Improve decide allocation so it properly configure both local and downstream
buffer pools. Also read back the pool config if it was changed to to driver
limitations.

Catch short allocation after saving the format. This is not a catch all, but should catch
most of the miss-behaving drivers when doing S_FMT/G_FMT and avoid potential crash.

Currently we advertise crop meta, but not element handle support this meta.

Some well known decoder wrongly set num_planes to 0 in their format instead of
one. In this case we would endup with no size when deciding buffer allocation.

Implement a v4l2 element that wraps HW video converters.

In order to correctly set the pool min/max, we need to probe for CREATE_BUFS
ioctl. This can be done as soon as the format has been negotiated using a
count of 0.

So far we where only setting saving the first plane stride in the meta. This was
leading to wrong values in GstVideoMeta.

As soon a the alpha component can be set, we can expose the RGB32 and BGR32
format as ARGB and BGRA as long we can deterministically set the alpha padding
value.

Correctly check if video meta is needed. In buffer pool, trust need_video_meta
flag in order to decide if configuration should succeed.

Fix stride request for tiled format and improve logging.

In certain cases we cannot live without video meta and/or crop meta
being enabled in our internal buffer pool. Ensure this is always the case,
regardless of having support for allocation query.

The complex mechanic to try and choose the right thing did not work. Instead,
simply probe the non-contiguous format first and then the contiguous one.
This is in fact very low overhead, as there is a relatively small number of
pixel format supported by each devices.

The setup_format() was confusing since it does not set anything, in fact
it reads the setup from the driver and save it.

Certain decoder has been found to not choose a format automatically. Running
v4l2videodec on these would assert. This patch will make it fail cleanly
instead.

Instead of having each M2M class do their own probing, use the
GstV4l2Iterator and probe all devices in a single pass.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727925

In v4l2 specification, RGB32 has the alpha, or pading, first, not last.
See http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/packed-rgb.html .

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540941

For format like mpegts, width and height is rarely in the negotiated caps. This
patch fixes failure when setting format, and prevent introducing width, height,
framerate and format to the caps when fixating.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725860

William Manley authored Mar 29, 2014 and Nicolas Dufresne committed Mar 29, 2014

It seems that GStreamer's mpegts elements (tsdemux, tsparse) require caps
`video/mpegts,systemstream=true`.  As far as I can see the significance
of systemstream is to indicate that this is a container format rather than
an elementary stream.  As this is the case (and I can't understand how it
could not be the case with mpegts) I add systemstream=true to v4l2src's
caps.

This allows v4l2src to be linked with tsdemux for playback from my
Hauppauge HD-PVR with the pipeline:

    v4l2src ! queue ! tsdemux ! video/x-h264 ! decodebin ! xvimagesink

In combination with the next commit this fixes using Hauppauge HD-PVR with
GStreamer 1.0+.

XV support for v4l2 never became upstream and ended up being
commented out with an undef for a long time now.

With years the amount of ifdef have grown up and we are not even sure if the
old code path compiles. Each time we need to update the v4l2 framework to add
the new feature, we break compilation on older kernel. With exception of two
controls in the video orientation control, this patch get rid of all ifdef by
including the latest version of videodev2.h inside GStreamer.

Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723446

Hugues Fruchet authored Feb 25, 2014 and Nicolas Dufresne committed Feb 25, 2014

VP8 doesn't require parsing (vp8parse doesn't exist, so negotiation with demux fails
if "parsed" is set in caps).

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724636

Until GStreamer has one (see bug722760), we should not require a parser for VP8.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722128

Benjamin Gaignard authored Dec 18, 2013 and Nicolas Dufresne committed Feb 25, 2014

For each videoCdevice probe it input/output capabilities
if it match with video decoder requirement register a new element.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722128

Decoders or other devices that expose a minimum buffers required produce
an first output. We use this information to calculate latency.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722128

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722127

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568

Don't enforce having width, height and framerate in template caps for encoded
formats. These don't always need to be exposed and may break negotiation for
decoder and decoding sink. If needed, these field will be automatically added
when probed caps are known.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568

Julien Isorce authored Dec 12, 2013 and Nicolas Dufresne committed Jan 10, 2014

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720568