On 03/18/2017 12:22 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
Hi Steve,
I've just been trying to get gstreamer to capture and h264 encode
video from my camera at various frame rates, and what I've discovered
does not look good.
1) when setting frame rates, media-ctl _always_ calls
VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_FRAME_INTERVAL with pad=0.
2) media-ctl never retrieves the frame interval information, so there's
no way to read it back with standard tools, and no indication that
this is going on...
I think Philipp Zabel submitted a patch which addresses these in media-ctl. Check with him.
3) gstreamer v4l2src is getting upset, because it can't enumerate the
frame sizes (VIDIOC_ENUM_FRAMESIZES fails),
Right, imx-media-capture.c (the "standard" v4l2 user interface module) is not implementing VIDIOC_ENUM_FRAMESIZES. It should, but it can only return the single frame size that the pipeline has configured (the mbus format of the attached source pad).
which causes it to
fallback to using the "tvnorms" to decide about frame rates. This
makes it impossible to use frame rates higher than 30000/1001, and
causes the pipeline validation to fail.
In v5 I added validation of frame intervals between pads, but due to negative feedback I've pulled that. So next version will not attempt to validate frame intervals between source->sink pads. Can you share your gstreamer pipeline? For now, until VIDIOC_ENUM_FRAMESIZES is implemented, try a pipeline that does not attempt to specify a frame rate. I use the attached script for testing, which works for me.
0:00:01.937465845 20954 0x15ffe90 DEBUG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2474:gst_v4l2_object_probe_caps_for_format:<v4l2src0> Enumerating frame sizes for RGGB 0:00:01.937588518 20954 0x15ffe90 DEBUG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2601:gst_v4l2_object_probe_caps_for_format:<v4l2src0> Failed to enumerate frame sizes for pixelformat RGGB (Inappropriate ioctl for device) 0:00:01.937879535 20954 0x15ffe90 LOG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2708:gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size:<v4l2src0> getting nearest size to 1x1 with format RGGB 0:00:01.937990874 20954 0x15ffe90 LOG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2724:gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size:<v4l2src0> got nearest size 816x616 0:00:01.938250889 20954 0x15ffe90 ERROR v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:1873:gst_v4l2_object_get_interlace_mode: Driver bug detected - check driver with v4l2-compliance from http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git 0:00:01.938326893 20954 0x15ffe90 LOG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2708:gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size:<v4l2src0> getting nearest size to 32768x32768 with format RGGB 0:00:01.938431566 20954 0x15ffe90 LOG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:2724:gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size:<v4l2src0> got nearest size 816x616 0:00:01.939776641 20954 0x15ffe90 ERROR v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:1873:gst_v4l2_object_get_interlace_mode: Driver bug detected - check driver with v4l2-compliance from http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git 0:00:01.940110660 20954 0x15ffe90 DEBUG v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:1955:gst_v4l2_object_get_colorspace: Unknown enum v4l2_colorspace 0 This triggers the "/* Since we can't get framerate directly, try to use the current norm */" code in v4l2object.c, which causes it to select one of the 30000/1001 norms: 0:00:01.955927879 20954 0x15ffe90 INFO v4l2 gstv4l2object.c:3811:gst_v4l2_object_get_caps:<v4l2src0> probed caps: video/x-bayer, format=(string)rggb, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, width=(int)816, height=(int)616, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1; video/x-raw, format=(string)I420, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, width=(int)816, height=(int)616, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1; video/x-raw, format=(string)YV12, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, width=(int)816, height=(int)616, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1; video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, width=(int)816, height=(int)616, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1; video/x-raw, format=(string)RGB, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, width=(int)816, height=(int)616, interlace-mode=(string)progressive, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1 despite the media pipeline actually being configured for 60fps. Forcing it by adjusting the pipeline only results in gstreamer failing, because it believes that v4l2 is unable to operate at 60fps. Also note the complaints from v4l2src about the non-compliance...
Thanks, I've fixed most of v4l2-compliance issues, but this is not done yet. Is that something you can help with? Steve
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