When frames are skipped the skipped frame count would increment, but the
total frame count would not increment, causing the percentage
calculation to fail.
Additionally, the skipped frames log reporting has been moved to
media-io/video-io.c instead of each output.
Captions do something unusual with encoder packets: they reallocate them
due to appending extra h.264 data. Due to the way allocations are
handled with core encoder packets (they now store a reference in their
data), instead of modifying the encoder data directly, create a new
encoder packet instead and release the old packet.
When an output's context data is being created, it cannot register any
hotkeys because the output has not initialized its reference counting
capability. This is due to the fact that when a hotkey is registered,
it creates a weak reference to the source/output/service/encoder.
The solution to this is to make sure the output's reference counter data
is created before calling the create callback.
Allow outputs to force a stop even when already in the process of
stopping. If for example a stream is heavily congested and taking a
very long time to stop, this allows frontends to give the users the
option to forcibly stop the stream to make it stop as quickly as
possible.
(Note: This commit also modifies coreaudio-encoder, win-capture, and
win-mf modules)
This reduces logging to the user's log file. Most of the things
specified are not useful for examining log files, and make reading log
files more painful.
The things that are useful to log should be up to the front-end to
implement. The core and core plugins should have minimal mandatory
logging.
This fixes an design flaw where a delayed output would schedule a
stop even while in the process of reconnecting instead of just shutting
down right away.
When obs_output_actual_stop is called on shutdown, it should wait for
the output to fully stop before doing anything, and then it should wait
for the data capture to end. The service should not be removed until
after the output has stopped, otherwise it could result in a possible
memory leak on stop. Packets should be freed last.
(Note: This commit also modifies obs-ffmpeg and obs-outputs)
API Changed:
obs_output_info::void (*stop)(void *data);
To:
obs_output_info::void (*stop)(void *data, uint64_t ts);
This fixes the long-time design flaw where obs_output_stop and the
output 'stop' callback would just shut down the output without
considering the timing of when obs_output_stop was used, discarding any
possible buffering and causing the output to get cut off at an
unexpected timing.
The 'stop' callback of obs_output_info now takes a timestamp with the
expectation that the output will use that timestamp to stop output data
in accordance to that timing. obs_output_stop now records the timestamp
at the time that the function is called and calls the 'stop' callback
with that timestamp. If needed, obs_output_force_stop will still stop
the output immediately without buffering.
On outputs that use already-active video/audio encoder, the audio
pruning to sync up audio packets with video packets doesn't always get
called (for example if the video pruning function was called). Always
prune excess starting audio packets.
If audio buffering is very high, the audio packets built up in the
interleaved buffer would be significantly before the first video packet,
causing the offset between the starting video/audio packet pairs to be
significantly off, leading to desync.
This issue was not spotted until recently because it only happens when
streaming/recording with same encoders while audio buffering is very
high.
When starting a multi-track output, attempt to pair the video encoder
with one of the audio encoders to ensure that the video and audio
encoders start as close together in time as possible. This ensures the
best possible audio/video syncing point when using multi-track audio
output.
When using multi-track audio, encoders cannot be paired like they can
when only using a single audio track with video, so it has to choose the
best point in the interleaved buffer as the "starting point", and if the
encoders start up at different times, it has to prune that data and wait
to start the output on the next video keyframe. When the audio encoders
started up, there was the case where the encoders would take some time
to load, and it would cause the pruning code to wait for the next
keyframe to ensure startup syncing.
Starting the audio encoders before starting the video encoder should
reduce the possibility of that happening in a multi-track scenario.
In a multi-track scenario it was not taking in to consideration the
possibility of secondary audio tracks, which could have caused desync on
some of the audio tracks.
Problem:
When an output is started with encoders that have already been started
by another output, and it starts in between the window in between where
the first audio packets start coming in and where the first video packet
comes in, the output would get audio packets with timestamps potentially
much later than the first video frame when the first video frame finally
comes in. The audio/video encoders will almost always have a differing
delay.
Solution:
Detect that starting window, and if within that starting window, wait
for a new keyframe from video instead of trying to sync up video.
Additional Notes:
In these cases where an output starts with already-active encoders, this
patch also reduces the potential sync offset between the first video
frame and the first audio frame. Before, it would sync the first video
frame with the first audio frames right after that, but now it syncs
with the closest audio frame in the interleaved array, which halves the
potential sync difference between the first video frame and the first
audio frame of already-active encoders. (So now the potential sync
difference is roughly 11.6 milliseconds at 44.1khz audio, where it was
23.2 before)
API changed from:
obs_source_info::get_name(void)
obs_output_info::get_name(void)
obs_encoder_info::get_name(void)
obs_service_info::get_name(void)
API changed to:
obs_source_info::get_name(void *type_data)
obs_output_info::get_name(void *type_data)
obs_encoder_info::get_name(void *type_data)
obs_service_info::get_name(void *type_data)
This allows the type data to be used when getting the name of the
object (useful for plugin wrappers primarily).
NOTE: Though a parameter was added, this is backward-compatible with
older plugins due to calling convention. The new parameter will simply
be ignored by older plugins, and the stack (if used) will be cleaned up
by the caller.
Allows objects to be created regardless of whether the actual id exists
or not. This is a precaution that preserves objects/settings if for
some reason the id was removed for whatever reason (plugin removed, or
hardware encoder that disappeared). This was already added for sources,
but really needs to be added for other libobs objects as well: outputs,
encoders, services.
This fixes the issue when an output cancels reconnecting, reconnect is
left at true, causing obs_output_active to always return true even
though reconnecting has actually been canceled.
This feature allows a user to delay an output (as long as the output
itself supports it). Needless to say this intended for live streams,
where users may want to delay their streams to prevent stream sniping,
cheating, and other such things.
The design this time was a bit more elaborate, but still simple in
design: the user can now schedule stops/starts without having to wait
for the stream itself to stop before being able to take any action.
Optionally, they can also forcibly stop stream (and delay) in case
something happens which they might not want to be streamed.
Additionally, a new option was added to preserve stream cutoff point on
disconnections/reconnections, so that if you get disconnected while
streaming, when it reconnects, it will reconnect right at the point
where it left off. This will probably be quite useful for a number of
applications in addition to regular delay, such as setting the delay to
1 second and then using this feature to minimize, for example, a
critical stream such as a tournament stream from getting any of its
stream data cut off. However, using this feature will of course cause
the stream data to buffer and increase delay (and memory usage) while
it's in the process of reconnecting.
Implements exponential backoff for consecutive reconnects, which is
useful to prevent too many connections from trying to reconnect back to
a service at once over a short period of time in the case of potential
service downtime. Exponential backoff causes each subsequent reconnect
attempt to double its timeout duration.
This optionally allows the front-end to know what the current timeout
value in seconds is set to for the reconnection without having to call
an extra API function to find that out.
When using multiple video encoders together with a single audio encoder,
the audio wouldn't be in sync.
The reason why this occurred is because the dts_usec variable of the
encoder packet (which is based on system time) would always be reset to
a value based upon the dts (which is not guaranteed to be based on
system time) in the apply_interleaved_packet_offset function. This
would then in turn cause it to miscalculate the starting audio/video
offsets, which are required to calculate sync.
So instead of calling that function unnecessarily, separate the check
for whether audio/video has been received in to a new function, and only
start applying the interleaved offsets after audio and video have
actually started up and the starting offsets have been calculated.
API changed:
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void obs_output_set_audio_encoder(
obs_output_t *output,
obs_encoder_t *encoder);
obs_encoder_t *obs_output_get_audio_encoder(
const obs_output_t *output);
obs_encoder_t *obs_audio_encoder_create(
const char *id,
const char *name,
obs_data_t *settings);
Changed to:
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/* 'idx' specifies the track index of the output */
void obs_output_set_audio_encoder(
obs_output_t *output,
obs_encoder_t *encoder,
size_t idx);
/* 'idx' specifies the track index of the output */
obs_encoder_t *obs_output_get_audio_encoder(
const obs_output_t *output,
size_t idx);
/* 'mixer_idx' specifies the mixer index to capture audio from */
obs_encoder_t *obs_audio_encoder_create(
const char *id,
const char *name,
obs_data_t *settings,
size_t mixer_idx);
Overview
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This feature allows multiple audio mixers to be used at a time. This
capability was able to be added with surprisingly very little extra
overhead. Audio will not be mixed unless it's assigned to a specific
mixer, and mixers will not mix unless they have an active mix
connection.
Mostly this will be useful for being able to separate out specific audio
for recording versus streaming, but will also be useful for certain
streaming services that support multiple audio streams via RTMP.
I didn't want to use a variable amount of mixers due to the desire to
reduce heap allocations, so currently I set the limit to 4 simultaneous
mixers; this number can be increased later if needed, but honestly I
feel like it's just the right number to use.
Sources:
Sources can now specify which audio mixers their audio is mixed to; this
can be a single mixer or multiple mixers at a time. The
obs_source_set_audio_mixers function sets the audio mixer which an audio
source applies to. For example, 0xF would mean that the source applies
to all four mixers.
Audio Encoders:
Audio encoders now must specify which specific audio mixer they use when
they encode audio data.
Outputs:
Outputs that use encoders can now support multiple audio tracks at once
if they have the OBS_OUTPUT_MULTI_TRACK capability flag set. This is
mostly only useful for certain types of RTMP transmissions, though may
be useful for file formats that support multiple audio tracks as well
later on.
jp9000
Ryan Foster
Palana