On 26/10/17 11:36, wm4 wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:18:39 +0100
> Mark Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> ---
>> Rebased on the frame parameter changes, and incorporating all review 
>> comments from last time.
>>
>>
>>  doc/APIchanges       |  3 +++
>>  libavcodec/avcodec.h | 74 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  libavcodec/hwaccel.h | 18 +++++++++++++
>>  libavcodec/utils.c   | 12 +++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 107 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
>> index 9f3a1f246..490c71cc2 100644
>> --- a/doc/APIchanges
>> +++ b/doc/APIchanges
>> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ libavutil:     2017-03-23
>>  
>>  API changes, most recent first:
>>  
>> +2017-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 58.x+1.0 - avcodec.h
>> +  Add AVCodecHWConfig and avcodec_get_hw_config().
>> +
>>  2017-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 58.5.0 - avcodec.h
>>    Add avcodec_get_hw_frames_parameters().
>>  
>> diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
>> index 562483502..b4bd4ad16 100644
>> --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
>> +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>>  #include "libavutil/cpu.h"
>>  #include "libavutil/dict.h"
>>  #include "libavutil/frame.h"
>> +#include "libavutil/hwcontext.h"
>>  #include "libavutil/log.h"
>>  #include "libavutil/pixfmt.h"
>>  #include "libavutil/rational.h"
>> @@ -2735,6 +2736,61 @@ typedef struct AVProfile {
>>      const char *name; ///< short name for the profile
>>  } AVProfile;
>>  
>> +enum {
>> +    /**
>> +     * The codec supports this format via the hw_device_ctx interface.
>> +     *
>> +     * When selecting this format, AVCodecContext.hw_device_ctx should
>> +     * have been set to a device of the specified type before calling
>> +     * avcodec_open2().
>> +     */
>> +    AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_HW_DEVICE_CTX = 0x01,
>> +    /**
>> +     * The codec supports this format via the hw_frames_ctx interface.
>> +     *
>> +     * When selecting this format for a decoder,
>> +     * AVCodecContext.hw_frames_ctx should be set to a suitable frames
>> +     * context inside the get_format() callback.  The frames context
>> +     * must have been created on a device of the specified type.
>> +     */
>> +    AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_HW_FRAMES_CTX = 0x02,
>> +    /**
>> +     * The codec supports this format by some internal method.
>> +     *
>> +     * This format can be selected without any additional configuration -
>> +     * no device or frames are required.
>> +     */
>> +    AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_INTERNAL      = 0x04,
>> +    /**
>> +     * The codec supports this format by some ad-hoc method.
>> +     *
>> +     * Additional settings and/or function calls are required.  See the
>> +     * codec-specific documentation for details.  (Methods requiring
>> +     * this sort of configuration are deprecated and others should be
>> +     * used in preference.)
>> +     */
>> +    AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_AD_HOC        = 0x08,
>> +};
>> +
>> +typedef struct AVCodecHWConfig {
>> +    /**
>> +     * A hardware pixel format which the codec can use.
>> +     */
>> +    enum AVPixelFormat pix_fmt;
>> +    /**
>> +     * Bit set of AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_* flags, describing the possible
>> +     * setup methods which can be used with this configuration.
>> +     */
>> +    int methods;
>> +    /**
>> +     * The device type associated with the configuration.
>> +     *
>> +     * Must be set for AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_HW_DEVICE_CTX and
>> +     * AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_METHOD_HW_FRAMES_CTX, otherwise unused.
>> +     */
>> +    enum AVHWDeviceType device_type;
>> +} AVCodecHWConfig;
> 
> All patches LGTM, just 3 things:
> 
> 1. I'd really like if the following two things were exposed as metadata:
>    - whether the AVCodec supports software decoding at all (fallbacks
>      etc.)
>    - whether the software decoder is native to Libav, or something
>      external (for example I think qsvdec can do software decoding?)

Yeah, that would make sense.

Another field "flags", then something like:
* AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_FLAG_SUPPORTS_FALLBACK: can switch between this and and 
the internal software decoder via get_format().
* AV_CODEC_HW_CONFIG_FLAG_EXTERNAL_SOFTWARE: external decoder can be a software 
implementation.

?

> 2. Should AVCodecHWConfig have a name that identifies each entry? (The
> name would be unique for the same AVCodec, but not globally.) As we
> move away from identifying hwaccels via only a pixfmt or device type,
> and use AVCodecHWConfig pointers instead, this might help with
> introspection, debugging, command line mappings.

Can you suggest the sort of names you're thinking of here?  I think this might 
depend on (3) as well to be useful.

> 3. Should there be no "methods" bit field, and instead expose each mode
> as a separate AVCodecHWConfig? It's a bit weird that one entry can
> somehow represent multiple methods.

I did consider this initially, but it doesn't work very nicely with the 
existing pixfmt-based selection (get_format, etc.) because there are then 
multiple entries for each pixfmt.  With select_config() instead of 
get_format(), maybe it would be the right way to go.

Thanks,

- Mark
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