[Interest] Faster way of rendering QOpenGLFramebufferObject to image

[Elvis Stansvik]

Hi Nuno,

I'm really out of my waters here, but, provided you don't need to hold
on to each AVFrame after you are "done with it", you could perhaps
avoid having to allocate a QImage for each frame (which toImage forces
you to do) by just allocating a a single AVFrame and a single memory
buffer for it, and then do what toImage does, which is make sure the
FBO is bound and read the pixels off of it with glReadPixels. Then you
could read the pixels straight into the memory buffer used by your
AVFrame.

That way you would save the overhead of a new QImage being allocated
each time, which might speed things up..?

Just ideas here. Have not worked with GL or ffmpeg before.

Elvis

Den tis 13 juli 2021 kl 11:22 skrev Nuno Santos <nuno.santos at imaginando.pt>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to capture the content of an FBO to a video file. This video file should contain the animations generated by a qml scene.
>
> To do this, I’m recurring to QOpenGLFramebufferObject class toImage() method.
>
> My scene is being drawn at 1920x1080. Each call to toImage takes 30 ms! :(
>
> If I want to render to file at 60 fps, ideally, this call would need to take less than 16 ms to give me room to do other operations, such as video encoding and the actual render.
>
> As anyone been here before? What other strategies are available to copy the FBO data to an image?
>
> I’m using libav to encode the video file, therefor I need to fill an AVFrame. Right now I’m filling the AVFrame from the QImage generated by the FBO toImage method.
>
> Does any one knows a method of filling an AVFrame directly from texture data?
>
> Thanks
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nuno
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