Since we can get the minimum number of buffers needed by an output
device to work, use it to set min_latency which will determine how many
buffers are queued.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736072
Most V4L2 ioctls like try_fmt will adjust input fields to match what the
hardware can do rather then returning -EINVAL. As is docmented here:
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/vidioc-g-fmt.html
EINVAL is only returned if the buffer type field is invalid or not supported.
So upon requesting V4L2_FIELD_NONE devices which can only do interlaced
mode will change the field value to e.g. V4L2_FIELD_BOTTOM as only returning
half the lines is the closest they can do to progressive modes.
In essence this means that we've failed to get a (usable) progessive mode
and should fall back to interlaced mode.
This commit adds a check for having gotten a usable field value after the first
try_fmt, to force fallback to interlaced mode even if the try_fmt succeeded,
thereby fixing get_nearest_size failing on these devices.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735660
They may have been modified by the ioctl even if it failed. This also makes
the S_FMT fallback path try progressive first, making it consistent with the
preferred TRY_FMT path.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735660
If the minimum required buffer exceed V4L2 capacity, don't share down
pool. This allow support very high latency, like with x264enc default
encoding settings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732288
Some v4l2 devices could require a minimum buffers different from default
values. Rather than blindly propose a pool with min-buffers set to the
default value, it ask the device using control ioctl.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733750
These checks are no longer required with recent change to the bufferpool. This
should allow changing the configuartion, hence the way forward renegotiation
support.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728268
If special stride is needed and downstream don't support VideoMeta,
pool might be NULL in order to let the baseclass create a generic
pool. This would lead to assertion with on Exynos with:
gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=mov ! qtdemux ! h264parse ! \
v4l2video8dec ! fakesink
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732707
The code enumerating STEPWISE framesizes would start from
(min_w, min_h) and then add (step_w, step_h) to get the
next framesize. However, it should really allow any width
from min_w to max_w with step_w and same for heights.
Secondly, we would add and probe each individual stepped
frame size to the caps as separate structure, which would
lead to hundreds if not thousands of structs ending up in
the probed caps. Use integer ranges with steps instead.
This was particularly noticable with the Raspberry Pi Cam.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724521https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732458https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726521
This workaround from 2011 was causing 25 S_FMT ioctls to be sent
to my UVC webcam from under gst_v4l2_object_get_caps as it probes
all the formats. In total, this adds up to about 5 seconds of
execution time, or a 10 second delay while starting up cheese.
These ioctls come from a workaround from 2011 where TRY_FMT might
make changes to hardware settings, so S_FMT was used to restore
the original config:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649067
The driver bug is now assumed fixed. Remove the workaround to fix the
long startup delay.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732326
Fix the choice of min/max, don't override the min/max with own pool selected
size, correct other_pool is_active check, start from other_pool config when
configuring the other pool and finally validate the configuration.
M2M devices were sharing the same properties as src and sink. Most of
these made no sense. This patch reduces the number of propeties and
makes io-mode clearer by having capture-io-mode and output-io-mode. This
also accidently fixed a bug in gstv4l2transform io-mode code, where the
capture io-mode could not be set.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729591
When extrapolating the offset, we need to use the extrapolate
stride rather then the base stride. This should fix support for format
with more then two planes (I420, Y42B, etc).
Simplify framerate field if possible, so we don't end up with
e.g. framerate = (fraction) { 30/1 }. Maybe the helper function
should be moved to core, but we can do this later.
This moves away from copying information and store everything inside
the GstVideoInfo structure. The alignement exposed by v4l2 api
is now handled using proper offset.
Improve decide allocation so it properly configure both local and downstream
buffer pools. Also read back the pool config if it was changed to to driver
limitations.
Catch short allocation after saving the format. This is not a catch all, but should catch
most of the miss-behaving drivers when doing S_FMT/G_FMT and avoid potential crash.
Some well known decoder wrongly set num_planes to 0 in their format instead of
one. In this case we would endup with no size when deciding buffer allocation.
In order to correctly set the pool min/max, we need to probe for CREATE_BUFS
ioctl. This can be done as soon as the format has been negotiated using a
count of 0.
As soon a the alpha component can be set, we can expose the RGB32 and BGR32
format as ARGB and BGRA as long we can deterministically set the alpha padding
value.
In certain cases we cannot live without video meta and/or crop meta
being enabled in our internal buffer pool. Ensure this is always the case,
regardless of having support for allocation query.
The complex mechanic to try and choose the right thing did not work. Instead,
simply probe the non-contiguous format first and then the contiguous one.
This is in fact very low overhead, as there is a relatively small number of
pixel format supported by each devices.
Certain decoder has been found to not choose a format automatically. Running
v4l2videodec on these would assert. This patch will make it fail cleanly
instead.
For format like mpegts, width and height is rarely in the negotiated caps. This
patch fixes failure when setting format, and prevent introducing width, height,
framerate and format to the caps when fixating.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725860
It seems that GStreamer's mpegts elements (tsdemux, tsparse) require caps
`video/mpegts,systemstream=true`. As far as I can see the significance
of systemstream is to indicate that this is a container format rather than
an elementary stream. As this is the case (and I can't understand how it
could not be the case with mpegts) I add systemstream=true to v4l2src's
caps.
This allows v4l2src to be linked with tsdemux for playback from my
Hauppauge HD-PVR with the pipeline:
v4l2src ! queue ! tsdemux ! video/x-h264 ! decodebin ! xvimagesink
In combination with the next commit this fixes using Hauppauge HD-PVR with
GStreamer 1.0+.
With years the amount of ifdef have grown up and we are not even sure if the
old code path compiles. Each time we need to update the v4l2 framework to add
the new feature, we break compilation on older kernel. With exception of two
controls in the video orientation control, this patch get rid of all ifdef by
including the latest version of videodev2.h inside GStreamer.
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723446
For each videoCdevice probe it input/output capabilities
if it match with video decoder requirement register a new element.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722128
Don't enforce having width, height and framerate in template caps for encoded
formats. These don't always need to be exposed and may break negotiation for
decoder and decoding sink. If needed, these field will be automatically added
when probed caps are known.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
If there is nothing that seems to force a certain framerate on output device, it is
preferable to simply not set that feild. This allow negotiation with tsdemux in a
decoder for example.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
Also add a FIXME in gst_v4l2_object_setup_format
to note that the whole function has to be improved
in order to support ENCODED formats.
It requires to have an encoder device which we do not
have right now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
This method allow setting up the object from the currently configured format on the
device. This is useful for M2M element where input data decides the format that will
be set on capture side.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
The number of plane, and the stride does not represent a capability change. Same caps
can have different stride from the default GstVideoInfo and the number of planes will
never change for 1 format.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
It makes the gst_v4l2_object_set_format() slightly simplier and will make that
logic reusable. Note that gst_v4l2_object_has_mplane() will always return the
same value for one device. There is no need to check against the caps as this
has already been done by _open.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
We set the dimensions just in case but don't validate them
afterwards. For some codecs the dimensions are *not* in the
bitstream, IIRC VC1 in ASF mode for example.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568
This api is in linux kernel since version 2.6.39,
and present in all version 3.
The commit that adds the API in master branch of the
linux kernel source is:
f8f3914cf9
v4l2 doc: "Some devices require data for each input
or output video frame to be placed in discontiguous
memory buffers"
There are newer structures 'struct v4l2_pix_format_mplane'
and 'struct v4l2_plane'.
So the pixel format is not setup with the same API when using
multi-planar.
Also for gst-v4l2, one of the difference is that in GstV4l2Meta
there are now one mem pointer for each maped plane.
When not using multi-planar, this commit takes care of keeping
the same code path than previously. So that the 2 cases are
in two different blocks triggered from V4L2_TYPE_IS_MULTIPLANAR.
Fixes bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712754
gst_video_info_from_caps() always extract width, height, interlace mode and
framerate now. It is no longer necessary to do it again for encoded
formats.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703399
Instead of just assuming a aspect ratio of 1/1 use VIDIOC_CROPCAP to ask
the device.
This also add a pixel-aspect-ratio property to overwrite the value from the
driver and a force-aspect-ratio property to ignore it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700285
This makes it possible to set any controls that can be set with
VIDIOC_S_CTRL.
The controls are set when the property is set (if the device is open)
and when the device is opened.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698837
This can happen if other parts of the pipeline are reconfigured.
Stop streaming even for a short amount of time can be quite visible, so it
should be avoided if possible.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700503
In the past gst_video_info_from_caps() only video/x-raw. Now it also
supports other video/* and image/* formats.
With this patch the format won't be GST_VIDEO_FORMAT_UNKOWN and
gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_set_config() handles strides correctly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699570
The existence of a GstVideoFormatInfo does not guarantee, that
the buffer contains video frames, so the format must be checked.
Also, for encoded buffers the length is variable and must be set.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698949
If TRY_FMT is not implemented, gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size will
use S_FMT and will change the device's operation mode. To save the
old device mode we need to set the type field or else it will fail
to save the previous format.
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685209
v4l has add a new IOCTL to export a buffer by using dmabuf.
This patch allow to use this new IOTCL if it has been defined in videodev2.h
I introduce a new IO mode (GST_V4L2_IO_DMABUF) to enable this way of working.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693826
UVC devices are never interlaced, and doing VIDIOC_TRY_FMT on them
causes expensive and slow USB IO, so don't probe them for interlaced.
This shaves 2 seconds of the startup time of cheese with a Logitech
Webcam Pro 9000.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677722
This is not enough to properly support H264 cameras, but it will
allow an H264 stream to be generated by v4l2src using the default
settings of the camera. If used with the pre-set-format signal, the
H264 encoder can be fully configured.
Conflicts:
sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c
We don't currently support setting the pixel-aspect-ratio from V4L2. So
simply set it to be 1/1 in the caps to prevent negotiation failures when
fixating to weird values (e.g. when the downstream caps has
pixel-aspect-ratio = [ MIN, MAX ] )
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663580
