[PATCH v2 1/2] pipeline: Add support for dumping capture script and metadata

Paul Elder paul.elder at ideasonboard.com
Fri Oct 4 14:05:16 CEST 2024


Add support for dumping capture scripts and metadata. The capture
scripts can then be fed into the cam application and a capture can thus
be "replayed". Metadata can also be dumped.

Camera configuration is also dumped to the capture script. The cam
application currently does not support loading configuration from the
capture script, but support for that will be added in a subsequent
patch.

These can be enabled by a new environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder at ideasonboard.com>

---
Changes in v2:
- clean up code
- add support for creating new dump file when restarting capture
- document the environment variables
---
 Documentation/environment_variables.rst       | 26 ++++++
 include/libcamera/internal/camera.h           |  2 +
 include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h | 19 +++++
 src/libcamera/camera.cpp                      | 13 +++
 src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp            | 85 ++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/environment_variables.rst b/Documentation/environment_variables.rst
index 7da9883a8380..b0448d387847 100644
--- a/Documentation/environment_variables.rst
+++ b/Documentation/environment_variables.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,32 @@ LIBCAMERA_IPA_CONFIG_PATH
 
    Example value: ``${HOME}/.libcamera/share/ipa:/opt/libcamera/vendor/share/ipa``
 
+LIBCAMERA_DUMP_CAPTURE_SCRIPT
+   The custom destination for capture script dump output.
+
+   The precensce of this environment variable enables capture script dumping.
+   All controls that are set for each request will be dumped into the file
+   specified by the environment variable as a capture script, which can later
+   be fed into the cam application to replay a control sequence.
+
+   The file that is written to will be suffixed with a number indicating the
+   number of capture. That is, if the capture is stopped and started again, a
+   new capture script will be dumped with the suffix incremented.
+
+   Example value: ``/home/{user}/capture_script.yaml``
+
+LIBCAMERA_DUMP_METADATA
+   The custom destination for metadata dump output.
+
+   This is similar to LIBCAMERA_DUMP_CAPTURE_SCRIPT, except instead of a
+   capture script with controls for each frame, the dump will consist of all
+   metadata that was returned for every frame.
+
+   Also similar to LIBCAMERA_DUMP_CAPTURE_SCRIPT, there will be a number suffix
+   added to the filename of the dump.
+
+   Example value: ``/home/{user}/metadata_dump.yaml``
+
 LIBCAMERA_IPA_FORCE_ISOLATION
    When set to a non-empty string, force process isolation of all IPA modules.
 
diff --git a/include/libcamera/internal/camera.h b/include/libcamera/internal/camera.h
index 0add0428bb5d..b029d85901a7 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/internal/camera.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/internal/camera.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <libcamera/base/class.h>
 
 #include <libcamera/camera.h>
+#include <libcamera/orientation.h>
 
 namespace libcamera {
 
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ private:
 	std::string id_;
 	std::set<Stream *> streams_;
 	std::set<const Stream *> activeStreams_;
+	Orientation orientation_;
 
 	bool disconnected_;
 	std::atomic<State> state_;
diff --git a/include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h b/include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h
index 0d38080369c5..f31aced71331 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include <memory>
 #include <queue>
+#include <set>
 #include <string>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <vector>
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@
 
 namespace libcamera {
 
+enum class Orientation;
+
 class Camera;
 class CameraConfiguration;
 class CameraManager;
@@ -68,6 +71,9 @@ public:
 
 	CameraManager *cameraManager() const { return manager_; }
 
+	void dumpConfiguration(const std::set<const Stream *> &streams,
+			       Orientation orientation);
+
 protected:
 	void registerCamera(std::shared_ptr<Camera> camera);
 	void hotplugMediaDevice(MediaDevice *media);
@@ -81,6 +87,11 @@ protected:
 	CameraManager *manager_;
 
 private:
+	enum class DumpMode {
+		Controls,
+		Metadata,
+	};
+
 	void unlockMediaDevices();
 
 	void mediaDeviceDisconnected(MediaDevice *media);
@@ -89,6 +100,8 @@ private:
 	void doQueueRequest(Request *request);
 	void doQueueRequests();
 
+	void dumpRequest(Request *request, DumpMode mode);
+
 	std::vector<std::shared_ptr<MediaDevice>> mediaDevices_;
 	std::vector<std::weak_ptr<Camera>> cameras_;
 
@@ -97,6 +110,12 @@ private:
 	const char *name_;
 	unsigned int useCount_;
 
+	unsigned int captureCount_;
+	std::string fileCapture_;
+	std::string fileMetadata_;
+	std::unique_ptr<std::ostream> dumpCaptureScript_;
+	std::unique_ptr<std::ostream> dumpMetadata_;
+
 	friend class PipelineHandlerFactoryBase;
 };
 
diff --git a/src/libcamera/camera.cpp b/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
index a86f552a47bc..1282f99d839b 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/camera.cpp
@@ -1215,6 +1215,9 @@ int Camera::configure(CameraConfiguration *config)
 		d->activeStreams_.insert(stream);
 	}
 
+	/* TODO Save sensor configuration for dumping it to capture script */
+	d->orientation_ = config->orientation;
+
 	d->setState(Private::CameraConfigured);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1356,6 +1359,16 @@ int Camera::start(const ControlList *controls)
 
 	ASSERT(d->requestSequence_ == 0);
 
+	/*
+	 * Invoke method in blocking mode to avoid the risk of writing after
+	 * streaming has started.
+	 * This needs to be here as PipelineHandler::start is a virtual function
+	 * so it is impractical to add the dumping there.
+	 * TODO Pass the sensor configuration, once it is supported
+	 */
+	d->pipe_->invokeMethod(&PipelineHandler::dumpConfiguration,
+			       ConnectionTypeBlocking, d->activeStreams_, d->orientation_);
+
 	ret = d->pipe_->invokeMethod(&PipelineHandler::start,
 				     ConnectionTypeBlocking, this, controls);
 	if (ret)
diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp b/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
index e5940469127e..4df64ac90bdf 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline_handler.cpp
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "libcamera/internal/pipeline_handler.h"
 
 #include <chrono>
+#include <fstream>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
 
@@ -68,8 +69,10 @@ LOG_DEFINE_CATEGORY(Pipeline)
  * through the PipelineHandlerFactoryBase::create() function.
  */
 PipelineHandler::PipelineHandler(CameraManager *manager)
-	: manager_(manager), useCount_(0)
+	: manager_(manager), useCount_(0), captureCount_(0)
 {
+	fileCapture_ = utils::secure_getenv("LIBCAMERA_DUMP_CAPTURE_SCRIPT");
+	fileMetadata_ = utils::secure_getenv("LIBCAMERA_DUMP_METADATA");
 }
 
 PipelineHandler::~PipelineHandler()
@@ -464,6 +467,8 @@ void PipelineHandler::doQueueRequest(Request *request)
 
 	request->_d()->sequence_ = data->requestSequence_++;
 
+	dumpRequest(request, DumpMode::Controls);
+
 	if (request->_d()->cancelled_) {
 		completeRequest(request);
 		return;
@@ -555,6 +560,8 @@ void PipelineHandler::completeRequest(Request *request)
 
 	request->_d()->complete();
 
+	dumpRequest(request, DumpMode::Metadata);
+
 	Camera::Private *data = camera->_d();
 
 	while (!data->queuedRequests_.empty()) {
@@ -758,6 +765,82 @@ void PipelineHandler::disconnect()
  * \return The CameraManager for this pipeline handler
  */
 
+void PipelineHandler::dumpConfiguration(const std::set<const Stream *> &streams,
+					Orientation orientation)
+{
+	captureCount_++;
+
+	/* These need to be done here in case capture is restarted */
+	if (!fileCapture_.empty()) {
+		std::string file = fileCapture_ + "." + std::to_string(captureCount_);
+		LOG(Pipeline, Info) << "Dumping capture script to " << file;
+		dumpCaptureScript_ = std::make_unique<std::ofstream>(file);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Metadata needs to go into a separate file because otherwise it'll
+	 * flood the capture script
+	 */
+	if (!fileMetadata_.empty()) {
+		std::string file = fileMetadata_ + "." + std::to_string(captureCount_);
+		LOG(Pipeline, Info) << "Dumping metadata to " << file;
+		dumpMetadata_ = std::make_unique<std::ofstream>(file);
+		*dumpMetadata_ << "frames:" << std::endl;
+		dumpMetadata_->flush();
+	}
+
+	if (!dumpCaptureScript_)
+		return;
+
+	std::ostream &output = *dumpCaptureScript_;
+
+	output << "configuration:" << std::endl;
+	output << "  orientation: " << orientation << std::endl;
+
+	/* \todo Dump Sensor configuration */
+
+	output << "  streams:" << std::endl;
+	for (const auto &stream : streams) {
+		const StreamConfiguration &streamConfig = stream->configuration();
+		output << "    - pixelFormat: " << streamConfig.pixelFormat << std::endl;
+		output << "      size: " << streamConfig.size << std::endl;
+		output << "      stride: " << streamConfig.stride << std::endl;
+		output << "      frameSize: " << streamConfig.frameSize << std::endl;
+		output << "      bufferCount: " << streamConfig.bufferCount << std::endl;
+		if (streamConfig.colorSpace) {
+			output << "      colorSpace: " << streamConfig.colorSpace->toString() << std::endl;
+		}
+	}
+
+	output << "frames:" << std::endl;
+	dumpCaptureScript_->flush();
+}
+
+void PipelineHandler::dumpRequest(Request *request, DumpMode mode)
+{
+	ControlList &controls =
+		mode == DumpMode::Controls ? request->controls()
+					   : request->metadata();
+	std::ostream *output =
+		mode == DumpMode::Controls ? dumpCaptureScript_.get()
+					   : dumpMetadata_.get();
+
+	if (!output || controls.empty())
+		return;
+
+	/* \todo Figure out PFC */
+	*output << "  - " << request->sequence() << ":" << std::endl;
+
+	const ControlIdMap *idMap = controls.idMap();
+	for (const auto &pair : controls) {
+		const ControlId *ctrlId = idMap->at(pair.first);
+		*output << "      " << ctrlId->name() << ": " << pair.second.toString() << std::endl;
+	}
+
+	/* \todo Investigate the overhead of flushing this frequently */
+	output->flush();
+}
+
 /**
  * \class PipelineHandlerFactoryBase
  * \brief Base class for pipeline handler factories
-- 
2.39.2



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