[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] amfenc: Add support for pict_type field

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2019-02-01 19:25 GMT+01:00, Michael Dirks <michael.dirks at xaymar.com>:
> On 15.01.2019 23:41, Michael Dirks wrote:
>> On 15.01.2019 23:05, michael.dirks at xaymar.com wrote:
>>> From: Michael Fabian 'Xaymar' Dirks <info at xaymar.com>
>>>
>>> Adds support for the pict_type field in AVFrame to amf_h264 and
>>> amf_h265 simultaneously. This field is needed in cases where the
>>> application wishes to override the frame type with another one, such
>>> as forcefully inserting a key frame for chapter markers or similar.
>>>
>>> Additionally this abuses AV_PICTURE_TYPE_S for marking Skip frames, a
>>> special type of frame in AVC, SVC and HEVC which is a flag for the
>>> decoder to repeat the last frame.
>> This patch has been tested with the small tool I wrote here:
>> https://github.com/Xaymar/ffmpeg-test. It works in both H264 and H265
>> and produces the correct sequence of IDR, I, P and Skip frames -
>> including the visual corruption that AMD's Skip frames have.

> As there currently seems to be no active maintainer for amfenc files

(I don't find this surprising given the history of the AMD patch.)

Could you take over mantainership?

Carl Eugen