Currently, we have a AV_CODEC_ID_SSA, which matches the way the ASS/SSA
markup is muxed in a standalone .ass/.ssa file. This means the AVPacket
data starts with a "Dialogue:" string, followed by a timing information
(start and end of the event as string) and a trailing CRLF after each
line. One packet can contain several lines. We'll refer to this layout
as "SSA" or "SSA lines".
In matroska, this markup is not stored as such: it has no "Dialogue:"
prefix, it contains a ReadOrder field, the timing information is not in
the payload, and it doesn't contain the trailing CRLF. See [1] for more
info. We'll refer to this layout as "ASS".
Since we have only one common codec for both formats, the matroska
demuxer is constructing an AVPacket following the "SSA lines" format.
This causes several problems, so it was decided to change this into
clean ASS packets.
Some insight about what is changed or unchanged in this commit:
CODECS
------
- the decoding process still writes "SSA lines" markup inside the ass
fields of the subtitles rectangles (sub->rects[n]->ass), which is
still the current common way of representing decoded subtitles
markup. It is meant to change later.
- new ASS codec id: AV_CODEC_ID_ASS (which is different from the
legacy AV_CODEC_ID_SSA)
- lavc/assdec: the "ass" decoder is renamed into "ssa" (instead of
"ass") for consistency with the codec id and allows to add a real
ass decoder. This ass decoder receives clean ASS lines (so it starts
with a ReadOrder, is followed by the Layer, etc). We make sure this
is decoded properly in a new ass-line rectangle of the decoded
subtitles (the ssa decoder OTOH is doing a simple straightforward
copy). Using the packet timing instead of data string makes sure the
ass-line now contains the appropriate timing.
- lavc/assenc: just like the ass decoder, the "ssa" encoder is renamed
into "ssa" (instead of "ass") for consistency with the codec id, and
allows to add a real "ass" encoder.
One important thing about this encoder is that it only supports one
ass rectangle: we could have put several dialogue events in the
AVPacket (separated by a \0 for instance) but this would have cause
trouble for the muxer which needs not only the start time, but also
the duration: typically, you have merged events with the same start
time (stored in the AVPacket->pts) but a different duration. At the
moment, only the matroska do the merge with the SSA-line codec.
We will need to make sure all the decoders in the future can't add
more than one rectangle (and only one Dialogue line in it
obviously).
FORMATS
-------
- lavf/assenc: the .ass/.ssa muxer can take both SSA and ASS packets.
In the case of ASS packets as input, it adds the timing based on the
AVPacket pts and duration, and mux it with "Dialogue:", trailing
CRLF, etc.
- lavf/assdec: unchanged; it currently still only outputs SSA-lines
packets.
- lavf/mkv: the demuxer can now output ASS packets without the need of
any "SSA-lines" reconstruction hack. It will become the default at
next libavformat bump, and the SSA support will be dropped from the
demuxer. The muxer can take ASS packets since it's muxed normally,
and still supports the old SSA packets. All the SSA support and
hacks in Matroska code will be dropped at next lavf bump.
[1]: http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/ssa.html
* qatar/master:
hwaccel: fix use with frame based multithreading
Conflicts:
libavcodec/h263dec.c
libavcodec/version.h
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Allows use of AVHWAccel based decoders with frame based multithreading.
The decoders will be forced into an non-concurrent mode by delaying
ff_thread_finish_setup() calls after decoding of the current frame
is finished.
This wastes memory by unnecessarily using multiple threads and thus
copies of the decoder context but allows seamless switching between
hardware accelerated and frame threaded software decoding when the
hardware decoder does not support the stream.
The two types of packets (PCI and DSI) are passed untouched but combined by the new codec ID AV_CODEC_ID_DVD_NAV.
The first 980 bytes in the packet contain the PCI data. The next 1018 are the DSI data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit 'f099d3d1d5466bd63f4ab36270d169ff9ea613b8':
Add av_log_{ask_for_sample|missing_feature} replacements to libavutil
ismindex: Check the return value of allocations
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This reverts commit d3edc65dd1, reversing
changes made to 150de78d7c.
Conflicts:
libavcodec/version.h
It seems there are several applications still using it
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '0f24a3ca999a702f83af9307f9f47b6fdeb546a5':
lavc: remove disabled FF_API_OLD_ENCODE_VIDEO cruft
lavc: remove disabled FF_API_OLD_ENCODE_AUDIO cruft
lavc: remove disabled FF_API_OLD_DECODE_AUDIO cruft
Conflicts:
libavcodec/flacenc.c
libavcodec/libgsm.c
libavcodec/utils.c
libavcodec/version.h
The compatibility wrapers are left as they likely sre still
in wide use. They will be removed when they break or otherwise
cause work without an volunteer being available.
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '8df23e938b4022d6e6e9e1180ea6418abae74fda':
lavc: postpone the removal of request_channels API.
AVFrame: deprecate all now unused fields
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit 'ca1fe6c0e60808da45d4dfd8728f45e843b9f9b0':
h263: remove an unused parameter from ff_h263_decode_init_vlc
flac: add channel layout masks for streams with 7 or 8 channels.
flac: don't check the number of channels before setting the channel layout.
Conflicts:
libavcodec/version.h
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
