This means future video codecs may be supported automatically.
One can also force usage of decodebin by setting $SPICE_GSTVIDEO_AUTO.
Signed-off-by: Francois Gouget <fgouget@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
src/channel-display-gst.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/channel-display-gst.c b/src/channel-display-gst.c
index 79f7744..42f66c5 100644
--- a/src/channel-display-gst.c
+++ b/src/channel-display-gst.c
@@ -108,7 +108,16 @@ static gboolean construct_pipeline(SpiceGstDecoder *decoder)
decoder->pipeline_wait = TRUE;
decoder->samples_count = 0;
- const gchar *src_caps, *gstdec_name;
+ /* Note that we cannot rely on typefind to always identify the stream type
+ * (e.g. VP8). So always set the source caps for streams we know about.
+ * See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756457
+ *
+ * Furthermore decodebin will use vaapi if installed, which for a time
+ * could intentionally crash the application. So only use decodebin as a
+ * fallback for now. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90884
+ */
+ const gchar *src_caps;
+ const gchar *gstdec_name = NULL;
switch (decoder->base.codec_type) {
case SPICE_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE_MJPEG:
src_caps = "caps=image/jpeg";
@@ -123,8 +132,14 @@ static gboolean construct_pipeline(SpiceGstDecoder *decoder)
gstdec_name = "h264parse ! avdec_h264";
break;
default:
- spice_warning("Unknown codec type %d", decoder->base.codec_type);
- return -1;
+ SPICE_DEBUG("Unknown codec type %d. Trying decodebin.",
+ decoder->base.codec_type);
+ src_caps = "";
+ break;
+ }
+ /* Set SPICE_GSTVIDEO_AUTO to test decodebin and maybe get hardware acceleration */
+ if (!gstdec_name || getenv("SPICE_GSTVIDEO_AUTO")) {
+ gstdec_name = "decodebin";
}
GError *err = NULL;
--
2.6.2
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