[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v5 6/7] display-gst: Use Playbin for GStreamer 1.9.0 onwards

Victor Toso victortoso at redhat.com
Mon Jul 10 12:22:44 UTC 2017


Hi,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 12:56 +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> > From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> > 
> > The Playbin can provide the full pipeline which reduces the
> > overall maintenance in the code as we don't need to track which
> > decoder can work with our stream type.
> > 
> > We need to maintain the GstCaps per SPICE_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE in order to
> > tell Playbin the type of data we expect. This much should be covered
> > by spice-protocol and very likely we will need to extend it in the
> > future to allow more settings that might not possible to verify at
> > runtime.
> > 
> > This patch keeps previous code for compatibility reasons.
> > 
> > Note that we have to wait Playbin to emit "source-setup" in order to
> > configure GstAppSrc with the capabilities of input stream. If in the
> > unlikely event of frames arriving while GstAppSrc is not setup, we
> > will drop those frames.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/channel-display-gst.c | 102
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/channel-display-gst.c b/src/channel-display-gst.c
> > index 1b40002..6fe0ac4 100644
> > --- a/src/channel-display-gst.c
> > +++ b/src/channel-display-gst.c
> > @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ typedef struct SpiceGstDecoder {
> >      guint timer_id;
> >  } SpiceGstDecoder;
> >  
> > +/* FIXME: With gstreamer version 1.9.0 and higher, we are using playbin to
> > + * create the pipeline for us and for that reason we don't need to keep track
> > of
> > + * decoder's name anymore. */
> >  static struct {
> >      const gchar *dec_name;
> >      const gchar *dec_caps;
> > @@ -83,6 +86,24 @@ G_STATIC_ASSERT(G_N_ELEMENTS(gst_opts) <=
> > SPICE_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE_ENUM_END);
> >  #define VALID_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE(codec) \
> >      (codec > 0 && codec < G_N_ELEMENTS(gst_opts))
> >  
> > +/* GstPlay enum is plugin's header which will never be exported.
> GstPlayFlags enum is *in*
>
> okay (Never say never ;))

Right, I'll change to SpiceGstPlay just in case.

>
> Ack,

Thanks!

> Pavel
> 
> > + * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784279
> > + */
> > +typedef enum {
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_VIDEO             = (1 << 0),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_AUDIO             = (1 << 1),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_TEXT              = (1 << 2),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_VIS               = (1 << 3),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_SOFT_VOLUME       = (1 << 4),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_NATIVE_AUDIO      = (1 << 5),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_NATIVE_VIDEO      = (1 << 6),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_DOWNLOAD          = (1 << 7),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_BUFFERING         = (1 << 8),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_DEINTERLACE       = (1 << 9),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_SOFT_COLORBALANCE = (1 << 10),
> > +  GST_PLAY_FLAG_FORCE_FILTERS     = (1 << 11),
> Offtopic - may this flag be responsible for incorrect colours with vaapi?

Maybe, I hope to investigate this soon and will play with this settings
too.

Cheers,

> 
> 
> > +} GstPlayFlags;
> > +
> >  /* ---------- SpiceGstFrame ---------- */
> >  
> >  typedef struct SpiceGstFrame {
> > @@ -298,13 +319,81 @@ static gboolean handle_pipeline_message(GstBus *bus,
> > GstMessage *msg, gpointer v
> >      return TRUE;
> >  }
> >  
> > +#if GST_CHECK_VERSION(1,9,0)
> > +static void app_source_setup(GstElement *pipeline G_GNUC_UNUSED,
> > +                             GstElement *source,
> > +                             SpiceGstDecoder *decoder)
> > +{
> > +    GstCaps *caps;
> > +
> > +    /* - We schedule the frame display ourselves so set sync=false on appsink
> > +     *   so the pipeline decodes them as fast as possible. This will also
> > +     *   minimize the risk of frames getting lost when we rebuild the
> > +     *   pipeline.
> > +     * - Set max-bytes=0 on appsrc so it does not drop frames that may be
> > +     *   needed by those that follow.
> > +     */
> > +    caps = gst_caps_from_string(gst_opts[decoder->base.codec_type].dec_caps);
> > +    g_object_set(source,
> > +                 "caps", caps,
> > +                 "is-live", TRUE,
> > +                 "format", GST_FORMAT_TIME,
> > +                 "max-bytes", 0,
> > +                 "block", TRUE,
> > +                 NULL);
> > +    gst_caps_unref(caps);
> > +    decoder->appsrc = GST_APP_SRC(gst_object_ref(source));
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  static gboolean create_pipeline(SpiceGstDecoder *decoder)
> >  {
> > -    gchar *desc;
> >      GstAppSinkCallbacks appsink_cbs = { NULL };
> > -    GError *err = NULL;
> >      GstBus *bus;
> > +#if GST_CHECK_VERSION(1,9,0)
> > +    GstElement *playbin, *sink;
> > +    GstPlayFlags flags;
> > +    GstCaps *caps;
> >  
> > +    playbin = gst_element_factory_make("playbin", "playbin");
> > +    if (playbin == NULL) {
> > +        spice_warning("error upon creation of 'playbin' element");
> > +        return FALSE;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    sink = gst_element_factory_make("appsink", "sink");
> > +    if (sink == NULL) {
> > +        spice_warning("error upon creation of 'appsink' element");
> > +        gst_object_unref(playbin);
> > +        return FALSE;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    caps = gst_caps_from_string("video/x-raw,format=BGRx");
> > +    g_object_set(sink,
> > +                 "caps", caps,
> > +                 "sync", FALSE,
> > +                 "drop", FALSE,
> > +                 NULL);
> > +    gst_caps_unref(caps);
> > +
> > +    g_signal_connect(playbin, "source-setup", G_CALLBACK(app_source_setup),
> > decoder);
> > +
> > +    g_object_set(playbin,
> > +                 "uri", "appsrc://",
> > +                 "video-sink", gst_object_ref(sink),
> > +                 NULL);
> > +
> > +    /* Disable audio in playbin */
> > +    g_object_get(playbin, "flags", &flags, NULL);
> > +    flags &= ~(GST_PLAY_FLAG_AUDIO | GST_PLAY_FLAG_TEXT);
> > +    g_object_set(playbin, "flags", flags, NULL);
> > +
> > +    g_warn_if_fail(decoder->appsrc == NULL);
> > +    decoder->appsink = GST_APP_SINK(sink);
> > +    decoder->pipeline = playbin;
> > +#else
> > +    gchar *desc;
> > +    GError *err = NULL;
> >  
> >      /* - We schedule the frame display ourselves so set sync=false on appsink
> >       *   so the pipeline decodes them as fast as possible. This will also
> > @@ -330,6 +419,7 @@ static gboolean create_pipeline(SpiceGstDecoder *decoder)
> >  
> >      decoder->appsrc = GST_APP_SRC(gst_bin_get_by_name(GST_BIN(decoder-
> > >pipeline), "src"));
> >      decoder->appsink = GST_APP_SINK(gst_bin_get_by_name(GST_BIN(decoder-
> > >pipeline), "sink"));
> > +#endif
> >  
> >      appsink_cbs.new_sample = new_sample;
> >      gst_app_sink_set_callbacks(decoder->appsink, &appsink_cbs, decoder,
> > NULL);
> > @@ -457,6 +547,14 @@ static gboolean
> > spice_gst_decoder_queue_frame(VideoDecoder *video_decoder,
> >          return FALSE;
> >      }
> >  
> > +#if GST_CHECK_VERSION(1,9,0)
> > +    if (decoder->appsrc == NULL) {
> > +        spice_warning("Error: Playbin has not yet initialized the Appsrc
> > element");
> > +        stream_dropped_frame_on_playback(decoder->base.stream);
> > +        return TRUE;
> > +    }
> > +#endif
> > +
> >      /* ref() the frame data for the buffer */
> >      frame->ref_data(frame->data_opaque);
> >      GstBuffer *buffer =
> > gst_buffer_new_wrapped_full(GST_MEMORY_FLAG_PHYSICALLY_CONTIGUOUS,
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