the encoder with the set of packed headers we
intend to generate and submit. i.e. make selection of packed headers
to submit more robust.
Introduce GstVaapiContextUsage so that to explicitly determine the
usage of a VA context. This is useful in view to simplifying the
creation of VA context for VPP too.
Unknown attributes, or attributes that are not supported for the given
profile/entrypoint pair have a return value of VA_ATTRIB_NOT_SUPPORTED.
So, return failure in this case.
Move GstVideoOverlayComposition handling to separate source files.
This helps keeing GstVaapiContext core implementation to the bare
minimal, i.e. simpy helpers to create a VA context and handle pool
of associated VA surfaces.
Improve documentation and debug messages. Clean-up APIs, i.e. strip
them down to the minimal set of interfaces. They are private, so no
need expose getters for instance.
Make sure to submit the packed headers only if the underlying VA driver
requires those. Currently, only handle packed sequence and picture
headers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722737
Extend GstVaapiContextInfo structure to hold the desired rate control
mode for encoding purposes. For decoding purposes, this field is not
used and it is initialized to GST_VAAPI_RATECONTROL_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Get rid of GstCaps to create surface/image pool, and use GstVideoInfo
structures instead. Those are smaller, and allows for streamlining
libgstvaapi more.
Drop obsolete GST_VAAPI_IS_xxx() helper macros since we are no longer
deriving from GObject and so those were only checking for whether the
argument was NULL or not. This is now irrelevant, and even confusing
to some extent, because we no longer have type checking.
Note: this incurs more type checking (review) but the libgstvaapi is
rather small, so this is manageable.
Port GstVaapiVideoPool, GstVaapiSurfacePool and GstVaapiImagePool to
GstVaapiMiniObject. Drop gst_vaapi_video_pool_get_caps() since it was
no longer used for a long time. Make object allocators static, i.e.
local to the shared library.
This integrates support for GStreamer API >= 1.0 only in the libgstvaapi
core decoding library. The changes are kept rather minimal here so that
the library retains as little dependency as possible on core GStreamer
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Drop the following functions that are now obsolete:
- gst_vaapi_context_get_surface()
- gst_vaapi_context_put_surface()
- gst_vaapi_context_find_surface_by_id()
- gst_vaapi_surface_proxy_new()
- gst_vaapi_surface_proxy_get_context()
- gst_vaapi_surface_proxy_set_context()
- gst_vaapi_surface_proxy_set_surface()
This is an API change.
Introduce gst_vaapi_surface_proxy_new_from_pool() to allocate a new surface
proxy from the context surface pool. This change also makes sure to retain
the parent surface pool in the proxy.
Besides, it was also totally useless to attach/detach parent context to
VA surface each time we acquire/release it. Since the whole context owns
all associated VA surfaces, we can mark this as such only once and for all.
Use newer gst_video_overlay_rectangle_get_pixels_unscaled_raw() helper
function with GStreamer 0.10 compatible semantics, or that tries to
approach the current meaning. Basically, this is also just about moving
the helper to gstcompat.h.
Fix support for global-alpha subpictures. The previous changes brought
the ability to check for GstVideoOverlayRectangle changes by comparing
the underlying pixel buffer pointers. If sequence number and pixel data
did not change, then this is an indication that only the global-alpha
value changed. Now, try to update the underlying VA subpicture global-alpha
value.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Don't re-upload VA subpicture if only the render rectangle changed.
Rather deassociate the subpicture and re-associate it with the new
render rectangle.
A GstVideoOverlayRectangle is created whenever the underlying pixels data
change. However, when global-alpha is supported, it is possible to re-use
the same GstVideoOverlayRectangle but with a change to the global-alpha
value. This process causes a change of sequence number, so we can no longer
check for that.
Still, if sequence numbers did not change, then there was no change in
global-alpha either. So, we need a way to compare the underlying GstBuffer
pointers. There is no API to retrieve the original pixels buffer from
a GstVideoOverlayRectangle. So, we use the following heuristics:
1. Use gst_video_overlay_rectangle_get_pixels_unscaled_argb() with the same
format flags from which the GstVideoOverlayRectangle was created. This
will work if there was no prior consumer of the GstVideoOverlayRectangle
with alternate (non-"native") format flags.
2. In overlay_rectangle_has_changed_pixels(), we have to use the same
gst_video_overlay_rectangle_get_pixels_unscaled_argb() function but
with flags that match the subpicture. This is needed to cope with
platforms that don't support global-alpha in HW, so the gst-video
layer takes care of that and fixes this up with a possibly new
GstBuffer, and hence pixels data (or) in-place by caching the current
global-alpha value applied. So we have to determine the rectangle
was previously used, based on what previous flags were used to
retrieve the ARGB pixels buffer.
We previously assumed that an overlay composition changed if the number
of overlay rectangles in there actually changed, or that the rectangle
was updated, and thus its seqnum was also updated.
Now, we can cope with cases where the GstVideoOverlayComposition grew
by one or a few more overlay rectangles, and the initial overlay rectangles
are kept as is.
Create the GPtrArray once in the _init() function and destroy it only
in the _finalize() function. Then use overlay_clear() to remove all
subpicture associations for intermediate updates, don't recreate the
GPtrArray.
Make GstVaapiOverlayRectangle a reference counted object. Also make
sure that overlay_rectangle_new() actually creates and associates the
VA subpicture.
Make it possible to specify the maximum number of references to use within
a single VA context. This helps reducing GPU memory allocations to the useful
number of references to be used.
This is a preferred thread-safe version. Also add an inline version of
g_clear_object() if compiling with glib < 2.28.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>