In Google webrtc, the setting VP8E_SET_STATIC_THRESHOLD is set to 1
(except when the content is known to be static very often in which
case it is set to 100, i.e. when sharing screen with Google Hangouts).
The cpu usage drops a lot when using 1 for above setting because it
allows the encoder to skip static/low content blocks. The current
0 default value uses too much cpu and confuses the user regarding
the cpu usage expectations. User expects vp8enc to use low cpu by
default.
Documentation of VP8E_SET_STATIC_THRESHOLD:
https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/blob/master/vpx/vp8cx.h#L188
chromium/webrtc:
b484ec0082/modules/video_coding/codecs/vp8/libvpx_vp8_encoder.cc (822)Closes#58
This fixes a memory leak. When dropframe-threshold has been set,
libvpx may output less frames than the input ones, which causes
some GstVideoCodecFrames to queue up in GstVideoEncoder's internal
frame queue with no chance of ever being all released. And because
the frames keep references to the input buffers, the input buffer
pool keeps allocating new buffers and memory usage grows very fast.
For example the following pipeline's memory usage grows at a rate
of about 1GB per minute!
videotestsrc ! capsfilter caps=video/x-raw,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1,format=I420 ! \
vp8enc target-bitrate=1000000 end-usage=cbr dropframe-threshold=95 ! fakesink
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783086
When a frame's duration is too low, calling gst_util_uint64_scale()
to scale its value can result into it being truncated to zero, which
will cause the vpx encoder to return an VPX_CODEC_INVALID_PARAM error
when trying to encode.
To prevent this from happening, we simply ignore the duration when
encoding if it becomes zero after scaling, logging a warning message.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765391
All code paths for handle_frame() must somehow take ownership of the frame, be
it by actually unreffing, forwarding the frame elsewhere or storing it for
later.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760666
