[gst-embedded] New project announcement: gst-dsp, with beagleboard demo image

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 14:31:06 PDT 2009


Hi,

This is the first public release of gst-dsp; a native GStreamer plug-in to
access Texas Instruments' DSP algorithms for OMAP3 platforms.

The code came originally from a series of TI projects: tiopenmax[1], and
libbridge[2]. gst-dsp replaces these two layers and talks directly to the DSP
bridge driver.

The main advantages are code simplification (5k vs 50k), and better performance
(at least 4 times less CPU usage). However, not all of the codecs have been
implemented, only MPEG-4 and H.263 video encoders and decoders, the JPEG
encoder, and H.264 is partially supported.

Currently it's used in the Nokia N900.

In order to make it easier for people to try it out, I created a demo image for
the beagleboard with all the required components: GStreamer, gst-dsp, DSP
public binaries, and a kernel with DSS2 and DSP bridge driver.

The linux kernel (DSS2 + dspbridge) is at the v2.6.32-felipec1 tag in:
http://gitorious.org/~felipec/linux-omap/felipec

The DSP algorithms are public, and come from tiopenmax:
https://gforge.ti.com/gf/download/frsrelease/170/1399/tiopenmax-0.3.5.tar.gz

Here's the demo rootfs with the kernel image and instructions:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/beagle-2.6.32-rc3/

And here's the video showing it on action for both playback and recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN-Nw_yDQUs

The main repository is hosted on github:
http://github.com/felipec/gst-dsp

And there's also one specific for maemo:
http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/gst-dsp

This code wouldn't have been possible without all the contributions and
specially thanks to TI for making their code open source.

Here's the shortlog for 0.6.0:

Andriy Shevchenko (1):
      base: fix a crash on send codec data

Felipe Contreras (180):
      Initial commit
      Register dsp node
      Add README
      Fix and update copyrights
      Add ALLOCATE_HEAP and ALLOCATE_SN to dsp_bridge
      Add handy dsp_send_message
      dummy: use dsp_send_message
      Rename gstdsp.* to plugin.*
      Makefile: cleanup
      dummy: trivial clanups
      Add log utility
      Use log utility
      dmm_buffer: size_t improvements
      dmm_buffer: always unmap when freeing
      dmm_buffer: use getpagesize()
      dmm_buffer: alignment improvements
      dmm_buffer: add user_data field
      Add MPEG-4 video decoder
      README: update
      mp4vdec: trivial cleanup
      mp4vdec: send signal to output_loop
      mp4vdec: flush output buffers too
      mp4vdec: reset output port
      mp4vdec: extra check for null buffer
      mp4vdec: use atomic operations for status
      mp4vdec: use more atomic operations for status
      mp4vdec: send stop signal before
      mp4vdec: re-use comm buffers
      dmm_buffer: reorganize a bit
      dmm_buffer: add dmm_buffer_reserve
      dmm_buffer: allow to re-reserve memory
      dmm_buffer: allow re-mapping
      mp4vdec: trivial cleanup
      dmm_buffer: unmap before unreserving
      mp4vdec: re-use mappings for output buffers
      mp4vdec: convert flush condition to semaphore
      Remove cond.h
      Rename mp4vdec to vdec
      vdec: trivial cleanup
      vdec: trivial reorganization
      vdec: prepare for multiple algos
      vdec: move create_node to dsp_start
      vdec: start dsp node after getting the caps
      vdec: initial support for H.264
      vdec: add Juha to authors list
      README: update
      vdec: cleanup
      vdec: make dsp_thread static
      vdec: reorganize a bit
      New base class
      Add new video encoder
      base: handle more commands
      base: reorganize got_message a bit
      venc: improve jpeg args
      venc: send jpeg dynamic params
      base: cleanup setup_output_buffers
      base: remove unused buffer_count
      base: reorganize a bit
      base: add use_pad_alloc option
      base: free mapped buffers on dsp_stop()
      base: be more verbose on get_slot()
      README: update
      Makefile: check for missing symbols
      New utility gstdsp_register()
      base: detect dsp errors
      base: properly handle dsp errors
      base: post error in the bus
      base: extra check for status in outout_loop()
      base: free events array
      base: reinitialize state on NULL->READY
      base: use circular buffer for timestamps
      base: increase ts_array
      base: increase mapping cache
      dummy: reorganize map_buffer
      dummy: input buffers don't need alignment
      dummy: cleanup
      dummy: don't map buffers
      venc: increase framesize limit for jpeg
      base: add gstdsp_post_error()
      venc: allocate a buffer when framesize is unaligned
      base: decrease wait for events timeout
      base: more error messages
      base: re-initialize on READY->PAUSED
      base: don't panic on wrong status
      base: destroy node at the right time
      base: catch playback completed message
      base: possible memleak fixes
      vdec: send codec data for MPEG-4
      base: make map cache optional
      plugin: set more proper ranks
      vdec: add framerate workaround
      vdec: remove gstdsp_send_buffer()
      base: add create_node() vmethod
      base: add parsing facilities
      Add h263 parser
      parse: update framesize only when unset
      Random cleanups
      base: add support for stream params
      venc: add H.263
      venc: use h263 by default
      Reorganize encoders
      base: send codec data for all the codecs
      base: keep trying if parse func fails
      base: trivial cleanup
      Trivial cleanups
      log: don't display info level
      log: decrease log level for buffer allocs
      log: add pr_test
      base: rename array to cache
      base: rename 'buffer' to 'comm'
      base: event cleanup
      base: reorganize a bit
      base: assume output buffer is always there
      base: remove out_buffer, use port buffer
      base: store input buffer
      base: trivial cleanup
      base: flush ports on stop
      base: plug some possible leaks
      base: make map_buffer() more conservative
      base: trigger semaphore after buffer modifications
      base: re-use input buffer
      base: add port index field
      Add async queue
      base: allow multiple buffers
      base: allow child elements to configure the ports
      vdec: increase the number of buffers to 2
      venc: trivial fixes
      log: add missing include
      base: re-enable queues properly
      venc: decrease input buffer size
      base: wait for eos
      base: possible fix
      Initial MPEG-4 video encoder support
      gstdspvenc.h: preemptively add H.264 to the list
      base: add send_codec_data() helper
      vdec: use send_codec_data()
      vdec: extra checks
      Add skip hack
      Revert "venc: forcing mpeg4 I frame each i_frame_interval"
      venc: reorganize stream/dynamic params
      base: trivial cleanup
      base: properly set param virt addr
      Add param argument to buffer callbacks
      Add buffer argument to buffer callbacks
      base: add buffer recv_cb
      base: add check for end addr alignment
      vdec: fix extra unref for codec-data
      base: trivial cleanups
      Rename dmm_buffer_flush() to dmm_buffer_clean()
      base: fix memory read
      dmm_buffer: clean instead of flush
      dmm_buffer: add cache 'flush' function back
      Use more proper cache functions
      base: handle bad node termination
      base: make EOS alignment an option
      jpegenc: enable eos align
      venc: improve integer framerate calculation
      venc: fix bitrate calculation
      venc: cleanup bitrate calculation
      venc: remove jpeg from bitrate calculation
      venc: tweak bitrate calculation
      venc: trivial cleanups
      venc: add 'quality' field
      venc: calculate smaller buffer sizes
      Fix some static analysis warnings
      log: avoid pr_info when gst debugging is off
      base: remove use_map_cache
      Trivial cleanups
      Cleanup type registrations
      base: improve some compiler hints
      dmm-buffer: check cache flush size
      base: properly free node resources
      Create custom dsp_node_t
      dsp-bridge: store node heap ourselves
      dsp-bridge: store node msgbuf ourselves
      dsp-bridge: cleanup node_free
      base: copy buffers when appropriate
      base: remove unnecessary cache flushing
      venc: set rate-control to variable
      base: post critical error mesages to the bus

Hoseok Chang (1):
      venc: tune mp4v parms for better performance

Juha Alanen (5):
      vdec: set profile based on the frame size
      vdec: improve H.263 args
      vdec: initial support for WMV9
      venc: set profile correctly for H.263 and MPEG4
      venc: disable single scan output for JPEG encoder

Marco Ballesio (8):
      vdec: fix srcpad setup
      venc: rename mp4venc_stream_params
      venc: add mp4venc_out_stream_params
      base: use proper buffer length
      venc: forcing mpeg4 I frame each i_frame_interval
      venc: reordered mp4venc_args initialization
      venc: added bitrate computation formula
      venc: propagate keyframes properly

Mark Nauwelaerts (2):
      base: safer buffer allocation and freeing
      base: fix element ref leak

Miguel Verdu (2):
      venc: tune MPEG-4 parameters
      venc: tune MPEG-4 parameters for quality

René Stadler (3):
      base: fix thread leak
      base: advance timestamp pointer for empty output buffers
      base: don't use DSP flushing

Tim-Philipp Müller (1):
      base: unref unused output buffer when skipping output

Cheers.

[1] https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/openmax/
[2] https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/omapbridge/

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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