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/* Copyright 2016 Software Freedom Conservancy Inc.
 * 
 * This is a Vala-rewrite of GStreamer snapshot example. Adapted from earlier 
 * work from Wim Taymans.
 *
 * This software is licensed under the GNU LGPL (version 2.1 or later).
 * See the COPYING file in this distribution.
 */

// Shotwell Thumbnailer takes in a video file and returns a thumbnail to stdout.  This is
// a replacement for totem-video-thumbnailer
class ShotwellThumbnailer {
    const string caps_string = """video/x-raw,format=RGB,pixel-aspect-ratio=1/1""";

    public static int main(string[] args) {
        Gst.Element pipeline, sink;
        string descr;
        Gdk.Pixbuf pixbuf;
        uint8[]? pngdata;
        int64 duration, position;
        Gst.StateChangeReturn ret;

        if (Posix.nice (19) < 0) {
            debug ("Failed to reduce thumbnailer nice level. Continuing anyway");
        }

        Gst.init(ref args);

        var registry = Gst.Registry.@get ();
        var features = registry.feature_filter ((f) => {
            return f.get_name ().has_prefix ("vaapi");
        }, false);

        foreach (var feature in features) {
            debug ("Removing registry feature %s", feature.get_name ());
            registry.remove_feature (feature);
        }

        if (args.length != 2) {
            stdout.printf("usage: %s [filename]\n Writes video thumbnail to stdout\n", args[0]);
            return 1;
        }
        
        descr = "filesrc location=\"%s\" ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! ".printf(args[1]) +
            "%s ! gdkpixbufsink name=sink".printf(caps_string);
        
        try {
            // Create new pipeline.
            pipeline = Gst.parse_launch(descr);
            
            // Get sink.
            sink = ((Gst.Bin) pipeline).get_by_name("sink");
            
            // Set to PAUSED to make the first frame arrive in the sink.
            ret = pipeline.set_state(Gst.State.PAUSED);
            if (ret == Gst.StateChangeReturn.FAILURE) {
                warning("Failed to play the file: couldn't set state\n");
                return 3;
            } else if (ret == Gst.StateChangeReturn.NO_PREROLL) {
                warning("Live sources not supported yet.\n");
                return 4;
            }
            
            // This can block for up to 5 seconds. If your machine is really overloaded,
            // it might time out before the pipeline prerolled and we generate an error. A
            // better way is to run a mainloop and catch errors there.
            ret = pipeline.get_state(null, null, 5 * Gst.SECOND);
            if (ret == Gst.StateChangeReturn.FAILURE) {
                warning("Failed to play the file: couldn't get state.\n");
                return 3;
            }

            /* get the duration */
            if (!pipeline.query_duration (Gst.Format.TIME, out duration)) {
                warning("Failed to query file for duration\n");
                return 3;
            }

            position = 1 * Gst.SECOND;

            /* seek to the a position in the file. Most files have a black first frame so
             * by seeking to somewhere else we have a bigger chance of getting something
             * more interesting. An optimisation would be to detect black images and then
             * seek a little more */
            pipeline.seek_simple (Gst.Format.TIME, Gst.SeekFlags.KEY_UNIT | Gst.SeekFlags.FLUSH, position);

            ret = pipeline.get_state(null, null, 5 * Gst.SECOND);
            if (ret == Gst.StateChangeReturn.FAILURE) {
                warning("Failed to play the file: couldn't get state.\n");
                return 3;
            }

            sink.get ("last-pixbuf", out pixbuf);

            // Save the pixbuf.
            pixbuf.save_to_buffer(out pngdata, "png");
            stdout.write(pngdata);

            // cleanup and exit.
            pipeline.set_state(Gst.State.NULL);
            
        } catch (Error e) {
            warning(e.message);
            return 2;
        }
        
        return 0;
    }
}