Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] media: uapi: h264: Clarify our expectations regarding NAL header format

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Hi Boris, Paul,

On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 14:28 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Looks like some stateless decoders expect slices to be prefixed with
> ANNEX B start codes (they most likely do some kind of bitstream parsing
> and/or need that to delimit slices when doing per frame decoding).
> Since skipping those start codes for dummy stateless decoders (those
> expecting all params to be passed through controls) should be pretty
> easy, let's mandate that all slices be prepended with ANNEX B start
> codes.
> 
> If we ever need to support AVC headers, we can add a new menu control
> to select the type of NAL header to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> * Add Paul's R-b
> 
> Changes in v2:
> * None
> ---
>  Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
> index 7a1947f5be96..3ae1367806cf 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
> @@ -1726,6 +1726,7 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_hierarchical_coding_type -
>      :ref:`h264`, section 7.4.3 "Slice Header Semantics". For further
>      documentation, refer to the above specification, unless there is
>      an explicit comment stating otherwise.
> +    All slices should be prepended with an ANNEX B start code.
>  

Currently, the H264 slice V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264_SLICE_RAW,
is specified to _not_ contain the ANNEX B start code.

As you know, this is used in the cedrus driver, which is not
expecting the start code.

What's the plan regarding that?

Thanks,
Ezequiel




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