For non "Constant-QP" modes, we could provide more reasonable heuristics
for the target bitrate. In general, 48 bits per macroblock with all the
useful coding tools enable looks safe enough. Then, this rate is raised
by +10% to +15% for each coding tool that is disabled.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719699
Add support for "high-compression" tuning option. First, determine the
largest supported profile by the hardware. Next, check any target limit
set by the user. Then, enable each individual coding tool based on the
resulting profile_idc value to use.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719696
Allow user to precise the largest profile to use for encoding due
to target decoder constraints. For instance, if CABAC entropy coding
mode is requested by "constrained-baseline" profile only is desired,
then an error is returned during codec configuration.
Also make sure that the suitable profile we derived actually matches
what the HW can cope with.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719694
Refine the heuristic to determine the maximum size of a coded buffer
to account for the exact number of slices. set_context_info() is the
last step during codec reconfiguration, no additional change is done
afterwards, so re-using the num_slices field here is fine.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719953
Automatically derive the minimum profile and level to be used for
encoding, based on the activated coding tools. The encoder will
be trying to generate a bitstream that has the best chances to be
decoded on most platforms by default.
Also change the default profile to "constrained-baseline" so that
to ensure maximum compatibility when the stream is decoded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719691
Fix lookup for a suitable HW profile, as to be used by the underlying
hardware, based on heuristics that lead to characterize the SW profile,
i.e. the one used by the SW level encoding logic.
Also fix constraint_set0_flag (A.2.1) and constraint_set1_flag (A.2.2)
as they should respectively match the baseline and main profile.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719827
The libgstvaapi core encoders are meant to support raw bitstreams only.
Henceforth, we are always producing a stream in "byte-stream" format.
However, the "codec-data" buffer which holds SPS and PPS headers is
always available. The "lengthSizeMinusOne" field is always set to 3
so that in-place "byte-stream" format to "avc" format conversion could
be performed.
Various clean-ups to improve consistency and readability: rename some
variables, drop unused macro definitions, drop initialization of vars
that are zero-initialized from the base class, drop un-necessary casts.
Fix lookup for a suitable HW profile, as to be used by the underlying
hardware, based on heuristics that lead to characterize the SW profile,
i.e. the one used by the SW level encoding logic.
Automatically derive the minimum profile and level to be used for
encoding, based on the activated coding tools. Improve lookup for
the best suitable level with the new MPEG-2 helper functions.
Also change the default profile to "simple" so that to ensure maximum
compatibility when the stream is decoded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719703
Various clean-ups to improve consistency and readability: drop unused
macro definitions, drop initialization of vars that are zero-initialized
from the base class, drop un-necessary casts.
Add encoder "tune" option to override the default behaviour that is to
favor maximum decoder compatibility at the expense of lower compression
ratios.
Expected tuning options to be developed are:
- "high-compression": improve compression, target best-in-class decoders;
- "low-latency": tune for low-latency decoding;
- "low-power": tune for encoding in low power / resources conditions.
Only expose the exact static set of supported rate-control properties
to the upper layer. For instance, if the GstVaapiEncoderXXX class does
only support CQP rate control, then only add it the the exposed enum
type.
Add helper macros and functions to build a GType for an enum subset.
Add gst_vaapi_encoder_set_keyframe_period() interface to allow the
user control the maximum distance between two keyframes. This new
property can only be set prior to gst_vaapi_encoder_set_codec_state().
A value of zero for "keyframe-period" gets it re-evaluated to the
actual framerate during encoder reconfiguration.
Improve codec reconfiguration to be performed only through a single
function. That is, remove the _set_context_info() hook as subclass
should not alter the parent GstVaapiContextInfo itself. Besides, the
VA context is constructed only at the final stages of reconfigure().
Add interface to communicate the encoder resolution and related info
like framerate, interlaced vs. progressive, etc. This new interface
supersedes gst_vaapi_encoder_set_format() and doesn't use any GstCaps
but rather use GstVideoCodecState.
Note that gst_vaapi_encoder_set_codec_state() is also a synchronization
point for codec config. This means that the encoder is reconfigured
there to match the latest properties.
Don't try to destroy an encoder, in GstVideoEncoder::finish() handler,
if it was not created in the first place. Return "not-negotiated" error
since this means we did not even reach GstVideoEncoder::set_format(),
where the encoder could have been created.
This fixes a crash when the vaapiencode_* plug-in elements get deallocated
and that we failed to negotiate either pad.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719704
The specified caps in gst_video_encoder_set_output_state() function
arguments should not contain any resolution, pixel-aspect-ratio,
framerate, codec-data et al. Those rather should be set through the
returned GstVideoCodecState. This means that output caps creation
could be delayed until before gst_video_encoder_finish_frame() is
called.
This greatly simplifies the GstVideoEncoder::set_format() callback
by the way.
Make base GstVaapiEncode class an abstract type so that we cannot
create an instance from it without going through any of the codec
specific derived class.
Rename a few member functions to make them more consistent:
- alloc_encoder(): now reduced to allocate the encoder object only;
- alloc_buffer(): allocate buffer from srcpad, and copy bitstream.
Update MPEG-2 and H.264 encode elements to cope with the new core
libgstvaapi properties API. i.e. all configurable properties are now
directly handled at the GstVaapiEncoder level.
Besides, this also makes sure to not use or modify the GstVaapiEncoder
private definitions directly. Private data need to remain private.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719529
Add interface to communicate configurable properties to the encoder.
This covers both the common ones (rate-control, bitrate), and the
codec specific properties.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719529
Add gst_vaapi_encoder_set_bitrate() interface to allow the user control
the bitrate for encoding. Currently, changing this parameter is only
valid before the first frame is encoded. Should the value be modified
afterwards, then GST_VAAPI_ENCODER_STATUS_ERROR_OPERATION_FAILED is
returned.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719529
Add gst_vaapi_encoder_set_rate_control() interface to request a new
rate control mode for encoding. Changing the rate control mode is
only valid prior to encoding the very first frame. Afterwards, an
error ("operation-failed") is issued.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719529
Instal <gst/vaapi/gstvaapiutils_h264.h> header but only expose the
H.264 levels in there. The additional helper functions are meant
to be private for now.
Fixes a crash when multiple vaapidecode elements are finalized since
the debug category is created once in the class init method.
This is a regression from git commit 7e58d60.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721390
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Fix formts for various GST_DEBUG et al. invocations. More precisely,
make size_t arguments use the %zu format specifier accordingly; force
XID formats to be a 32-bit unsigned integer; and fix the format used
for gst_vaapi_create_surface_with_format() error cases since we have
been using strings nowadays.
The following helper functions are no longer used, thus are removed:
- gst_vaapi_video_format_from_structure()
- gst_vaapi_video_format_from_caps()
- gst_vaapi_video_format_to_caps()
Use standard GstVideoInfo related functions to build the output caps,
thus directly preserving additional fields as needed, instead of
manually copying them over through gst_vaapi_append_surface_caps().
Also ensure that the input caps are fixated first.
Add new helper functions to build video template caps.
- gst_vaapi_video_format_new_template_caps():
create GstCaps with size, frame rate and PAR to full range
- gst_vaapi_video_format_new_template_caps_from_list():
try to create a "simplified" list from the supplied formats
Add new helper functions to build GValues from GstVideoFormat:
- gst_vaapi_value_set_format():
build a GValue from the supplied video format
- gst_vaapi_value_set_format_list():
build a GValue list from the supplied array of video formats
Replace gst_vaapi_display_get_{decode,encode}_caps() APIs with more
more convenient APIs that return an array of GstVaapiProfile instead
of GstCaps: gst_vaapi_display_get_{decode,encode}_profiles().
Replace gst_vaapi_display_get_{image,subpicture}_caps() APIs, that
returned GstCaps, with more convenient APIs that return an array of
GstVideoFormat: gst_vaapi_display_get_{image,subpicture}_formats().
