Implementing part of design outlined in #126087.
- VSE thumbnail cache has a new implementation, hopefully simpler
and easier to understand.
- Instead of cache key being a VSE strip, frame index, plus
complicated logic for cache items linking etc.,
- The cache is keyed by media file path (if multiple strips
use the same input file, they will share cache entries), frame
index within media file, and any extra data (e.g. steam index
for multi-steam videos)
- Much reduced cache flickering and strange/weird thumbnail choices.
- Likewise, thumbnails no longer disappear-and-reload on operations
like Undo, dragging new video strip into timeline, or F12 render.
- Thumbnails now load faster.
- Images use dedicated/faster thumbnail loading routines when a
format can do that (e.g. JPG and EXR can).
- Movies reuse ffmpeg decoding context for neighboring strips
that use the same file (as often happens when cutting footage)
- Thumbnail requests are processed on several threads now too.
Images and more detail in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126405
SEQ_transform_sequence_can_be_translated, SEQ_transform_single_image_check,
SEQ_can_use_proxy can all trivially take const Sequence argument.
Made SEQ_give_frame_index take const Sequence too, by removing the
"modify seq strobe to be at least 1.0" code. The strobe itself is only
ever used inside the same function, and is already guarded by
"is strobe > 1.0" check.
Original code seems to be coming all the way from 2009 with
commit message "2.5. 12k lines of sequencer back!" (03fc5696dc).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126021
Prevent VSE cache returning image when running render job.
Previously, before render job was started, cache was cleared, but since
disk cache is not cleared, it returned an image. Now cache is not
cleared, but it does not return or store images when rendering.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125947
The cache invalidation worked on basis of timeline frame instead of
frame index, which caused, that these images were outside of range, that
was considered to be changed, after strip was moved.
In this case the issue happened only with effect strips. This was not
an issue before, mainly because raw images for these strips were not
stored. For other strip types, raw image does not usually change.
This seems to be "caused" by f4f708a54f .
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124870
This also moves the option to be a per editor space setting so you can
have different cache visualization options in different editor spaces
at the same time.
A quick toggle for the cache visualization is now available in the
overlays popover.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119428
As part of PR #118396 the "generator" effect strips (color, text,
adjustment) also started to put their "raw" images into the cache.
However, seq_cache_timeline_frame_to_frame_index that has optimization
that tries to use only one cache entry based on how many frames are
present in the strip was not expecting to see effect strips, ever.
As a result, something like adjustment layer would effectively just
cache a single frame, since it has no "source frames" to speak of.
Fixed that by only doing this optimization for non-effect strips.
