When no timestamps are available from the container, the video decoding
code will currently use fake dts values - generated in
process_input_packet() based on a combination of information from the
decoder and the parser (obtained via the demuxer) - to generate
timestamps during decoder flushing. This is fragile, hard to follow, and
unnecessarily convoluted, since more reliable information can be
obtained directly from post-decoding values.
The new code keeps track of the last decoded frame pts and estimates its
duration based on a number of heuristics. Timestamps generated when both
pts and pkt_dts are missing are then simple pts+duration of the last frame.
The heuristics are somewhat complicated by the fact that lavf insists on
making up packet timestamps based on its highly incomplete information.
That should be removed in the future, allowing to further simplify this
code.
The results of the following tests change:
* h264-3386 now requires -fps_mode passthrough to avoid dropping frames
at the end; this is a pathology of the interaction of the new and old
code, and the fact that the sample switches from field to frame coding
in the last packet, and will be fixed in following commits
* hevc-conformance-DELTAQP_A_BRCM_4 stops inventing an arbitrary
timestamp gap at the end
* hevc-small422chroma - the single frame output by this test now has a
timestamp of 0, rather than an arbitrary 7
Changes the result of the h264_redundant_pps-mov test, where the output
timebase is now 1001/24000 instead of 1/24. This is more correct, as the
source file actually is 23.98fps.
Timestamps in two FATE H.264 conformance tests now start at 1 instead
of 0, which also happens in some other H.264 tests before this commit
and so is not a big issue.
Conversely, timestamps in some HEVC conformance tests start from a
smaller value now.
Ideally this should be addressed later in a more general way.
h264-conformance-frext-frext2_panasonic_b no longer requires -vsync
passthrough.
This field contains different values depending on whether the stream is
being decoded or not. When it is, InputStream.pts is set to the
timestamp of the last decoded frame. Otherwise, it is made equal to
InputStream.dts.
Since a given InputStream can be at the same time decoded and
streamcopied to any number of output streams, this use is incorrect, as
decoded frame timestamps can be delayed with respect to input packets by
an arbitrary amount (e.g. depending on the thread count when frame
threading is used).
Replace all uses of InputStream.pts for streamcopy with InputStream.dts,
which is its value when decoding is not performed. Stop setting
InputStream.pts for pure streamcopy.
Also, pass InputStream.dts as a parameter to do_streamcopy(), which
will allow that function to be decoupled from InputStream completely in
the future.
Which is subtitle encoding. Also, check for AVSubtitle.pts rather than
InputStream.pts, since that is the more authoritative value and is
guaranteed to be valid.
That function only contains two checks now - whether the muxer returned
EOF and whether the packet timestamp is before requested output start
time.
The first check is unnecessary, since the packet will just be rejected
by the muxer. The second check is better combined with a related check
directly in do_streamcopy().
Currently, output streams where an input stream is sent directly (i.e.
not through lavfi) are determined by iterating over ALL the output
streams and skipping the irrelevant ones. This is awkward and
inefficient.
The channel layout is set before opening the encoder, in enc_open().
Messing with it in configure_output_audio_filter() cannot accomplish
anything meaningful.
This option adds a long string of numbers to the progress line, where
i-th number contains the base-2 logarithm of the number of times a frame
with this QP value was seen by print_report().
There are multiple problems with this feature:
* despite this existing since 2005, web search shows no indication
that it was ever useful for any meaningful purpose;
* the format of what is printed is entirely undocumented, one has to
find it out from the source code;
* QP values above 31 are silently ignored;
* it only works with one video stream;
* as it relies on global state, it is in conflict with ongoing
architectural changes.
It then seems that the nontrivial cost of maintaining this option is not
worth its negligible (or possibly negative - since it pollutes the
already large option space) value.
Users who really need similar functionality can also implement it
themselves using -vstats.
Current code in print_final_stats(), printing the final summary such as
video:8851kB audio:548kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:20kB muxing overhead: 0.559521%
was written with a single output file in mind and makes very little
sense otherwise.
Print this information in mux_final_stats() instead, one line per output
file. Use the correct filesize, if available.
This is currently done in two places:
* at the end of print_final_stats(), which merely prints a warning if
the total size of all written packets is zero
* at the end of transcode() (under a misleading historical 'close each
encoder' comment), which instead checks the packet count to implement
-abort_on empty_output[_stream]
Consolidate both of these blocks into a single function called from
of_write_trailer(), which is a more appropriate place for this. Also,
return an error code rather than exit immediately, which ensures all
output files are properly closed.
Properly pass muxing return codes through the call stack instead.
Slightly changes behavior in case of errors:
* the output IO stream is closed even if writing the trailer returns an
error, which should be more correct
* all files get properly closed with -xerror, even if one of them fails
It is video encoding-only and does not need to be visible outside of
ffmpeg_enc.c
Also, rename the variable to frames_prev_hist to be consistent with
the naming in do_video_out().
This allows weird subsampling with progressive JPEGs to be decoded,
such as full-RG and only B subsampled.
Signed-off-by: Leo Izen <leo.izen@gmail.com>
Drop unneeded ctype.h and math.h.
Group all system headers together.
Sort unconditional includes alphabetically.
Group local includes by the library, sort alphabetically.