GstObuMetadata Basics
AV1 Standards Overview
Open bitstream units (OBU)
An AV1 coded video is comprise of one or more temporal units. Each temorar unit is fed with a sequence of OBUs of different types like: Sequence Header, Temporal Delimiter, Frame Header, Tile Group, Metadata, Frame, Redundant Frame Header, Tile List and Padding. Each OBU contains a header and a payload byte, the header indicates the type of OBU and specifies the payload size.
The GstObuMetadata plugin focuses on the OBU Metadata which carries information of different types such as high dynamic range, scalability, and timecode.
The plugin manage metadata as OBU Metadata units which is inserted to the frame using the obuinject element either as a string, binary or GstMeta. Also, it extract the information out of the OBU Metadata unit with the obuextract element inserted by obuinject.
The plugin description looks like:
Plugin Details: Name obu Description Gstreamer plugin to add metadata as Open Bitstream Units (OBU) Filename /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libobu.so Version 0.1.0 License Proprietary Source module gst-obu Binary package gst-obu Origin URL https://www.ridgerun.com/ obuextract: OBU extract metadata obuinject: OBU inject metadata obumetatester: Helper element to insert a test GstObuMeta to buffers. 3 features: +-- 3 elements
References
Links to the AV1 websites: