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* [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH] ffmpeg CLI multithreading
@ 2023-09-19 19:10 Anton Khirnov
  2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 01/27] fftools/ffmpeg: move derivation of frame duration from filter framerate Anton Khirnov
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From: Anton Khirnov @ 2023-09-19 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ffmpeg-devel

Hi,
as some of you might know, I have been working on multithreading for the
ffmpeg CLI (as opposed to the libraries) for quite a while now. That
work is now finally entering the vicinity of being usable, so I've
decided to air it on the ML for comments on the big picture.

Do note that many things still do not work at all, notably
* subtitles
* bitstream filters
* streamloop
* filtergraphs with no inputs
Many others are probably broken to a larger or smaller extent.

I can, however, get some interesting results - e.g. significant
wallclock speedup in cases where singlethreaded codecs/filters can now
be run in parallel. I am also seeing 10-20% overall clock cycle increase
in my tests - for now that is a known bug that will hopefully be
addressed later.

One of the main themes of this work is separating various bits of
functionality in the code - that typically grew organically over years
(often in rather random places) - into clearly defined objects with
clearly defined responsibilities. At the core of the new world order is
the new scheduler object, living in ffmpeg_sched.[ch]. It handles all
interactions between the various ffmpeg components, inter-thread
synchronization, etc., so the individual components themselves do not
need to know anything about threading/synchronization/the rest of the
transcoding pipeline.

The patches are roughly grouped as follows:
* 01-13 Preparatory cleanup.
  The big thing here is moving fps conversion from video encoding to
  filtering (see commit message for 20/27 for details)
* 14-20 "Fake" threading for encoders/filters.
  This moves the last two unthreaded components - encoders and filters -
  into threads. As previously for decoders, this is merely preparatory,
  since the main thread waits while the encoder/filter thread does its
  work. The filter patch is unfortunately especially large, because
  filtering has multiple entrypoints and they all need to be wrapped and
  unwrapped for communication with the filtering thread.
  Some features that conflict with threading are also disabled in
  these patches. That will hopefully change later (though currently
  I don't see how subtitle heartbeat can work in its current form).
* 21 The scheduler itself, merely added without being used
* 22-27 Actually using the scheduler.
  This is split into multiple patches for clarity, but will be squashed
  in the final form.

You can fetch the code from the 'ffmpeg_threading' branch in
git://git.khirnov.net/libav. I will also present a short talk about this
work at VDD. Comments, questions, suggestions, etc. are very much
welcome, both here and there.

Cheers,
-- 
Anton Khirnov

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2023-09-19 19:10 [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH] ffmpeg CLI multithreading Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 01/27] fftools/ffmpeg: move derivation of frame duration from filter framerate Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 02/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: move handling video frame duration to video_sync_process() Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 03/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: move remaining vsync-related code " Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 04/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: simplify adjust_frame_pts_to_encoder_tb() signature Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 05/27] ffools/ffmpeg_filter: stop trying to handle an unreachable state Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 06/27] tests/fate/ffmpeg: add tests for -force_key_frames source Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 07/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: unbreak -force_key_frames source_no_drop Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 08/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: merge -force_key_frames source/source_no_drop Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 09/27] fftools/ffmpeg: stop accessing OutputStream.last_dropped in print_report() Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 10/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: move framerate conversion state into a separate struct Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 11/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: move fps conversion code to ffmpeg_filter Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 12/27] fftools/ffmpeg_filter: fail on filtering errors Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 13/27] fftools/ffmpeg_enc: constify the frame passed to enc_open() Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 14/27] fftools/ffmpeg_filter: move filtering to a separate thread Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 15/27] fftools/ffmpeg_mux: add muxing thread private data Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 16/27] fftools/ffmpeg_demux: switch from AVThreadMessageQueue to ThreadQueue Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 17/27] XXX: disable fix_sub_duration_heartbeat Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 18/27] XXX fftools/ffmpeg_enc: temporarily disable side data copying Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 19/27] XXX ffmpeg temporarily disable -stream_loop Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 20/27] WIP: fftools/ffmpeg_enc: move encoding to a separate thread Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 21/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg: add thread-aware transcode scheduling infrastructure Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 22/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg_demux: convert to the scheduler Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 23/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg_dec: " Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 24/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg_filter: " Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 25/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg_enc: " Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 26/27] WIP fftools/ffmpeg_mux: " Anton Khirnov
2023-09-19 19:10 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 27/27] WIP: ffmpeg: switch to scheduler Anton Khirnov
2023-09-20 14:49 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH] ffmpeg CLI multithreading Michael Niedermayer
2023-09-25 10:17   ` Anton Khirnov

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