The timestamp generator in gstvaapidecoder_mpeg2.c always interpolated
frame timestamps within a GOP, even when it's been fed input PTS for
every frame.
That leads to incorrect output timestamps in some situations - for example
live playback where input timestamps have been scaled based on arrival time
from the network and don't exactly match the framerate.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732719
Disable video cropping in MPEG-2 codec because it is partially implemented
and actually because nobody implements it that way, and the standard spec
does not specify the display process either anyway.
Most notably, there are two possible use cases for sequence_display_extension()
horizontal_display_size & vertical_display_size: (i) guesstimating the
pixel-aspect-ratio, or (ii) implement some kind of span & scan process
in conjunction with picture_display_extension() information.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704848
Mark dummy pictures as output already so that we don't try to submit
them to the upper layer since this is purely internal / temporary
picture for helping the decoder.
If the stream has a sequence_display_extenion, then attach the
display_horizontal/display_vertical dimension as the cropping
rectangle width/height to the GstVaapiPicture.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
The MPEG-2 standard specifies (6.3.7) that all quantisation matrices
shall be reset to their default values when a Sequence_Header() is
decoded.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Port GstVaapiDecoder and GstVaapiDecoder{MPEG2,MPEG4,JPEG,H264,VC1} to
GstVaapiMiniObject. Add gst_vaapi_decoder_set_codec_state_changed_func()
helper function to let the user add a callback to a function triggered
whenever the codec state (e.g. caps) changes.
Drop support for user-defined data since this capability was not used
so far and GstVaapiMiniObject represents the smallest reference counted
object type. Add missing GST_VAAPI_MINI_OBJECT_CLASS() helper macro.
Besides, since GstVaapiMiniObject is a libgstvaapi internal object, it
is also possible to further simplify the layout of the object. i.e. merge
GstVaapiMiniObjectBase into GstVaapiMiniObject.
This integrates support for GStreamer API >= 1.0 only in the libgstvaapi
core decoding library. The changes are kept rather minimal here so that
the library retains as little dependency as possible on core GStreamer
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
There shall be only one place to call decode_current_picture(), and this
is in the end_frame() hook. The EOS unit is processed after end_frame()
so this means we cannot have a valid picture to decode/output at this
point.
Improve robustness when some expected packets where not received yet
or that were not correctly decoded. For example, don't try to decode
a picture if there was no valid sequence or picture headers.
Keep only one DPB interface and rename gst_vaapi_dpb2_get_references()
to gst_vaapi_dpb_get_neighbours() so that to retrieve pictures in DPB
around the specified picture POC.
Move GstVaapiDpbMpeg2 API to a more generic version that could also be
useful to other decoders that require 2 reference pictures, e.g. VC-1.
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Heuristic: if the second start-code is available, check whether that
one marks the start of a new frame because e.g. this is a sequence
or picture header. This doesn't save much, since we already cache the
results.
Accelerate scan for start codes by skipping up to 3 bytes per iteration.
A start code prefix is defined by the following bytes: 00 00 01. Thus,
for any group of 3 bytes (xx yy zz), we have the following possible cases:
1. If zz != 1, this cannot be a start code, then skip 3 bytes;
2. If yy != 0, this cannot be a start code, then skip 2 bytes;
3. If xx != 0 or zz != 1, this cannot be a start code, then skip 1 byte;
4. xx == 00, yy == 00, zz == 1, we have match!
This algorithm requires to peek bytes from the adapter. This increases the
amount of bytes copied to a temporary buffer, but this process is much faster
than scanning for all the bytes and using shift/masks. So, overall, this is
a win.
Move parsing back to decoding step, but keep functions separate for now.
This is needed for future optimizations that may introduce some meta data
for parsed info attached to codec frames.
Allocate decoder unit earlier in the main parse() function and don't
delegate this task to derived classes. The ultimate purpose is to get
rid of dynamic allocation of decoder units.
Avoid creating a GstBuffer for slice data. Rather, directly use the codec
frame input buffer data. This is possible because the codec frame is valid
until end_frame() where we submit the VA buffers for decoding. Anyway, the
slice data buffer is copied into the VA buffer when it is created.
Implement GstVaapiDecoder.start_frame() and end_frame() semantics so
that to create new VA context earlier and submit VA pictures to the
HW for decoding as soon as possible. i.e. don't wait for the next
frame to start decoding the previous one.
Parse slice() header and first macroblock position earlier in _parse()
function instead of waiting for the _decode() stage. This doesn't change
anything but readability.
Introduce new GstVaapiDecoderUnitMpeg2 object, which holds the standard
GstMpegVideoPacket and additional parsed header info. Besides, we now
parse as early as in the _parse() function so that to avoid un-necessary
creation of sub-buffers in _decode() for video packets that are not slices.
Invoke gst_mpeg_video_finalise_mpeg2_sequence_header() to get the
correct PAR values. While doing so, require a newer version of the
bitstream parser library.
Note: it may be necessary to also parse the Sequence_Display_Extension()
header.
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gwenole Beauchesne <gwenole.beauchesne@intel.com>
Split decode_buffer() into the core infrastructure that determines
the packets contained in the adapter and the actual function that
decodes the packet data.
Fix memory leakage of empty packets, i.e. packets that only contain
the start code prefix. In particular, free empty user-data packets.
Besides, the codec parser will already fail gracefully if the packet
to parse does not have the minimum required size. So, we can also
completely drop the block of code that used to handle packets of size 4
(including the start code).
Fix return value when the second scan for start code fails. This means
there is not enough data to determine the full extents of the current
packet and the function shall return GST_VAAPI_DECODER_STATUS_ERROR_NO_DATA
in this case, instead of GST_VAAPI_DECODER_STATUS_SUCCESS.
Integrate the start code prefix in the slice data buffer that is submitted
to the hardware. VA-API specifies that slice_data_offset is the offset to
the first byte of slice data. And, for MPEG-2, slice() data begins with
the slice_start_code. Some VA driver implementations (EMGD) expect this.
