theoraenc

theoraenc

Properties

gint bitrate Read / Write
gboolean cap-overflow Read / Write
gboolean cap-underflow Read / Write
gboolean drop-frames Read / Write
gboolean keyframe-auto Read / Write
gint keyframe-force Read / Write
gint keyframe-freq Read / Write
gchar * multipass-cache-file Read / Write
GstTheoraEncMultipassMode multipass-mode Read / Write
gint quality Read / Write
gint rate-buffer Read / Write
gint speed-level Read / Write
gboolean vp3-compatible Read / Write

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── GstObject
            ╰── GstElement
                ╰── GstVideoEncoder
                    ╰── GstTheoraEnc

Implemented Interfaces

GstTheoraEnc implements GstPreset.

Description

This element encodes raw video into a Theora stream.

Theora is a royalty-free

video codec maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation, based on the VP3 codec.

The theora codec internally only supports encoding of images that are a multiple of 16 pixels in both X and Y direction. It is however perfectly possible to encode images with other dimensions because an arbitrary rectangular cropping region can be set up. This element will automatically set up a correct cropping region if the dimensions are not multiples of 16 pixels.

To control the quality of the encoding, the “bitrate” and “quality” properties can be used. These two properties are mutualy exclusive. Setting the bitrate property will produce a constant bitrate (CBR) stream while setting the quality property will produce a variable bitrate (VBR) stream.

A videorate element is often required in front of theoraenc, especially when transcoding and when putting Theora into the Ogg container.

Example pipeline

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gst-launch-1.0 -v videotestsrc num-buffers=500 ! video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720 ! queue ! progressreport ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=videotestsrc.ogg

This example pipeline will encode a test video source to theora muxed in an ogg container. Refer to the theoradec documentation to decode the create stream.

Synopsis

Element Information

plugin

theora

author

Wim Taymans <wim@fluendo.com>

class

Codec/Encoder/Video

Element Pads

name

sink

direction

sink

presence

always

details

video/x-raw, format=(string){ I420, Y42B, Y444 }, framerate=(fraction)[ 1/2147483647, 2147483647/1 ], width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ]

name

src

direction

source

presence

always

details

video/x-theora, framerate=(fraction)[ 1/2147483647, 2147483647/1 ], width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ]

Functions

Types and Values

struct GstTheoraEnc

struct GstTheoraEnc;

Opaque data structure.


enum GstTheoraEncMultipassMode

Members

MULTIPASS_MODE_SINGLE_PASS

Single pass encoding

 

MULTIPASS_MODE_FIRST_PASS

First pass of two pass encoding

 

MULTIPASS_MODE_SECOND_PASS

Second pass of two pass encoding

 

Property Details

The “bitrate” property

  “bitrate”                  gint

Compressed video bitrate (kbps).

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,16777215]

Default value: 0


The “cap-overflow” property

  “cap-overflow”             gboolean

Enable capping of bit reservoir overflows.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “cap-underflow” property

  “cap-underflow”            gboolean

Enable capping of bit reservoir underflows.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE


The “drop-frames” property

  “drop-frames”              gboolean

Allow or disallow frame dropping.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “keyframe-auto” property

  “keyframe-auto”            gboolean

Automatic keyframe detection.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE


The “keyframe-force” property

  “keyframe-force”           gint

Force keyframe every N frames.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [1,32768]

Default value: 64


The “keyframe-freq” property

  “keyframe-freq”            gint

Keyframe frequency.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [1,32768]

Default value: 64


The “multipass-cache-file” property

  “multipass-cache-file”     gchar *

Multipass cache file.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL


The “multipass-mode” property

  “multipass-mode”           GstTheoraEncMultipassMode

Single pass or first/second pass.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: Single pass


The “quality” property

  “quality”                  gint

Video quality.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,63]

Default value: 48


The “rate-buffer” property

  “rate-buffer”              gint

Sets the size of the rate control buffer, in units of frames. The default value of 0 instructs the encoder to automatically select an appropriate value.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,1000]

Default value: 0


The “speed-level” property

  “speed-level”              gint

Controls the amount of motion vector searching done while encoding.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0,3]

Default value: 1


The “vp3-compatible” property

  “vp3-compatible”           gboolean

Disables non-VP3 compatible features.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

See Also

theoradec, oggmux