From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> This is the first RFC version of the new vicodec driver, a driver that emulates a HW codec. This patch series sits on top of this pull request: https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/50728/ since it needs the new m2m helpers to set up the MC topology. The software codec was developed two years ago by Tom aan de Wiel as a university project for this specific purpose but it took until now to turn it into a proper driver. Many thanks to Tom for creating this codec based on the patent-free Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform. The goal is to make this a reference driver for stateful codecs, and in the near future also for stateless codecs. This is an early version of this driver and there are several things that need to be done: - make it conform to the codec API (currently in the process of being documented by Tomasz Figa). - create proper encoder/decoder functions for actual encoder/ decoder entities (currently I'm abusing the scaler entity function). - only tested for 1280x720 resolutions. I suspect I'm missing some code to have it work correctly for other resolutions, although it advertises anything from VGA to 4096x2160. - the new V4L2_PIX_FMT_FWHT fourcc needs to be documented. - later: add support for resolution changes while encoding or decoding. - others? Anyway, as long as you stick to 720p it works quite nicely. It supports YUV420 (default), YVU420, NV12 and NV21 raw formats. To encode: v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-out-mmap --stream-to-hdr out.comp --stream-from in.yuv To encode from an nv12 raw file: v4l2-ctl -v pixelformat=NV12 --stream-mmap --stream-out-mmap --stream-to-hdr out.comp --stream-from in.nv12 You can leave out the --stream-from option, in that case the built-in test pattern generator is used to generate the raw frames. To decode: v4l2-ctl -d1 --stream-mmap --stream-out-mmap --stream-from-hdr out.comp --stream-to out.yuv To decode to an nv12 raw file: v4l2-ctl -x pixelformat=NV12 -d1 --stream-mmap --stream-out-mmap --stream-from-hdr out.comp --stream-to out.yuv Note: this requires the latest v4l-utils code. The --stream-from/to-hdr options expect a header in front of each compressed frame that contains the size of that frame. Normally sizeimage is used, but that doesn't work for compressed frames, so I made these new options. If you have some 720p mkv/mp4/whatever file that you want to test vicodec with, then you can extract a raw YUV420 file from it as follows: ffmpeg -i test.mkv -c:v rawvideo -frames 150 -pix_fmt yuv420p in.yuv That command extracts the first 150 frames from the mkv. To play back the result from the decoder use: mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=i420:w=1280:h=720:fps=25 out.yuv Feedback is welcome! Regards, Hans Hans Verkuil (4): videodev.h: add PIX_FMT_FWHT for use with vicodec v4l2-mem2mem: add v4l2_m2m_last_buf() vicodec: add the FWHT software codec vicodec: add the virtual codec driver MAINTAINERS | 8 + drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 3 + drivers/media/platform/Makefile | 1 + drivers/media/platform/vicodec/Kconfig | 12 + drivers/media/platform/vicodec/Makefile | 4 + .../media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-codec.c | 743 +++++++++++ .../media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-codec.h | 71 + drivers/media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-core.c | 1167 +++++++++++++++++ drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 1 + drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c | 18 + include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h | 29 + include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 1 + 12 files changed, 2058 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/vicodec/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/vicodec/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-codec.c create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-codec.h create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/vicodec/vicodec-core.c -- 2.18.0
