vaapi_encode: Support VBR mode

This includes a backward-compatibility hack to choose CBR anyway on
old drivers which have no CBR support, so that existing programs will
continue to work their options now map to VBR.

(cherry picked from commit f033ba470fbab1ff6838666d4d86411effa97b27)

diff --git a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
index 949c29846c621f312a9f5fcb9169ec7e5c1b691e..e491b3cab893da32de6d6600b5b03b3d4072469b 100644 (file)
--- a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
+++ b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
@@ -1034,6 +1034,19 @@ static av_cold int vaapi_encode_config_attributes(AVCodecContext *avctx)
             };
             break;
         case VAConfigAttribRateControl:
+            // Hack for backward compatibility: CBR was the only
+            // usable RC mode for a long time, so old drivers will
+            // only have it.  Normal default options may now choose
+            // VBR and then fail, however, so override it here with
+            // CBR if that is the only supported mode.
+            if (ctx->va_rc_mode == VA_RC_VBR &&
+                !(attr[i].value & VA_RC_VBR) &&
+                (attr[i].value & VA_RC_CBR)) {
+                av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING, "VBR rate control is "
+                       "not supported with this driver version; "
+                       "using CBR instead.\n");
+                ctx->va_rc_mode = VA_RC_CBR;
+            }
             if (!(ctx->va_rc_mode & attr[i].value)) {
                 av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Rate control mode %#x "
                        "is not supported (mask: %#x).\n",
@@ -1098,6 +1111,9 @@ fail:
 static av_cold int vaapi_encode_init_rate_control(AVCodecContext *avctx)
 {
     VAAPIEncodeContext *ctx = avctx->priv_data;
+    int rc_bits_per_second;
+    int rc_target_percentage;
+    int rc_window_size;
     int hrd_buffer_size;
     int hrd_initial_buffer_fullness;
 
@@ -1116,13 +1132,29 @@ static av_cold int vaapi_encode_init_rate_control(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     else
         hrd_initial_buffer_fullness = hrd_buffer_size * 3 / 4;
 
+    if (ctx->va_rc_mode == VA_RC_CBR) {
+        rc_bits_per_second   = avctx->bit_rate;
+        rc_target_percentage = 100;
+        rc_window_size       = 1000;
+    } else {
+        if (avctx->rc_max_rate < avctx->bit_rate) {
+            // Max rate is unset or invalid, just use the normal bitrate.
+            rc_bits_per_second   = avctx->bit_rate;
+            rc_target_percentage = 100;
+        } else {
+            rc_bits_per_second   = avctx->rc_max_rate;
+            rc_target_percentage = (avctx->bit_rate * 100) / rc_bits_per_second;
+        }
+        rc_window_size = (hrd_buffer_size * 1000) / avctx->bit_rate;
+    }
+
     ctx->rc_params.misc.type = VAEncMiscParameterTypeRateControl;
     ctx->rc_params.rc = (VAEncMiscParameterRateControl) {
-        .bits_per_second   = avctx->bit_rate,
-        .target_percentage = 66,
-        .window_size       = 1000,
-        .initial_qp        = (avctx->qmax >= 0 ? avctx->qmax : 40),
-        .min_qp            = (avctx->qmin >= 0 ? avctx->qmin : 18),
+        .bits_per_second   = rc_bits_per_second,
+        .target_percentage = rc_target_percentage,
+        .window_size       = rc_window_size,
+        .initial_qp        = 0,
+        .min_qp            = (avctx->qmin > 0 ? avctx->qmin : 0),
         .basic_unit_size   = 0,
     };
     ctx->global_params[ctx->nb_global_params] =