Added a new property "compliance-mode", which default is the normal
strict compliant mode.
The second mode, "restrict-buf-alloc", is to limit the coded buffer
allocation size to improve performance in some specific Intel
platforms (there is asignificant performance improvement in parallel
encodings). Under this new mode, we use the MinCR field in A.3.1 for
pre-calculating the coded-buffer size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784590
If the picture is IDR, also submit a SPS header.
This means when frame number reaches to keyframe-period or an force
key unit event arrives, we insert SPS/PPS again.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776712
GST_VIDEO_CODEC_FRAME_IS_FORCE_KEYFRAME() is a flag usually used to manage
the `frame-lost` event in the case of streaming, such as RTP.
In case of this event, it is needed to start new GOP rather than just
produce an I-frame.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776712
Insert an AUD as the first NAL of each encoded frame.
Some applications require Access Unit Delimiter for decoding the
stream.
The AU delimeter insertion is done only when the aud parameter is
TRUE (by default is disabled). The reason of this it is because this
header is only available from Intel Gen9 and the VA intel driver
should be 1.8 or superior. Otherwise, the output will be corrupted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776712
Signed-off-by: Victor Jaquez <vjaquez@igalia.com>
Currently when num_views is changed by multiview-mode on sink caps, it produces
wrong MVC encoded stream since the array view_ids is not set properly according
to changed num_views.
So this patch initializes all of the array sequentially to handle this case.
Side effect is not going to happen by this patch since this array is being
handled by num_views.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784321
Until now, the encoder ignored the profile in src caps and chose one
according with the given parameters. But the encoder must honor the
profile specifed in src caps.
This patch do that, and if the encoder needs to choose the profile,
it will do it by following these rules:
1\ If given parameters are not compatible with given profile, the
encoder will bail out with an error.
2\ The encoder will choose the higher profile indicated in the
src caps.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757941
There are some symbols that are not used when compiling with old
version of libva and those generates a compilation error.
Original-patch-by: Matt Staples <staples255@gmail.com>
Instead of recalculating the miscellaneous buffer parameters for
every buffer, it is only done once, when the encoder is configured.
And for every buffer, the same structures are just copied.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783449
This is patch pretends to decouple the assignation of the values
in the parameter structures and the VA buffer's parameters setting.
It may lead to some issues since HRD, framerate or controlrate may
not be handled by the specific encoder, but they are set in
the VA buffer's parameters.
I leave as it because this patch is just a transitional patch.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783449
Move the Hypothetical Reference Decoder (HRD) parameter, from
ensure_misc_params() to ensure_control_rate_params(), since it
only shall be defined when the control rate is either VBR or CBR.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783449
Instead of filling the control rate param in ensure_misc_params(),
this patch refactor it out, as a first step to merge the same code
for all the encoders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783449
Right now, H264 and HEVC can set as a property the number of slices to
process. But each driver can set a maximum number of slices, depending
on the supported profile & entry point.
This patch verifies the current num_slices to process against the maximum
permitted by the driver and the media size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780955
Set ROI params during encoding each frame, which are set via
gst_vaapi_encoder_add_roi ()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768248
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
This patch adds the handling of VAEncMiscParameterTypeQualityLevel,
in gstreamer-vaapi encoders:
The encoding quality could be set through this structure, if the
implementation supports multiple quality levels. The quality level set
through this structure is persistent over the entire coded sequence, or
until a new structure is being sent. The quality level range can be queried
through the VAConfigAttribEncQualityRange attribute. A lower value means
higher quality, and a value of 1 represents the highest quality. The quality
level setting is used as a trade-off between quality and speed/power
consumption, with higher quality corresponds to lower speed and higher power
consumption.
The quality level is set by the element's parameter "quality-level" with a
hard-coded range of 1 to 8.
Later, when the encoder is configured in run time, just before start
processing, the quality level is scaled to the codec range. If
VAConfigAttribEncQualityRange is not available in the used VA backend, then
the quality level is set to zero, which means "disabled".
All the available codecs now process this parameter if it is available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778733
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@igalia.com>
The current implementation is updating the POC values only
in Slice parameter Buffer.But we are not filling the
picture order count and reference flags in VAPictureH264
while populating VA Picture/Slice structures.The latest
intel-vaapi-driver is directly accessing the above fields
from VAPicutreH264 provided as RefPicLists, which resulted
some wrong maths and prediction errors in driver.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780620
Implements gst_vaapi_utils_h26x_write_nal_unit(), which writes NAL
unit length and data to a bitwriter.
Note that this helper function applies EPB (Emulation Prevention
Bytes), since otherwise produced codec_data might be broken when
decoder/parser considering EPB, starts parsing.
See sections 7.3 and 7.4 of the H264 and H264 specifications, which
describes the emulation_prevention_three_byte.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778750
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
Since there is duplicated code in h264/265 encoder, we could
refactor it to avoid duplicated code.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778750
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
Validate that fps numerator is non-zero so it can be used to calculate
the duration of the B frame.
Also it gst_util_uint64_scale() is used instead of normal arithmetic in
order to aviod overflows, underflows and loss of precision.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768458
Change defaults for max-bframes, cabac, and dct8x8 to be enabled
by default. This will cause the default profile to be high instead
of baseline. In most situations this is the right decision, and
the profile can still be lowered in the case of caps restrictions.
Signed-off-by: Scott D Phillips <scott.d.phillips@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757941
This is a workaround since vaapi-intel-driver doesn't have
support for B-frame encode when utilizing low-power-enc
hardware block.
Fixme :We should query the VAConfigAttribEncMaxRefFrames
instead of blindly disabling b-frame support and set b/p frame count,
buffer pool size etc based on the query result.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766050
Added a new property "low-power-enc" for enabling low power
encoding mode. Certain encoding tools may not be available
with the VAEntrypointEncSliceLP.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766050
After setting the release flags, the compiler warns about a couple
initialized variables.
Also marked a couple of set variables as unused, because they are only
used for assertion.
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
As gstreamer-vaapi now only supports from GStreamer 1.6, this patch removes
all the old GStreamer version guards.
Signed-off-by: Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <victorx.jaquez@intel.com>
One buffering_period() SEI message shall be present in every IDR access unit
when NalHrdBpPresentFlag is inferred to be equal to 1. This is the case when we
use a non-CQP mode, e.g. CBR. In other words, when
nal_hrd_parameters_present_flag is set to 1.
One picture_timing() SEI messages shall be present in every access unit
if CpbDpbDelaysPresentFlag is equal to 1 or pic_struct_present_flag is equal to 1
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722734https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751831
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
slice_type in slice_param is defined as (char *), but it is compared against a
signed integer. clang complains about this comparison.
This patch casts the variable.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747312
Add support for H.264 MVC Multiview High profile encoding with
more than 2 views. All views within the same accesss unit are
provided in increasing order of view order index (VOIdx).
Upto 10 view are supported for now.
A new property "view-ids" has been provided for the plugins to
set the view ids (which is an array of guint values) to be used
for mvc encoding.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732453
Really report sample aspect ratio (SAR) as present, and make it match
what we have obtained from the user as pixel-aspect-ratio (PAR). i.e.
really make sure VUI parameter aspect_ratio_info_present_flag is set
to TRUE and that the indication from aspect_ratio_idc is Extended_SAR.
This is a leftover from git commit a12662f.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740360
It is not necessary to periodically send SPS or subset SPS headers.
This is up to the upper layer (e.g. transport layer) to decide on
if/how to periodically submit those. For now, only generate new SPS
or subset SPS headers when the codec config changed.
Note: the upper layer could readily determine the config headers
(SPS/PPS) through the gst_vaapi_encoder_h264_get_codec_data() function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732083
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Report sample aspect ratio (SAR) as present, and make it match what
we have obtained from the user as pixel-aspect-ratio (PAR). i.e. the
VUI parameter aspect_ratio_info_present_flag now defaults to TRUE.
Set the value of num_anchor_refs_l0, num_anchor_refs_l1, num_non_anchor_refs_l0,
and num_non_anchor_refs_l1 to zero since the inter-view prediction is not yet
supported.
When the seq_parameter_set_data() syntax structure is present in a subset
sequence parameter set and vui_parameters_present_flag is equal to 1, then
timing_info_present_flag shall be equal to 0 (H.7.4.2.1.1).
Submit Prefix NAL headers (nal_unit_type = 14) before every packed
slice header (nal_unit_type = 1 or 5) only for the base view. In non
base views, a Coded Slice Extension NAL header (nal_unit_type = 20)
is required, with an appropriate nal_unit_header_mvc_extension() in
the NAL header bytes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732083
Exclusively use VA drivers that support raw packed headers for encoding.
i.e. simply submit packed headers Subset SPS and Prefix NAL units. This
provides for better compatibility accross the various VA drivers and HW
generations since no particular API is needed beyond what readily exists.
Since we are encoding each view independently from each other, we
need a higher number of pre-allocated surfaces to be used as the
reconstructed frames. For Stereo High profile encoding, this means
to effectively double the number of frames to be stored in the DPB.
Add initial support for Subset SPS, Prefix NAL and Slice Extension NAL
for non-base-view streams encoding, and the usual SPS, PPS and Slice
NALs for base-view encoding.
The H.264 Stereo High profile encoding mode will be turned on when the
"num-views" parameter is set to 2. The source (raw) YUV frames will be
considered as Left/Right view, alternatively.
Each of the two views has its own frames reordering pool and reference
frames list management system. Inter-view references are not supported
yet, so the views are encoded independently from each other.
Signed-off-by: Li Xiaowei <xiaowei.a.li@intel.com>
[limited to Stereo High profile per the definition of MAX_NUM_VIEWS]
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Create structures to maintain the reference frames list (RefPool) and
frames reordering (ReorderPool) logic.
This is a prerequisite for H.264 MVC support.
Signed-off-by: Li Xiaowei <xiaowei.a.li@intel.com>
Add provisions to write subset SPS headers to the bitstream in view
to supporting the H.264 MVC specification.
This assumes the libva "staging" branch is in use.
Signed-off-by: Li Xiaowei <xiaowei.a.li@intel.com>
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.
Cache the first compatible GstVaapiProfile found if the encoder is not
configured yet. Next, factor out the code to check for the supported
rate-control modes by moving out vaGetConfigAttributes() to a separate
function, while also making sure that the attribute type is actually
supported by the encoder.
Also fix the default set of supported rate control modes to not the
"none" variant. It's totally useless to expose it at this point.
Don't emit NAL HRD parameters for now in the SPS headers because the
SEI buffering_period() and picture_timing() messages are not handled
yet. Some additional changes are necessary to get it right.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722734
Fix default CPB buffer size to something more reasonable (1500 ms)
and that still fits the level limits. This is a non configurable
property for now. The initial CPB removal delay is also fixed to
750 ms.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722087
Round down the calculated, or supplied, bitrate (kbps) into a multiple
of the HRD bitrate scale factor. Use a bitrate scale factor of 64 so
that to have less losses in precision. Likewise, don't round up because
that could be a strict constraint imposed by the user.
Fix the level calculation involving bitrate limits. Since we are
targetting NAL HRD conformance, the check against MaxBR from the
Table A-1 limits shall involve cpbBrNalFactor depending on the
active profile.
Submit sequence parameter buffers only once, or when the bitstream
was reconfigured in a way that requires such. Always submit packed
sequence parameter buffers at I-frame period, if the VA driver needs
those.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722737
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
The VAEncSequenceParameterBuffer.ip_period value reprents the distance
between the I-frame and the next P-frame. So, this also accounts for
any additional B-frame in the middle of it.
This fixes rate control heuristics for certain VA drivers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722735
Fix level characterisation when the bitrate is automatically computed
from the active coding tools. i.e. ensure the bitrate once the profile
is completely characterized but before the level calculation process.
Document and rename a few functions here and there. Drop code that
caps num_bframes variable in reset_properties() since they shall
have been checked beforehand, during properties initialization.
Clean-up GstBitWriter related utility functions and simplify notations.
While we are at it, also make bitstream writing more robust should an
overflow occur. We could later optimize for writing headers capped to
their maximum possible size by using the _unchecked() helper variants.
Drop private header since it was originally used to expose internals
to the plugin element. The proper interface is now the properties API,
thus rendering private headers totally obsolete.
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,
allocate GPtrArrays with a destroy function.
Fix frame cropping rectangle calculation to handle horizontal resolutions
that don't match a multiple of 16 pixels, but also the vertical resolution
that was incorrectly computed for progressive sequences too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722089
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.
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.
