topic Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue. in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives

Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue.

free1006 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:04:58 GMT

Hi experts, we were using INTEL IPP from 6.x for our video conferencing application, we encountered the H.264 decoder is very slow issue, this issue also reported by other users:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showpost.php?p=36228

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=67755

In above threads that INTEL experts provided a hack way to avoid the latency that works fine with 6.x.

But last month we updated IPP from 6.x to "7 update 5", same hack way is not effect, we got about 2-3 seconds latency in LAN, the CPU is i7-2620M 2.7G, 8GB RAM, this is big problem to us, could you provide us a new way to solve it ? We don't want the buffering for decode, just want the realtime, the short latency is really important for video conferencing application.

This is urgent, please help me.

Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue.

Chao_Y_Intel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:09:51 GMT

Hi,

Is this problem is related to this one:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=102065

Jeff is looking some more information, and hopefully we have some update.
Btw, I noticed a few users tried to improve the latency in the sample by the following code change:

At function Status TaskSupplier::RunDecoding(bool force, H264DecoderFrame ** )?
Instead of:
umcRes = m_pSegmentDecoder[0]->ProcessSegment();

use:
do

{umcRes = m_pSegmentDecoder[0]->ProcessSegment();

} while (umcRes == UMC_OK);

Possibly you can have some check how it works for you there.
Thanks,
Chao

Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue.

free1006 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:09:35 GMT

Thanks Chao, we have been solved this issue as this way:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=73188

Could INTEL IPP will has an official way(method) in the next release or future release to disable the DPB for the realtime application ? This is really useful.

Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue.

Pavel_V_Intel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:03:14 GMT

Good day.

Chao, this loop were written in 7.0.0 as i remember, it should be in 7.0.5.

free1006, I will try to add DPB control in future.

PS:

Meanwile I had made some measurements and found that old hack works fine for me (It is too late but I think this can be interesting for someone):

Video: 720x576

no hack, no threads:

452/440 - (0.800000 + 0.005428)=0.805428

hack(m_maxDecFrameBuffering=0), no threads:

311/310 - (0.066667 + 0.005466)=0.072133

hack(m_maxDecFrameBuffering=1), 2 threads:

343/340 - (0.199804 + 0.002888)=0.202692

Frame delay + decoding delay in seconds. About 70-80ms lag in best case.

Urgent! H.264 Decoder Latency issue.

free1006 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:11:02 GMT

Hi Pavel, the old way really not effect for us in 7 update 5.

Geat news to hearing that you consider add the DPB control in future.