[Ffmpeg-devel] swscaler integration

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:46:40PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:36 +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> > > > > (at least, compile the "postproc" subdirectory)
> > > > 
> > > > I am totally lost here. I was under the impression that "postproc" had
> > > > been moved to ffmpeg some time ago?
> > > The postprocessing filters (deringing, deblocking & friends) have been
> > > moved to ffmpeg/libavcodec/libpostproc, but mplayer still has a
> > > "postproc" subdirectory, containing swscaler.
> > > The idea is to move the content of that subdirectory to ffmpeg too :)
> > > 
> > > > Ever since I install the postproc
> > > > shared lib from ffmpeg and link mplayer against it. And it seems to
> > > > work ;-)
> > > Those libraries are the postprocessing filters; swscaler is still
> > > statically linked in mplayer.
> > 
> > Ah, okay, now I get the picture. Thx. 
> > 
> > Are you planning to make swscaler a part of postproc?
> > 
> 
> Are you planning to make swscaler LGPL?

non-SIMD: as soon as its in ffmpeg (and other authors agreed)
SIMD:     as soon as you return to mplayer(G2) development (and other
          authors agree)

note, iam also fine with making a simple generic MMX planer rescaler
LGPL immedeatly so there wont be a step back from imgconvert.c

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-- 
Michael