It has been deprecated in favor of the aresample filter for almost 10
years.
Another thing this option can do is drop audio timestamps and have them
generated by the encoding code or the muxer, but
- for encoding, this can already be done with the setpts filter
- for muxing this should almost never be done as timestamp generation by
the muxer is deprecated, but people who really want to do this can use
the setts bitstream filter
update_video_stats() currently uses OutputStream.data_size to print the
total size of the encoded stream so far and the average bitrate.
However, that field is updated in the muxer thread, right before the
packet is sent to the muxer. Not only is this racy, but the numbers may
not match even if muxing was in the main thread due to bitstream
filters, filesize limiting, etc.
Introduce a new counter, data_size_enc, for total size of the packets
received from the encoder and use that in update_video_stats(). Rename
data_size to data_size_mux to indicate its semantics more clearly.
No synchronization is needed for data_size_mux, because it is only read
in the main thread in print_final_stats(), which runs after the muxer
threads are terminated.
It is either equal to OutputStream.enc_ctx->codec, or NULL when enc_ctx
is NULL. Replace the use of enc with enc_ctx->codec, or the equivalent
enc_ctx->codec_* fields where more convenient.
It races with the demuxing thread. Instead, send the information along
with the demuxed packets.
Ideally, the code should stop using the stream-internal parsing
completely, but that requires considerably more effort.
Fixes races, e.g. in:
- fate-h264-brokensps-2580
- fate-h264-extradata-reload
- fate-iv8-demux
- fate-m4v-cfr
- fate-m4v
Use it instead of AVStream.codecpar in the main thread. While
AVStream.codecpar is documented to only be updated when the stream is
added or avformat_find_stream_info(), it is actually updated during
demuxing. Accessing it from a different thread then constitutes a race.
Ideally, some mechanism should eventually be provided for signalling
parameter updates to the user. Then the demuxing thread could pick up
the changes and propagate them to the decoder.
This will allow to move normal offset handling to demuxer thread, since
discontinuities currently have to be processed in the main thread, as
the code uses some decoder-produced values.
InputFile.ts_offset can change during transcoding, due to discontinuity
correction. This should not affect the streamcopy starting timestamp.
Cf. bf2590aed3
-stream_loop is currently handled by destroying the demuxer thread,
seeking, then recreating it anew. This is very messy and conflicts with
the future goal of moving each major ffmpeg component into its own
thread.
Handle -stream_loop directly in the demuxer thread. Looping requires the
demuxer to know the duration of the file, which takes into account the
duration of the last decoded audio frame (if any). Use a thread message
queue to communicate this information from the main thread to the
demuxer thread.
There are currently three possible modes for an output stream:
1) The stream is produced by encoding output from some filtergraph. This
is true when ost->enc_ctx != NULL, or equivalently when
ost->encoding_needed != 0.
2) The stream is produced by copying some input stream's packets. This
is true when ost->enc_ctx == NULL && ost->source_index >= 0.
3) The stream is produced by attaching some file directly. This is true
when ost->enc_ctx == NULL && ost->source_index < 0.
OutputStream.stream_copy is currently used to identify case 2), and
sometimes to confusingly (or even incorrectly) identify case 1). Remove
it, replacing its usage with checking enc_ctx/source_index values.
The -shortest option (which finishes the output file at the time the
shortest stream ends) is currently implemented by faking the -t option
when an output stream ends. This approach is fragile, since it depends
on the frames/packets being processed in a specific order. E.g. there
are currently some situations in which the output file length will
depend unpredictably on unrelated factors like encoder delay. More
importantly, the present work aiming at splitting various ffmpeg
components into different threads will make this approach completely
unworkable, since the frames/packets will arrive in effectively random
order.
This commit introduces a "sync queue", which is essentially a collection
of FIFOs, one per stream. Frames/packets are submitted to these FIFOs
and are then released for further processing (encoding or muxing) when
it is ensured that the frame in question will not cause its stream to
get ahead of the other streams (the logic is similar to libavformat's
interleaving queue).
These sync queues are then used for encoding and/or muxing when the
-shortest option is specified.
A new option – -shortest_buf_duration – controls the maximum number of
queued packets, to avoid runaway memory usage.
This commit changes the results of the following tests:
- copy-shortest[12]: the last audio frame is now gone. This is
correct, since it actually outlasts the last video frame.
- shortest-sub: the video packets following the last subtitle packet are
now gone. This is also correct.
The following commits will add a new buffering stage after bitstream
filters, which should not be taken into account for choosing next
output.
OutputStream.last_mux_dts is also used by the muxing code to make up
missing DTS values - that field is now moved to the muxer-private
MuxStream object.
It is currently called from two places:
- output_packet() in ffmpeg.c, which submits the newly available output
packet to the muxer
- from of_check_init() in ffmpeg_mux.c after the header has been
written, to flush the muxing queue
Some packets will thus be processed by this function twice, so it
requires an extra parameter to indicate the place it is called from and
avoid modifying some state twice.
This is fragile and hard to follow, so split this function into two.
Also rename of_write_packet() to of_submit_packet() to better reflect
its new purpose.
The muxing queue currently lives in OutputStream, which is a very large
struct storing the state for both encoding and muxing. The muxing queue
is only used by the code in ffmpeg_mux, so it makes sense to restrict it
to that file.
This makes the first step towards reducing the scope of OutputStream.
Figure out earlier whether the output stream/file should be bitexact and
store this information in a flag in OutputFile/OutputStream.
Stop accessing the muxer in set_encoder_id(), which will become
forbidden in future commits.
Move the file size checking code to ffmpeg_mux. Use the recently
introduced of_filesize(), making this code consistent with the size
shown by print_report().
Move header_written into it, which is not (and should not be) used by
any code outside of ffmpeg_mux.
In the future this context will contain more muxer-private state that
should not be visible to other code.
