There is an issue for live streams where download_loop will keep
downloading segments until it gets a 404 error for a segment
that has not yet been published. This is a problem because this
request for a segment that doesn't exist will propagate all the
way back to the origin server(s). This means that dashdemux causes
extra load on the origin server(s) for segments that aren't yet
available.
This patch uses availabilityStartTime, period
and the host's idea of UTC to decide if a fragment is available to
be requested from an HTTP server and filter out requests for fragments
that are not yet available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701404
gstmpdparser.h:530: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
gstmpdparser.c:4177: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
For SegmentTemplate elements containing a startNumber attribute, the
`number' member of GstMediaSegments should be offset by the value of
startNumber; however, this is not currently the case. As a result, the
first URI(s) requested by the download loop will be wrong.
This commit ensures that segment numbers will be offset by startNumber
when one is present in a SegmentTemplate element.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705661
When using a SegmentTemplate element, the timestamps of the buffers
output by dashdemux are incorrect, causing problems downstream.
The reason is that GstMediaSegment start times are calculated (in
gst_mpdparser_get_chunk_by_index) by multiplying segment index by
segment duration and then scaling the result according the `timebase'
attribute from the MPD. However, the segment duration is already a
GstClockTime (i.e., it has already been scaled according to the timebase
from the MPD and converted to a nanosecond value), so multiplying it by
the segment index will give the correct timestamp without the need for
any further scaling.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705679
During a live stream it is possible for dashdemux to lag behind on a
slow connection or to rush ahead of the connection os too fast.
For the first case it is necessary to jump some segments ahead to be able to
continue playback as old segments are usually deleted from the server.
For the later, dashdemux should wait a little before attempting another
download do give time to the server to produce a new segment
When using a template based segment list, do not try to
contruct a finite segment list for the limits of the available periods.
We might not know when the period ends (for live streams) and we can
always create the segment on demand when requested by dashdemux,
avoiding use of some memory and cpu when re-creating this list.
Replaces the 2 likely larger lists with more appropriate structures
to improve performance.
Replaces S nodes GList for a GQueue, this reduces latency to startup
because of traversing the list just append an element.
Replaces the processed media segments GList for a GPtrArray as it is
constantly acessed by index during playback.
Duration from segment being unknown is a issue from the MPD and not
a programming issue, so the assert isn't useful here. Instead check
and return an error code so the caller can fallback to alternatives
When dashdemux selects its first fragment, it always selects the
first fragment listed in the manifest. For on-demand content,
this is the correct behaviour. However for live content, this
behaviour is undesirable because the first fragment listed in the
manifest might be some considerable time behind "now".
The commit uses the host's idea of UTC and tries to find the
oldest fragment that contains samples for this time of day.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701509
According to the MPEG-DASH spec, certain elements (i.e.
SegmentBase, SegmentTemplate, and SegmentList) should inherit
attributes from the same elements in the containing AdaptationSet
or Period.
Updated the SegmentBase, SegmentTemplate, and SegmentList parsers
to properly inherit attributes from the corresponding elements in
AdaptationSet and/or Period.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702677
Convert all xml attribute/content parsing functions to return a
boolean value indicating whether or not the attribute/content was
present. We need this finer-grained control in order to properly
implement the inheritance policies described in the spec
Also fixed several memory leak conditions when handling errors in
the xml attribute/content parsing functions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702677
Ensure that g_free/xmlFree is used correctly based on how the
memory was allocated.
When deallocating GLists, there were many places that were using
g_list_foreach and g_list_free. Converted these occurrences to
call g_list_free_full.
Add NULL checks to all xmlFree calls since the documentation does
not guarantee that passing NULL is safe
In places where we are strdup'ing memory allocated by libxml2,
changed those calls to use xmlMemStrdup().
There were several places where we were missing g_slice_free when
deallocating a top-level node structure.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702837
The xmlCleanupParser function seems to cleanup all statically
allocated libxml variables, making it unusable. We can't guarantee
that dashdemux won't need it anymore, so better not call it.
Manifest updates should be done periodically for live streams,
this patch makes the demuxer create a new manifest client for
the new version and transfers the stream position to the new
one, discarding the old one afterwards.
Instead of downloading 1 fragment per stream per download loop,
select the stream with the earlier timestamp and get a fragment
only for that one.
The old algorithm would lead to problems when the fragment durations
were too different for streams.
Put EOS on the streams queues after the last fragment from the
last period for each stream. This way we keep it serialized
with the buffers and it will work when streams have different
ending times
Each stream has its own durations and timestamps, the fragment number
is different for each stream when seeking, so the seek has to be done
for all streams, rather than on a single stream and propagated to
others
GstDataQueue has proper locking and provides functions to limit the
size of the queue. Also has blocking calls that are useful to
our multithread scenario in Dash.
- the MPD file is updated in the download loop (only if we have a "dynamic" MPD and minimumUpdatePeriod is valid);
- properly LOCK/UNLOCK the GstMpdClient;
