Re: [PATCH RFC 00/12] media: hantro: H264 fixes and improvements

From: Jonas Karlman
Date: Mon Sep 02 2019 - 12:29:03 EST


On 2019-09-02 15:02, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
>
> Thanks for the series, I'll be reviewing this shortly.
>
> On Sun, 2019-09-01 at 12:42 +0000, Jonas Karlman wrote:
>> This series contains fixes and improvements for the hantro H264 decoder.
>>
>> Patch 1-6 fixes issues and limitations observed when preparing support
>> for field encoded content.
>>
>> Patch 7 introduce new DPB entry flags that is used to signal how a reference
>> frame is referenced. This information is needed to correctly build a
>> reference list for field encoded content.
>>
>> Patch 8 adds bits to handle field encoded content, this is a rough patch
>> and should be reworked with proper code style and formatting.
>> Please get back with feedback on how to improve this.
>>
>> The following samples from [1] are now playable with patch 1-8
>> - H264_1080i-25-interlace_Kaesescheibchen.mkv
>> - H264_10_1080i_50_AC3-Astra19.2_ProSieben_HD.ts
>> - big_buck_bunny_1080p_H264_AAC_25fps_7200K.mp4
>> - h264_tivo_sample.ts
>>
>> The rest of the patches refactors G1 H264 code to more closely match
>> the code generated by my rockchip-vpu-regtool at [2] and then adds
>> support for H264 decoding on RK3399/RK3328 using the VPU2 block.
>> This code is early work and needs proper code style and formatting,
>> I just wanted to share the early work and get some initial feedback.
>>
>> This series has been tested using ffmpeg v4l2 request hwaccel at [3] [4]
>>
> What boards have you tested this on?

Main testing has been done on a Tinker Board S (RK3288) and a Rock64 (RK3328) device.
Very limited testing on a Rock Pi 4 (RK3399) using earlier version of the patchset,
I will redo some RK3399 testing to make sure it is not only VPU2 on RK3328 that works.

Regards,
Jonas

>
> Thanks,
> Ezequiel
>