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Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 5c5c7dec86 Include what these files use
UnitTest.h's EXPECT_ macros all call printf and EXPECT_EQ_MEM calls memcmp, but
it included neither <cstdio> nor <cstring> - it has been relying on whatever the
including file happened to pull in first, and TestMpegCsc was the first not to.
The same shape in sceMpegbase.cpp and sceVideocodec.cpp, which use std::min,
std::move and memcpy without saying where they come from.

Also drop an abs() from TestMpegCsc rather than include <cstdlib> for one
subtraction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 11:59:48 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 dc743d4fce sceMpegbase: free the conversion's memory on shutdown
__MpegBaseShutdown, hanging off __MpegShutdown the way __MpegBaseInit hangs off
__MpegInit, so the de-tiling scratch and the swscale context go back when the
game stops rather than only when the next one starts. Between them they are a
few hundred kilobytes that a game which played one video early on has no further
use for.

Also name the swscale flags rather than passing SWS_POINT inline, and say next
to it what the choice actually decides - with equal sizes in and out it is only
how chroma gets to full resolution, and SWS_BILINEAR (what the HLE uses) is a
one-line swap. Worth a real option one day; not adding one now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 11:38:49 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 4cb01fea67 sceMpegbase: convert with swscale, keeping the scalar path as the fallback
The planes the de-tiling produces are already the YUV420P swscale wants, and our
sceMpeg HLE converts the same frames the same way, so the pixel formats and the
studio-range setup come straight from MediaEngine::getSwsFormat. It is 3-4x
quicker than going a pixel at a time: 0.37-0.44ms a frame becomes 0.09-0.12ms,
which is the whole reason sceMpegBaseCscAvc was at the top of a profile.

Chroma is upsampled with SWS_POINT rather than the HLE's SWS_BILINEAR, since
replicating is what the scalar path does and, being a fixed-function block,
almost certainly what the hardware does.

It is not bit-identical - swscale rounds its own way. TestMpegCsc measures the
gap per channel rather than per byte, so the number means something for a packed
16-bit pixel: worst 1 step of 31 for 5650 and 5551, 2 of 15 for 4444, 3 of 255
for 8888, with means around a fifth of a step. The scalar path stays as what the
longhand reference is checked against, and takes anything swscale won't - an odd
range origin, or a build without ffmpeg.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 11:38:49 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 02906f0510 sceMpegbase: write alpha as zero, and stop rebuilding the planes every frame
The colour conversion was writing alpha fully set - 0xFF000000, or the top bit
for 5551 - where the hardware writes zero. Our sceMpeg HLE already masks it off
and names Sword Art Online as a game that depends on it: it doesn't clear the
alpha in the buffer it hands over, and expects the video not to set it. The two
paths now agree.

The de-tiling ahead of it becomes UntileYCbCr, taking the eight buffers already
resolved, so it can be measured and compared against the original longhand
version in TestMpegCsc. Its planes move to scratch that persists between calls -
a movie converts one frame per displayed frame, and this was allocating and
clearing about 200KB every time - and the per-pixel bounds checks in the chroma
loop, which only depend on the group of eight, are hoisted out of it.

That last part is worth 2529 -> 3201 MPix/s, but the point of measuring was to
find out whether it mattered, and it doesn't much: de-tiling is 0.04ms of a
frame against the conversion's 0.4ms. The conversion is where the time is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 11:38:49 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 a6996b2c3f sceMpegbase: pull the colour conversion out, and measure it
sceMpegBaseCscAvc is the top of a profile during video playback, so the loop
that does the work becomes MpegCscRange - a pure function with the HLE plumbing
left behind - and TestMpegCsc measures and checks it.

The measuring half reports megapixels per second for a 480x272 frame in each of
the four pixel formats. The checking half compares against the conversion
written out longhand, over whole frames and over partial ranges with odd offsets
and sizes, plus one-pixel, one-row and one-column ranges and one that reaches
the far edge of the frame. Those are the cases an optimized version gets wrong:
chroma is half resolution, so an odd left edge starts mid-sample, and anything
handling two pixels at a time has to deal with the leftover. The destination is
padded and prefilled, so writing outside the range fails too.

This is only the move - the loop is the same one, so the numbers it gives are
the baseline to improve on. On a Snapdragon X Elite it runs at about 300 MPix/s,
0.44ms for a frame.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 11:38:49 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 b77e7c4e66 sceVideocodec: implement CopyYCbCr
This is what sceMpegAvcCopyYCbCr is built on, and a game that wants the raw
YCbCr rather than letting sceMpegbase convert to RGB uses it and nothing else.

mpeg.prx builds the descriptor on its own stack and avcodec.prx reads it back at
0x800015c4. Dimensions in pixels at 0x00/0x04, the eight frame buffers from 0x0c
but ordered 0,2,4,6 then 1,3,5,7, and from 0x2c the destination Y with Cb and Cr
following it contiguously - ordinary planar YUV420. Checked against what the
game passes: the eight addresses are exactly the buffers we handed out, and the
three destinations are spaced width*height and width*height/4 apart.

Un-tiling is the same operation the colour conversion already does, so that
moves out of sceMpegbase.cpp as ReadTiledYCbCr rather than being written twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-18 09:43:15 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 45727ef2be Tighten the comments on the mpeg PRX changes
Cut restatement and asides that only made sense against earlier, wrong versions
of the code, and prefer parentheses over paired dashes. Also fix two comments
left stale by the descriptor rework, and record the rule in AGENTS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 10:09:48 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 e784f8bccb sceMpegbase: delay the colour conversion, as the hardware does
sceMpegBaseCscAvc/CscAvcRange run on the DMACPLUS and take real time. A
psmfplayer game re-blits the current video frame every render frame while it
waits for the next, so an instant return here is a tight loop that never yields
and starves the audio thread the playback clock is paced by - the whole A/V
pipeline then deadlocks a few frames into the movie. SOCOM: Tactical Strike
hung exactly this way running the real mpeg.prx; with the delay it plays. Same
value and reason as our sceMpeg HLE's sceMpegAvcCsc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-17 09:53:03 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 4079adf424 sceVideocodec/sceMpegbase: fix the Media Engine frame descriptor
mpeg.prx reads the eight frame buffer addresses straight off the front of the
structure sceVideocodec publishes - `lw` at 0x00..0x1C, the same in Daxter's
disc copy (1.3, at 08805698) and in flash0:/kd/mpeg.prx (1.8, at 08805898) -
and takes the dimensions from its own context. We were writing the dimensions
at 0x00/0x04 and the buffers at 0x10, so slots 0 and 1 received 17 and 30 and
the four chroma addresses never arrived at all.

That survived in Daxter only by cancelling out: mpeg.prx hands the same words
back in the descriptor it builds for the colour conversion, which read them
with the same skew. It bites as soon as they are used as real addresses.

So also:

- sceMpegBaseYCrCbCopy moves the frame, rather than copying 48 bytes of
  descriptor over the caller's table of destination pointers. mpegbase.prx
  builds a DMA list over the eight buffers (080010f8 in mpegbase_260.prx):
  flags bit 0 takes 0,1,4,5 and bit 1 takes 2,3,6,7. mpeg.prx always passes 3.
- The chroma buffers are paired like the luma ones, left/right then even/odd
  rows, which is what that flag split assumes. Ours grouped them by half, so
  the per-buffer sizes disagreed with the caller's.
- The conversion reads the descriptor as mpegbase.prx does, and takes the
  buffers from wherever they are: still in the Media Engine, or already copied
  into the game's memory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-16 21:32:36 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 992b8bd9b6 sceMpegbase: tell the GPU that the colour conversion wrote a frame
The CSC writes RGB straight into the display buffer, which the hardware
backends can't see on their own - our sceMpegAvcCsc HLE calls
PerformWriteFormattedFromMemory for exactly this reason, and the mpegbase
path didn't. Daxter's intro decoded normally with the screen frozen on the
menu behind it. Invisible under --graphics=software, which reads that memory
directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 11:06:56 -06:00
Henrik Rydgård 10a9d7bb31 De-claude some overly verbose comments 2026-09-14 10:42:55 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 6110a27b73 sceVideocodec: one layout helper for the eight frame buffers
Four places were each computing the same sizes and 64-byte-aligned offsets:
the allocation, the recovery sceMpegbase uses, and the readers on both sides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 9422cb4899 sceMpegbase: save its state
The output pixel mode decides both the colour packing and the bytes per pixel of
the conversion, and a game sets it once per movie rather than per frame - so a
state resumed mid-movie converted at the default until the next
sceMpegBaseCscInit, which may never come. The gathered PES payloads go in too,
since a state can land between the copy and the decode that consumes it.

The section is optional (minimum version 0), so states written before it still
load.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 435d446c37 sceVideocodec/sceMpegbase: stop holding on to contexts and payloads that are done
Decode looked its context up with operator[], so a game that never opened one
would still get an entry and a decoder, and only Delete ever removes those.
Require the context to exist instead.

The gathered PES payloads were likewise kept for the whole boot, so the first
decode of a movie could be handed the last packet of the previous one if the
address came round again. Hand each payload out once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 ad7cfefd49 sceMpegbase/sceAudiocodec: make audio work with the real mpeg.prx
Three bugs stacked on top of each other, all of them silent - the decoder
happily returned 2048 samples of digital silence 878 times per movie.

sceMpegBasePESpacketCopy gathered the scatter-gather blocks but never performed
the copy. That was fine for video, whose destination is Media Engine memory we
can't write anyway and which we intercept instead, but audio is copied into
main memory and mpeg.prx then hands that same address to sceAudiocodecDecode as
its input. It was reading a buffer nothing had written.

With real data arriving, the Atrac3+ frames turned out to still carry their
8-byte PSMF header - libatrac3plus.prx strips it before calling us, mpeg.prx
leaves it on for the hardware to parse. Detect the 0x0FD0 sync word and step
over it, taking the frame size from the header the way MpegDemux already does
on the HLE path.

Finally, rebuild the decoder if the frame size only becomes known at the first
decode: the context has no size in it at init time, and a decoder built for a
zero-byte frame decodes nothing.

Also corrects a comment claiming mpeg.prx passes zeroed Atrac3+ format bytes.
It doesn't - they were zero because of the missing copy above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 00770764a7 Run the real mpeg.prx in place of our sceMpeg HLE
Add flash0:/kd/mpeg.prx to the sceUtility module swap, hung off av_mpegbase,
so it loads when DisableHLEFlags::sceMpeg is set. Games that ship their own
sceMpeg_library on the disc never get here and just use theirs.

The piece that was missing to make it work: the access unit address mpeg.prx
passes to sceVideocodecDecode is in Media Engine space, which we can't read.
On hardware sceMpegBasePESpacketCopy DMA'd the payload there first. That copy
is ours, so it now gathers the blocks and sceVideocodec decodes from those,
falling back to main memory for any caller that points at it directly. The
gather is keyed by destination, because that call carries the audio payload
too - video to an ME address, audio to main memory - and handing an ATRAC
packet to the H.264 decoder gets you nothing.

With that, video/mpeg/basic gets a 144x80 frame out of real Sony code driving
our sceVideocodec through ffmpeg. The test still fails overall, as it did
before this branch - it is in tests_next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 ba975d2908 sceMpegbase: recover the chroma buffers the descriptor doesn't carry
mpeg.prx copies only the four luma buffers into the descriptor it passes to
sceMpegBaseCscAvc, at +0x20, and keeps a stride where the chroma ones would
be - so the conversion had nothing to read. Both ends of this are ours, so the
full set is recovered from the allocation sceVideocodec handed out.

Death Jr. now runs the whole chain: 504 frames decoded by real mpeg.prx through
sceVideocodec, and 505 colour conversions into the game's display buffers at
480x272, no exceptions.

The picture is still black, and the cause is now upstream of all of this: the
decoder itself returns blank frames, so what we feed it isn't the video
elementary stream. The first access unit being 162 bytes was the early sign.
sceMpegBasePESpacketCopy gathers the LLI blocks it is given, and that is
evidently not the whole story - PES headers, or blocks it isn't counting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 184c2cb4ea Implement sceVideocodec, the ME's H.264 decoding interface
The last piece mpeg.prx needs from us. It decodes through AvcDecoder and writes
the result where sceMpegbase expects to read it: for type 0, the eight-buffer
tiled layout, produced here as the exact inverse of the reader added with the
colour conversion. Type 1 hands back plain planar YUV instead.

The descriptor mpeg.prx passes in is empty - on hardware the Media Engine owns
the frame buffers and reports back where it put them - so they are allocated
here and their addresses filled in, and sceMpegbase can recover the full set
from that allocation afterwards. The list is only read as addresses once it
holds addresses: a caller that leaves small integers there used to take us
straight into a memory exception.

Both those buffers and the block sceVideocodecGetEDRAM hands out live in a
model of the ME's own 2MB of embedded DRAM rather than in either PSP partition,
with a BlockAllocator carving it up. The CPU can't reach ME memory on hardware:
mpeg.prx keeps the EDRAM value and hands it back without ever dereferencing it,
and it has no way to say where the frame buffers should go - sceVideocodecSetMemory
is given a frame size and a buffer count, 480, 272 and 2 for a full-screen movie.
Taking either from the game would push its own allocations around or spend memory
a real PSP never spends, so sceMpegbase reads the frame through a host pointer
into that block instead of through Memory::.

A game can hold several contexts at once - Silent Hill Origins runs two, one
that owns the EDRAM and one that does every decode - so the decoder, the frame
buffers and the EDRAM address are per context, keyed by context address the way
sceAudiocodec keys its decoders. The EDRAM itself the firmware tracks in the
caller's context struct and nowhere else, including refusing a second request
rather than replacing the first, as videocodec_260.prx shows, so we do the same.

Registered at the end of RegisterAllModules, since a savestate stores the
syscall opcode encoding that order.

GetSEI, ScanHeader, GetFrameCrop and the two unnamed NIDs return 0 and log -
mpeg.prx calls them but nothing yet shows what they need to return, and
guessing seemed worse than being loud about it.

Untested: nothing calls this until mpeg.prx is loaded, which is the next step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 12:53:13 -06:00
Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5 7c6f9d18b8 sceMpegbase: implement the colour conversion functions
Five of the six functions in this module were registered as nullptr, so any
caller reaching them got nothing. mpeg.prx needs all of them, and this is the
first of the pieces required before the real module can run in place of our
sceMpeg HLE.

The module gets its own file at the same time. It was a tail of sceMpeg.cpp,
which is long enough already, and everything below is new code for it.

sceMpegBaseCscAvc and sceMpegBaseCscAvcRange convert the ME's decoded output to
RGB. The 48-byte descriptor holds the frame size in macroblocks at 0x10 and
0x14 - it appears at 0x00/0x04 too, but scaled differently depending on which
path built it, so the second pair is the one every caller agrees on - and the
four luma buffers at 0x20. What they point at is not planar: luma arrives as
16-pixel-wide vertical strips alternating between buffers on every other line,
and chroma as Cb/Cr pairs interleaved across four more. All eight are untangled
into planes once per frame before converting, which keeps the pixel loop
readable.

sceMpegBaseCscInit carries the default buffer width for callers that pass zero.
sceMpegBaseCscSetPixelMode (0x0530BE4E - the official name isn't known) carries
the output format, in mpegbase's own numbering rather than the GE's: mpeg.prx
gets it by indexing a table of {1, 2, 3, 0} with the pixel mode the game gave
sceMpegAvcDecodeMode, making 0 ABGR8888 and 2 ABGR5551. Read as a GE mode it
turned Thrillville's black into blue.

sceMpegBaseYCrCbCopy copies the descriptor but not the buffers it points at,
and says so in its log - nothing seen so far needs more, and inventing the
buffer copy without something to test it against seemed worse than a note.

Behaviour is cross-checked against JPCSP, which implements all of these.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 11:52:09 -06:00