Missing SEI information has always been a major drawback when using the QSV decoders. I used to think that there's no chance to get at the data without explicit implementation from the MSDK side (or doing something weird like parsing in parallel). It turned out that there's a hardly known api method that provides access to all SEI (h264/hevc) or user data (mpeg2video).
This allows to get things like closed captions, frame packing, display orientation, HDR data (mastering display, content light level, etc.) without having to rely on those data being provided by the MSDK as extended buffers. The commit "Implement SEI parsing for QSV decoders" includes some hard-coded workarounds for MSDK bugs which I reported: https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/issues/2597#issuecomment-1072795311 But that doesn't help. Those bugs exist and I'm sharing my workarounds, which are empirically determined by testing a range of files. If someone is interested, I can provide private access to a repository where we have been testing this. Alternatively, I could also leave those workarounds out, and just skip those SEI types. In a previous version of this patchset, there was a concern that payload data might need to be re-ordered. Meanwhile I have researched this carefully and the conclusion is that this is not required. My detailed analysis can be found here: https://gist.github.com/softworkz/36c49586a8610813a32270ee3947a932 softworkz (6): avutil/frame: Add av_frame_copy_side_data() and av_frame_remove_all_side_data() avcodec/vpp_qsv: Copy side data from input to output frame avcodec/mpeg12dec: make mpeg_decode_user_data() accessible avcodec/hevcdec: make set_side_data() accessible avcodec/h264dec: make h264_export_frame_props() accessible avcodec/qsvdec: Implement SEI parsing for QSV decoders doc/APIchanges | 4 + libavcodec/h264_slice.c | 98 +++++++-------- libavcodec/h264dec.h | 2 + libavcodec/hevcdec.c | 117 +++++++++--------- libavcodec/hevcdec.h | 2 + libavcodec/mpeg12.h | 28 +++++ libavcodec/mpeg12dec.c | 40 +----- libavcodec/qsvdec.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ libavfilter/qsvvpp.c | 6 + libavfilter/vf_overlay_qsv.c | 19 ++- libavutil/frame.c | 67 ++++++---- libavutil/frame.h | 32 +++++ libavutil/version.h | 2 +- 13 files changed, 477 insertions(+), 173 deletions(-) base-commit: b033913d1c5998a29dfd13e9906dd707ff6eff12 Published-As: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/releases/tag/pr-ffstaging-31%2Fsoftworkz%2Fsubmit_qsv_sei-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg pr-ffstaging-31/softworkz/submit_qsv_sei-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/pull/31 -- ffmpeg-codebot _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
