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VideoEncoder: an orientation change after a bitrate-only configure() produces a delta chunk with a new VideoDecoderConfig

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Dificultad
5/5
Tiempo estimado
Más de una semana
Aptitud para principiantes
35/100
Tipo de issue
Nueva funcionalidad
Claridad
Bastante claro
Estado de actividad
Activo
Stack tecnológico
html
Área
api

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Start with the VideoEncoder orientation and configure() behavior described in the issue, then review the linked CodePen reproduction. Decide how orientation changes should interact with bitrate-only reconfiguration, decoder configuration changes, and key-frame requirements; the issue offers forcing a key frame or rejecting the change as options. Done means the behavior and any spec note address the stated decoder failure and preserve the bitrate-only optimization.

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Descripción

The flow is the following:

  1. The encoder is configured once.
  2. The encoder encodes a frame. This generates a first encoded chunk (key frame) and a first VideoDecoderConfig.
  3. The encoder is reconfigured only to change the bitrate. In Chrome and Safari at least, this does not recreate the underlying encoder, so no key frame is generated by default.
  4. The encoder encodes a new frame with a different orientation. This generates a second encoded chunk (delta frame) and a second VideoDecoderConfig.

On the decoder side:

  1. The decoder is configured with the first VideoDecoderConfig.
  2. The decoder decodes the first encoded chunk.
  3. The decoder is configured with the second VideoDecoderConfig.
  4. The decoder fails to decode the second encoded chunk because it is not a key frame (A key frame is required after configure() or flush()).

Repro: https://codepen.io/editor/youennf/pen/01a167cd-55d7-75b2-baa6-f4aa8523920a
This reproduces in Chrome. It does not reproduce in Safari yet, because orientation support is still being implemented there.

This is a problem as:

  • Not triggering a key frame when only the bitrate changes is useful for realtime conferencing so should be preserved in some way.
  • There is also an assumption that a chunk carrying a new VideoDecoderConfig must be decodable by a decoder freshly configured with it, so it must be a key frame. This flow breaks that assumption.

A first option is to force a key frame on orientation change
This is probably the simplest approach.
Whenever the orientation of the encoded frames changes, the encoder produces a key frame together with a new VideoDecoderConfig. A bitrate-only configure() by itself still never forces a key frame.

If doing so, we could also remove the synchronous active orientation check in VideoEncoder.encode().
This might be handy for video conferencing web applications having to deal with orientation changes.

An alternative is to disallow an orientation change after a bitrate-only configure(). For example, the next encode() with a different orientation throws a DataError, so the application has to do a full reconfiguration, which produces a key frame.
This requires defining bitrate-only configure though so my preference goes to the first option.

I would alsol tend to add to the spec a note about supporting bitrate-only configure.
Otherwise, we might end up into interop issues if one browser implements this optimization and another does not.

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