ICQ is Intelligent Constant Quality. It will use the initial QP
vaule of icq-quality-factor to adjust QP at MB level intelligently
to improve subjective quality.
QVBR is Quality defined VBR. It will use qvbr-quality-factor to
adjust QP for each MB to get enough quality picture without waste
of bits.
g_assert will take no effect when glib's G_DISABLE_ASSERT macro is
defined. The function inside the g_assert will take no effect and
we will fail to set the correct slice number.
The advanced trellis algorithm is supported in VA driver. We add
its support as a property named "trellis" of encoder.
It only works for H264 now, should be more in future.
This patch fixes a regression from commit 5b1fe9c6.
max_qp, in rate control configuration, appeared in libva release
2.1 (API 1.1), thus it is required to guard the VA API version.
Fixes: #150
media-driver currently fails to set a correct value of max_qp when
min_qp is different to zero, in CBR and VBR mode, generating full
quality frames, thus unexpected huge output.
This patch sets max_qp to an arbitrary value to avoid this output
temporary.
Fixes: #144
Currently the minimal value for either min_qp and init_qp are 1,
but VA documentation specifiy that zero is also valid and means
to ignore the quantiser.
The default value is not changed though to avoid behaivor changes
to users.
GValueArray is deprecated. Use GstValueArray instead.
gst_param_spec_array can be deserialized from command line using:
vaapih264enc view-ids="<(uint)40,(uint)100>" num-views=2
While the g_param_spec_value_array() can not, and always get
error: "gst_value_deserialize_g_value_array: unimplemented"
Also fixed an out-of-range bug.
In order to flush the pending pictures, a new internal encoder vmethod
is used: get_pending_reordered()
This method follows an iterator pattern which will return the next
picture to encode and push.
The base encoder will call this function in a loop when flush() is called.
For now, only H.264 and H.265 encoders implement this flushing mechanism.
Check input buffers for ROI metas and pass them to VA. Also added a
new "default-roi-delta-qp" property in order to tell the encoder what
delta QP should be applied to ROI by default.
Enabled it for H264 and H265 encoders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768248
Increased max values of periodic key frame for h26x codecs.
This allow more fine tunning of encoder that in certian scenario
want higher periodic key frame.
For example: it doesn't want a key frame each 10 seconds but
each 120 seconds.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786320
Frames are encoded as different layers. Frame in a particular
layer will use pictures in lower or same layer as references.
Which means decoder can drop the frames in upper layer but still
decode lower layer frames.
B-frames, except the one in top most layer, are reference frames.
All the base layer frames are I or P.
eg: with 3 temporal layers
T3: B1 B3 B5 B7
T2: B2 B6
T1: I0 P4 P8
T1, T2, T3: Temporal Layers
P1...Pn: P-Frames:
B1...Bn: B-frames:
T1: I0->P4 , P4->P8 etc..
T2: I0--> B2 <-- P4
T3: I0--> B1 <-- B2, B2 --> B3 <-- P4
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Frames are encoded as different layers. A frame in a particular
layer will use pictures in lower or same layer as references.
Which means decoder can drop the frames in upper layer but still
decode lower layer frames.
eg: with 3 temporal layers
T3: P1 P3 P5 P7
T2: P2 P6
T1: P0 P4 P8
T1, T2, T3: Temporal Layers
P1...pn: P-Frames:
P0->P1 , P0->P2, P2->P3, P0->P4......repeat
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
The frame_num generation was not correctly implemented.
According to h264 spec, frame_num should get incremented
for each frame if previous frame is a referece frame.
For eg: IPBPB sequece should have the frame numbers 0,1,2,2,3
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds new property "prediction-type" to select different reference
picture selection modes like hierarchical-p, hierarchical-b etc.
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds some basic building blocks to ease the implementation
of hierarchical prediction modes.
-- add an utility method to find temporal level of each frame
-- define max_ref_frame count based on temporal level count
-- add temporal_level_div[] for finding temporal level each frame
to be encoded.
-- find ip_period based on temporal level count
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Adds new property "temporal-levels" to select the number of
temporal levels to be included in the encoded stream.
Signed-off-by: Sreerenj Balachandran <sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788918
Instead of handling the macroblock bitrate control as a integer, this
patch changes it as a enum, which is more self documented in the
GStreamer elements.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787855
Creates 2 properties, qp-ip and qp-ib for setting different QP for P/B
frames
and set slice_qp_delta for each frame according to the value provided.
In addition, remove the limitation of (<= 4) when setting
slice_qp_delta.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785923
Creates new variable for QP for I frame and keep it at configuration and
use this for pic_init_qp and slice_qp_delta setting.
Since changing min qp doesn't make sense, keep min qp as is.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785923
Follows the specification as below:
7.4.7.1 in Rec. ITU-T H.265 v4 (12/2016)
num_ref_idx_active_override_flag equal to 1 specifies that the syntax
element num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 is present for P and B slices and
that the syntax element num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 is present for B
slices.
num_ref_idx_active_override_flag equal to 0 specifies that the syntax
elements num_ref_idx_l0_active_minus1 and num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1
are not present.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783804
In VA-API 1.0 the enum VAEncPackedHeaderH264_SEI is deprecated, and
instead VAEncPackedHeaderRawData should be used.
This patch creates a compatibility symbol,
VA_ENC_PACKED_HEADER_H264_SEI, to expose the used enum according the
VA-API version.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784398
Coverity scan bug:
An assigned value that is never used may represent unnecessary
computation, an incorrect algorithm, or possibly the need for cleanup
or refactoring.
ip_period is assigned first to be rewritter inmediatly after. The
first assignation is spurious.
Coverity scan bug:
The copied code will not have its intended effect.
This is a bug from commit cdaf15b2, where the intention is to
initialize RefPicList1 while setting RefPicList0.
Coverity scan bug:
Unintentional integer overflow. The expression's value may not be what
the programmer intended, because the expression is evaluated using a
narrow (i.e. few bits) integer type.
Cast operator to guint64 before computation to avoid narrowing.
merge with 3c5a6add
Using num_ref_frames provided and the result of the Query
VAConfigAttribEncMaxRefFrames, it determines the size of reference list
and perform encoding with multi reference frames as the following:
1\ The num_ref_frames is being considered as the number of
reference picture list0
2\ Encoder adds 1 reference frame more to the reference picture list1
internally if b-frame encoding.
3\ If num_ref_frames is bigger than the number of refrence frames
supported in the driver, it will be lowered.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783803
Users can provide the number of reference frame by this property.
The value of the property will be considered as the number of
reference picture list0 and will add 1 reference frame more to the
reference picture list1 internally if b-frame encoding.
If the value provided is bigger than the number of refrence frames
supported in the driver, it will be lowered.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783803
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>
