[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/dashenc: Calculate average bitrate for adaptation sets in static manifest

Jeyapal, Karthick kjeyapal at akamai.com
Tue Jun 16 22:52:49 EEST 2020


On 6/16/20 6:02 PM, Przemysław Sobala wrote:
> If stream's bitrate is not specified:
> - for static manifest: an average bitrate will be calculated and used,
> - for dynamic manifest: first segment's bitrate will be calculated and used, as before,
> for bandwidth setting in adaptation sets.
>
> For dynamic manifest
> ---
>  libavformat/dashenc.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libavformat/dashenc.c b/libavformat/dashenc.c
> index 05deb5c1b5..6e1a6dbf3a 100644
> --- a/libavformat/dashenc.c
> +++ b/libavformat/dashenc.c
> @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ typedef struct OutputStream {
>      int64_t last_dts, last_pts;
>      int last_flags;
>      int bit_rate;
> +    int first_segment_bit_rate;
> +    double average_bit_rate;
>      SegmentType segment_type;  /* segment type selected for this particular stream */
>      const char *format_name;
>      const char *extension_name;
> @@ -840,8 +842,11 @@ static int write_adaptation_set(AVFormatContext *s, AVIOContext *out, int as_ind
>              continue;
>  
>          if (os->bit_rate > 0)
> -            snprintf(bandwidth_str, sizeof(bandwidth_str), " bandwidth=\"%d\"",
> -                     os->bit_rate);
> +            snprintf(bandwidth_str, sizeof(bandwidth_str), " bandwidth=\"%d\"", os->bit_rate);
> +        else if (final && os->average_bit_rate > 0)
> +            snprintf(bandwidth_str, sizeof(bandwidth_str), " bandwidth=\"%d\"", (int) os->average_bit_rate);
> +        else if (os->first_segment_bit_rate > 0)
> +            snprintf(bandwidth_str, sizeof(bandwidth_str), " bandwidth=\"%d\"", os->first_segment_bit_rate);
>  
>          if (as->media_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO) {
>              avio_printf(out, "\t\t\t<Representation id=\"%d\" mimeType=\"video/%s\" codecs=\"%s\"%s width=\"%d\" height=\"%d\"",
> @@ -1305,7 +1310,13 @@ static int write_manifest(AVFormatContext *s, int final)
>              OutputStream *os = &c->streams[i];
>              char *agroup = NULL;
>              char *codec_str_ptr = NULL;
> -            int stream_bitrate = st->codecpar->bit_rate + os->muxer_overhead;
> +            int stream_bitrate = os->muxer_overhead;
> +            if (os->bit_rate > 0)
> +                stream_bitrate += os->bit_rate;
> +            else if (final && os->average_bit_rate > 0)
> +                stream_bitrate += os->average_bit_rate;
> +            else if (os->first_segment_bit_rate > 0)
> +                stream_bitrate += os->first_segment_bit_rate;
>              if (st->codecpar->codec_type != AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO)
>                  continue;
>              if (os->segment_type != SEGMENT_TYPE_MP4)
> @@ -1959,10 +1970,13 @@ static int dash_flush(AVFormatContext *s, int final, int stream)
>          os->total_pkt_duration = 0;
>  
>          if (!os->bit_rate) {
> -            // calculate average bitrate of first segment
> -            int64_t bitrate = (int64_t) range_length * 8 * AV_TIME_BASE / duration;
> -            if (bitrate >= 0)
> -                os->bit_rate = bitrate;
> +            // calculate average bitrate
> +            int64_t segment_bitrate = (int64_t) range_length * 8 * AV_TIME_BASE / duration;
> +            if (!os->first_segment_bit_rate)
> +                os->first_segment_bit_rate = segment_bitrate;
> +            os->average_bit_rate = (os->average_bit_rate * (os->segment_index - 1) + segment_bitrate) / os->segment_index;
This method of calculating average bitrate may not be accurate in all cases.
Could you just add all "range_length" values and divide it total duration finally to get the average bitrate value.
Otherwise, the overall idea LGTM.
> +            av_log(s, AV_LOG_INFO, "segment_bitrate: %"PRId64", os->first_segment_bit_rate: %i, os->average_bit_rate: %f\n",
> +                segment_bitrate, os->first_segment_bit_rate, os->average_bit_rate);
>          }
>          add_segment(os, os->filename, os->start_pts, os->max_pts - os->start_pts, os->pos, range_length, index_length, next_exp_index);
>          av_log(s, AV_LOG_VERBOSE, "Representation %d media segment %d written to: %s\n", i, os->segment_index, os->full_path);



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