Podcasts on Linux: working video, no audio yet

src/core/UBApplication.cpp

@@ -520,10 +520,8 @@ void UBApplication::decorateActionMenu(QAction* action)
 
             menu->addSeparator();
 
-#ifndef Q_OS_LINUX // No Podcast on Linux yet
             menu->addAction(mainWindow->actionPodcast);
             mainWindow->actionPodcast->setText(tr("Podcast"));
-#endif
 
             menu->addSeparator();
             menu->addAction(mainWindow->actionQuit);

src/podcast/UBPodcastController.cpp

@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
 #elif defined(Q_OS_OSX)
     #include "quicktime/UBQuickTimeVideoEncoder.h"
     #include "quicktime/UBAudioQueueRecorder.h"
+#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
+    #include "ffmpeg/UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.h"
 #endif
 
 #include "core/memcheck.h"
@@ -309,6 +311,8 @@ void UBPodcastController::start()
         mVideoEncoder = new UBWindowsMediaVideoEncoder(this);  //deleted on stop
 #elif defined(Q_OS_OSX)
         mVideoEncoder = new UBQuickTimeVideoEncoder(this);  //deleted on stop
+#elif defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
+        mVideoEncoder = new UBFFmpegVideoEncoder(this);
 #endif
 
         if (mVideoEncoder)

src/podcast/ffmpeg/UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,396 @@
+#include "UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.h"
+
+// Future proofing
+#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT < AV_VERSION_INT(55,28,1)
+#define av_frame_alloc  avcodec_alloc_frame
+#define av_frame_free avcodec_free_frame
+#endif
+
+QString avErrorToQString(int errnum)
+{
+    char error[AV_ERROR_MAX_STRING_SIZE];
+    av_make_error_string(error, AV_ERROR_MAX_STRING_SIZE, errnum);
+
+    return QString(error);
+}
+
+/**
+ * @brief Constructor for the ffmpeg video encoder
+ *
+ *
+ * This class provides an interface between the screencast controller and the ffmpeg
+ * back-end. It initializes the audio and video encoders and frees them when done;
+ * worker threads handle the actual encoding of frames.
+ *
+ */
+UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::UBFFmpegVideoEncoder(QObject* parent)
+    : UBAbstractVideoEncoder(parent)
+    , mOutputFormatContext(NULL)
+    , mSwsContext(NULL)
+    , mFile(NULL)
+{
+
+    mTimebase = 100 * framesPerSecond();
+    qDebug() <<  "timebase: " << mTimebase;
+
+    mVideoEncoderThread = new QThread;
+    mVideoWorker = new UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker(this);
+    mVideoWorker->moveToThread(mVideoEncoderThread);
+
+    connect(mVideoWorker, SIGNAL(error(QString)),
+            this, SLOT(setLastErrorMessage(QString)));
+
+    connect(mVideoEncoderThread, SIGNAL(started()),
+            mVideoWorker, SLOT(runEncoding()));
+
+    connect(mVideoWorker, SIGNAL(encodingFinished()),
+            mVideoEncoderThread, SLOT(quit()));
+
+    connect(mVideoEncoderThread, SIGNAL(finished()),
+            this, SLOT(finishEncoding()));
+}
+
+UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::~UBFFmpegVideoEncoder()
+{
+    if (mVideoWorker)
+        delete mVideoWorker;
+
+    if (mVideoEncoderThread)
+        delete mVideoEncoderThread;
+
+}
+
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::setLastErrorMessage(const QString& pMessage)
+{
+    qDebug() << "FFmpeg video encoder:" << pMessage;
+    mLastErrorMessage = pMessage;
+}
+
+bool UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::start()
+{
+    bool initialized = init();
+
+    if (initialized)
+        mVideoEncoderThread->start();
+
+    return initialized;
+}
+
+bool UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::stop()
+{
+    qDebug() << "Video encoder: stop requested";
+
+    mVideoWorker->stopEncoding();
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+bool UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::init()
+{
+    // Initialize ffmpeg lib
+    av_register_all();
+    avcodec_register_all();
+
+    AVDictionary * options = NULL;
+    int ret;
+
+    // Output format and context
+    // --------------------------------------
+
+    if (avformat_alloc_output_context2(&mOutputFormatContext, NULL,
+                                       "mp4", NULL) < 0)
+    {
+        setLastErrorMessage("Couldn't allocate video format context");
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // The default codecs for mp4 are h264 and aac, we use those
+
+
+    // Video codec and context
+    // -------------------------------------
+
+    AVCodec * videoCodec = avcodec_find_encoder(mOutputFormatContext->oformat->video_codec);
+    if (!videoCodec) {
+        setLastErrorMessage("Video codec not found");
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    mVideoStream = avformat_new_stream(mOutputFormatContext, 0);
+    mVideoStream->time_base = {1, mTimebase};
+
+    avcodec_get_context_defaults3(mVideoStream->codec, videoCodec);
+    AVCodecContext* c = avcodec_alloc_context3(videoCodec);
+
+    c->bit_rate = videoBitsPerSecond();
+    c->width = videoSize().width();
+    c->height = videoSize().height();
+    c->time_base = {1, mTimebase};
+    c->gop_size = 10;
+    c->max_b_frames = 0;
+    c->pix_fmt = AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P;
+
+    if (mOutputFormatContext->oformat->flags & AVFMT_GLOBALHEADER)
+        c->flags |= AV_CODEC_FLAG_GLOBAL_HEADER;
+
+    /*
+     * Supported pixel formats for h264 are:
+     *   AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P
+     *   AV_PIX_FMT_YUV422P
+     *   AV_PIX_FMT_YUV444P
+     *   AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ420P
+    */
+
+    av_dict_set(&options, "preset", "slow", 0);
+    av_dict_set(&options, "crf", "20", 0);
+
+    ret = avcodec_open2(c, videoCodec, &options);
+
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        setLastErrorMessage(QString("Couldn't open video codec: ") + avErrorToQString(ret));
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    mVideoStream->codec = c;
+
+    // Source images are RGB32, and should be converted to YUV for h264 video
+    mSwsContext = sws_getCachedContext(mSwsContext,
+                                       c->width, c->height, AV_PIX_FMT_RGB32,
+                                       c->width, c->height, c->pix_fmt,
+                                       SWS_BICUBIC, 0, 0, 0);
+
+    // Audio codec and context
+    // -------------------------------------
+    /*
+    AVCodec * audioCodec = avcodec_find_encoder(mOutputFormatContext->oformat->audio_codec);
+    mAudioStream = avformat_new_stream(mOutputFormatContext, audioCodec);
+    */
+
+
+    // Open the output file
+    ret = avio_open(&(mOutputFormatContext->pb), videoFileName().toStdString().c_str(), AVIO_FLAG_WRITE);
+
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        setLastErrorMessage(QString("Couldn't open video file for writing: ") + avErrorToQString(ret));
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Write stream header
+    ret = avformat_write_header(mOutputFormatContext, NULL);
+
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        setLastErrorMessage(QString("Couldn't write header to file: ") + avErrorToQString(ret));
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::newPixmap(const QImage &pImage, long timestamp)
+{
+    static bool isFirstFrame = true;
+    if (isFirstFrame) {
+        timestamp = 0;
+        isFirstFrame = false;
+    }
+
+    if (!mVideoWorker->isRunning()) {
+        qDebug() << "Encoder worker thread not running. Queuing frame.";
+        mPendingFrames.enqueue({pImage, timestamp});
+    }
+
+    else {
+        // First send any queued frames, then the latest one
+        while (!mPendingFrames.isEmpty()) {
+            AVFrame* avFrame = convertFrame(mPendingFrames.dequeue());
+            if (avFrame)
+                mVideoWorker->queueFrame(avFrame);
+        }
+
+        // note: if converting the frame turns out to be too slow to do here, it
+        // can always be done from the worker thread (in thta case,
+        // the worker's queue would contain ImageFrames rather than AVFrames)
+
+        AVFrame* avFrame = convertFrame({pImage, timestamp});
+        if (avFrame)
+            mVideoWorker->queueFrame(avFrame);
+
+        // signal the worker that frames are available
+        mVideoWorker->mWaitCondition.wakeAll();
+    }
+}
+
+/** Convert a frame consisting of a QImage and timestamp to an AVFrame
+ * with the right pixel format and PTS
+ */
+AVFrame* UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::convertFrame(ImageFrame frame)
+{
+    AVFrame* avFrame = av_frame_alloc();
+
+    avFrame->format = mVideoStream->codec->pix_fmt;
+    avFrame->width = mVideoStream->codec->width;
+    avFrame->height = mVideoStream->codec->height;
+    avFrame->pts = mTimebase * frame.timestamp / 1000;
+
+    const uchar * rgbImage = frame.image.bits();
+
+    const int in_linesize[1] = { frame.image.bytesPerLine() };
+
+    // Allocate the output image
+    if (av_image_alloc(avFrame->data, avFrame->linesize, mVideoStream->codec->width,
+                       mVideoStream->codec->height, mVideoStream->codec->pix_fmt, 32) < 0)
+    {
+        setLastErrorMessage("Couldn't allocate image");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    sws_scale(mSwsContext,
+              (const uint8_t* const*)&rgbImage,
+              in_linesize,
+              0,
+              mVideoStream->codec->height,
+              avFrame->data,
+              avFrame->linesize);
+
+    return avFrame;
+}
+
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoder::finishEncoding()
+{
+    qDebug() << "VideoEncoder::finishEncoding called";
+
+    // Some frames may not be encoded, so we call avcodec_encode_video2 until they're all done
+
+    int gotOutput;
+    do {
+        // TODO: get rid of duplicated code (videoWorker does almost exactly this during encoding)
+
+        AVPacket* packet = mVideoWorker->mPacket;
+
+        if (avcodec_encode_video2(mVideoStream->codec, packet, NULL, &gotOutput) < 0) {
+            setLastErrorMessage("Couldn't encode frame to video");
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (gotOutput) {
+            AVRational codecTimebase = mVideoStream->codec->time_base;
+            AVRational streamTimebase = mVideoStream->time_base;
+
+            av_packet_rescale_ts(packet, codecTimebase, streamTimebase);
+            packet->stream_index = mVideoStream->index;
+
+            av_interleaved_write_frame(mOutputFormatContext, packet);
+            av_packet_unref(packet);
+        }
+    } while (gotOutput);
+
+    av_write_trailer(mOutputFormatContext);
+
+    avio_close(mOutputFormatContext->pb);
+    avcodec_close(mVideoStream->codec);
+    sws_freeContext(mSwsContext);
+    avformat_free_context(mOutputFormatContext);
+
+    emit encodingFinished(true);
+}
+
+//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Worker
+//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker(UBFFmpegVideoEncoder* controller)
+    : mController(controller)
+{
+    mStopRequested = false;
+    mIsRunning = false;
+    mPacket = new AVPacket();
+}
+
+UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::~UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker()
+{}
+
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::stopEncoding()
+{
+    qDebug() << "Video worker: stop requested";
+    mStopRequested = true;
+    mWaitCondition.wakeAll();
+}
+
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::queueFrame(AVFrame* frame)
+{
+    mFrameQueueMutex.lock();
+    mFrameQueue.enqueue(frame);
+    mFrameQueueMutex.unlock();
+}
+
+/**
+ * The main encoding function. Takes the queued image frames and
+ * assembles them into the video
+ */
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::runEncoding()
+{
+    mIsRunning = true;
+
+    while (!mStopRequested) {
+        mFrameQueueMutex.lock();
+        mWaitCondition.wait(&mFrameQueueMutex);
+
+        while (!mFrameQueue.isEmpty()) {
+            writeLatestVideoFrame();
+        }
+
+        /*
+        while (!mAudioQueue.isEmpty()) {
+            writeLatestAudioFrame();
+        }
+        */
+
+        mFrameQueueMutex.unlock();
+    }
+
+    emit encodingFinished();
+}
+
+void UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker::writeLatestVideoFrame()
+{
+    AVFrame* frame = mFrameQueue.dequeue();
+
+    int gotOutput;
+    av_init_packet(mPacket);
+    mPacket->data = NULL;
+    mPacket->size = 0;
+
+    // qDebug() << "Encoding frame to video. Pts: " << frame->pts << "/" << mController->mTimebase;
+
+    if (avcodec_encode_video2(mController->mVideoStream->codec, mPacket, frame, &gotOutput) < 0)
+        emit error("Error encoding frame to video");
+
+    if (gotOutput) {
+        AVRational codecTimebase = mController->mVideoStream->codec->time_base;
+        AVRational streamTimebase = mController->mVideoStream->time_base;
+
+
+        // recalculate the timestamp to match the stream's timebase
+        av_packet_rescale_ts(mPacket, codecTimebase, streamTimebase);
+        mPacket->stream_index = mController->mVideoStream->index;
+
+        // qDebug() << "Writing encoded packet to file; pts: " << mPacket->pts << "/" << streamTimebase.den;
+
+        av_interleaved_write_frame(mController->mOutputFormatContext, mPacket);
+        av_packet_unref(mPacket);
+    }
+
+    // Duct-tape solution. I assume there's a better way of doing this, but:
+    // some players like VLC show a black screen until the second frame (which
+    // can be several seconds after the first one). Simply duplicating the first frame
+    // seems to solve this problem, and also allows the thumbnail to be generated.
+
+    static bool firstRun = true;
+    if (firstRun) {
+        firstRun = false;
+        frame->pts += 1;
+        mFrameQueue.enqueue(frame); // only works when the queue is empty at this point. todo: clean this up!
+    }
+    else
+        // free the frame
+        av_frame_free(&frame);
+}
+

src/podcast/ffmpeg/UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.h

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+#ifndef UBFFMPEGVIDEOENCODER_H
+#define UBFFMPEGVIDEOENCODER_H
+
+extern "C" {
+    #include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
+    #include <libavformat/avformat.h>
+    #include <libavformat/avio.h>
+    #include <libavutil/avutil.h>
+    #include <libavutil/imgutils.h>
+    #include <libavutil/opt.h>
+    #include <libavutil/mathematics.h>
+    #include <libswscale/swscale.h>
+}
+
+#include <atomic>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <QtCore>
+#include <QImage>
+
+#include "podcast/UBAbstractVideoEncoder.h"
+
+class UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker;
+class UBPodcastController;
+
+class UBFFmpegVideoEncoder : public UBAbstractVideoEncoder
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+    friend class UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker;
+
+public:
+
+    UBFFmpegVideoEncoder(QObject* parent = NULL);
+    virtual ~UBFFmpegVideoEncoder();
+
+    bool start();
+    bool stop();
+
+    void newPixmap(const QImage& pImage, long timestamp);
+
+    QString videoFileExtension() const { return "mp4"; }
+
+    QString lastErrorMessage() { return mLastErrorMessage; }
+
+    void setRecordAudio(bool pRecordAudio) { mShouldRecordAudio = pRecordAudio; }
+
+
+signals:
+
+    void encodingFinished(bool ok);
+
+private slots:
+
+    void setLastErrorMessage(const QString& pMessage);
+    void finishEncoding();
+
+private:
+
+    struct ImageFrame
+    {
+        QImage image;
+        long timestamp; // unit: ms
+    };
+
+    AVFrame* convertFrame(ImageFrame frame);
+    bool init();
+
+    // Queue for any pixmap that might be sent before the encoder is ready
+    QQueue<ImageFrame> mPendingFrames;
+
+    QString mLastErrorMessage;
+    bool mShouldRecordAudio;
+
+    QThread* mVideoEncoderThread;
+    UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker* mVideoWorker;
+
+    // Muxer
+    AVFormatContext* mOutputFormatContext;
+    int mTimebase;
+
+    // Video
+    AVStream* mVideoStream;
+    struct SwsContext * mSwsContext;
+
+    // Audio
+    AVStream* mAudioStream;
+
+
+    FILE * mFile;
+
+};
+
+
+class UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker : public QObject
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+    friend class UBFFmpegVideoEncoder;
+
+public:
+    UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker(UBFFmpegVideoEncoder* controller);
+    ~UBFFmpegVideoEncoderWorker();
+
+    bool isRunning() { return mIsRunning; }
+
+    void queueFrame(AVFrame* frame);
+
+public slots:
+    void runEncoding();
+    void stopEncoding();
+
+signals:
+    void encodingFinished();
+    void error(QString message);
+
+
+private:
+    void writeLatestVideoFrame();
+
+    UBFFmpegVideoEncoder* mController;
+
+    // std::atomic is C++11. This won't work with msvc2010, so a
+    // newer compiler must be used if this is to be used on Windows
+    std::atomic<bool> mStopRequested;
+    std::atomic<bool> mIsRunning;
+
+    QQueue<AVFrame*> mFrameQueue;
+    QMutex mFrameQueueMutex;
+    QWaitCondition mWaitCondition;
+
+    AVPacket* mPacket;
+};
+
+#endif // UBFFMPEGVIDEOENCODER_H

src/podcast/podcast.pri

@@ -33,3 +33,28 @@ macx {
                 
     OBJECTIVE_SOURCES += src/podcast/quicktime/UBQuickTimeFile.mm
 }
+
+linux-g++* {
+    HEADERS  += src/podcast/ffmpeg/UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.h
+
+    SOURCES  += src/podcast/ffmpeg/UBFFmpegVideoEncoder.cpp
+
+
+    FFMPEG = /opt/ffmpeg
+
+    INCLUDEPATH += $${FFMPEG}/include
+    DEPENDPATH += /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
+
+    LIBS += -L $${FFMPEG}/lib -lavformat \
+            -L $${FFMPEG}/lib -lavcodec \
+            -L $${FFMPEG}/lib -lswscale \
+            -L $${FFMPEG}/lib -lavutil \
+            -lva-x11 \
+            -lva \
+            -lxcb-shm \
+            -lxcb-xfixes \
+            -lxcb-render -lxcb-shape -lxcb -lX11 -lasound -lSDL -lx264 -lpthread -lvpx -lvorbisenc -lvorbis -ltheoraenc -ltheoradec -logg -lopus -lmp3lame -lfreetype -lfdk-aac -lass -llzma -lbz2 -lz -ldl -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -lm
+
+
+    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++11 # move this to OpenBoard.pro when we can use C++11 on all platforms
+}