[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] vf_scale: Detecting changes of incoming frame properties and dinamically evaluate width and height expressions

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/19/16, Bodecs Bela <bodecsb at vivanet.hu> wrote:
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> 2016.01.19. 21:42 keltezessel, Paul B Mahol irta:
>> On 1/19/16, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:00:18 +0100
>>> Bodecs Bela <bodecsb at vivanet.hu> wrote:
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>>>> 2016.01.19. 16:53 keltezessel, Carl Eugen Hoyos irta:
>>>>> Bodecs Bela <bodecsb <at> vivanet.hu> writes:
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>>>>>> To retain the current behaviour and not to break any
>>>>>> earlier app, a new config parameter has been introduced.
>>>>> Is the current behaviour useful or do you consider it a bug?
>>>> First I thought that it was a bug, but I borrowed an idea from
>>>> vf_overlay filter, where there is a very same config parameter causing a
>>>> very similar behaviour distinction on expression evaluation.
>>>> I will soon post a patch to vf_overlay where there was really a bug in
>>>> this behaviour.
>>> I think it's actually a bug. From what I can tell libavfilter's design
>>> doesn't actually support mid-stream reconfiguration, although it
>>> happens to work in some cases?
>> It appears it's undocumented feature. Filter which changes parameters just
>> calls
>> avfilter_config_links().
>>
>> But not all filter have been tested with this in mind.
> Working with mpeg-ts streams this feature is very usefull.
> I have tested vf_scale and vf_overlay, both of them work well now.
> This is the scenario where I use them:
> You have an mpeg-ts incoming stream and you transcode it to hls with a
> scaled down resolution.
> The incoming stream has constant PAL width and height but the aspect
> ratio regularly changes between 4/3 and 16/9 in the middle of the stream.
> But you want to create a 16/9 output with constant width/height
> regardless of incoming aspect ratio. In the 4/3 case you put black bars
> to both sides of screen.
> With my two recent patch - regarding vf_scale and vf_overlay - it is
> possible.
> Cascade the vf_scale and the vf_overlay filters.
> First you create a fix height but variable width output with vf_scale
> and than you overlay its output onto a fixed sized 16/9 black
> background, positioned dynamically to the center by vf_overlay.
> In case of incoming 16/9 a.r., the whole background will be covered by
> the usefull content and in case of 4/3 a.r. the usefull content only
> partially will cover the black background.
> These options were almost ready in these filters.
> (I know the padding filter would do the same job, but it lacks a dynamic
> frame-by-frame pad sizing feature)

Willing to write patch for it?