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Sreerenj Balachandran 6eba201f32 vaapidecode: Rework the re-negotiation code to handle multi resoultion videos
Delaying the pool re-negotiation untill we push all decoded (and queued)
frames downstream. Otherwise for the multi-resolution videos, the
GstVideoVideoMemory will be having wrong resolution and which leads
to nasty behaviours, especially when using software renderers.

sample media file: RAP_B_Bossen_1.bin
case explained:
The first SPS Nal will report resoultion of 448x256 and having crop rectangles to
get the final resoultion 416x240.
Starting from 25 th frame, the resolution will change to 416x240. But parser
elements won't report this since the effective croped resolution is same in
both cases. Here the core libgstvaapi will detect this through it's internal
parsing and do all context/pool destory/reset stuffs. Also it will notify this
change to plugins in advance. But if the plugin try to do re-negotiaion of pool
immediately, this will not sync with the resolution of already decoded and queued
frames and which will lead to failure in gst_video_frame_map() in downstream(if we use the
software renderer). So we have to delay the pool renegotiation in vaapidecode,
untill we push all decoded frames downstream.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753914
2015-08-29 00:18:57 +03:00
debian.upstream debian: add yasm as build dependency 2015-08-25 18:09:44 +02:00
docs doc: add VA-API reference in freedesktop 2015-06-04 19:14:33 +02:00
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gst vaapidecode: Rework the re-negotiation code to handle multi resoultion videos 2015-08-29 00:18:57 +03:00
gst-libs decoder: hevc: Fix the scaling list scan order 2015-08-26 07:25:03 +03:00
patches patches/Videoparsers: update patch to fix build with older GStreamer 1.2 stacks 2015-08-26 07:04:22 +03:00
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  gstreamer-vaapi
  VA-API support to GStreamer

  Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
  Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Intel Corporation
  Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora Ltd.


License
-------

gstreamer-vaapi helper libraries and plugin elements are available
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1+


Overview
--------

gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based plugins for
GStreamer and helper libraries.

  * `vaapidecode' is used to decode JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 AVC,
    H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1, WMV3, HEVC videos to VA surfaces, depending
    on the underlying hardware capabilities. This plugin is also able
    to implicitly download the decoded surface to raw YUV buffers.

  * `vaapiencode_<CODEC>' is used to encode into MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,
    H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8, HEVC videos, depending on the actual value
    of <CODEC> (mpeg2, h264, etc.). By default, raw format bitstreams
    are generated, so the result may be piped to a muxer.
    e.g. qtmux for MP4 containers.

  * `vaapipostproc' is used to filter VA surfaces, for e.g. scaling,
    deinterlacing (bob, motion-adaptive, motion-compensated), noise
    reduction or sharpening. This plugin is also used to upload raw
    YUV pixels into VA surfaces.

  * `vaapisink' is used to render VA surfaces to an X11 or Wayland
    display. This plugin also features a "headless" mode (DRM) more
    suited to remote transcode scenarios, with faster throughput.


Features
--------

  * VA-API support from 0.29 to 0.38
  * JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VP8, VC-1 and HEVC ad-hoc decoders
  * MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,H.264 MVC, JPEG, VP8 and HEVC ad-hoc encoders
  * OpenGL rendering through VA/GLX or GLX texture-from-pixmap + FBO
  * Support for EGL backend
  * Support for the Wayland display server
  * Support for headless decode pipelines with VA/DRM
  * Support for major HW video decoding solutions on Linux (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA)
  * Support for HW video encoding on Intel HD Graphics hardware
  * Support for VA Video Processing APIs (VA/VPP)
    - Scaling and color conversion
    - Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reductio, Color Balance,
      Skin-Tone-Enhancement
    - Advanced deinterlacing: Motion-Adaptive, Motion-Compensated


Requirements
------------

Software requirements

  * GStreamer 1.2.x (up to including GStreamer 1.6):
      libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.32)
      libgstreamer1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)
      libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)
      libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev (>= 1.2.0)

  * Renderers:
      DRM: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libdrm-dev, libudev-dev
      X11: libva-dev (>= 1.0.1)
      GLX: libva-dev (>= 1.0.3)
      Wayland: libva-dev (>= 1.1.0), libwayland-dev (>= 1.0.2)

Hardware requirements

  * AMD platforms with UVD2 (XvBA supported)
  * Intel Eaglelake (G45)
  * Intel Ironlake, Sandybridge, Ivybridge, Haswell and Broadwell (HD Graphics)
  * Intel BayTrail, Braswell
  * Intel Poulsbo (US15W)
  * Intel Medfield or Cedar Trail
  * NVIDIA platforms with PureVideo (VDPAU supported)


Usage
-----

  VA elements are automatically plugged into GStreamer pipelines. So,
  using playbin should work as is.
  However, here are a few alternate pipelines that could be manually
  constructed.

  * Play an H.264 video with an MP4 container in fullscreen mode
  $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/video.mp4 ! \
      qtdemux ! vaapidecode ! vaapisink fullscreen=true

  * Play a raw MPEG-2 interlaced stream
  $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/mpeg2.bits ! \
      mpegvideoparse ! vaapidecode ! vaapipostproc ! vaapisink

  * Convert from one pixel format to another, while also downscaling
  $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/raw_video.yuv ! \
      videoparse format=yuy2 width=1280 height=720 ! \
      vaapipostproc format=nv12 height=480 ! vaapisink

  * Encode a 1080p stream in raw I420 format into H.264
  $ gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=/path/to/raw_video.yuv ! \
      videoparse format=i420 width=1920 height=1080 framerate=30/1 ! \
      vaapiencode_h264 rate-control=cbr tune=high-compression ! \
      qtmux ! filesink location=/path/to/encoded_video.mp4


Sources
-------

  gstreamer-vaapi is Open Source software, so updates to this
  framework are really easy to get.

  Stable source code releases can be found at:
  <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/>

  Git repository for work-in-progress changes is available at:
  <https://github.com/01org/gstreamer-vaapi>


Reporting Bugs
--------------

  Bugs can be reported in the GNOME Bugzilla system at:
  <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gstreamer-vaapi>

  From the main page, new bugs can be reported through New -> Other ->
  gstreamer-vaapi product.