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Adds a VA-API H.264 decoder, a DRM PRIME export so a decoded picture can reach a GPU importer without a CPU round trip, and the surface retention that lets a consumer of an exported picture still read its pixels. See moq-dev/moq#3331 for usage in moq-video.

This PR is part of a series to update iroh-live to latest moq, see n0-computer/iroh-live#45. The code and below description was written by Claude Code

What was already here

Most of the H.264 layer was vendored and unused. src/codec/h264/dpb.rs is cros-codecs' DPB bumping and reference marking verbatim, and the slice parser already fills header_bit_size and max_pic_num, which is what a VA slice parameter buffer needs.

What is new sits above and below that. Above: POC derivation, reference list modification, the begin/decode-slice/finish sequence, and frame_num gap handling. Below: the picture, IQ matrix and slice parameter buffers, plus a surface pool. Neither of cros-codecs' generic frameworks is vendored.

Verified

Tested on Intel Meteor Lake with iHD 26.1.5, against ffmpeg's software decoder. The output is byte-for-byte identical for every stream shape tried:

stream frames
constrained baseline 320x240, IPPP 50
main 320x240 with B-frames and reordering 50
high 1280x720 60
high 642x358, cropped and not macroblock-aligned 25
640x480 then 320x240 concatenated, mid-stream resolution change 50

600 frames of 720p with a B-pyramid decode in 1.2 seconds, including the CPU download. Interlaced content is rejected at the first SPS rather than half-supported, which is what keeps the state machine small.

Four tests cover the rest. They run on hardware and skip cleanly without a device: exported_pictures_do_not_share_a_surface, an_exported_picture_downloads_to_the_same_pixels, an_exported_frame_is_send_and_sync, and flush_returns_the_pictures_the_dpb_still_holds.

Three behaviours to know about

Output trails input by num_ref_frames, not by the reorder depth the VUI declares, because C.4.5.3 bumps the DPB only when a new picture needs the slot. With x264's default ref=3, a five-picture stream yields nothing until the fourth access unit. NVDEC gets zero delay from an explicit cuvid knob, and VA-API has no equivalent. Forcing it would mean patching the vendored DPB. flush is the other side of that: a stream that simply stops leaves its tail in the DPB, so ending one without flushing loses the last few pictures.

Exporting a picture retires its surface from the recycling pool. Returning it would let a later picture be decoded over pixels the consumer still holds, so the export trades one surface allocation for the download it replaces. exported_pictures_do_not_share_a_surface pins that invariant by comparing dma-buf inodes.

An exported picture keeps its surface rather than only its descriptor, which is what lets a consumer that ends up wanting bytes still get them. A decode target is tiled, so reading the descriptor as rows would be wrong; ExportedFrame::download goes through vaDeriveImage on the retained surface instead, which is the same path an ordinary download takes. an_exported_picture_downloads_to_the_same_pixels compares the two byte for byte, decoding one stream with two decoders so the comparison is exact rather than approximate. Holding the surface costs a reference, not a copy, and does not change retirement.

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A later pass found two picture order count derivations that disagree with the spec, both fixed here.

In 8.2.1.1 the branch condition compared pic_order_cnt_lsb against the previous reference picture's value while the arithmetic on the next line used prevPicOrderCntLsb. The spec uses prevPicOrderCntLsb in both, and that is 0 for an IDR and the previous reference picture's TopFieldOrderCnt after an MMCO 5, so a picture following an MMCO 5 could take the wrong branch and land a whole MaxPicOrderCntLsb from where it belongs.

In 8.2.1.2 expectedPicOrderCnt summed the entire offset_for_ref_frame cycle rather than the part up to frameNumInPicOrderCntCycle, which was never computed. Every picture in a pic_order_cnt_type == 1 stream therefore got the same expected order count and came back in decode order.

Neither is reachable from a stream x264, this crate's encoder, or a browser emits, which is why the ffmpeg comparison in the table above did not catch them. That comparison is now a test rather than a manual step: decoded_pictures_match_a_software_decoder encodes 30 pictures with libx264 at -bf 2 -refs 3, decodes with both ffmpeg and this decoder, and compares byte for byte in output order, asserting the output really was reordered so it cannot pass vacuously.

The mirror of `encode`: one Annex-B access unit in, tightly-packed NV12
out. It gives moq-video a hardware H.264 decode path on Intel and AMD,
next to the NVDEC one it already has for NVIDIA.

The bitstream layer this needs was already vendored here and unused by
the encode path: `codec::h264::parser` parses SPS, PPS, and slice
headers, `codec::h264::dpb` implements reference picture list
construction, the MMCO operations, sliding-window marking, and the C.4.5
bumping process, and `codec::h264::picture` holds the per-picture state.
What was missing is the layer above (picture order count, reference list
modification, and the finish-picture sequence, ported from cros-codecs's
`decoder/stateless/h264.rs`) and the layer below (the VA picture, IQ
matrix, and slice parameter buffers, ported from its
`decoder/stateless/h264/vaapi.rs`). Neither of the two generic
frameworks in between is vendored: `decode::Decoder` drives libva
directly, the way `encode::Encoder` does.

Deliberately narrower than upstream:

- Progressive 8-bit 4:2:0 only. An interlaced, high-bit-depth, or
  non-4:2:0 sequence is rejected at the first SPS instead of decoded
  wrongly, which drops field pairing, frame splitting, and the
  second-field surface sharing that dominate the upstream state machine.
- A picture is completed when the access unit that carries it ends,
  rather than when the next unit's first slice arrives, so the hardware
  is never left holding a half-submitted picture between calls. Output
  still trails by a picture, since C.4.5.3 bumps the DPB only when a new
  picture needs the slot.
- Baseline maps to VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline whether or not
  constraint_set0_flag is set. VA-API cannot express the FMO and ASO
  tools that separate the two (the picture parameter buffer pins
  num_slice_groups_minus1 to 0), so requiring the flag only refuses
  streams the hardware would decode correctly anyway.

Surfaces come from a small pool that recycles them once the DPB and the
output queue are done with a picture, and are read back with
vaDeriveImage, falling back to vaCreateImage + vaGetImage on a driver
that cannot derive.

Verified on Intel Meteor Lake (iHD 26.1.5) against ffmpeg's software
decoder, byte-for-byte identical NV12 output for: constrained baseline
320x240, main 320x240 with B-frames, high 1280x720, high 642x358 (a
cropped, non-macroblock-aligned size), and a stream that changes
resolution mid-play. 600 frames of 720p with a B-pyramid decode in 1.2 s
including the CPU download.
The decoder could only give a caller a copy of the pixels, which for one that
draws on the GPU means downloading a surface it is about to upload again.
decode_exported and flush_exported hand back the surface's export instead, so
the picture stays where the hardware wrote it.

Exporting retires the surface from the recycling pool. The descriptor refers to
the same allocation, so returning it would have a later picture decoded over
pixels the caller still holds, and that is a race whose symptom is an
occasional wrong frame rather than a failure. The cost is a surface allocation
per picture in exchange for the download, which is the right way round for a
consumer that would only have re-uploaded them.

On Intel Meteor Lake with iHD, a decode target exports as NV12 in one object of
two planes at modifier 0x100000000000009.
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The crate now exposes a VA-API H.264 decoder. It accepts Annex-B access units and produces packed NV12 frames or DRM PRIME descriptors. The decoder implements DPB management, picture order calculation, reference marking, slice reference lists, frame-number gaps, resolution changes, and surface recycling. Tests cover exported surfaces, flushing, frame downloads, ffmpeg comparison, and sequence-size changes. Package metadata and README documentation now describe encoding and decoding.

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A malformed or changing stream can submit inconsistent VA-API parameters for one picture, causing incorrect decoding or driver-dependent failures. This should be fixed before merge.

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`flush` was here from the start but nothing exercised what it is for, and
the module doc understated it: it said output trails by a picture for a
stream without reordering, which is only true of a stream coded with one
reference frame. C.4.5.3 bumps the DPB when a new picture needs a slot,
so the delay follows the sequence's reference and reorder limits rather
than the reorder depth actually used, and a stream simply stopping leaves
that whole tail behind.

Measured on Intel Meteor Lake (iHD 26.1.5) against a six-picture x264
stream: with its defaults (ref=3, B-frames) four pictures come out of
`decode` and two out of `flush`; with ref=3 and no B-frames at all it is
three and three. This crate's own IPPP encoder holds one back, which is
what the new test asserts, along with the flush returning exactly the
pictures decode did not and a second flush returning nothing.

The test would be vacuous against a decoder that held nothing back, so it
asserts that `decode` came up short before it asserts that `flush` makes
up the difference.
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An exported frame carried only its DRM PRIME descriptor, which keeps the
allocation alive but names nothing that can be mapped, and a decode target
is tiled so reading the descriptor as rows would be wrong. A caller that
took a picture on the GPU therefore had no way back to its pixels, which is
what stopped GPU-resident output being something a decoder could offer
without also taking the CPU path away.

The pool surface is now behind an `Arc` and travels with the descriptor,
so `ExportedFrame::download` reaches the picture through the same
`vaDeriveImage` path a downloaded `Frame` takes. Retiring is unchanged: an
exported surface still leaves the pool, so a later picture cannot be
decoded over one a consumer holds. `ExportedFrame` is `Send` and `Sync` on
its own, since a surface is a display and an id and none of the decoder's
`Rc`s come along.
Frando added a commit to Frando/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The PR branches point at `pr/decode`, which is what moq-dev/vaapi#2 carries. This branch also wants whatever lands on moq-vaapi's `iroh-live` ahead of that PR, so it follows that branch instead. Both are the same commit today.
Frando and others added 4 commits September 2, 2026 18:17
8.2.1.1 compares pic_order_cnt_lsb against prevPicOrderCntLsb, which is
zero for an IDR and the previous reference picture's TopFieldOrderCnt
after an MMCO 5. The first of the two conditions read the raw cached lsb
instead, so a picture following an MMCO 5 could take the wrong branch and
land a whole MaxPicOrderCntLsb away from where it belongs. The second
condition already used the right value, which is what makes this a slip
rather than a reading of the clause.

8.2.1.2 sums offset_for_ref_frame only up to the position the frame sits
at within the cycle. Summing the whole cycle gives every picture the same
expected order count, so a pic_order_cnt_type 1 stream came out in decode
order rather than output order.

Neither is reachable from the streams the tests cover: x264, this crate's
encoder, and browser encoders all code pic_order_cnt_type 0 and none of
them emit MMCO 5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything here so far tested the plumbing: that surfaces are not shared,
that a descriptor reads back the way a download does, that flush returns
the tail. Nothing said the pixels were right, and nothing exercised
reordering, reference list construction, or a sequence change. Those were
checked by hand against ffmpeg and the result written into the README,
which is where a claim goes to stop being true.

The stream is coded with B-frames and three reference frames, so getting
its 30 pictures out byte for byte in ffmpeg's order also pins the picture
order counts, the reference lists, and the DPB bumping. The test skips
without ffmpeg or without a device, the way the others skip without a
device. Splitting the elementary stream into access units is a few lines
here because each picture is a single slice.

The second test feeds two sequences at different sizes through one
decoder. It pins what apply_sps promises: the pool and context are rebuilt
around the new size, and the first sequence's tail comes out ahead of the
second's first picture rather than being read back at the wrong size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
first_mb_in_slice and the slice header length are 16 bits wide in a VA
slice parameter buffer and were cast into them without a check. A picture
past 65536 macroblocks, which needs a resolution beyond 8K, would have its
second and later slices start at a truncated offset: a plausible wrong
number rather than an error, so the picture decodes into garbage. Both are
now refused with the value that did not fit.

The other quiet path is a caller handing us the wrong container. Nalu::next
reports the end of the buffer as an error, so a length-prefixed access unit
parses as zero NAL units and decode returns no pictures and no error. That
now logs a warning naming the likely cause, which is the difference between
a five-minute problem and an afternoon.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
flush claimed to reset the decoder to await a new IDR. It does neither: the
parsed parameter sets survive and nothing tracks whether an IDR has been
seen, so a stream picked up part way through decodes against an empty DPB
and gives distorted pictures rather than an error. That is worth knowing
before wiring this behind a network, so it is now written down.

The rest is trimming. The module doc, the ExportedFrame doc, and the test
docs each said the same thing twice or explained that a test skips without
a device, which the code says three lines below. Decoder gains the example
RFC 1574 asks for on a public entry point, which is also the shortest
statement of the one thing a caller gets wrong: output trails, so the tail
of a stream only arrives on flush.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Frando added a commit to Frando/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The PR branches point at `pr/decode`, which is what moq-dev/vaapi#2 carries. This branch also wants whatever lands on moq-vaapi's `iroh-live` ahead of that PR, so it follows that branch instead. Both are the same commit today.
Frando added a commit to Frando/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
The PR branches point at `pr/decode`, which is what moq-dev/vaapi#2 carries. This branch also wants whatever lands on moq-vaapi's `iroh-live` ahead of that PR, so it follows that branch instead. Both are the same commit today.
Frando added a commit to Frando/moq that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
The PR branches point at `pr/decode`, which is what moq-dev/vaapi#2 carries. This branch also wants whatever lands on moq-vaapi's `iroh-live` ahead of that PR, so it follows that branch instead. Both are the same commit today.
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let visible = sps.visible_rectangle();
let width = visible.max.x - visible.min.x;
let height = visible.max.y - visible.min.y;

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P2 Badge Preserve the crop origin when reading decoded surfaces

For an SPS with nonzero left or top cropping, only the visible width and height are retained while visible.min is discarded. read_back subsequently copies each plane beginning at its VA image base offset, so Frame::data contains pixels from the coded picture's top-left rather than the SPS visible rectangle. Carry the crop origin through the handle and apply it to the luma and chroma offsets during readback.

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Self {
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P2 Badge Treat crop-only SPS updates as sequence changes

When a new SPS changes only its cropping rectangle while retaining the same coded macroblock dimensions, profile, bit depth, and DPB size, SequenceInfo still compares equal. The early return in apply_sps therefore preserves the previous Sequence.width and height, causing pictures from the new sequence to be reported and downloaded using the old visible dimensions. Include the visible rectangle in this sequence identity so the old DPB tail and new pictures retain their respective sizes.

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The hardware-dependent tests pass when no device is present.

exported_pictures_do_not_share_a_surface, flush_returns_the_pictures_the_dpb_still_holds, an_exported_picture_downloads_to_the_same_pixels, decoded_pictures_match_a_software_decoder, and a_new_sequence_decodes_at_its_own_size all return early and report success when the encoder, decoder, or ffmpeg is missing. In CI without a VA-API device, the whole decode suite is green while nothing was exercised. Consider printing the skip through a single helper and gating the suite behind a feature or an environment variable, so a machine that is meant to have a device fails instead of skipping.

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Reject left/top cropping before sequence reuse and include visible dimensions in sequence identity. Build progressive VA picture heights directly from the SPS map-unit count. Add hardware-independent regressions and run unit tests in CI.

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.get_pps(slice.header.pic_parameter_set_id)
.context("slice refers to an unknown PPS")?,
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if SequenceInfo::new(&pps.sps)? != SequenceInfo::new(&current.pps.sps)? {

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Require the exact same SPS for every slice in a picture.

SequenceInfo equality only compares VA configuration properties. It permits distinct SPS values with different POC or frame-number semantics.

begin_picture already derived current.pic and the VA picture parameters from the first SPS. build_slice_param then uses pps.sps from the later slice. Rejecting only unequal SequenceInfo values can send inconsistent parameters for one picture.

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-		if SequenceInfo::new(&pps.sps)? != SequenceInfo::new(&current.pps.sps)? {
+		if !Rc::ptr_eq(&pps.sps, &current.pps.sps) {
 			bail!("invalid stream: the sequence changed between slices of one picture");
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| NaluType::SliceDpa
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| NaluType::SliceDpc

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P2 Badge Reject data-partition NALs until they are assembled

For a valid Extended-profile stream using data partitioning, partition B/C NALs do not contain a normal slice header, while partition A does not contain the complete slice payload. Routing all three through parse_slice_header and later submitting each as VA_SLICE_DATA_FLAG_ALL therefore either rejects the B/C partitions or asks VA-API to decode incomplete data. Reject these NAL types explicitly, or combine the partitions before submitting the slice.

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kixelated merged commit d8eb6f3 into moq-dev:main Sep 6, 2026
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