Hi Andrey ,
"when the decoder is set up to ignore B frames"
How do you do that ?
We must have missed something while we tried using FFmpeg, because we couldn't
find a way of telling the decoder to ignore B frames, we actually got so
desperate that we considered if it was possible to modify the incoming encoded
stream to make FFmpeg believe that the stream doesn't contain B frames ☹
Michael Bodenhoff
Principal Software Engineer
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Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Flushing while decoding , but need already decoded
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Have to say, this issue has been a long grievance of mine. There is no reason
to delay frames when the decoder is set up to ignore B frames as there is no
reordering to be done; ideally this should be zero-delay case (packet goes in,
frame goes out) yet the most common decoders delay frames anyway, as if to
decode B frames. Moreover, with the "new" send/receive API I think there is no
reason to delay frames at all - a single send_packet could decode and queue
multiple frames to be received, so it makes sense to send frames as soon as
possible - yet that is not the case as well.
пт, 24 мая 2024 г. в 13:17, Andreas Rheinhardt :
>
> Michael Henrik Bodenhoff via ffmpeg-devel:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > my team recently had to abandon switching to using FFmpeg from
> > specific decoder implementations (NvDEC, Intel Media SDK , IPP and
> > quite a few codec specific decoders) because of big performance
> > issues because of the way FFmpeg works….. or at least we think it is
> > (we’re FFmpeg noobs )
> >
> > It's actually an issue we also had with Intel Media SDK, leading us to pay
> > Intel to extend Media SDK to do what we needed.
> >
> > Our product is a video surveillance system, and that means we have to
> > decode a LOT of video streams simultaneously.
> >
> > For motion detection we want to only decode keyframes, and skip P and B
> > frames , and that works fine with FFmpeg most of the time, except for when
> > the video stream contains B frames.
> > Without B-Frames it’s really simple (simplified pseudocode) :
> >
> > while(true)
> > {
> > receiveStreamCompleteFrame();
> > If(KeyFrame)
> > {
> > avcodec_send_packet();
> > if(avcodec_receive_frame()==0)
> > {
> >// do motion detection
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > But! with B Frames FFmpeg doesn’t return keyframes when they are decoded,
> > they are kept, and we can’t seem to flush them out. avcodec_flush_buffers
> > allow us to continue to next keyframe, but it doesn’t seem to give us the
> > keyframe we just gave to FFmpeg with avcodec_send_packet.
> >
> > while(true)
> > {
> > receiveStreamCompleteFrame();
> > If(KeyFrame)
> > {
> > avcodec_send_packet();
> > if(avcodec_receive_frame()==0)
> > {
> >// do motion detection
> > }
> > Else
> > {
> > avcodec_flush_buffers();
> > if(avcodec_receive_frame()==0)
> > {
> > // do motion detection
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Calling avcodec_receive_frame after calling avcodec_flush_buffer
> > results in -11 and no frame
> >
> > is there anyway around this ? And if not, could FFmpeg be made to have this
> > functionality ?
> >
> > I tried contacting one of the FFmpeg consultants from
> > https://ff/
> > mpeg.org%2Fconsulting.html=05%7C02%7Cmibo%40milestone.dk%7C46bc
> > b557d2194eb8b76d08dc7be63528%7C4744e4b2072d4754be71250b45e049fe%7C0%
> > 7C0%7C638521475866379714%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDA
> > iLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C=H
> > V8bPZyvDklo5iGs%2BnrW4uEJ6m%2B9tOExcyvt8W3VxyQ%3D=0 but
> > never got a response
> >
>
> Send your packet with the keyframe, send a NULL packet (to signal
> EOF), then the internally stored frames should be output by
> avcodec_receive_frame(). Then flush the decoder (to be able to send
> new packets to it).
>
> - Andreas
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