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* PROBLEM: Broken pixel format for Elgato Cam Link 4K
@ 2020-11-20 18:52 Benjamin Drung
  2020-11-20 21:45 ` Adam Goode
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Drung @ 2020-11-20 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Laurent Pinchart, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, linux-media, linux-kernel
  Cc: Adam Goode

Hi,

I own an Elgato Cam Link 4K which is a very popular USB HDMI capture
device (number one capture card by click rates on Geizhals [1]). The
problem is that the video feed is distorted when using the /dev/videoX
device in the browser (tested on Firefox and Chromium) for video
conferencing (tested with Jitsi Meet and Google Meet). The same
distortion is present when opening `v4l2:///dev/video0` with VLC.

The Elgato Cam Link 4K reports to have three different pixel formats:

```
$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
        Type: Video Capture

        [0]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
                Size: Discrete 3840x2160
                        Interval: Discrete 0.040s (25.000 fps)
        [1]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
                Size: Discrete 3840x2160
                        Interval: Discrete 0.040s (25.000 fps)
        [2]: 'YU12' (Planar YUV 4:2:0)
                Size: Discrete 3840x2160
                        Interval: Discrete 0.040s (25.000 fps)
```

When specifying the video format 'YU12' to VLC, the video is distorted
the same way as using the default video format. When specifying 'NV12'
to VLC, the video feed is displayed correctly:

```
vlc v4l2:///dev/video0 --v4l2-chroma=NV12
```

In OBS, the video feed is always displayed correctly. All video formats
'Y/CbCr 4:2:0', 'Planar YUV 4:2:0', 'BGR3 (Emulated)', and 'YV12
(Emulated)' combined with the color ranges 'Default', 'Partial', and
'Full' produce the same correct output.

With Linux >= 5.9 this behavior in OBS changes: The video format
'Y/CbCr 4:2:0' displays the video correctly. Switching to 'Planar YUV
4:2:0', 'BGR3 (Emulated)', or 'YV12 (Emulated)' shows the video
distorted and OBS shows this error message:

```
info: v4l2-input: Pixelformat: NV12
[...]
libv4l2: error set_fmt gave us a different result than try_fmt!
info: v4l2-input: Resolution: 3840x2160
info: v4l2-input: Pixelformat: NV12
```

Changing the video format back does not have an effect until I also
change the color range (does seem to be relevant what to select there).

Workaround
----------

You can create a v4l2loopback device and use ffmpeg to stream from the
Cam Link 4K to the loopback device:

```
ffmpeg -f v4l2 -input_format yuv420p -video_size 3840x2160 \
  -i "$camlink" -codec copy -f v4l2 "$loopdev"
```

This workaround works, but is cumbersome and burns CPU cycles.

Other reports
-------------

Searching the web for "Cam Link 4K Linux" reveals many similar reports
like this. Noteworthy is blog post [3] from Mike Walters who patched
the Cam Link 4K firmware to report the correct video format. I am
willing to debug this issue and do test, but I don't want to flash the
firmware to not break the warrenty (bisides I lack the hardware for
flashing).

Environment
-----------

This problem is present in Ubuntu 20.04 with linux 5.4.0-54.60 and
Ubuntu 20.10 with linux 5.8.0-29.31. I also tested the mainline kernels
builds 5.9.8-050908.202011101634 and 5.10.0-051000rc4.202011152030 from
Ubuntu [2].

The Cam Link 4K shows follow entries in dmesg:

```
[    1.575753] usb 2-3: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[    1.596664] usb 2-3: LPM exit latency is zeroed, disabling LPM.
[    1.598557] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fd9, idProduct=0066, bcdDevice= 0.00
[    1.598558] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=4
[    1.598559] usb 2-3: Product: Cam Link 4K
[    1.598560] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Elgato
```

I have another problems with 5.9.8-050908.202011101634 and 5.10.0-
051000rc4.202011152030: Chromium fail to access the video device of Cam
Link 4K and the notebook integrated webcam has a too low brightness.

[1] https://geizhals.de/?cat=vidext
[2] https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
[3] https://assortedhackery.com/patching-cam-link-to-play-nicer-on-linux/

--
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer


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* [PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Fix pixel format change for Elgato Cam Link 4K
@ 2021-04-28 23:03 Benjamin Drung
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Drung @ 2021-04-28 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Laurent Pinchart, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, linux-media, linux-kernel
  Cc: Adam Goode, Benjamin Drung, stable

The Elgato Cam Link 4K HDMI video capture card reports to support three
different pixel formats, where the first format depends on the connected
HDMI device.

```
$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
	Type: Video Capture

	[0]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
		Size: Discrete 3840x2160
			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
	[1]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
		Size: Discrete 3840x2160
			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
	[2]: 'YU12' (Planar YUV 4:2:0)
		Size: Discrete 3840x2160
			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
```

Changing the pixel format to anything besides the first pixel format
does not work:

```
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --try-fmt-video pixelformat=YU12
Format Video Capture:
	Width/Height      : 3840/2160
	Pixel Format      : 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
	Field             : None
	Bytes per Line    : 3840
	Size Image        : 12441600
	Colorspace        : sRGB
	Transfer Function : Rec. 709
	YCbCr/HSV Encoding: Rec. 709
	Quantization      : Default (maps to Limited Range)
	Flags             :
```

User space applications like VLC might show an error message on the
terminal in that case:

```
libv4l2: error set_fmt gave us a different result than try_fmt!
```

Depending on the error handling of the user space applications, they
might display a distorted video, because they use the wrong pixel format
for decoding the stream.

The Elgato Cam Link 4K responds to the USB video probe
VS_PROBE_CONTROL/VS_COMMIT_CONTROL with a malformed data structure: The
second byte contains bFormatIndex (instead of being the second byte of
bmHint). The first byte is always zero. The third byte is always 1.

The firmware bug was reported to Elgato on 2020-12-01 and it was
forwarded by the support team to the developers as feature request.
There is no firmware update available since then. The latest firmware
for Elgato Cam Link 4K as of 2021-03-23 has MCU 20.02.19 and FPGA 67.

Therefore add a quirk to correct the malformed data structure.

The quirk was successfully tested with VLC, OBS, and Chromium using
different pixel formats (YUYV, NV12, YU12), resolutions (3840x2160,
1920x1080), and frame rates (29.970 and 59.940 fps).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@posteo.de>
---
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c  | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

I am resending this patch since I got no response in the last three
weeks.

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
index 9a791d8ef200..6ce58950d78b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
@@ -3164,6 +3164,19 @@ static const struct usb_device_id uvc_ids[] = {
 	  .bInterfaceSubClass	= 1,
 	  .bInterfaceProtocol	= 0,
 	  .driver_info		= UVC_INFO_META(V4L2_META_FMT_D4XX) },
+	/*
+	 * Elgato Cam Link 4K
+	 * Latest firmware as of 2021-03-23 needs this quirk.
+	 * MCU: 20.02.19, FPGA: 67
+	 */
+	{ .match_flags		= USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE
+				| USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO,
+	  .idVendor		= 0x0fd9,
+	  .idProduct		= 0x0066,
+	  .bInterfaceClass	= USB_CLASS_VIDEO,
+	  .bInterfaceSubClass	= 1,
+	  .bInterfaceProtocol	= 0,
+	  .driver_info		= UVC_INFO_QUIRK(UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX) },
 	/* Generic USB Video Class */
 	{ USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_VIDEO, 1, UVC_PC_PROTOCOL_UNDEFINED) },
 	{ USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_VIDEO, 1, UVC_PC_PROTOCOL_15) },
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
index f2f565281e63..06a538d1008b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -128,6 +128,27 @@ static void uvc_fixup_video_ctrl(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
 	struct uvc_frame *frame = NULL;
 	unsigned int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * The response of the Elgato Cam Link 4K is incorrect: The second byte
+	 * contains bFormatIndex (instead of being the second byte of bmHint).
+	 * The first byte is always zero. The third byte is always 1.
+	 *
+	 * The UVC 1.5 class specification defines the first five bits in the
+	 * bmHint bitfield. The remaining bits are reserved and should be zero.
+	 * Therefore a valid bmHint will be less than 32.
+	 */
+	if (stream->dev->quirks & UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX && ctrl->bmHint > 255) {
+		__u8 corrected_format_index;
+
+		corrected_format_index = ctrl->bmHint >> 8;
+		uvc_dbg(stream->dev, CONTROL,
+			"Correct USB video probe response from {bmHint: 0x%04x, bFormatIndex: 0x%02x} to {bmHint: 0x%04x, bFormatIndex: 0x%02x}.\n",
+			ctrl->bmHint, ctrl->bFormatIndex,
+			ctrl->bFormatIndex, corrected_format_index);
+		ctrl->bmHint = ctrl->bFormatIndex;
+		ctrl->bFormatIndex = corrected_format_index;
+	}
+
 	for (i = 0; i < stream->nformats; ++i) {
 		if (stream->format[i].index == ctrl->bFormatIndex) {
 			format = &stream->format[i];
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index 97df5ecd66c9..bf401d5ba27d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@
 #define UVC_QUIRK_RESTORE_CTRLS_ON_INIT	0x00000400
 #define UVC_QUIRK_FORCE_Y8		0x00000800
 #define UVC_QUIRK_FORCE_BPP		0x00001000
+#define UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX	0x00002000
 
 /* Format flags */
 #define UVC_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED		0x00000001
-- 
2.27.0


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2020-11-20 21:45 ` Adam Goode
2020-11-22 19:34   ` Benjamin Drung
2020-11-23 15:02     ` Adam Goode
2021-04-06 18:52       ` [PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Fix pixel format change " Benjamin Drung
2021-06-04 17:19       ` Benjamin Drung
2021-06-04 22:21         ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-05  8:19           ` Benjamin Drung
2021-06-05 21:51             ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-05 23:10               ` Benjamin Drung
2021-06-05 20:05           ` [PATCH v3] " Benjamin Drung
2021-06-05 20:13           ` Benjamin Drung
2021-06-05 20:15           ` [PATCH v4] " Benjamin Drung
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