nvenc support for b-frames

[totaam]

Issue migrated from trac ticket # 1235

component: encodings | priority: major | keywords: nvenc b-frames

2016-06-19 06:13:35: antoine created the issue

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Split from #800.

As per NvEncodeAPI v.6.0, we would have to keep both input and output buffers around until the frames come out (stops returning NV_ENC_ERR_NEED_MORE_INPUT), asynchronously of course.

So we would need multiple output "bitstreamBuffer"s and multiple CUDA output buffers (used with mapInputResource, the unmapInputResource would have to wait until the frames come out..)

The documentation is poor and conflicting: it says you have to do the picture type decision yourself in synchronous mode, but the pseudo-code does the opposite. Zero documentation on what displayPOCSyntax is. etc..

[totaam]

2016-06-19 06:15:26: antoine uploaded file nven6-bframes-stub.patch (2.2 KiB)

asking for B frames doesn't seem to do anything either, frames still come out..

[totaam]

See also #1261