On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:22 PM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:48:54 +0200
> Steve Lhomme <rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:38 AM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:08:24 +0200
>> > Hendrik Leppkes <h.lepp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Steve Lhomme <rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > As I am progressing in proper HDR10 support in VLC, I am facing an
>> >> > issue. The mastering (and lighting pending patch) metadata are set on
>> >> > the AVFrame but not available to the ff_get_format() receiver.
>> >> >
>> >> > That means when we configure our vout and decoder we don't know if
>> >> > it's going to have HDR metadata or not.
>> >> >
>> >> > Could we move the mastering (and lighting) metadata on the
>> >> > AVCodecContext ? Or provide the metadata on the ff_get_format() call ?
>> >> >
>> >> > I CC'ed libav as they have opinions on possible API changes, even
>> >> > though there is no mastering metadata support in there yet.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I'm against polluting AVCodecContext with more random fields, and
>> >> get_format is fixed API/ABI, we can't change that very easily.
>> >>
>> >> In general, this is per-frame metadata, which can appear or change
>> >> with any given frame, without get_format being invoked again. You
>> >> should probably just be able to have your output react to that once it
>> >> receives it.
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > Also, get_format is not for such things - it's to allocate frames
>> > _only_, and thus needs only size and pixfmt.
>>
>> Yes, but for example if you're going to have stereo pictures you may
>> need to setup your allocated textures a certain way.
>
> FFmpeg doesn't support MVC decoding if you mean that.
>
>> Also AVColorPrimaries are found in the mastering metadata are found in
>> AVCodecContext, should the metadata write there instead ?
>
> I think these AVCodecContext fields should be removed.

This would be nice.
-- 
Vittorio
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