This MMAL feature fills in missing timestamps from the framerate set on
the input port. This is generally unwanted, since libavcodec decoders
merely pass through timestamps without ever "fixing" them. The framerate
is also unknown, and even the timebase doesn't have to be set.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Don't try to do a blocking wait for MMAL output if we haven't even sent
a single real packet, but only flush packets. Obviously we can't expect
to get anything back.
Additionally, don't send a flush packet to MMAL in the same case. It
appears the MMAL decoder will sometimes hang in mmal_vc_port_disable()
(called from ffmmal_close_decoder()), waiting for a reply from the GPU
which never arrives. Either MMAL disallows sending flush packets without
preceding real data, or it's a MMAL bug.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
I can't come up with a nice way to handle this. It's hard to keep the
lock-stepped input/output in this case. You can't predict whether the
MMAL decoder will output a picture (because it's asynchronous), so
you have to assume in general that any packet could produce 0 or 1
frames. You can't continue to write input packets to the decoder,
because then you might get too many output frames, which you can't
get rid of because the lavc decoding API does not allow the decoder
to return an output frame without consuming an input frame (except
when flushing).
The ideal fix is a M:N decoding API (preferably asynchronous), which
would make this code potentially much cleaner. For now, this hack
will do.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
This is optional, but ensures that linking with -Wl,--as-needed does not
drop the library containing the MMAL VC driver. The driver normally
"registers" itself in the library constructor, but since no symbols are
explicitly referenced, the linker could remove it with --as-needed
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
