Hi, can you paste a complete example please? Maybe with a link to a test
video file.
What I would try first is SDL's latest release, which is 2.540 or so.
Cheers, FROGGS
Am 23.07.2013 23:44, schrieb tmur...@wumpus-cave.net:
> I'm working on a project involving decoding h.264 video frames with
> ffmpeg and then outputting them to an SDL surface. From what I've
> read, the YUV overlay is meant for this kind of job, but I'm having
> trouble getting it to work with the Perl bindings.
>
> One thing that seems odd to me in the Perl docs is:
>
> As of release 2.3 direct right to overlay is disable.
>
> Besides the typos, this troubles me because it seems that disabling
> the feature makes the YUV overlay completely useless.
>
> Not to be deterred, I wrote this code:
>
> SDL::Video::lock_YUV_overlay( $overlay );
> # The order of array indexen is correct, according to:
> # http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/tutorial02.html
> my $pitches = $overlay->pitches;
> $$pitches[0] = scalar @{ $last_vid_frame[0] };
> $$pitches[2] = scalar @{ $last_vid_frame[1] };
> $$pitches[1] = scalar @{ $last_vid_frame[2] };
> my $pixels = $overlay->pixels;
> $$pixels[0] = $last_vid_frame[0];
> $$pixels[2] = $last_vid_frame[1];
> $$pixels[1] = $last_vid_frame[2];
> SDL::Video::unlock_YUV_overlay( $overlay );
>
> SDL::Video::update_rects( $sdl, $bg_rect );
> SDL::Video::display_YUV_overlay( $sdl, $bg_rect );
>
> When I run this, I get an error about not being able to find the
> pitches() method against the class "SDL::Overlay". Eh? (Same thing
> happens for the pixels() method if I put that call first.) I can call
> width() and format() and such just fine on that object.
>
> If needed, I can handle the overlay entirely at the C level. I may
> end up doing that anyway; the C array that comes out of ffmpeg is
> being transformed into a Perl array-of-arrays, which is going to be an
> expensive operation to do for 720p at 30 fps in realtime. But I'd like
> to try this at the Perl level for now.
>
> I might also have to convert the output from ffmpeg using
> sws_scale(). It's coming out in YUV420P mode, and I'm using YV12 to
> init the overlay. But I'd like to get the above working before messing
> with that.
>
> Thanks,
> Timm Murray
