view DOCS/tech/realcodecs/video-codecs.txt @ 6349:c09a890e4c8c

initial version from Florian Schneider <[e-mail]>

The work has been based on the RV30 codec, but since RV20 has the same
interface, it might work for it as well.




error codes (the software uses redmond originated error codes)

1. internal code (1-10)
2. result

0    00000000 success
1    80004005 E_FAIL
2    8007000E E_OUTOFMEMORY
3,9  80004001 E_NOTIMPL
4,5  80070005 E_ACCESSDENIED
6    80004003 E_POINTER
7,10 80070057 E_INVALIDREG
8    80040FC1 (or 1FC?: CO_E_OBJISREG) - never occured here





I think the only relevant file is the decoder drv[23].so.6.0
The rv[23]0 ones are just for streaming. We do this ourselves.


The codec consists of several functions. The relevant ones are:

RV20toYUV420Init()
RV20toYUV420Transform()
RV20toYUV420CustomMessage()
RV20toYUV420Free()


The others are irrelevant (seems to me). HiveMessage doesn't manipulate
anything and is only called in the beginning.

result=RV20toYUV420Init(struct init_data *, struct rvyuvMain **);

struct init_data {
	short constant=0xb;
	short width, height;
	short 0, 0, 0;
	ulong format1;
	long  1;
	ulong format2;
};


result=RV20toYUV420Transform(char *input_stream, char *output_data,
	struct transin *, struct transout *, struct rvyuvMain *);

struct transin {
	ulong length_of_input_data;
	ulong null;
	ulong num_sub_packets_in_block_minus_one;
	struct transin1 *ptr;
	ulong another_null;
	ulong timestamp_from_stream;
};

struct transin1 {
	ulong 1, 0;
	// ... more data? the codec's behaviour changed sometimes
	// when I changed the data following the first to ulongs
	// i.e. it crashed. I've set it to 0
	// TODO: understand (the purpose of) these values
	// often contains 0x28, 0x19
	// sometimes 0x28, 0x11
	// sometimes even other data (e.g. pointers)
	// a breakpoint didn't reveal a read operation. weird.
};


struct transout {
	ulong flag1; // ((var_94&2!=0)&&(result==0))?1:0
	ulong flag2; // 4 LBS from var_94
	ulong zero;
	ulong width, height;
};

The length of output_stream is 1.5*width*height.
input_stream is the exact data from the data block for one frame.



result=RV20toYUV420CustomMessage(ulong *msg, struct rvyuvMain *);

Messages used by RV30:

A message is a triplet (cmd,val,ext) of ulong.

(3,2,0) 
returns always(?) an error, since a global variable inside the codec
(which points to a function similar to custommessage), is always NULL

(0x11,0|1|2,0)
val=0|1: sets intern2 to val, when intern1 is non-zero
         return 3 when intern1 is zero and val is 1
         else returns 0
val=2:   return intern2
what does intern[1,2] mean?

(0x1e,2|3,1)
calls a subroutine and returns the result, purpose has to be detemined

(0x24,2,{...})
copies 4 dwords to rvyuvMain+07c: { width, height, 0, 0 }

(0x1c,a,b) - called inside transform
to be analyzed



structure of rvyuvMain:
-----------------------

DWORDS (the entries are not always constant)
there are two w/h pairs at 05C. the first is the size of the
unscaled video stream, the second possibly image size

000	1	6	3	1
010	1	0	AEBFC0D1(magic)	0
020	0	ptr->?	0	0
030	0	0	->rvyuvMain+0x050	?
040	width	height	0x17	0x479
050	->rvyuvMain	0x17	0x17	width
060	height	width	height	0
070	0	1	0	0
080	0	0xb	w	h
090	w	h	0	0	
0A0	1	0xb0(w?)	0x58	0x58
0B0	ptr->?	0	0	1
0C0	0x32	1	0	0
0D0	0	0	0	0
0E0	0	0	0	0
0F0	0	0	0	0
100	0	0	0	0
110	p	p	p	p p are pointers to several function, for 
120	p	p	p	p example to the actual public functions
130	p	p	p	p (except init, the others are some kind of
140	p	p	p	p interfaces)
150	p	0	0	0
160	0	0x2000	1	0
170	0	0	0	0
180	1	1	0	0
190	0	0	0	0
1A0	0	0	0	0
1B0	1	0	ptr->?	ptr->?
1C0	1	0	0	0
1D0	0	0	0	0
1E0	0	0	0	0
...




Order of calls:
---------------

Init
(0x11,0,0)
(0x24,2,{...})

[
(3,2,0)->80004001
(0x11,1,0)
(0x1e,3,1)
Transform (internally calls (0x1c,x,y))
(11,2,0)
]

Free