1.7.0 Release Note

Changelog

• DXVA GPU zero-copy support
• DXVA copy-back mode improvement
• VAAPI zero-copy improvement
• Fix opengl wrong display if switch decoder between VDA and FFmpeg
• Video encoding support
• External audio track support
• Pulseaudio improvement, fix crashes and hang
• OpenGL: disable VBO for ANGLE to workaround qpainter filters have no effect. Less GL calls. Fix OpenGLWindowRenderer can not update correctly
• Fix capture video when a zero-copy HW decoder is used.
• Fix wrong audio data is played at the beginning of playback
• Enable XV shm
• Improve a/v sync
• Build android on windows
• Fix msvc debug build
• Use OpenSL ES as for android. It works correctly now. No OpenAL required any more. Add volume control for OpenSL ES.
• Fix crashes
• Add ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~wbsecg1/+archive/ubuntu/qtav
• CI: appveyor for windows
• AVInput=>MediaIO. You can use it to support custom output when encoding video
• Add seekFinished, durationChanged, QML MediaPlayer.videoCapture, Subtitle delay etc
• QMLPlayer: swipe to seek

DXVA 0-Copy

Before this version QtAV does not support zero-copy for DXVA. The decoded data must be read back from GPU and it wastes a lot of cpu time. Now the renderer can directly render the picture on GPU. The CPU load can be very low.

ANGLE (OpenGL ES2) is required to support 0-copy. Since Qt5.4, Qt supports dynamic OpenGL. Desktop OpenGL will be used if it's available. There are 2 ways to enable OpenGL ES:

• qApp->setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseOpenGLES); at the beginning
• set environment QT_OPENGL=angle

If OpenGL ES is used, 0-copy mode will be used for DXVA decoder in QtAV. You can force copy-back mode like this

    QVariantHash dec_opt(player->optionsForVideoCodec());
      dec_opt["copyMode"] = "OptimizedCopy"; // or "GenericCopy"
      player->setOptionsForVideoCodec(dec_opt);
    
  

The QMLPlayer example use OpenGL ES by default, You have to edit %HOME%\.QtAV\QMLPlayer.ini to change opengl.

The player example has a gui option to choose OpenGL ES or Desktop OpenGL

NOTE: git submode capi is required to build with 0-copy support

Desktop OpenGL + DXVA 0-copy

A WGL extension is required. https://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/DX_interop.txt

I wrote the code but it and test for several GPUs. Only Intel HD4600 works.

Video Encoding

Video encoding support is still working in progress. Currently you can transcode video streams but not audio stream.

Try examples/simpletranscode.

CI

I use appveyor for windows build. When I push a commit to github, appveyor will build it and create a package. It's very helpful to watch the build issue. You can download the latest build from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wang-bin/qtav/build/artifacts or https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtav/files/ci/