Refactor the PTS handling code to make it cleaner, and to separate the
bits that use PTS sorting.
Add a heuristic to fall back to DTS if the PTS us non-monotonic. This
code is based on what FFmpeg/Libav use for ffplay/avplay and also
best_effort_timestamp (which is only in FFmpeg). Basically, this 1. just
uses the DTS if PTS is unset, and 2. ignores PTS entirely if PTS is non-
monotonic, but DTS is sorted.
The code is pretty much the same as in Libav [1]. I'm not sure if all of
it is really needed, or if it does more than what the paragraph above
mentions. But maybe it's fine to cargo-cult this.
This heuristic fixes playback of mpeg4 in ogm, which returns packets
with PTS==DTS, even though the PTS timestamps should follow codec
reordering. This is probably a libavformat demuxer bug, but good luck
trying to fix it.
The way vd_lavc.c returns the frame PTS and DTS to dec_video.c is a bit
inelegant, but maybe better than trying to mess the PTS back into the
decoder callback again.
[1] https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=cmdutils.c;h=3f1c667075724c5cde69d840ed5ed7d992898334;hb=fa515c2088e1d082d45741bbd5c05e13b0500804#l1431
These used the suffix _resync_stream, which is a bit misleading. Nothing
gets "resynchronized", they really just reset state.
(Some audio decoders actually used to "resync" by reading packets for
resuming playback, but that's not the case anymore.)
Also move the function in dec_video.c to the top of the file.
Having the DTS directly can be useful for restoring PTS values.
The avi file format doesn't actually store PTS values, just DTS. An
older hack explicitly exported the DTS as PTS (ignoring the [I assume]
genpts generated non-sense PTS), which is not necessary anymore due to
this change.
Instead of passing the PTS as separate field, pass it as part of the
usual data structures. Basically, this removes strange artifacts from
the API. (It's not finished, though: the final decoded PTS goes through
strange paths, and filter_video() finally overwrites the decoded
mp_image's pts field with it.)
We also stop using libavcodec's reordered_opaque fields, and use
AVPacket.pts and AVFrame.pkt_pts. This is slightly unorthodox, because
these pts fields are not "really" opaque anymore, yet we treat them as
such. But the end result should be the same, and reordered_opaque is
marked as partially deprecated (it's not clear whether it's really
deprecated).
When mpv is started with some video filters set (--vf is used), and
hardware decoding is requested, and hardware decoding would be possible,
but is prevented due to video filters that accept software formats only,
the fallback didn't work properly sometimes.
This fallback works rather violently: it tries to initialize the filter
chain, and if it fails it throws away the frame decoded using the
hardware, and retries with software. The case that didn't work was when
decoding the current packet didn't immediately lead to a new frame. Then
the filter chain wouldn't be reinitialized, and the playloop would stop
playback as soon as it encounters the error flag.
Fix this by resetting the filter error flag (back to "uninitialized"),
which is a rather violent, but somewhat working solution.
The fallback in general should perhaps be cleaned up later.
Now the actual decoder doesn't need to care about this anymore, and it's
handled in generic code instead. This simplifies vd_lavc.c, and in
particular we don't need to detect format changes in the old way
anymore.
The only reason why these structs were dynamically allocated was to
avoid recursive includes in stheader.h, which is (or was) a very central
file included by almost all other files. (If a struct is referenced via
a pointer type only, it can be forward referenced, and the definition of
the struct is not needed.) Now that they're out of stheader.h, this
difference doesn't matter anymore, and the code can be simplified.
Also sneak in some sanity checks.
This used to be needed to access the generic stream header from the
specific headers, which in turn was needed because the decoders had
access only to the specific headers. This is not the case anymore, so
this can finally be removed again.
Also move the "format" field from the specific headers to sh_stream.
This is similar to the sh_audio commit.
This is mostly cosmetic in nature, except that it also adds automatical
freeing of the decoder driver's state struct (which was in
sh_video->context, now in dec_video->priv).
Also remove all the stheader.h fields that are not needed anymore.
The existing code tried to remove the "extra" profile flags for h264.
FF_PROFILE_H264_INTRA doesn't matter for us at all, because it's set
only for profiles the vdpau/vaapi APIs don't support.
The FF_PROFILE_H264_CONSTRAINED flag on the other hand is added to
H264_BASELINE, except that it makes the file a real subset of H264_MAIN
and H264_HIGH. Removing that flag would select the BASELINE profile,
which appears to be rarely supported by hardware decoders. This means we
accidentally rejected perfectly hardware decodable files. Use MAIN for
it instead.
(vaapi has explicit support for CONSTRAINED_BASELINE, but it seems to be
a new thing, and is not reported as supported where I tried. So don't
bother to check it, and do the same as on vdpau.)
See github issue #204.
This removes "--hwdec=crystalhd".
I doubt anyone even tried to use this. But even if someone wants to
use it, the decoders can still be explicitly invoked with e.g.:
--vd=lavc:h264_crystalhd
The only advantage our special code provided was fallback to
software decoding. (But I'm not sure how the ffmpeg crystalhd
pseudo-decoder actually behaves.)
Removing this will allow some simplifications as soon as we don't need
vdpau_old.c anymore.
Most hardware decoding APIs provide some OpenGL interop. This allows
using vo_opengl, without having to read the video data back from GPU.
This requires adding a backend for each hardware decoding API. (Each
backend is an entry in gl_hwdec_vaglx[].) The backends expose video data
as a set of OpenGL textures.
Add infrastructure to support this. The next commit will add support for
VA-API.
The configure followed 5 different convetions of defines because the next guy
always wanted to introduce a new better way to uniform it[1]. For an
hypothetic feature 'hurr' you could have had:
* #define HAVE_HURR 1 / #undef HAVE_DURR
* #define HAVE_HURR / #undef HAVE_DURR
* #define CONFIG_HURR 1 / #undef CONFIG_DURR
* #define HAVE_HURR 1 / #define HAVE_DURR 0
* #define CONFIG_HURR 1 / #define CONFIG_DURR 0
All is now uniform and uses:
* #define HAVE_HURR 1
* #define HAVE_DURR 0
We like definining to 0 as opposed to `undef` bcause it can help spot typos
and is very helpful when doing big reorganizations in the code.
[1]: http://xkcd.com/927/ related
There are some Microsoft Windows symbols which are traditionally used by
the mplayer core, because it used to be convenient (avi was the big
format, using binary windows decoders made sense...). So these symbols
have the exact same definition as the Windows one, and if mplayer is
compiled on Windows, the symbols from windows.h are used.
This broke recently just because some files were shuffled around, and
the symbols defined in ms_hdr.h collided with windows.h ones. Since we
don't have windows binary decoders anymore, there's not the slightest
reason our symbols should have the same names. Rename them to reduce the
risk for collision, and to fix the recent regression.
Drop WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE, because it's mostly unused. ao_dsound defines
its own version if the windows headers don't define it, and ao_wasapi is
not available on systems where this symbol is missing.
Also reindent ms_hdr.h.
We had some code for checking profiles earlier, which was removed in
commits 2508f38 and adfb71b. These commits mentioned that (working) hw
decoding was sometimes prevented due to profile checking, but I can't
find the samples anymore that showed this behavior. Also, I changed my
opinion, and I think checking the profiles is something that should be
done for better fallback to software decoding behavior.
The checks roughly follow VLC's vdpau profile checks, although we do
not check codec levels. (VLC's profile checks aren't necessarily
completely correct, but they're a welcome help anyway.)
Add a --vd-lavc-check-hw-profile option, which skips the profile check.
We mixed the "old" AVFrame management functions (avcodec_alloc_frame,
avcodec_free_frame) with reference counting. This doesn't work
correctly; you must use av_frame_alloc and av_frame_free. Of course
ffmpeg doesn't warn us about the bad usage, but will just mess up
things silently. (Thanks a lot...)
While the alloc function seems to be 100% compatible, the free function
will do bad things, such as freeing memory that might still be
referenced by another frame. I didn't experience any actual bugs, but
maybe that was pure luck.
This commit adds the --force-window option, which will cause mpv always
to create a window when started. This can be useful when pretending that
mpv is a GUI application (which it isn't, but users pretend anyway), and
playing audio files would run mpv in the background without giving a
window to control it.
This doesn't actually create the window immediately: it only does so
only after initializing playback and when it is clear that there won't
be any actual video. This could be a problem when starting slow or
completely stuck network streams (mpv would remain frozen in the
background), or if video initialization somehow is stuck forever in
an in-between state (like when the decoder doesn't output a video
frame, but doesn't return an error either). Well, we can pretend only
so much that mpv is a GUI application.
Now writing -1 to the 'aspect' property resets the video to the auto
aspect ratio. Returning the aspect from the property becomes a bit more
complicated, because we still try to return the container aspect ratio
if no frame has been decoded yet.
This code is actually quite inefficient: it reuses the (slow, simple)
screenshot code. It uses an inefficient method to read the image
(vaGetImage() instead of vaDeriveImage()), allocates new memory for
each frame that is read, and it tries all image formats again each
time.
Also, in my tests it always picked NV12 as image format, which is not
ideal if you actually want to filter the video, and vo_xv can't handle
this format without conversion either.
However, a user confirmed that it worked for him, so everything is fine.
This will allow GPU read-back with process_image.
We have to restructure how init_vo() works. Instead of initializing the
VO before process_image is called, rename init_vo() to
update_image_params(), and let it update the params only. Then we really
initialize the VO after process_image.
As a consequence of these changes, already decoded hw frames are
correctly unreferenced if creation of the filter chain fails. This
could trigger assertions on VO uninitialization, because it's not
allowed to reference hw frames past VO lifetime.
In init_vo(), if sh->aspect is 0 or last_sample_aspect_ratio is set,
sh->aspect is overwritten. With software decoding fallback behaviour,
this makes the aspect ratio from container ignored since
last_sample_aspect_ratio is already set in first try with hardware
decoding.
This affects VOs which just reuse the mp_image from draw_image() to
return screenshots. The aspect of these images is never different
from the aspect the screenshots should be, so there's no reason to
adjust the aspect in these cases.
Other VOs still need it in order to restore the original image
attributes.
This requires some changes to the video filter code to make sure that
the aspect in the passed mp_images is consistent.
The changes in mplayer.c and vd_lavc.c are (probably) not strictly
needed for this commit, but contribute to consistency.
Decoding H264 using Video Decode Acceleration used the custom 'vda_h264_dec'
decoder in FFmpeg.
The Good: This new implementation has some advantages over the previous one:
- It works with Libav: vda_h264_dec never got into Libav since they prefer
client applications to use the hwaccel API.
- It is way more efficient: in my tests this implementation yields a
reduction of CPU usage of roughly ~50% compared to using `vda_h264_dec` and
~65-75% compared to h264 software decoding. This is mainly because
`vo_corevideo` was adapted to perform direct rendering of the
`CVPixelBufferRefs` created by the Video Decode Acceleration API Framework.
The Bad:
- `vo_corevideo` is required to use VDA decoding acceleration.
- only works with versions of ffmpeg/libav new enough (needs reference
refcounting). That is FFmpeg 2.0+ and Libav's git master currently.
The Ugly: VDA was hardcoded to use UYVY (2vuy) for the uploaded video texture.
One one end this makes the code simple since Apple's OpenGL implementation
actually supports this out of the box. It would be nice to support other
output image formats and choose the best format depending on the input, or at
least making it configurable. My tests indicate that CPU usage actually
increases with a 420p IMGFMT output which is not what I would have expected.
NOTE: There is a small memory leak with old versions of FFmpeg and with Libav
since the CVPixelBufferRef is not automatically released when the AVFrame is
deallocated. This can cause leaks inside libavcodec for decoded frames that
are discarded before mpv wraps them inside a refcounted mp_image (this only
happens on seeks).
For frames that enter mpv's refcounting facilities, this is not a problem
since we rewrap the CVPixelBufferRef in our mp_image that properly forwards
CVPixelBufferRetain/CvPixelBufferRelease calls to the underying
CVPixelBufferRef.
So, for FFmpeg use something more recent than `b3d63995` for Libav the patch
was posted to the dev ML in July and in review since, apparently, the proposed
fix is rather hacky.
About this issue, it would be better if the surfaces could be allocated
with the real size, and the vdpau video mixer could be created with that
size as well. That would be a bit hard, because the real surface size
had to be communicated to vdpau. So I'm going with this solution. vaapi
seems to be fine with either surface size, so there's hopefully no
problem.
Instead of passing AVFrame. This also moves the mysterious logic about
the size of the allocated image to common code, instead of duplicating
it everywhere.
This is based on the MPlayer VA API patches. To be exact it's based on
a very stripped down version of commit f1ad459a263f8537f6c from
git://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer.git.
This doesn't contain useless things like benchmarking hacks and the
demo code for GLX interop. Also, unlike in the original patch, decoding
and video output are split into separate source files (the separation
between decoding and display also makes pixel format hacks unnecessary).
On the other hand, some features not present in the original patch were
added, like screenshot support.
VA API is rather bad for actual video output. Dealing with older libva
versions or the completely broken vdpau backend doesn't help. OSD is
low quality and should be rather slow. In some cases, only either OSD
or subtitles can be shown at the same time (because OSD is drawn first,
OSD is prefered).
Also, libva can't decide whether it accepts straight or premultiplied
alpha for OSD sub-pictures: the vdpau backend seems to assume
premultiplied, while a native vaapi driver uses straight. So I picked
straight alpha. It doesn't matter much, because the blending code for
straight alpha I added to img_convert.c is probably buggy, and ASS
subtitles might be blended incorrectly.
Really good video output with VA API would probably use OpenGL and the
GL interop features, but at this point you might just use vo_opengl.
(Patches for making HW decoding with vo_opengl have a chance of being
accepted.)
Despite these issues, decoding seems to work ok. I still got tearing
on the Intel system I tested (Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M). It was also
tested with the vdpau vaapi wrapper on a nvidia system; however this
was rather broken. (Fortunately, there is no reason to use mpv's VAAPI
support over native VDPAU.)
Change how the HW decoding stuff is organized, the way it's initialized
in particular. Instead of duplicating the list of supported codecs for
hwaccel decoders, add a probe function which allows each decoder to
report whether it supports a given codec.
Add an "auto" choice to the --hwdec option, which automatically enables
hardware decoding if libavcodec and/or the VO supports it.
What mpv prints on the terminal changes a bit. Now it will just print
a single line whether hw decoding is used or not (and nothing at all if
no hw decoding at all was requested). The pretty violent fallback from
hw decoding to software decoding is still quite verbose and evil-looking
though.
CONFIG_VDPAU was just defined to 0, instead of undefined when vdpau was
unavailable. I blame the old mplayer code, which apparently can't have
consistent conventions.
Move the decoder parts from vo_vdpau.c to a new file vdpau_old.c. This
file is named so because because it's written against the "old"
libavcodec vdpau pseudo-decoder (e.g. "h264_vdpau").
Add support for the "new" libavcodec vdpau support. This was recently
added and replaces the "old" vdpau parts. (In fact, Libav is about to
deprecate and remove the "old" API without deprecation grace period,
so we have to support it now. Moreover, there will probably be no Libav
release which supports both, so the transition is even less smooth than
we could hope, and we have to support both the old and new API.)
Whether the old or new API is used is checked by a configure test: if
the new API is found, it is used, otherwise the old API is assumed.
Some details might be handled differently. Especially display preemption
is a bit problematic with the "new" libavcodec vdpau support: it wants
to keep a pointer to a specific vdpau API function (which can be driver
specific, because preemption might switch drivers). Also, surface IDs
are now directly stored in AVFrames (and mp_images), so they can't be
forced to VDP_INVALID_HANDLE on preemption. (This changes even with
older libavcodec versions, because mp_image always uses the newer
representation to make vo_vdpau.c simpler.)
Decoder initialization in the new code tries to deal with codec
profiles, while the old code always uses the highest profile per codec.
Surface allocation changes. Since the decoder won't call config() in
vo_vdpau.c on video size change anymore, we allow allocating surfaces
of arbitrary size instead of locking it to what the VO was configured.
The non-hwdec code also has slightly different allocation behavior now.
Enabling the old vdpau special decoders via e.g. --vd=lavc:h264_vdpau
doesn't work anymore (a warning suggesting the --hwdec option is
printed instead).
In general, this warning can hint to actual bugs. We don't enable it
yet, because it would conflict with some unmerged code, and we should
check with clang too (this commit was done by testing with gcc).
Delete demux_avi, demux_asf, demux_mpg, demux_ts. libavformat does
better than them (except in rare corner cases), and the demuxers have
a bad influence on the rest of the code. Often they don't output
proper packets, and require additional audio and video parsing. Most
work only in --no-correct-pts mode.
Remove them to facilitate further cleanups.
Use the video decoder chroma location flags and render chroma locations
other than centered. Until now, we've always used the intuitive and
obvious centered chroma location, but H.264 uses something else.
FFmpeg provides a small overview in libavcodec/avcodec.h:
-----------
/**
* X X 3 4 X X are luma samples,
* 1 2 1-6 are possible chroma positions
* X X 5 6 X 0 is undefined/unknown position
*/
enum AVChromaLocation{
AVCHROMA_LOC_UNSPECIFIED = 0,
AVCHROMA_LOC_LEFT = 1, ///< mpeg2/4, h264 default
AVCHROMA_LOC_CENTER = 2, ///< mpeg1, jpeg, h263
AVCHROMA_LOC_TOPLEFT = 3, ///< DV
AVCHROMA_LOC_TOP = 4,
AVCHROMA_LOC_BOTTOMLEFT = 5,
AVCHROMA_LOC_BOTTOM = 6,
AVCHROMA_LOC_NB , ///< Not part of ABI
};
-----------
The visual difference is literally minimal, but since videophiles
apparently consider this detail as quality mark of a video renderer,
support it anyway. We don't bother with chroma locations other than
centered and left, though.
Not sure about correctness, but it's probably ok.
The filter chain and the video ouputs have config() functions. They are
strictly limited to transfering the video size and format. Other
parameters (like color levels) have to be transferred separately.
Improve upon this by introducing a separate set of reconfig() functions,
which use mp_image_params to carry format parameters. This struct
contains all image format related parameters from config(), plus
additional parameters such as colorspace.
Change vf_rotate to use it, as well as vo_opengl. vf_rotate is just
an example/test case, but vo_opengl will need it later.
The intention is also to get rid of VOCTRL_SET_YUV_COLORSPACE. This
information is now handed to the VOs via reconfig(). The getter,
VOCTRL_GET_YUV_COLORSPACE, will still be needed though.
Audio and video had their own (very similar) functions to initialize an
AVPacket (ffmpeg's packet struct) from a demux_packet (mplayer's packet
struct). Add a common function for these.
Also use this function for sd_lavc_conv. This is actually a functional
change, as some libavfilter subtitle demuxers add weird out-of-band
stuff as side-data.
Most of these are rather questionable, the rest you rarely need to set
manually. You still can set all of them with -lavdopts-o (because
libavcodec has AVOptions for them).
This tried to use ctx->pic (last decoded AVFrame) for the frame bounds.
However, if av_frame_unref() on the AVFrame is called, the function will
reset _all_ AVFrame fields, even those which are not involved with
memory management. As result, mpcodecs_config_vo() was called with 0
width/height, which made the function exit early, instead of
reconfiguring the filter chain.
Go back to using mpcodecs_config_vo() directly. (That's what it did
before this VDCTRL was originally introduced; the original reason for
it disappeared.)
This changes the code so that it does the same as MPlayer, mplayer2
and mpv before ref-counted AVFrame. The problem is that get_buffer2
is called with aligned frame dimensions, while get_buffer didn't. This
breaks the mpv video frame size change detection.
This allows using the vdpau decoders with -vd without having to use
the -hwdec switch (basically like in mplayer).
Note that this way of selecting the hardware decoder is still
deprecated. libavcodec went away from adding special decoder entries
for hardware decoding, and instead makes use of the "hwaccel"
architecture, where hardware decoders use the same decoder names as
the software decoders. The old vdpau special decoders will probably
be deprecated and removed in the future.
libavcodec decoder initialization failure caused a segfault, because it
wasn't properly reported back in init().
Also remove the return value from init_avctx(), which actually makes
things simpler. Instead, ctx->avctx can be checked to see whether
initialization was ok.
Makes the code a bit simpler to follow, at least in the "modern"
decoding path (update_video_nocorrect_pts() is used with old demuxers,
which don't return proper packets and need further parsing, so this code
looks less simple now).
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Stefano Pigozzi
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