Changes in rBce649c73446e, affected established proxy codec preset.
Presets were not working and all presets were similar to `veryfast`.
Tunes are now working too, so `fastdecode` tune can be used. I have
measured little improvement, but I tested this only on 2 machines and
I have been informed that `fastdecode` tune does influence decoding
performance for some users.
Change preset from `slow` to `veryfast` and add tune `fastdecode`
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11454
The issue was two fold. We didn't properly:
1. Initialize the codec default values which would lead to VLC
complaining because of garbage/wrong codec settings.
2.Calculate the time base for the video. FFmpeg would happily accept
this but VLC seems to assume the time base value is at least somewhat
correct and couldn't properly display the frames as the internal time
base was huge. We are talking about 90k ticks (tbn) for one second of
video!
This patch initializes all codecs to use their default values and fixes
the time base calculation so it follows the guidelines from ffmpeg.
Reviewed By: Sergey, Richard Antalik
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D11426
Before the FFmpeg commit: github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/1c0885334dda9ee8652e60c586fa2e3674056586
FFmpeg would use deprecated variables to calculate the video fps.
We don't use these deprecated variables anymore, so ensure that the
duration is correct in ffmpeg versions without this fix.
Reviewed By: Sergey, Richard Antalik
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D11417
We didn't initialize the scaled proxy frame properly.
This would lead to issues in ffmpeg 4.4 as they are more strict that the API is properly used.
Now we initialize the size and format of the frame.
There need to be more cleanup for ffmpeg 4.5 (ffmpeg master branch).
However this now compiles on ffmpeg 4.4 without and deprication
warnings.
Reviewed By: Sergey, Richard Antalik
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10338
GOP size and quality are adjusted for h264 codec.
These new values are based on result of benchmark on 9 random files:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nOyUGjoVWUyhQ2y2lAd8VtFfyaY1wQNGj1krCCNbk7Y/edit?usp=sharing
Reducing quality to 50 reduces proxy filesize by about 2x on average
and has no significant impact on decoding performance.
Increasing GOP size from 2 to 10 also reduces proxy filesize 2x-3x
while scrubbing is only about 8% slower. It is still around 100FPS
with 1920x1080 media.
This is unfortunately about 50% slower than MJPEG, but this can be
improved with `fastdecode` tune applied to libx264 encoder
Quite surprisingly h264 codec presets had little influence on proxy
building performance as well as proxy filesize. So far it looks that
FFmpeg does initialize encoder in different way then Blender.
This applies mot only for presets but for tune and profile libx264
setting.
Once this issue is resolved, performance of proxies may be optimized
further.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10897
Generalize threading settings in proxy building and use them for encoding
and decoding in general. Check codec capabilities, prefer FF_THREAD_FRAME
threading over FF_THREAD_SLICE and automatic thread count over setting it
explicitly.
ffmpeg-codecs man page suggests that threads option is global and used by
codecs, that supports this option. Form some tests I have done, it seems that
`av_dict_set_int(&codec_opts, "threads", BLI_system_thread_count(), 0)`
has same effect as
```
pCodecCtx->thread_count = BLI_system_thread_count();
pCodecCtx->thread_type = FF_THREAD_FRAME;
```
Looking at `ff_frame_thread_encoder_init()` code, these cases are not
equivalent. It is probably safer to leave threading setup on libavcodec than
setting up each codec threading individually.
From what I have read all over the internet, frame multithreading should be
faster than slice multithreading. Slice multithreading is mainly used for low
latency streaming.
When running Blender with --debug-ffmpeg it complains about
`pCodecCtx->thread_count = BLI_system_thread_count()` that using thread count
above 16 is not recommended. Using too many threads can negatively affect image
quality, but I am not sure if this is the case for decoding as well - see
https://streaminglearningcenter.com/blogs/ffmpeg-command-threads-how-it-affects-quality-and-performance.html
This is fine for proxies but may be undesirable for final renders.
Number of threads is limited by image size, because of size of motion vectors,
so if it is possible let libavcodec determine optimal thread count.
Performance difference:
Proxy building: None
Playback speed: 2x better on 1920x1080 sample h264 file
Scrubbing: Hard to quantify, but it's much more responsive
Rendering speed: None on 1920x1080 sample h264 file, there is improvement with codecs that do support FF_THREAD_FRAME for encoding like MPNG
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10791
Use h264 codec for output. This codec produces smaller files, can be
multithreaded and decodes even faster than MJPEG.
Quality setting 0-100 corresponds to "Lowest Quality" to
"Perceptually Lossless" in Blender's h264 encoding presets.
All available cores are used for decoding.
Same goes for decoding but only for codecs that supports this
(h264, vp9 seems to support this option out of th box as well).
Other decoders can probably be optimized in similar way, but threaded
encoding provides significant boost already.
I have tested variety of codecs, and all were transcoded properly.
Reviewed By: sergey, fsiddi
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10731
Following code from D8627 this patch corrects multi threaded processing
of proxies, where a 60 sec proxy generation drops to 35 sec.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8659
Without this, additional items could be added in the future
which wouldn't be included in the check.
Move the check out of the loop since this is such an unlikely
situation that checking every iteration isn't needed.
Also remove redundant casts.
Handle return value of `fread()` by printing an error and closing the
file when it cannot be read from. Not only is error handing a good idea,
it also prevents GCC from warning that the return value of `fread()`
should not be ignored:
```
.../blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/indexer.c: In function ‘IMB_indexer_open’:
.../blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/indexer.c:201:5: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
201 | fread(&idx->entries[i].frameno, sizeof(int), 1, fp);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.../blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/indexer.c:202:5: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
202 | fread(&idx->entries[i].seek_pos, sizeof(unsigned long long), 1, fp);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.../blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/indexer.c:203:5: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
203 | fread(&idx->entries[i].seek_pos_dts, sizeof(unsigned long long), 1, fp);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.../blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/indexer.c:204:5: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
204 | fread(&idx->entries[i].pts, sizeof(unsigned long long), 1, fp);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9916
Reviewed by: campbellbarton
To prepare for D6811 small changes were needed.
we can no longer undefine near/far since the windows
headers use those extensively.
some of the imbuf files need to include the windows
headers explicitly to make sure it builds.
Skip building proxy if directory can not be created.
Crash happens, when setting custom dir to location of source file itself.
This results in attempt to create directory with the same name as source file.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6148
Reviewed By: sergey
This was introduced in FFmpeg lavf 55.1.100 in 2013. For systems that are
still on LibAV or older FFmpeg there is a fallback implementation that
performs the same guess as we did before in `av_get_r_frame_rate_compat()`.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
Folders removed entirely:
* //extern/recastnavigation
* //intern/decklink
* //intern/moto
* //source/blender/editors/space_logic
* //source/blenderplayer
* //source/gameengine
This includes DNA data and any reference to the BGE code in Blender itself.
We are bumping the subversion.
Pending tasks:
* Tile/clamp code in image editor draw code.
* Viewport drawing code (so much of this will go away because of BI removal
that we can wait until then to remove this.
This is an issue with which value to trust: fps vs. tbr. They both cam be
somewhat broken. Currently the idea is:
- If file was saved with FFmpeg AND we are decoding with FFmpeg we trust tbr.
- If we are decoding with Libav we use fps (there does not seem to be tbr in
Libav, unless i'm missing something).
- All other cases we use fps.
Seems to work all good for files from T53857, T54148 and T51153. Ideally we
would need to collect some amount of regression files to make further tweaks
more scientific.
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3083
This is an alternative to passing a copy callback which is some times inconvenient.
Instead the caller can write to the key - needed when the key is duplicated memory.
Allows for minor optimization in ghash/gset use.
Also add BLI_gset_ensure_p_ex
While it's not something we'll be using for the official release,
it's nice to support new libraries at least on "it compiles" level,
so it's not that many frustrated developers around.
Nexyon, please have a look into Audaspace changes :)
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
directory is used.
This is done by appending the name of the file as extra folder. Existing
projects may need to regenerate their proxies but it should be possible
now to have all proxies nicely in the same custom folder.
Next commits will include operators to copy directory settings between
selected strips, making the process faster.
If user cancels, there's an issue with leftover files.
Instead use a hash to record files that have akready been registered for
generation and skip them if so.
That should guarantee things will go smoothly and when a file exists it
is assumed to be valid.
