Query information on the system output most linked to the swap chain,
and either utilize a user-configured format, or either 8bit
RGBA or 10bit RGB with 2bit alpha depending on the system output's
bit depth.
Normalize nullptr and an empty string both to nullptr to simplify
handling. API users cannot set a value back to nullptr, so both
an empty string as well as nullptr should behave the same.
This allows the new GPU screenshot functionality introduced in
9f595f3a80 to work with the D3D11 backend. It replaces the old window
screenshot functionality, which was shared between D3D11 and ANGLE. The
old code can be removed, since it's not needed by ANGLE anymore either.
Previously, mpv would attempt to use a BGRA swapchain in the hope that
it would give better performance, since the Windows desktop is also
composited in BGRA. In practice, it seems like there is no noticable
performance difference between RGBA and BGRA swapchains and BGRA
swapchains cause trouble with a42b8b1142, which attempts to use the
swapchain format for intermediate FBOs, even though D3D11 does not
guarantee BGRA surfaces will work with UAV typed stores.
The D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_BGRA_SUPPORT flag doesn't enable support for
BGRA textures. BGRA textures will be supported whether or not the flag
is passed. The flag just fails device creation if they are not supported
as an API convenience for programs that need BGRA textures, such as
programs that use D2D or D3D9 interop. We can handle devices without
BGRA support fine, so don't bother with the flag.
This is a new RA/vo_gpu backend that uses Direct3D 11. The GLSL
generated by vo_gpu is cross-compiled to HLSL with SPIRV-Cross.
What works:
- All of mpv's internal shaders should work, including compute shaders.
- Some external shaders have been tested and work, including RAVU and
adaptive-sharpen.
- Non-dumb mode works, even on very old hardware. Most features work at
feature level 9_3 and all features work at feature level 10_0. Some
features also work at feature level 9_1 and 9_2, but without high-bit-
depth FBOs, it's not very useful. (Hardware this old is probably not
fast enough for advanced features anyway.)
Note: This is more compatible than ANGLE, which requires 9_3 to work
at all (GLES 2.0,) and 10_1 for non-dumb-mode (GLES 3.0.)
- Hardware decoding with D3D11VA, including decoding of 10-bit formats
without truncation to 8-bit.
What doesn't work / can be improved:
- PBO upload and direct rendering does not work yet. Direct rendering
requires persistent-mapped PBOs because the decoder needs to be able
to read data from images that have already been decoded and uploaded.
Unfortunately, it seems like persistent-mapped PBOs are fundamentally
incompatible with D3D11, which requires all resources to use driver-
managed memory and requires memory to be unmapped (and hence pointers
to be invalidated) when a resource is used in a draw or copy
operation.
However it might be possible to use D3D11's limited multithreading
capabilities to emulate some features of PBOs, like asynchronous
texture uploading.
- The blit() and clear() operations don't have equivalents in the D3D11
API that handle all cases, so in most cases, they have to be emulated
with a shader. This is currently done inside ra_d3d11, but ideally it
would be done in generic code, so it can take advantage of mpv's
shader generation utilities.
- SPIRV-Cross is used through a NIH C-compatible wrapper library, since
it does not expose a C interface itself.
The library is available here: https://github.com/rossy/crossc
- The D3D11 context could be made to support more modern DXGI features
in future. For example, it should be possible to add support for
high-bit-depth and HDR output with DXGI 1.5/1.6.