From: Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay <devnull+aiyengar1990.gmail.com@kernel.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul Kocialkowski" <paulk@sys-base.io>,
"Sven Püschel" <s.pueschel@pengutronix.de>,
"Nicolas Dufresne" <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>,
"Detlev Casanova" <detlev.casanova@collabora.com>,
"Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@kernel.org>,
"Jiaxing Hu" <gahing@gahingwoo.com>,
"Arun Iyengar" <aiyengar1990@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 11/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Offer VBR for H.264 encoding
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:08:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110-rkvenc-v1-11-ea8b47122d8c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110-rkvenc-v1-0-ea8b47122d8c@gmail.com>
From: Arun Iyengar <aiyengar1990@gmail.com>
The H.264 encode core has a variable bitrate mode now. Offer it in
V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE and add V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_PEAK,
which the core reads for it (default 20 Mbit/s, twice the default
bitrate), and hand the size target of the variable bitrate pictures to the
hardware row rate control as for constant bitrate.
Signed-off-by: Arun Iyengar <aiyengar1990@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvenc/rkvenc-h264.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvenc/rkvenc-h264.c b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvenc/rkvenc-h264.c
index fcb8c070ab30..313c33038670 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvenc/rkvenc-h264.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvenc/rkvenc-h264.c
@@ -381,11 +381,13 @@ static int rkvenc_h264_run(struct rkvenc_ctx *ctx, struct rkvenc_core *core,
vepu580_setup_h264_tuning(ctx->dev, core, intra);
/*
- * In CBR mode the frame size target of the rate control is handed to
- * the hardware row rate control, which adapts the QP of each
+ * In CBR and VBR mode the frame size target of the rate control is
+ * handed to the hardware row rate control, which adapts the QP of each
* macroblock row by up to the row_rc_qp_range parameter.
*/
- h264->hw_rc = rc->mode && rc->mode->type == V4L2_H264_ENC_RC_TYPE_CBR &&
+ h264->hw_rc = rc->mode &&
+ (rc->mode->type == V4L2_H264_ENC_RC_TYPE_CBR ||
+ rc->mode->type == V4L2_H264_ENC_RC_TYPE_VBR) &&
READ_ONCE(rkvenc_row_rc_qp_range);
if (h264->hw_rc)
vepu580_setup_row_rc(core, &vepu580_h264_row_rc, rc->qp,
@@ -466,12 +468,15 @@ static const struct v4l2_ctrl_config rkvenc_h264_ctrl_cfgs[] = {
.min = V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_VBR,
.max = V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_CQ,
.def = V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_CBR,
- .menu_skip_mask = BIT(V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_VBR),
},
{
.id = V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE,
.min = 10000, .max = 200000000, .step = 1, .def = 10000000,
},
+ {
+ .id = V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_PEAK,
+ .min = 10000, .max = 200000000, .step = 1, .def = 20000000,
+ },
{
.id = V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_CONSTANT_QUALITY,
.min = 1, .max = 100, .step = 1, .def = 50,
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 10:08 [PATCH RFC 00/12] media: rockchip: Add a VEPU580 stateless H.264/HEVC encoder driver for the RK3588 Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] dt-bindings: media: Add the Rockchip VEPU580 video encoder Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] media: rockchip: Add a VEPU580 stateless video encoder driver Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Prepare the VEPU580 helpers for a second codec Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Add HEVC encoding Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Don't enable adaptive QP with the row rate control Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Use MPP's moving-scene H.264 RDO tuning Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Encode pictures wider than 4096 pixels Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Encode HEVC wider than 4096 pixels in tile columns Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Limit the QP of the HEVC I pictures to 15..51 Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] media: rockchip: rkvenc: Re-encode oversized HEVC pictures Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
2026-11-10 10:08 ` Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay [this message]
2026-11-10 10:08 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add the VEPU580 encoder cores to the RK3588 Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay
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