[Ffmpeg-devel] New/extended filter API discussion

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:06:39AM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:33 +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm interested in working on some filters for use within FFmpeg. The fairly 
> > recent addition of libswscale suggested to me that, unless it was hacked in, 
> > there is some sort of filter API currently part of FFmpeg. The natural 
> > progression from the layout of the code would also lead to the conception of 
> > something like "libavfilter".
> There was some discussion about libavfilter last summer. Some previous
> threads on the mplayer G2 mailing list were cited, and someone (Rich, I
> think?) said he already had some design ideas.
> 
> I tried to think about it for some time, and I started collecting ideas,
> but I never posted them on the mailing list (because my design ideas
> were still too confused).
> 
> Anyway, ffmpeg is currently using libswscale by directly calling its
> sws_* functions. I believe that a good filters library should provide a
> more generic framework (offering an uniform API that allow to setup and
> use all the possible kind of video filters).
> So, I am interested in designing a library that permits to support both
> "push" and "pull" mode of operation, reducing to the minimum the number
> of copies (and the API provided by the library should support filters
> with more that one input, or more than one output).
> In my view, this library will only provide an interface, and will use
> other libraries (such as libswscale) to actually implement the filters.
> Does this make sense? 

do you mean every filter should be in its own lib? that would lead to 100
libs or so, this doesnt seem like a good idea, it rather looks like
unneccesary seperation
things like libswscale and libpostprocess should be supported through
wrapers like vf_scale.c in mplayer


> (BTW, I think the library will need to provide two
> separate APIs: one for audio and one for video... Or is it possible to
> design a filter API that can support both audio and video?)

yes 2 seperate APIs make most sense


> 
> If there is interest, I can search for my old notes about possible
> avfilter designs / goals. But they are just random ideas, and I do not
> have big experience with filters... :) (this is another reason why I did
> not post my ideas on the mailing list)

there always is interrest in avfilter ideas ...

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