[vlc-devel] [PATCH] linux: kernel mode setting (KMS) vout plugin

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Päivää,

Le tiistaina 15. toukokuuta 2018, 15.09.59 EEST Juha-Pekka Heikkila a écrit :
> I made vout plugin for Linux which uses kernel mode setting API. This plugin
> mostly recreates what FB plugin does with following highlights:
> 
> * FB could only do RGB but with KMS plugin one get access to all kernel
>   enabled video modes. I have successfully ran through all packed and planar
> YUV modes I found from my HW -- as well as all RGB modes.
> * No tearing (I hope) I used two hw buffers and kernel plane handling
>   takes care of the flipping for me. Only way I see tearing could happen is
>   if VLC is decoding video frames faster than hardware video refresh rate.

There is something fishy with the multiple pools containing one picture each. 
AFAICT, only one pool and thus only one picture buffer will ever be used.

> * libFB to my knowledge is in maintenance mode, no more new features.
> * My plugin can be run over ssh.

Special-casing pseudo-terminals by device name is a bit questionable. For 
instance, it won't work with a serial console, which would be potentially 
useful for embedded debugging/development.

> Then the other things:
> * I am employee of Intel Corporation thus I have to have special disclaimer
>   on top of my plugin. I developed this plugin as part of my work when
>   playing with KMS, this can be used to test video modes where it doesn't
>   need to be totally boring all the time :)

If, or rather when, the terminal handling code has been moved to a "window" 
module for a yet to-be-defined window type, you can assert Intel copyrights 
and license terms on the whole file.

But in the mean time, you cannot strip the copyright and relax the license of 
that code which seems to be copied from the existing fb.c.

> * I have had access only to Intel hardware but I'm wishful my plugin works
>   equally on other manufacturer's hardware. I tried to use only simple
>   features to be able to maintain functionality on other platforms too.
> * VLC and libdrm has some FourCC codes which are equal on both worlds but
>   then there are others which have different names while seemingly same
>   functionality. By default my plugin asks for XR24 type framebuffer from
>   DRM and at the same time tells VLC it is RV32. Then again things like YUYV
> or NV12 are the same in both worlds. If VLC is run in verbose mode one can
> see my plugin listing all modes which KMS advertises. I didn't go write
> match making table for these.

Expecting the user to select the chroma is really peculiar.
Normally, the display tries to take an exact match. If there is none, it 
either tries to negotiate with the hardware abstraction layer or iterates 
through vlc_fourcc_GetYUVFallback/vlc_fourcc_GetRGBFallback.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/