[FFmpeg-devel] Major bump
Anton Khirnov
anton at khirnov.net
Mon Apr 5 14:09:37 EEST 2021
Hi,
this patchset bumps major version of all the libraries and removes many
deprecated APIs, as discussed at length during past months. Patches
11-16 will be squashed together on push, but are sent separately for
ease of review. FATE passes (here at least).
As agreed during the last developer call, I am disabling the
uspp/mcdeint filters that depend on removed libavcodec APIs. They should
be easy to re-enable if anyone finds the motivation to update them.
I am postponing the removal of compute_muxer_pkt_fields() in lavf, along
with usage of AVCodecContext.time_base for decoding, since removing them
without breakage requires a fair bit of additional infrastructure that
is not yet there. I have plans for all these and hopefully I'll get to
it before the next bump.
Carl asked during the last meeting for some reasoning for the bump. The
general reasons are that
- old APIs are unable to provide all the features of the new ones
(that's usually why new APIs are added)
- old APIs tend to be harder to use correctly, they often have obscure
quirks or corner cases
- maintaining compatibility wrappers for them is a major obstacle to
further development
I'm appending some notes for the specific changes further down, they
could be added to the wiki or the website news entry.
Please comment,
--
Anton Khirnov
Major bump notes
================
libavcodec
----------
* old audio/video decoding APIs avcodec_decode_video2 and
avcodec_decode_audio4 were removed;
they are replaced by avcodec_send_packet/avcodec_receive_frame, which
decouple input and output and can return any number of output frames
for a single input packet
* old audio/video encoding APIs avcodec_encode_video2 and
avcodec_encode_audio2 were removed;
they are replaced by avcodec_send_frame/avcodec_receive_packet, which
decouple input and output and can return any number of output packets
for a single input frame
* AVCodecContext.coded_frame removed without replacement
* AVCodecContext.side_data_only_packets removed, codecs (currently only flacenc)
now always behave as if this field was set to 1
* AVCodecContext.vbv_delay removed, replaced by AV_PKT_DATA_CPB_PROPERTIES side data
* AVCodecContext.rtp_callback removed without replacement
* AVCodecContext.*_bits removed without replacement
* following AVCodecContext fields removed, replaced by encoder-private options
- coder_type and FF_CODER_TYPE*
- b_frame_strategy
- mpeg_quant
- prediction_method and FF_PRED_*
- pre_me
- scenechange_threshold
- noise_reduction
- me_penalty_compensation
- brd_scale
- chromaoffset
- b_sensitivity
- context_model
- frame_skip_*
- min/max_prediction_order
- timecode_frame_start
- rtp_payload_size
* AVPacket.convergence_duration removed, use AVPacket.duration instead
* AVPacket API for pre-refcounted memory management were removed
- av_dup_packet
- av_copy_packet
- av_copy_packet_side_data
- av_free_packet
users should use refcounted packet API instead
* av_packet_merge_side_data and av_packet_split_side_data removed without replacement,
packets with merged side data are no longer supported
* AVPicture and its related APIs removed; it is replaced either by AVFrame API
or imgutils in libavutil
* old bistream filtering API (using AVBitStreamFilterContext) removed, replaced by the API
in libavcodec/bsf.h
* avcodec_copy_context removed, it never makes sense for users to call this function
* avcodec_get_context_defaults3 removed, users should allocate a new codec context
instead of resettting an old one
* av_get_codec_tag_string replaced by av_fourcc_make_string/av_fourcc2str
* avcodec_get_chroma_sub_sample replaced by av_pix_fmt_get_chroma_sub_sample
* AVCodecContext accessors removed, AVCodecContext fields should be accessed directly
* AVHWAccel and its related functions removed from public API, as there was no reason
for them to be user-visible
* AV_CODEC_CAP_INTRA_ONLY and AV_CODEC_CAP_INTRA_ONLY removed, use corresponding
AVCodecDescriptor.props values instead
* av_lockmgr_register and AVLockOp removed, libavcodec handles locking internally
* codec registration APIs removed, all codecs are always registered
- avcodec_register
- avcodec_register_all
* av_codec_next replaced by av_codec_iterate
* AVCPBProperties.max/min/avg_bitrate types changed from int to int64_t
* avcodec_get_pix_fmt_loss replaced by av_get_pix_fmt_loss
* avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt_of_2 replaced by avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt_of_2
* avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt2 removed
* av_parser_change removed; dump_extradata, remove_extra or extract_extradata
should be used instead
* FF_SUB_TEXT_FMT_ASS_WITH_TIMINGS removed, ASS subtitles are always decoded without timings
* mpegvideo encoders' rc_strategy option removed, as it had no effect
* av_vdpau_get_profile removed, users should call av_vdpau_get_profile to set up
VDPAU decoding
* libopenh264 encoder's 'slice_mode' option removed, as it is redundant with 'slices'/'max_nal_size'
options
* libopenh264 encoder's 'cabac' option replaced with 'coder cabac'
* 'nvenc' encoder renamed to 'h264_nvenc'
* struct vaapi_context removed, AVCodecContext.hw_frames_ctx in combination with the API
in libavutil/hwcontext.h should be used instead
libavformat
-----------
* AVFormatContext.open_cb replaced by io_open/io_close
* AVStream.codec removed; stream information is now exported through
AVStream.codecpar; for decoding/encoding the users should allocate
a separate codec context
* HTTP and RTSP protocol's 'user-agent' option renamed to 'user_agent'
* HLS muxer's 'hls_wrap' option removed, users should use
'hls_list_size'/'hls_flags delete_segments' instead
* HLS muxer's 'user_localtime'/'use_localtime_mkdir' options removed, users
should use 'strftime'/'strftime_mkdir' instead
* AVFMT_FLAG_KEEP_SIDE_DATA removed, it has had no effect since last major bump
* mov muxer/demuxer no longer read/export the "rotate" tag, use
AV_PKT_DATA_DISPLAYMATRIX instead
* AVFormatContext accessors removed, AVFormatContext fields should be accessed
directly
* custom AVIOContext instances may no longer return 0 on EOF, they should return
AVERROR_EOF or another appropriate error code
* APIs related to ffserver removed without replacement, as ffserver itself has been
removed
- AVStream.recommended_encoder_configuration
- av_stream_get_recommended_encoder_configuration
- av_stream_set_recommended_encoder_configuration
* AVFormatContext.filename replaces with AVFormatContext.url
* format registration APIs removed, all formats are always registered
- av_register_all
- av_register_input_format
- av_register_output_format
* av_iformat_next replaced with av_demuxer_iterate
* av_oformat_next replaced with av_muxer_iterate
* DASH muxer's 'min_seg_duration' option replaced with 'seg_duration'
* AVFMT_FLAG_MP4A_LATM removed, as it had no effect since 2011
* all instances of AVOutputFormat/AVInputFormat visible through the API
are now const-qualified
this is only a type change, as the caller was never allowed to modify them
* av_demuxer_open removed, use avformat_open_input with an options dictionary
* AVChapter.id type changed from int to int64_t
libavutil
---------
* old VAAPI pixel formats
- AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_IDCT and AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_MOCO were never-used - just removed
- AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI_VLD renamed to just AV_PIX_FMT_VAAPI
* QP tables in AVFrame were removed, as they were not flexible enough for new codecs
- qscale_table
- qstride
- qscale_type
- qp_table_buf
they were replaced by the API in libavutil/video_enc_params.h
* AVFrame.error removed without replacement
* AVFrame.pkt_pts replaced with AVFrame.pts
* AVFrame accessors were removed, AVFrame fields should be accessed directly
* types of arguments/return values of the following functions changed from
(unsigned) int to size_t:
- av_adler32_update
- av_hash_update
- av_md5_update
- av_md5_sum
- av_murmur3_update
- av_ripemd_update
- av_sha_update
- av_sha512_update
- av_buffer_alloc
- av_buffer_allocz
- av_buffer_create
- av_buffer_realloc
- av_buffer_pool_init
- av_buffer_pool_init2
* AVBufferRef.size changed from int to size_t
* "compressed" AVComponentDescriptor fields
- step_minus1
- depth_minus1
- offset_plus1
were replaced by same fields without the offset
* AV_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PSEUDOPAL removed, pixel formats previously flagged with it
are no longer treated as paletted
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