[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] amfenc: Remove spurious initialisations

Mark Thompson sw at jkqxz.net
Sun Apr 22 18:37:13 EEST 2018


On 15/04/18 20:45, Alexander Kravchenko wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Mark Thompson
>> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 7:31 PM
>> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] amfenc: Remove spurious initialisations
>>
>>
>>> I am waiting patches to be applied to propose new patch with hwcontext_amf in libavutil.
>>
>> Can you explain what you're intending to use that for?  It's not clear to me how an extra wrapper around the D3D(9|11) surfaces is
>> going to help, given that the support for them with AMF is already pretty good.  (Compare the Intel libmfx stuff (the misleadingly-
>> named "qsv") where the extra wrapping does help for some cases because the underlying library has weird constraints, but overall
>> adds a lot of complexity (and failure modes) for rather unclear benefit.  It's also inconvenient in that it promotes the existence of
>> antifeatures like the "_qsv" decoders which are inferior to the builtin hwaccels in pretty much every respect.)
>>
> 
> Hi Mark,
> I am intending to create amf common helpers(tools) in libavutil. 
> They will be used in amfenc and vf_scaleamf. (vf_scaleamf is hw-accelerated color-space converter and scaler)
> 
> amf helpers should provide:
> * amf_library: functions to load/unload amf dll based on reference count mechanism
> * amf_context: functions to create AMFContext derived from DXVA2, D3D11, opencl and Vulcan in future
> * av_frame <-> AMFSurface map functions (move from amfenc.c)
> 
> amfav_context can be implemented like hwdevice_ctx (AVAMFDeviceContext) and can be managed by av_hwdevice_ctx_create_derived (in case of incoming hw frames) and av_hwdevice_ctx_create or it can be implemented not using of av_hwdevice_ctx* mechanism
> 
> I think don’t need AVAMFFrameContext, and amf components will send/receive hwframes based on existing framecontexts (dxva/opencl...)
> 
> Could you recommend the best way how to do this fit in current architecture?

I agree that using a hwdevice context here makes sense, since it wraps all of the right properties (in particular, derivation from other devices).

It's less clear to me what to do with the frames.  A hwframes context could work just for derivation because you don't actually need to implement the allocation stuff (the existing DRM hwcontext does this, since it's only for interop).  What other approach would you think of taking?  Adding special external API to use internally between libraries is not nice and we try to avoid it quite strongly.

- Mark


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