These variables are coming from mpegvideoenc where are supposedly used
as bit counters on various frame properties. However their use is
unclear as they lack documentation, are available only from a very small
subset of encoders, and they are hardly used in the wild. Also frame_bits
in aacenc is employed in a similar way.
Remove this functionality from AVCodecContex, these variable are mostly
frame properties, and too few encoders support setting them with anything
useful.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Most option values are simply unused or ignored and in practice the
majory of codecs only need to check whether to enable rle or not.
Add appropriate codec private options which better expose the allowed
features.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
This function returns the encoded data of a frame, one slice at a time
directly when that slice is encoded, instead of waiting for the full
frame to be done. However this field has a debatable usefulness, since
it looks like it is just a convoluted way to get data at lowest
possible latency, or a somewhat hacky way to store h263 in RFC-2190
rtp encapsulation.
Moreover when multi-threading is enabled (which is by default) the order
of returned slices is not deterministic at all, making the use of this
function not reliable at all (or at the very least, more complicated
than it should be).
So, for the reasons stated above, and being used by only a single encoder
family (mpegvideo), this field is deemed unnecessary, overcomplicated,
and not really belonging to libavcodec. Libavformat features a complete
implementation of RFC-2190, for any other case.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
This side data type is meant to be added to AVStream side data.
A fallback track indicates an alternate track to use when the
current track can not be decoded for some reason. e.g. no
decoder available for codec.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
This structure served as a bridge between data pointers and frames,
but it suffers from several limitations:
- it is not refcounted and data must be copied to every time
- it cannot be expanded without ABI break due to being used on the stack
- its functions are just wrappers to imgutils which add a layer of
unneeded indirection, and maintenance burden
- it allows hacks like embedding uncompressed data in packets
- its use is often confusing to our users
AVFrame provides a much better API, and, if a full blown frame is not
needed, it is just as simple and more straightfoward to use data and
linesize arrays directly.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Use the new fields directly instead of the ones from AVPicture.
This removes a layer of indirection which serves no pratical purpose
whatsoever, and will help in removing AVPicture structure completely
later.
Every subtitle encoder/decoder seamlessly points to the new arrays,
so it is possible to deprecate AVSubtitleRect.pict.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Note that convergence_duration had another meaning, one which was in
practice never used. The only real use for it was a 64 bit replacement
for the duration field. It's better just to make duration 64 bits, and
to get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
"int" is useful in testing because provides accurate results across
different plaftforms, so remove it from the scheduled FF_API_UNUSED_MEMBERS
deprecation.
Deprecate the now unused option, but temporarily retain the capability
to disable the now default behaviour.
Mention this change in the AVPacket documentation.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
This option is extremely codec specific and only a few codecs employ it.
Move it to codec private options instead: mpegenc family supports only 3
values, xavs and x264 use 5, and xvid has a different metric entirely.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
The rationale is that coded_frame was only used to communicate key_frame,
pict_type and quality to the caller, as well as a few other random fields,
in a non predictable, let alone consistent way.
There was agreement that there was no use case for coded_frame, as it is
a full-sized AVFrame container used for just 2-3 int-sized properties,
which shouldn't even belong into the AVCodecContext in the first place.
The appropriate AVPacket flag can be used instead of key_frame, while
quality is exported with the new AVPacketSideData quality factor.
There is no replacement for the other fields as they were unreliable,
mishandled or just not used at all.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
This is necessary to preserve the quality information currently exported
with coded_frame. Add the new side data to every encoder that needs it,
and use it in avconv.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
They are used by dnxhd and mpegvideo_enc exclusively, move them to codec
private options instead.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Bump the minimum libvpx version to 1.3.0 and rework the configure logic
to fail only if no decoders and encoders are found.
Based on the original patch from Vittorio.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
The AVCodecContext width, height, coded_width, coded_height and format
are used mainly as decoding hints and they get internally overwritten
during the data parsing stage.
Do not assume they match the last AVFrame provided by
avcodec_decode_video2 and assimilated functions since multi-threading
and other frame reordering might make those values to refer to frames
that will be outputted in the future.
CC: libav-stable@libav.org
This field is designed for marking codec properties useful to lavc internals.
Two internal capabilities are added:
- FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_THREADSAFE: codec can be opened without locks;
- FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_CLEANUP: codec frees memory if initialization fails.
