Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] [media] exynos-gsc: Use user configured colorspace if provided

From: Thibault Saunier
Date: Wed Feb 22 2017 - 13:57:54 EST


On 02/22/2017 03:06 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:

On 02/22/2017 05:05 AM, Thibault Saunier wrote:
Hello,


On 02/21/2017 11:19 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On 02/21/2017 11:20 AM, Thibault Saunier wrote:
Use colorspace provided by the user as we are only doing scaling and
color encoding conversion, we won't be able to transform the colorspace
itself and the colorspace won't mater in that operation.

Also always use output colorspace on the capture side.

Start using 576p as a threashold to compute the colorspace.
The media documentation says that the V4L2_COLORSPACE_SMPTE170M colorspace
should be used for SDTV and V4L2_COLORSPACE_REC709 for HDTV. But drivers
don't agree on the display resolution that should be used as a threshold.

From EIA CEA 861B about colorimetry for various resolutions:

- 5.1 480p, 480i, 576p, 576i, 240p, and 288p
The color space used by the 480-line, 576-line, 240-line, and 288-line
formats will likely be based on SMPTE 170M [1].
- 5.2 1080i, 1080p, and 720p
The color space used by the high definition formats will likely be
based on ITU-R BT.709-4

This indicates that in the case that userspace does not specify what
colorspace should be used, we should use 576p as a threshold to set
V4L2_COLORSPACE_REC709 instead of V4L2_COLORSPACE_SMPTE170M. Even if it is
only 'likely' and not a requirement it is the best guess we can make.

The stream should have been encoded with the information and userspace
has to pass it to the driver if it is not the case, otherwise we won't be
able to handle it properly anyhow.

Also, check for the resolution in G_FMT instead unconditionally setting
the V4L2_COLORSPACE_REC709 colorspace.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thibault Saunier <thibault.saunier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>

---

Changes in v5:
- Squash commit to always use output colorspace on the capture side
inside this one
- Fix typo in commit message

Changes in v4:
- Reword commit message to better back our assumptions on specifications

Changes in v3:
- Do not check values in the g_fmt functions as Andrzej explained in previous review
- Added 'Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>'

Changes in v2: None

drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
index 59a634201830..772599de8c13 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-core.c
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ int gsc_try_fmt_mplane(struct gsc_ctx *ctx, struct v4l2_format *f)
} else {
min_w = variant->pix_min->target_rot_dis_w;
min_h = variant->pix_min->target_rot_dis_h;
+ pix_mp->colorspace = ctx->out_colorspace;
}
pr_debug("mod_x: %d, mod_y: %d, max_w: %d, max_h = %d",
@@ -472,10 +473,15 @@ int gsc_try_fmt_mplane(struct gsc_ctx *ctx, struct v4l2_format *f)
pix_mp->num_planes = fmt->num_planes;
- if (pix_mp->width >= 1280) /* HD */
- pix_mp->colorspace = V4L2_COLORSPACE_REC709;
- else /* SD */
- pix_mp->colorspace = V4L2_COLORSPACE_SMPTE170M;
+ if (pix_mp->colorspace == V4L2_COLORSPACE_DEFAULT) {
+ if (pix_mp->width > 720 && pix_mp->height > 576) /* HD */
I'd use || instead of && here. Ditto for the next patch.

+ pix_mp->colorspace = V4L2_COLORSPACE_REC709;
+ else /* SD */
+ pix_mp->colorspace = V4L2_COLORSPACE_SMPTE170M;
+ }
Are you sure this is in fact how it is used? If the source of the video
is the sensor (camera), then the colorspace is typically SRGB. I'm not
really sure you should guess here. All a mem2mem driver should do is to
pass the colorspace etc. information from the output to the capture side,
and not invent things. That simply makes no sense.
This is not a camera device but a colorspace conversion device, in many
Not really, this is a color encoding conversion device. I.e. it only affects
the Y'CbCr encoding and quantization range. The colorspace (aka chromaticities)
and transfer function remain unchanged.

Well, right, sorry I am talking in GStreamer terminlogy where what you call
colorspace is called colorimetry, and colorspace is what I am talking about here.

In fact, I suspect (correct me if I am wrong) that it only converts between
RGB, Y'CbCr 601 and Y'CbCr 709 encodings, where RGB is full range and the Y'CbCr
formats are limited range.
That sounds correct.

If you pass in limited range RGB it will probably do the wrong thing as I don't
seen any quantization checks in the code.

So the colorspace and xfer_func fields remain unchanged by this driver.

If you want to do this really correctly, then you need to do more. I don't have
time right now to go into this in-depth, but I will try to get back to this on
Monday. I am thinking of documenting this as part of the V4L2 colorspace
documentation. This stuff is complex and if you don't know the rules then it
can be hard to implement correctly.

Here I am just making sure that we set the colorspace (v4l2 terminology)
if the case the user is passing DEFAULT (meaning he does not know what
it should be and lets the driver set it, this will happen in the case where the
information was not contain in the source, which means the value has to be
guessed, and here I am simply doing an educated guess relying on what the
previously named standard suggests.

I would be happy to read more information about that subject and will
try to fix remaining suggested points once I have a better understanding
of the whole concepts and problems in that driver, but I still think that this
patch is correct for what it is aiming at fixing.

Regards,

Thibault Saunier

cases the info will not be passed by the userspace, basically because the info
is not encoded in the media stream (this often happens). I am not inventing here,
just making sure we use the most likely value in case none was provided (and if none
was provided it should always be correct given that the encoded stream was not broken).

In the case the source is a camera and then we use the colorspace converter then the info
should copied from the camera to the transcoding node (by userspace) so there should be
no problem.

What I am doing here is what is done in other drivers.
Most (all?) other mem2mem drivers do not do color encoding conversion, they just copy
all the colorspace info from output to capture.

If there are other m2m drivers that do this, then I doubt they do the right thing.
They are probably right for most cases, but not all.

Regards,

Hans