<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Jul 2017, at 13:57, Steve Lhomme <<a href="mailto:robux4@gmail.com" class="">robux4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Oliver Collyer <</span><a href="mailto:ovcollyer@mac.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">ovcollyer@mac.com</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 27 Jun 2017, at 23:26, Thomas Guillem <<a href="mailto:thomas@gllm.fr" class="">thomas@gllm.fr</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, at 21:21, Oliver Collyer wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 27 Jun 2017, at 16:25, Victorien Le Couviour--Tuffet <<a href="mailto:victorien.lecouviour.tuffet@gmail.com" class="">victorien.lecouviour.tuffet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:58:48PM +0300, Oliver Collyer wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">After testing the Motion Adaptive deinterlacing mode and finding it produced lots of flicker/judder and not much deinterlacing I traced the error back to the below.<br class=""><br class="">Although it seems a little counter-intuitive, the "forward_refs" are actually the frames older than the current one, and the "backward_refs" are those later.<br class=""><br class="">In addition, the forward_refs (previously the backward_refs) have to be ordered such that [0] is most recent, [1] older, etc; before this patch it was the opposite.<br class=""><br class="">Just to be 100% sure, I have also cross-referenced this approach with how FFmpeg does it:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavfilter/vf_deinterlace_vaapi.c" class="">https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavfilter/vf_deinterlace_vaapi.c</a> <<a href="https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavfilter/vf_deinterlace_vaapi.c" class="">https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavfilter/vf_deinterlace_vaapi.c</a>><br class=""><br class="">See function deint_vaapi_filter_frame.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Oh thanks I would have never guessed that. It is indeed a bit<br class="">counter-intuitive. And obviously the VA documentation does not tell you that.<br class="">I was probably not able to see those flicker/judder by myself as on my computer<br class="">I only have one backward frame. Anyway, thanks again.<br class="">Also, LGTM.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I may have noticed it more clearly because I had hacked in frame doubling<br class="">too.<br class=""><br class="">Do you have any plans to add support for a frame rate doubling output?<br class="">i.e. some sort of "Output one frame per field" option? Both dxva2 and<br class="">vaapi deinterlacing lack this, and I think it's rather important.<br class="">Watching any sort of interlaced sports content is way smoother.<br class=""><br class="">I would be happy to add it, it's quite straightforward, but I wasn't too<br class="">sure how the option should be specified. Would each of the interlace<br class="">modes "Bob" and "x" have an extra "Bobx2" and "xx2" counterpart (like the<br class="">way Yadfifx2 works for software deinterlacing), or should it be a<br class="">different option completely?<br class=""><br class="">Of course, you may already have this in your plans, in which case you may<br class="">ignore me!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">We don't have that in our plans and we'll be happy to merge it.<br class="">You can add "x2" or "bob2" options in the vaapi filters module. You'll<br class="">be able to select it via the command line. If we add bob2 or x2 in the<br class="">QT GUI, we need to have a working CPU implementation since we can't add<br class="">a menu option that is working only for VAAPI. Sadly, we are not able<br class="">(yet) to get HW module capabilities in order to fill the QT menu with<br class="">adequate options. This won't be done for the 3.0 release (and probably<br class="">not for the 4.0 one too).<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">Thomas<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thomas<br class=""><br class="">I am going to look at this soon, but I just wanted to check that you do want these as separate "2" variations as I noticed that Steve's recent commits have automatically enabled framerate doubling for both "Bob" and "x" (I haven't tested but the double frame rate flag seems to be set for both)....i.e. there aren't these separate "Bob2" and "x2" versions that you are proposing for vaapi.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Actually in software "x" doesn't do the frame rate doubling and</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">doesn't use frame history. But in Direct3D it does. The names outside</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">of software may not match exactly what's available in the hardware.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">But all available modes should be presented and trying to match a</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">corresponding software equivalent in terms of quality.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Is that not down to whether you choose to output two frames or not though? i.e. you could just have easily as implemented DXVA2 X and Bob modes without doubling the frame rate? Or are you saying that DXVA2 expects to always output two frames for these deinterlace modes and it would be wrong to only output single frames (as you had it with your original DXVA2 deinterlace check-in).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Don't get me wrong - I personally much prefer it as you've done it, as I don't really see why you'd want to deinterlace 1080i input and *not* output double the frame rate. But there must be some use-cases I haven't thought of.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But the same choice seems to exist for VAAPI - either loop through and output two frames each time, or don't. And the suggestion was that the existing "Bob" and "x" should continue to output single frames, whereas double frames should be reserved for new "Bob2" and "x2" variants....which would seem to be inconsistent vs DXVA2, although consistent with software.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I presume it needs to be consistent across modules?<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Regards.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">vlc-devel mailing list<br class="">To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br class=""><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" class="">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">vlc-devel mailing list<br class="">To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br class=""><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" class="">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">vlc-devel mailing list<br class="">To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br class=""><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" class="">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">vlc-devel mailing list<br class="">To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br class=""><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" class="">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a><br class=""></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">vlc-devel mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>