mediadecode_ffmpeg/error.rs
1use derive_more::{IsVariant, TryUnwrap, Unwrap};
2use ffmpeg_next::Packet;
3
4use crate::backend::Backend;
5
6/// Crate result alias.
7pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
8
9/// Errors returned from [`crate::VideoDecoder`].
10///
11/// `Debug` is derived; the variants that wrap a payload struct
12/// (`HwDeviceInitFailed`, `AllBackendsFailed`, `FallbackFailed`)
13/// delegate their `Debug` to the payload, which is hand-written
14/// where needed because [`ffmpeg_next::Packet`] (carried by
15/// `AllBackendsFailed::unconsumed_packets` /
16/// `FallbackFailed::unconsumed_packets`) does not derive
17/// `Debug`. Those payloads summarize the packet count rather
18/// than dumping each packet's fields, which would be both noisy
19/// and useless for triage.
20///
21/// **Open fault taxonomy, so it is `#[non_exhaustive]`.** New ways to
22/// fail are discovered — a backend, a ceiling, a corruption a codec
23/// learns to report — and a consumer that meets one it has never heard
24/// of should take its generic-fault path. That is exactly what the
25/// wildcard arm this attribute forces is for. The two status
26/// vocabularies opposite it,
27/// [`Sent`](mediadecode::Sent) and [`Received`](mediadecode::Received),
28/// are exhaustive for the mirror-image reason: their arms are the
29/// substrate's fixed state set, and there the wildcard would be dead
30/// weight hiding a state a consumer forgot.
31#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error, IsVariant, Unwrap, TryUnwrap)]
32#[unwrap(ref, ref_mut)]
33#[try_unwrap(ref, ref_mut)]
34#[non_exhaustive]
35pub enum Error {
36 /// An underlying FFmpeg error.
37 #[error("ffmpeg error: {0}")]
38 Ffmpeg(#[from] ffmpeg_next::Error),
39
40 /// A portable packet could not be rebuilt as an `AVPacket` on its
41 /// way into a decoder — see [`crate::boundary::PacketBuildError`].
42 #[error(transparent)]
43 PacketBuild(#[from] crate::boundary::PacketBuildError),
44
45 /// A stream's codec parameters hold more heap bytes than the
46 /// decoder tier will copy — see
47 /// [`crate::DEFAULT_MAX_CODEC_PARAMETER_BYTES`].
48 ///
49 /// The decoder tier has no options object of its own for this, so it
50 /// applies the default ceiling. A caller that needs a larger one
51 /// opens the parameters through the demux tier, where
52 /// [`DemuxLimits`](crate::DemuxLimits) carries the seat.
53 #[error(transparent)]
54 ParametersTooLarge(#[from] crate::demuxer::ParametersTooLarge),
55
56 /// A stream's channel layout is not a shape FFmpeg's own helpers can
57 /// be given, so the decoder was not opened over it.
58 ///
59 /// **Structural and permanent, never an allocation failure.**
60 /// `avcodec_parameters_to_context` reaches `av_channel_layout_copy`,
61 /// whose `memcpy` reads the custom map with no null check of its own,
62 /// and FFmpeg's describe and compare helpers compute
63 /// `nb_channels - popcount(mask)` — and take an integer square root
64 /// of it — without checking either. None of that is a shortage of
65 /// memory and none of it will be different on the next attempt, which
66 /// is why it does not share the allocation arm.
67 ///
68 /// See
69 /// [`layout_preflight`](crate::channel_layout::layout_preflight) for
70 /// the rule, which the demux admission pass and the outbound clone
71 /// apply too.
72 #[error(transparent)]
73 MalformedChannelLayout(#[from] crate::demuxer::ParametersLayoutShape),
74
75 /// A stream's channel layout declares a custom order without the map
76 /// that order requires — the shape `av_channel_layout_copy` would
77 /// `memcpy` from null. Structural and permanent, as above.
78 #[error(transparent)]
79 ChannelMapMissing(#[from] crate::demuxer::ParametersChannelMap),
80
81 /// `avcodec_find_decoder` returned null for the input codec id. The id
82 /// is reported as the raw integer (`AVCodecID` discriminant) — we do not
83 /// construct the bindgen `AVCodecID` enum from a runtime value, since
84 /// values outside our build's discriminant set would invoke UB.
85 #[error("no decoder for codec id {0}")]
86 NoCodec(u32),
87
88 /// The CPU frame a hardware->CPU transfer would allocate is larger
89 /// than [`FrameLimits::max_frame_bytes`](crate::FrameLimits::max_frame_bytes).
90 ///
91 /// The hardware road's own seat. `judge_buffer` — the allocator hook
92 /// that applies the byte ceiling to aligned dimensions — is **not** a
93 /// universal choke point: `ff_get_buffer` calls `hwaccel->alloc_frame`
94 /// directly for VideoToolbox h264/hevc/vp9 and never reaches
95 /// `get_buffer2` at all, and `av_hwframe_transfer_data` allocates its
96 /// CPU destination outside both. This is the seat for that second
97 /// road, judged before the transfer rather than after it.
98 #[error(transparent)]
99 HwTransferTooLarge(#[from] HwTransferTooLarge),
100
101 /// A frame's allocation would have cost more than
102 /// [`FrameLimits::max_frame_bytes`](crate::FrameLimits::max_frame_bytes),
103 /// so it was refused in the allocator, before the allocation.
104 #[error(transparent)]
105 FrameBudgetExceeded(#[from] FrameBudgetExceeded),
106
107 /// The stream's **coded** surface is over the frame ceiling, so the
108 /// hardware format was declined before its pool could be built.
109 ///
110 /// The two dimension vocabularies: `max_pixels` is applied by
111 /// `ff_set_dimensions` to a stream's *display* dims, and a cropped
112 /// stream can display 32x32 out of a 1920x1088 coded surface. What
113 /// gets allocated is the coded figure, so it is the one judged here —
114 /// and it is judged in **bytes**, priced through the allocator-parity
115 /// footprint against the caller's `max_frame_bytes`, because
116 /// `max_pixels` carries the caller's logical pixel limit and nothing
117 /// about cost.
118 #[error(transparent)]
119 HwSurfaceTooLarge(#[from] HwSurfaceTooLarge),
120
121 /// The codec does not advertise a hardware configuration matching the
122 /// requested backend (via `avcodec_get_hw_config`).
123 #[error("codec does not support backend {0:?}")]
124 BackendUnsupportedByCodec(Backend),
125
126 /// `av_hwdevice_ctx_create` failed for the requested backend. See
127 /// [`HwDeviceInitFailed`] for the payload details. `#[from]` gives
128 /// a free `impl From<HwDeviceInitFailed> for Error`, so inner
129 /// helpers that return `Result<_, HwDeviceInitFailed>` can be
130 /// `?`-propagated into `Error` directly.
131 #[error(transparent)]
132 HwDeviceInitFailed(#[from] HwDeviceInitFailed),
133
134 /// Auto-probe exhausted every backend in the platform's order. See
135 /// [`AllBackendsFailed`] for the payload details (in particular the
136 /// `unconsumed_packets` history that callers should replay through
137 /// their own software decoder for non-seekable inputs). `#[from]`
138 /// gives a free `impl From<AllBackendsFailed> for Error`.
139 #[error(transparent)]
140 AllBackendsFailed(#[from] AllBackendsFailed),
141
142 /// Surfaced by [`crate::FfmpegVideoStreamDecoder`] when a HW->SW
143 /// fallback attempt itself fails. See [`FallbackFailed`] for the
144 /// payload details (in particular the rescued `unconsumed_packets`
145 /// the HW path had already consumed from the caller). `#[from]`
146 /// gives a free `impl From<FallbackFailed> for Error`.
147 #[error(transparent)]
148 FallbackFailed(#[from] FallbackFailed),
149}
150
151/// Payload for [`Error::HwDeviceInitFailed`].
152///
153/// `av_hwdevice_ctx_create` failed for the requested backend.
154#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
155#[error("hardware device init failed for {backend:?}: {source}")]
156pub struct HwDeviceInitFailed {
157 /// Backend that failed to initialise.
158 backend: Backend,
159 /// Underlying FFmpeg error.
160 source: ffmpeg_next::Error,
161}
162
163impl HwDeviceInitFailed {
164 /// Constructs a new [`HwDeviceInitFailed`] payload.
165 #[inline]
166 pub const fn new(backend: Backend, source: ffmpeg_next::Error) -> Self {
167 Self { backend, source }
168 }
169 /// Backend that failed to initialise.
170 #[inline]
171 pub const fn backend(&self) -> Backend {
172 self.backend
173 }
174 /// Underlying FFmpeg error.
175 #[inline]
176 pub const fn source(&self) -> &ffmpeg_next::Error {
177 &self.source
178 }
179 /// Consume the payload, returning the backend identifier and the
180 /// moved FFmpeg error so callers can take ownership without
181 /// cloning.
182 #[inline]
183 pub fn into_parts(self) -> (Backend, ffmpeg_next::Error) {
184 (self.backend, self.source)
185 }
186}
187
188/// Where in the decoder's life a [`AllBackendsFailed`] was raised.
189///
190/// The [`crate::FfmpegVideoStreamDecoder`] wrapper routes its software-fallback
191/// replay on **this explicit signal** rather than inferring origin from whether
192/// `unconsumed_packets` is empty. Both origins can carry an empty
193/// `unconsumed_packets` — a probe-era failure on the *first* packet (a
194/// side-data / byte / packet cap trip, or an `av_packet_ref` ENOMEM) has no
195/// prior history to surface, exactly like every post-commit failure — so
196/// emptiness cannot disambiguate them. Conflating the two made the wrapper
197/// treat a probe-era first-packet cap trip as post-commit: it would append a
198/// clone of the borrowed current packet to an empty replay set and skip the
199/// post-fallback `send_packet`, silently dropping that packet if the clone
200/// failed.
201#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, IsVariant)]
202pub enum FallbackOrigin {
203 /// Raised while the inner decoder's probe was still active (before the first
204 /// frame). `unconsumed_packets` is the probe's buffered history (possibly
205 /// empty when the failure landed on the very first packet). The wrapper
206 /// replays that history and then routes the still-unconsumed current packet
207 /// to the new software decoder itself.
208 Probe,
209 /// Raised after the probe collapsed (the committed backend failed at
210 /// runtime). `unconsumed_packets` is always empty — the probe buffer is gone
211 /// — so the wrapper does not replay: it opens a software decoder cold,
212 /// forwards only the failing call's current packet (or EOF), and resyncs at
213 /// the next keyframe, accepting a bounded, logged gap (degrade-and-continue).
214 PostCommit,
215}
216
217/// Payload for [`Error::AllBackendsFailed`].
218///
219/// Auto-probe exhausted every backend in the platform's order. Empty
220/// `attempts` means the platform has no hardware backends listed in
221/// [`crate::Backend`] for the current `target_os` — callers must
222/// fall back to a software decoder of their choice.
223///
224/// `unconsumed_packets` holds the packets the decoder accepted from
225/// the caller before the probe exhausted (refcounted shallow clones
226/// of the packets fed via `send_packet`). For non-seekable inputs
227/// (live streams, pipes, network sources) the caller cannot
228/// re-demux from start, so this crate surfaces the buffered history
229/// here so the caller can feed those packets directly into a
230/// software decoder of their choice. When `AllBackendsFailed` comes
231/// from [`crate::VideoDecoder::open`] (no packets were ever sent),
232/// this vec is empty.
233///
234/// `origin` records whether the failure happened during the probe or after the
235/// committed backend collapsed at runtime — the explicit signal the wrapper
236/// routes on (see [`FallbackOrigin`]). It is never inferred from
237/// `unconsumed_packets.is_empty()`, which both origins can satisfy.
238///
239/// `Debug` is hand-written: [`ffmpeg_next::Packet`] does not derive
240/// `Debug`, so we print `[N packets]` instead of dumping per-packet
241/// bytes, which would be both noisy and useless for triage.
242#[derive(thiserror::Error)]
243#[error("all hardware backends failed; attempts: {attempts:?}")]
244pub struct AllBackendsFailed {
245 /// Per-backend errors collected during probing, in the order tried.
246 attempts: Vec<(Backend, Box<Error>)>,
247 /// Packets the decoder consumed from the caller before exhaustion.
248 /// Replay them through a software decoder for non-seekable inputs.
249 unconsumed_packets: Vec<Packet>,
250 /// Whether this was raised during the probe or post-commit. The wrapper's
251 /// fallback replay routes on this, never on `unconsumed_packets` emptiness.
252 origin: FallbackOrigin,
253}
254
255impl AllBackendsFailed {
256 /// Constructs a probe-era [`AllBackendsFailed`] payload — raised while the
257 /// inner decoder's probe is still active. `unconsumed_packets` is the probe's
258 /// buffered history (possibly empty if the failure landed on the first
259 /// packet). See [`FallbackOrigin::Probe`].
260 ///
261 /// Not `const fn`: the `Vec` arguments may carry destructors and
262 /// the const evaluator can't prove their drop safe for arbitrary
263 /// allocator state.
264 #[inline]
265 pub fn new(attempts: Vec<(Backend, Box<Error>)>, unconsumed_packets: Vec<Packet>) -> Self {
266 Self {
267 attempts,
268 unconsumed_packets,
269 origin: FallbackOrigin::Probe,
270 }
271 }
272 /// Constructs a post-commit [`AllBackendsFailed`] payload — raised after the
273 /// probe collapsed, when the committed backend failed at runtime.
274 /// `unconsumed_packets` is always empty (the probe buffer is gone); the
275 /// wrapper's retained GOP window supplies the replay set. See
276 /// [`FallbackOrigin::PostCommit`].
277 #[inline]
278 pub fn new_post_commit(attempts: Vec<(Backend, Box<Error>)>) -> Self {
279 Self {
280 attempts,
281 unconsumed_packets: Vec::new(),
282 origin: FallbackOrigin::PostCommit,
283 }
284 }
285 /// Per-backend errors collected during probing, in the order tried.
286 #[inline]
287 pub fn attempts(&self) -> &[(Backend, Box<Error>)] {
288 &self.attempts
289 }
290 /// Where this failure was raised — the explicit probe-vs-post-commit signal
291 /// the wrapper routes its fallback replay on.
292 #[inline]
293 pub const fn origin(&self) -> FallbackOrigin {
294 self.origin
295 }
296 /// Packets the decoder consumed from the caller before exhaustion.
297 /// Replay them through a software decoder for non-seekable inputs.
298 #[inline]
299 pub fn unconsumed_packets(&self) -> &[Packet] {
300 &self.unconsumed_packets
301 }
302 /// Consume the payload, returning the moved unconsumed packets so
303 /// non-seekable callers can replay them through a software decoder
304 /// without cloning.
305 #[inline]
306 pub fn into_unconsumed_packets(self) -> Vec<Packet> {
307 self.unconsumed_packets
308 }
309 /// Consume the payload, returning the moved attempts log and
310 /// unconsumed packets.
311 #[inline]
312 pub fn into_parts(self) -> (Vec<(Backend, Box<Error>)>, Vec<Packet>) {
313 (self.attempts, self.unconsumed_packets)
314 }
315}
316
317impl std::fmt::Debug for AllBackendsFailed {
318 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
319 f.debug_struct("AllBackendsFailed")
320 .field("attempts", &self.attempts)
321 // `Packet` is not `Debug`; print just the count so the error is
322 // still useful for triage without dumping per-packet bytes.
323 .field(
324 "unconsumed_packets",
325 &format_args!("[{} packets]", self.unconsumed_packets.len()),
326 )
327 .field("origin", &self.origin)
328 .finish()
329 }
330}
331
332/// Payload for [`Error::FallbackFailed`].
333///
334/// Surfaced by [`crate::FfmpegVideoStreamDecoder`] when a HW->SW
335/// fallback attempt itself fails — e.g. the SW decoder failed to
336/// open, EOF replay returned EAGAIN past the bounded retry, or the
337/// per-frame replay queue exceeded its cap. The HW decoder has
338/// already consumed `unconsumed_packets` from the caller; we
339/// surface them here so non-seekable inputs (pipes, live streams)
340/// can drive their own decoder of last resort.
341///
342/// `Debug` is hand-written for the same reason as
343/// [`AllBackendsFailed`]: [`ffmpeg_next::Packet`] does not derive
344/// `Debug`.
345#[derive(thiserror::Error)]
346#[error("HW->SW fallback failed: {source}")]
347pub struct FallbackFailed {
348 /// Underlying error that aborted the fallback transition.
349 source: Box<Error>,
350 /// Packets that the HW path had consumed but had not yet decoded
351 /// at fallback time. The caller can replay them through a
352 /// software decoder of their choice.
353 unconsumed_packets: Vec<Packet>,
354}
355
356impl FallbackFailed {
357 /// Constructs a new [`FallbackFailed`] payload.
358 ///
359 /// Not `const fn`: the `Vec` argument may carry destructors.
360 #[inline]
361 pub fn new(source: Box<Error>, unconsumed_packets: Vec<Packet>) -> Self {
362 Self {
363 source,
364 unconsumed_packets,
365 }
366 }
367 /// Underlying error that aborted the fallback transition.
368 #[inline]
369 pub fn source(&self) -> &Error {
370 &self.source
371 }
372 /// Packets that the HW path had consumed but had not yet decoded
373 /// at fallback time.
374 #[inline]
375 pub fn unconsumed_packets(&self) -> &[Packet] {
376 &self.unconsumed_packets
377 }
378 /// Consume the payload, returning the moved unconsumed packets so
379 /// non-seekable callers can replay them through a software decoder
380 /// without cloning.
381 #[inline]
382 pub fn into_unconsumed_packets(self) -> Vec<Packet> {
383 self.unconsumed_packets
384 }
385 /// Consume the payload, returning the moved source error and
386 /// unconsumed packets.
387 #[inline]
388 pub fn into_parts(self) -> (Box<Error>, Vec<Packet>) {
389 (self.source, self.unconsumed_packets)
390 }
391}
392
393impl std::fmt::Debug for FallbackFailed {
394 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
395 f.debug_struct("FallbackFailed")
396 .field("source", &self.source)
397 .field(
398 "unconsumed_packets",
399 &format_args!("[{} packets]", self.unconsumed_packets.len()),
400 )
401 .finish()
402 }
403}
404
405/// Payload for [`Error::HwTransferTooLarge`].
406///
407/// The CPU-side cost of a hardware->CPU download, priced before it
408/// happens.
409#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
410#[error("hw->cpu transfer would allocate {bytes} bytes for one frame, over a ceiling of {limit}")]
411pub struct HwTransferTooLarge {
412 bytes: usize,
413 limit: usize,
414}
415
416impl HwTransferTooLarge {
417 /// Constructs a `HwTransferTooLarge` payload.
418 #[inline]
419 pub const fn new(bytes: usize, limit: usize) -> Self {
420 Self { bytes, limit }
421 }
422 /// Bytes the destination frame would have cost.
423 #[inline]
424 pub const fn bytes(&self) -> usize {
425 self.bytes
426 }
427 /// The ceiling in force.
428 #[inline]
429 pub const fn limit(&self) -> usize {
430 self.limit
431 }
432}
433
434/// Payload for [`Error::HwSurfaceTooLarge`].
435#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
436#[error(
437 "the hardware surface pool would cost {bytes} bytes, over a ceiling of {limit}; \
438 the hardware format was declined before the pool was built"
439)]
440pub struct HwSurfaceTooLarge {
441 bytes: i64,
442 limit: i64,
443}
444
445impl HwSurfaceTooLarge {
446 /// Constructs a `HwSurfaceTooLarge` payload.
447 #[inline]
448 pub const fn new(bytes: i64, limit: i64) -> Self {
449 Self { bytes, limit }
450 }
451 /// What the pool would have cost, priced through the same
452 /// allocator-parity footprint every other judge uses.
453 #[inline]
454 pub const fn bytes(&self) -> i64 {
455 self.bytes
456 }
457 /// The ceiling in force.
458 #[inline]
459 pub const fn limit(&self) -> i64 {
460 self.limit
461 }
462}
463
464/// Which kind of frame a [`FrameBudgetExceeded`] refers to.
465#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
466pub enum FrameMedium {
467 /// A picture.
468 Video,
469 /// An audio frame.
470 Audio,
471}
472
473impl core::fmt::Display for FrameMedium {
474 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
475 match self {
476 Self::Video => f.write_str("picture"),
477 Self::Audio => f.write_str("audio frame"),
478 }
479 }
480}
481
482/// Payload for [`Error::FrameBudgetExceeded`].
483///
484/// The allocator judge refused a frame whose real cost — priced through
485/// the allocator-parity footprint, before `avcodec_default_get_buffer2`
486/// ran — exceeds the caller's ceiling.
487///
488/// # Why this has a name
489///
490/// A `get_buffer2` callback can only answer libavcodec with an errno,
491/// and `AVERROR(EINVAL)` is what libavcodec itself reports for corrupt
492/// input. Without a name, a caller could not tell "this file is broken"
493/// from "your budget refused this frame" — and only one of those is
494/// worth retrying with a larger ceiling.
495#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
496#[error("the {medium} would allocate {bytes} bytes, over a ceiling of {limit}")]
497pub struct FrameBudgetExceeded {
498 bytes: u64,
499 limit: u64,
500 medium: FrameMedium,
501}
502
503impl FrameBudgetExceeded {
504 /// Constructs a `FrameBudgetExceeded` payload.
505 #[inline]
506 pub const fn new(bytes: u64, limit: u64, medium: FrameMedium) -> Self {
507 Self {
508 bytes,
509 limit,
510 medium,
511 }
512 }
513 /// What the frame would have cost.
514 #[inline]
515 pub const fn bytes(&self) -> u64 {
516 self.bytes
517 }
518 /// The ceiling in force.
519 #[inline]
520 pub const fn limit(&self) -> u64 {
521 self.limit
522 }
523 /// Whether the frame was a picture or audio.
524 #[inline]
525 pub const fn medium(&self) -> FrameMedium {
526 self.medium
527 }
528}