[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] api-example for libavfilter

[Nicolas George]

Le decadi 20 frimaire, an CCXIX, Stefano Sabatini a ?crit?:
> In general for integrating your application you need to write a source
> (if you need to inject data) and a sink (if you need to pass it
> filtered to the application), for the source you may use vsrc_buffer
> and its interface in vsrc_buffer.h, for the sink we don't have nothing
> of that kind yet (but may have in the future).

I gathered as much, but your last parenthesised statement leaves the
following question:

What do we _want_: do we want this output-buffer sink, or do we want people
who write applications to write their own sink each time?

It we want the buffer sink, then I can try to make a proposal in a near
future. If we want a dedicated sink in each application, I shall change the
example in accordance.

> library keeps adding functionality the need for injecting/extracting
> data may decrease, for example you could implement a video player
> simply connecting a movie source to a video display sink.

Indeed, but not always. As a matter of fact, one of my purposes when writing
this example is to learn enough about lavfi API to write the "-vf lavfi"
option for mplayer.

Unfortunately, I do not think that lavfi sinks will compare with mplayer
libvo in any foreseeable future.

> Also note that vsrc_buffer is quite generic so in the present form
> doesn't allow the kind of strict integration which is possible in
> ffplay.c (required for enabling direct rendering).

I do not think I quite understand what you mean here.

> OK but I'm still thinking that having such example (using lavf API) in
> libavfilter is a bit misleading, maybe would be better to have an
> examples dir containing all the examples, rather than having them
> scattered in the tree.

I agree with that; "doc/examples" would probably be a good place.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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