[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavu: add a gamma field to AVMasteringDisplayMetadata

James Almer jamrial at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 19:12:27 EEST 2017


On 9/20/2017 12:58 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
>> * In my opinion we should not add new fields to structures that map 1:1 to
> *>* something defined elsewhere (with the exception of booleans).
> *>* I think this should be a separate side data and type, ie AVGammaResponse,
> *>* that can of course reside in the same header.
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> *>* Vittorio
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> Why? I don't see anything special about the struct. And this value fits in
> exactly to what the struct is all about.
> 
> 
> "mastering display" is a specification defined in several standards,
> including h264 and h265. It groups two kind of properties, the mastering
> display primaries (with its whitepoint) and the screen min and max
> luminance. AVMasteringDisplayMetadata is modelled after this specification
> and designed to expose the same kind of information; setters and getter
> will expect to use all the information contained in it.
> 
> Adding a field that is missing from the original specification to that
> structure is, in my opinion, semantically wrong, not only because
> AVMasteringDisplayMetadata won't be strictly mapped to a the "mastering
> display" any more, but also because the setters and getters of the
> "mastering display" users will not need the new field at all.
> 
> There is a precedent to this: AVColorVolume. Its field are, in practice,

Did you mean AVContentLightMetadata? I can't find any reference to
AVColorVolume in the tree.

> tied to mastering display, but they are stored in a separate structure, and
> not squashed in the main AVMasteringDisplayMetadata structure. I think we
> should continue this trend so that we can easily map structures with known
> specifications and not overload them with unnecessary fields.
> 

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