[Libva] Filling background pixels with YUV values

[Recker, Jon]

Thank you for the information, Haihao. I have filed this feature request in bugzilla.



https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99193



Jon



-----Original Message-----
From: Xiang, Haihao
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 12:55 AM
To: Recker, Jon <jon.recker at intel.com>; libva at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Libva] Filling background pixels with YUV values





Hi Jon,



VA-API doesn't support YUV background color. If you want to have this feature, I suggest you file a bug with severity set to enhancement in the bugzilla to track your requirement. We may consider to add this new feature in a future version.



Thanks

Haihao



> Hello.

>

> When composing several sources into a single output surface, we can

> specify the color of the background pixels using

> VAProcPipelineParameterBuffer::output_background_color. According to

> the documentation, this background color must be a 32-bit ARGB value.

>

> But when the output is a non-RGB format (for example, NV12) it would

> be helpful if we could set the background color to a constant YUV

> value instead. Does libva provide any method to do this?

>

> I have tried converting the desired YUV background color to RGB, then

> setting output_background_color to this RGB value. When the final

> picture is processed, the background color is converted back to YUV

> automatically. But the final background color does not necessarily

> match the requested value, for example when one of the RGB channels is

> clipped to fit in the range [0,255].

>

> A workaround would be to create a separate full-size NV12 surface and

> fill it with the desired background color, but for performance reasons

> it is preferable to avoid this. Any suggestions would be very much

> appreciated. Thanks.

>

> Jon

>

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