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2020-11-11*: add _us suffixes to {frame,period}time namesVito Caputo
Make the names reflect their units of microseconds
2020-10-08*: more cosmetic formatting cleanupsVito Caputo
Making things a bit more consistent
2020-07-15timer: maintain video side of avd in frame timerVito Caputo
Since the frame timer implements a frame counter, and that frame count is propagated through the get->encode pipeline for samples that get through, any missed frames are noticed and dealt with making it not lossy from the point of the timer down to the encoded stream in terms of number of frames. It's certainly lossy in terms of the contents of those frames, but synchronization is all about the temporal domain and as long as the frame counts all make it into the stream as frames, we can account for them at the timer in terms of avd. This in combination with the other commit moving the audio side of avd maintenance immediately upon capture into the raw buffer, shrinks the variable capacitance separating the audio timer and the frame timer to virtually nil. As a consequence, the frame timer can now be much more accurate in terms of how much longer/less to sleep or if a frame should be dropped to get the timer caught up. When avd was being maintained at points far removed from the actual things they represented there was too much elastic capacitance in there for sync_streams() to inform its adjustment accurately.
2020-07-14*: rework avd/frameno handling for cached modeVito Caputo
This brings the !--on-the-fly-encoding mode up to speed. The cached file header loses the total_frames counter, as the capture_frameno already represents this. Dropped frames are detected by simply looking at the difference between the previous capture_frameno and the current one. This simply gets passed to the encoder as a n_frames count so theora can duplicate the frames as needed. This was being done manually before by looking at the frameno and total frames in each header and maintaining separate counts for "extra frames" "missed frames" etc, and resubmitting entire frames multiply for encoding dropped frames. So a chunk of code has been thrown out from rmd_load_cache.c, and some general cleanups have occurred there as well. I also needed to add more locking around pdata->avd accesses.
2020-07-14timer: implement AV-syncVito Caputo
This is focused on keeping --on-the-fly-encoding in sync even over long videos. The existing code inevitably would fall into a permanently negative pdata->avd value letting things get increasingly out of sync and never correcting. Before removing the vestigial negative avd "don't wait" logic from get_frame when this permanently negative avd state was entered, get_frame would just start sampling at an unregulated fps. The timer thread which drives get_frame now consults avd on every tick, Depending on which which half is ahead, the timer will either cause get_frame to drop frames by advancing the frameno by more than one, or it will adjust its sleep delay in proportion to the delta. See comments in rmd_timer.c for more details. Note that in testing especially with a loaded system I observed some surprisingly large deltas where multi-second sleeps occurred to let the sound catch back up. I expect to revisit this issue more in the future, but would just like to get things more correct for now.
2020-07-14encode_image_buffer: duplicate missed framesVito Caputo
When the encoder finds the encoded - captured frameno delta > 1 it needs to fill the gap somehow. With how things are currently architected, the old yuv countents are gone so there's only the current frame available for filling. The newer theoraenc.h API exposes a theora_control() parameter for this purpose, so I've also added a theoraenc.h include implicitly bumping the libtheora dependency. But by now it shouldn't matter, and the rest of rmd should probably get updated to use the new theora API eventually anyways. I'm still uncertain what role pdata->avd will play in the long-run, but leaving its maintenance for now.
2020-07-12threads: introduce and use rmdThreadsSetName()Vito Caputo
Now users can easily differentiate which rmd subtasks are busy by using top-like tools in show-threads mode. Also aids in troubleshooting...
2020-07-11*: drop {gtk,qt}-recordmydesktop subdirsVito Caputo
This restores the recordmydesktop/ subdir as root from the mirror I cloned by fork from. I have no particular interest in the gtk/qt frontends and it doesn't appear they were part of a single tree in the past. But I will probably preserve backwards compatibility of the cli so they can continue to work with this fork installed.
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