Until now, we've relied on the following things:
- you can send flush packets to the decoder even if it's fully flushed,
- you can send new packets to a flushed decoder,
- you can send new packers to a partially flushed decoder.
("flushing" refers to sending flush packets to the decoder until the
decoder does not return new pictures, not avcodec_flush_buffers().)
All of these are questionable. The libavcodec API probably doesn't
guarantee that these work well or at all, even though most decoders have
no issue with these. But especially with hardware decoding wrappers
(like MMAL), real problems can be expected. Isolate us from these corner
cases by handling them explicitly.
A hw decoder might fail to decode a frame for multiple reasons, and not
always just because decoding is impossible. We can't generally
distinguish these reasons well. Make it more tolerant by accepting
failures of 3 frames, but not more. The threshold can be adjusted by the
repurposed --vd-lavc-software-fallback option.
(This behavior was suggested much earlier in some PR, but at the time
the "proper" hwdec fallback was indistinguishable from decoding error.
With the current situation, "proper" fallback is still instantious.)
The uninit() function was called twice if the uninit() function failed
(once by init(), once by vd_lavc.c code), which caused crashes due to
double-free. (This failure is a corner case, and all other hwdec
backends appear to handle this case gracefully.)
I do not think this code should be able to deal with uninit() being
called other than once. Guarantee that it's called exactly once.
Fixes linker failure. How did this ever work? Apparently it did most of
the time, but apparently we just got the first case where it didn't.
Fixes#2433.
The previous commit moved the av_frame_unref() after the got_picture
check. This accidentally also deferred the software fallback
reinitialization to until a software picture was decoded (instead of the
exact time of the fallback), which is not ideal.
Just rely on the fact that calling av_frame_unref() on a frame is ok
even if nothing was decoded.
Commit 12cd48a8 started setting the hwdec_failed field even if hwdec was
not active, and because it also checked this field even if hwdec was not
active, broke decoding forever.
Fix this, and also avoid a memory leak or API misuse by releasing the
decoded picture. Passing an unreleased frame to the decoder has as far
as I know no defined effects.
The libavcodec h264 decoder contains some idiotic code with unknown
purpose (no sample or explanation known that necessitates its
existence), that causes the AVCodecContext.get_format callback to be
invoked at a time when hwaccels can't be initialized. By definition, the
get_format callback is supposed to initialize hwaccels (another idiotic
thing now part of the API, but different story). This causes hwdec
initialization sometimes to fail (WolfensteinTwitch.mp4): the first
get_format callback will mark it as failed, so the second get_format
(the "proper" normal one) will not bother restoring the state, and hwdec
init fails.
While this should be fixed in libavcodec (good luck with that), it's
quite easy to workaround.
This was used only by the timestamp sorting code, which is a fallback
for avi files (as well as avi-muxed mkv files). This was supposed to
prevent accumulating timestamps in case the decoder consumes more
packets than it outputs frames (i.e. frames are dropped). This didn't
work very well (timestamps could be off by a large amount), the
estimation of the delay was fragile, and the interdependencies with the
decoder were annoying, so kill it.
This essentially reverts commit 009dfbe3. FFmpeg VideoToolbox support
is being wacky, and can cause major issues, such as not being able
to decode a single frame. (E.g. by playing a .ts file. This should be
fixed in FFmpeg eventually.)
This is not a straight revert of the commit; just a functional one. We
keep the slightly simpler code structure.
VideoToolbox is preferred. Now that FFmpeg released 2.8, there's no
reason to support VDA anymore. In fact, we had a bug that made VDA not
useable with older FFmpeg versions in some newer mpv releases.
VideoToolbox is supported even on slightly older OSX versions, and if
not, you still can run mpv without hw decoding.
Definitely not needed anymore, and fixes a crash in some weird corner-
cases.
The extradata freeing is apparently still needed, though. (Because a
codec context can be opened again, which makes no sense, but ok.)
Usually, libavcodec ignores errors reported by the hardware decoding
API, so it's not like we can actually escape if the hardware is somehow
acting up.
For normal fallback purposes, or if parts of the hw decoding API which
we actually check fails, we do this by setting and checking the
hwdec_failed flag anyway.
The comment was largely outdated, and described the old situation when
we used a "violent" fallback by making get_buffer2 fail completely.
Also, for the case when the hw decoder initialization succeeded (in
get_format), but get_buffer2 for some reason requests something
unexpected, we also can fallback more gracefully and in the same way.
Often, we don't know whether hardware decoding will work until we've
tried. (This used to be different, but API changes and improvements in
libavcodec led to this situation.) We will often output that we're going
to use hardware decoding, and then print a fallback warning.
Instead, print the status once we have decoded a frame.
Some of the old messages are turned into verbose messages, which should
be helpful for debugging. Also add some new ones.
The fallback at initialization time was basically duplicated, maybe for
the sake of showing a different error message. This doesn't matter
anymore; not much can fail at initialization anymore. Most meaningful
and common errors happen either at probing or in get_format (when the
actual hw decoder is initialized).
VDA is being deprecated in OS X 10.11 so this is needed to keep hwdec working.
The code needs libavcodec support which was added recently (to FFmpeg git,
libav doesn't support it).
Signed-off-by: Stefano Pigozzi <stefano.pigozzi@gmail.com>
mpv had refcounted frames before libav*, so we were not using
libavutil's facilities. Change this and drop our own code.
Since AVFrames are not actually refcounted, and only the image data
they reference, the semantics change a bit. This affects mainly
mp_image_pool, which was operating on whole images instead of buffers.
While we could work on AVBufferRefs instead (and use AVBufferPool),
this doesn't work for use with hardware decoding, which doesn't
map cleanly to FFmpeg's reference counting. But it worked out. One
weird consequence is that we still need our custom image data
allocation function (for normal image data), because AVFrame's uses
multiple buffers.
There also seems to be a timing-dependent problem with vaapi (the
pool appears to be "leaking" surfaces). I don't know if this is a new
problem, or whether the code changes just happened to cause it more
often. Raising the number of reserved surfaces seemed to fix it, but
since it appears to be timing dependent, and I couldn't find anything
wrong with the code, I'm just going to assume it's not a new bug.
Again. With the old OpenGL interop dropped, this probably works better
than vaapi-copy now. Last time we defaulted to vaapi-copy, because the
OpenGL interop could swap U/V planes and other stupid crap. We'll see.
MPlayer traditionally had completely separate sh_ structs for
audio/video/subs, without a good way to share fields. This meant that
fields shared across all these headers had to be duplicated. This commit
deduplicates essentially the last remaining duplicated fields.
When using --hwdec=auto, about half of all systems will print:
"[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1"
this happens because usually mpv will be linked against both vdpau and
vaapi libs, but the drivers are not necessarily available. Then trying
to load a driver will fail. This is a normal part of probing, but the
error messages were printed anyway. Silence them by explicitly
distinguishing probing.
This pretty much goes through all the layers. We actually consider
loading hw backends for vo_opengl always "auto probed", even if a hw
backend is explicitly requested. In this case vd_lavc will print a
warning message anyway (adjust this message a bit).
On hw decoder reinit failure we did not actually always return a sw
format, because the first format (fmt[0]) is not always a sw format.
This broke some cases of fallback. We must go through the trouble to
determine the first actual sw format.
Yet another of these dozens of hwaccel changes. This time, libavcodec
provides utility functions, which initialize the vdpau decoder and map
codec profiles. So a lot of work the API user had to do falls away.
This also will give us support for high bit depth profiles, and possibly
HEVC once libavcodec supports it.
...instead of relying on the hw decoding API to align it for us. The old
method could in theory have gone wrong if the video is cropped by an
amount large enough to step over several blocks.
There's not much of a reason to keep get_surface_hwdec() and
get_buffer2_hwdec() separate. Actually, the way the mpi->AVFrame
referencing is done makes this confusing. The separation is probably
an artifact of the pre-libavcodec-refcounting compatibility glue.
Most of hardware decoding is initialized lazily. When the first packet
is parsed, libavcodec will call get_format() to check whether hw or sw
decoding is wanted. Until now, we've returned AV_PIX_FMT_NONE from
get_format() if hw decoder initialization failed. This caused the
avcodec_decode_video2() call to fail, which in turn let us trigger the
fallback. We didn't return a sw format from get_format(), because we
didn't want to continue decoding at all. (The reason being that full
reinitialization is more robust when continuing sw decoding.)
This has some disadvantages. libavcodec vomited some unwanted error
messages. Sometimes the failures are more severe, like it happened with
HEVC. In this case, the error code path simply acted up in a way that
was extremely inconvenient (and had to be fixed by myself). In general,
libavcodec is not designed to fallback this way.
Make it a bit less violent from the API usage point of view. Return a sw
format if hw decoder initialization fails. In this case, we let
get_buffer2() call avcodec_default_get_buffer2() as well. libavcodec is
allowed to perform its own sw fallback. But once the decode function
returns, we do the full reinitialization we wanted to do.
The result is that the fallback is more robust, and doesn't trigger any
decoder error codepaths or messages either. Change our own fallback
message to a warning, since there are no other messages with error
severity anymore.
Remove the old implementation for these properties. It was never very
good, often returned very innaccurate values or just 0, and was static
even if the source was variable bitrate. Replace it with the
implementation of "packet-video-bitrate". Mark the "packet-..."
properties as deprecated. (The effective difference is different
formatting, and returning the raw value in bits instead of kilobits.)
Also extend the documentation a little.
It appears at least some decoders (sipr?) need the
AVCodecContext.bit_rate field set, so this one is still passed through.
This requires FFmpeg git master for accelerated hardware decoding.
Keep in mind that FFmpeg must be compiled with --enable-mmal. Libav
will also work.
Most things work. Screenshots don't work with accelerated/opaque
decoding (except using full window screenshot mode). Subtitles are
very slow - even simple but huge overlays can cause frame drops.
This always uses fullscreen mode. It uses dispmanx and mmal directly,
and there are no window managers or anything on this level.
vo_opengl also kind of works, but is pretty useless and slow. It can't
use opaque hardware decoding (copy back can be used by forcing the
option --vd=lavc:h264_mmal). Keep in mind that the dispmanx backend
is preferred over the X11 ones in case you're trying on X11; but X11
is even more useless on RPI.
This doesn't correctly reject extended h264 profiles and thus doesn't
fallback to software decoding. The hw supports only up to the high
profile, and will e.g. return garbage for Hi10P video.
This sets a precedent of enabling hw decoding by default, but only
if RPI support is compiled (which most hopefully it will be disabled
on desktop Linux platforms). While it's more or less required to use
hw decoding on the weak RPI, it causes more problems than it solves
on real platforms (Linux has the Intel GPU problem, OSX still has
some cases with broken decoding.) So I can live with this compromise
of having different defaults depending on the platform.
Raspberry Pi 2 is required. This wasn't tested on the original RPI,
though at least decoding itself seems to work (but full playback was
not tested).
Codecs for hardware acceleration are not blacklisted, but whitelisted.
Also, if this emssage is printed, the codec might not have any hardware
acceleration support in the first place.
Instead of "vaapi", simply by changing the probe order.
"vaapi" uses the GLX GL interop, which has causing us more problems than
it solved.
Unfortunately this leads also to copying if "--hwdec=auto --vo=vaapi" is
used, even though GLX is not involved in this case - but I don't care
enough to make the probe logic cleverer just for this. You can still get
the zero-copy path with --hwdec=vaapi.
Breaks vo_opengl by default. I'm hot able to fix this myself, because I
have no clue about the overcomplicated color management logic. Also,
whilethis is apparently caused by commit fbacd5, the following commits
all depend on it, so revert them too.
This reverts the following commits:
e141caa97d653b0dd529729c8b3f64fbacd5de31Fixes#1636.
Remove coded_width and coded_height. This was originally added in commit
fd7dde40, when BITMAPINFOHEADER was killed. The separate fields became
redundant in commit e68f4be1. Remove them (nothing passed to the
decoders actually changes with _this_ commit).
A recent behavior change in libavcodec's h264 decoder keeps at least 1
surface even after avcodec_flush_buffers() has been called. We used to
flush the decoder in order to make sure all surfaces are free'd, so that
the hw decoder can be safely uninitialized. This doesn't work anymore.
Fix it by closing the AVCodecContext before the hw decoder is
uninitialized. This is actually simpler and more robust. It seems to be
well-supported too.
Fixes invalid read accesses with vaapi-copy and dxva2-copy. These
destroyed the hwdec API fully on uninit, and could not deal with
surfaces surviving the decoder.
Probably fixes#1587.
The intention is that we can test vo_opengl with high bit depth PNGs
better. This throws libswscale completely out of the loop, which before
was needed in order to convert from big endian to little endian.
Also apply a minimal cleanup to fmt-conversion.c (unrelated).
wm4
Rodger Combs
Philip Langdale
Sebastien Zwickert
Marcin Kurczewski
Niklas Haas