The function actually returns the segment availability start time (as defined by the standard).
That is at the end of the segment, but it is called availability start time.
Availability end time is something else (the time when the segment is no longer
available on the server). The function name was misleading.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757655
gst_mpdparser_parse_utctiming_node does not validate the parsed values completely. The following scenarios are incorrectly accepted:
- elements with no schemeIdUri property should be rejected
- elements with unrecognized UTCTiming scheme should be rejected
- elements with empty values should be rejected
The last one triggers a division by 0 in gst_dash_demux_poll_clock_drift:
clock_drift->selected_url = clock_drift->selected_url % g_strv_length (urls);
because it urls is a valid pointer to an empty array.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759547
The standard does not seem to make any particular explicit not
implicit reference to the signedness of durations, and the code
does not rely on such, nor on the negativity of the -1 value
that's used as a placeholder when a duration property is not
present in the XML.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750847
According to the standard:
"SegmentBase, SegmentTemplate and SegmentList shall inherit
attributes and elements from the same element on a higher level.
If the same attribute or element is present on both levels,
the one on the lower level shall take precedence over the one
on the higher level."
gst_mpdparser_parse_segment_list_node will now discard any inherited
segment URLs if the parsed element defines some too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751832
If MPD@suggestedPresentationDelay is not present in the manifest,
dashdemux selects the fragment closest to the most recently generated
fragment. This causes a playback issue because this choice does not allow
the DASH client to build up any buffer of downloaded fragments without
pausing playback. This is because by definition new fragments appear on
the server in real-time (e.g. if segment duration is 4 seconds, a new
fragment will appear on the server every 4 seconds). If the starting
playback position was n*segmentDuration seconds behind "now", the DASH
client could download up to 'n' fragments faster than realtime before it
reached the point where it needed to wait for fragments to appear on the
server.
The MPD@suggestedPresentationDelay attribute allows a content publisher
to provide a suggested starting position that is behind the current
"live" position.
If the MPD@suggestedPresentationDelay attribute is not present, provide
a suitable default value as a property of the dashdemux element. To
allow the default presentation delay to be specified either using
fragments or seconds, the property is a string that contains a number
and a unit (e.g. "10 seconds", "4 fragments", "2500ms").
Corrected the parsing of a segment template string.
Added unit tests to test the segment template parsing.
All reported problems are now correctly handled.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751735
When building the media segment list using a SegmentList node, the
gst_mpd_client_setup_representation function will iterate through the
list of S nodes and will expect to find a matching SegmentUrl node. If
one does not exist, the code made an illegal memory access.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752496
Previous patch did not handle the case where an encoding (e.g. UTF-8) is
specified in the <xml ?> element. Added an extra test for with and without
encoding.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753813
When running on an STB, the function
gst_mpdparser_get_xml_node_as_string causes a segmentation fault. This
code works correctly on a Linux desktop.
Looking at the libxml documentation, the xmlNodeDump is deprecated.
Replacing the use of xmlNodeDump with xmlNodeDumpOutput fixes the
segfault on the STB and removes the use of the deprecated function.
Unless the DASH client can compensate for the difference between its
clock and the clock used by the server, the client might request
fragments that either not yet on the server or fragments that have
already been expired from the server. This is an issue because these
requests can propagate all the way back to the origin
ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014/Amd 1 [PDAM1] defines a new UTCTiming element to allow
a DASH client to track the clock used by the server generating the
DASH stream. Multiple UTCTiming elements might be present, to indicate
support for multiple methods of UTC time gathering. Each element can
contain a white space separated list of URLs that can be contacted
to discover the UTC time from the server's perspective.
This commit provides parsing of UTCTiming elements, unit tests of this
parsing and a function to poll a time server. This function
supports the following methods:
urn:mpeg:dash:utc:ntp:2014
urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-xsdate:2014
urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-iso:2014
urn:mpeg:dash:utc:http-ntp:2014
The manifest update task is used to poll the clock time server,
to save having to create a new thread.
When choosing the starting fragment number and when waiting for a
fragment to become available, the difference between the server's idea
of UTC and the client's idea of UTC is taken into account. For example,
if the server's time is behind the client's idea of UTC, we wait for
longer before requesting a fragment
[PDAM1]: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66068
dashdemux: support NTP time servers in UTCTiming elements
Use the gst_ntp_clock to support the use of an NTP server.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752413
This other type of baseURL test was replaced by a more complex one,
better have both to keep both options working
Also adds another 2 variations of how baseURL can be generated
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752776
Added unit tests for all functions. Code coverage:
Overall coverage rate:
lines......: 83.8% (1941 of 2316 lines)
functions..: 100.0% (141 of 141 functions)
flexelint (http://www.gimpel.com/html/flex.htm) static code analyser
complained about implicit conversions from unsigned to signed, so I added
explicit conversions.
Ideally, the size parameter of gst_mpd_parse function should be unsigned,
but I don't want to change the API.
The duration_to_ms function converts a time specified by year, month, day,
hour, minute, second, millisecond to a millisecond value. Because all the
arguments are positive numbers, the result must also be positive.
This patch changes the returned value from a gint64 to a guint64 type.
Improved dash_mpd unit tests by adding new tests that parse the Period element.
Code coverage reported by lcov for dash/gstmpdparser.c is:
lines......: 43.0% (985 of 2290 lines)
functions..: 47.5% (67 of 141 functions)
