[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Reading from a lavfi source

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:58:49PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2011-06-11 00:53:23 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to experiment with lavfi sources so I would like to directly
> > read from them. Acutally, e.g. if I need to read from the color
> > source, I use the overlay on top of the input video (same could be
> > done for audio by implementing a mixer filter).
> > 
> > Now I wonder what could be a more direct way to achieve the same
> > result. A possibility would be to make ffmpeg/ffplay directly read
> > from libavfilter sources (by converting each input file to a movie
> > source), but this requires a major rework so doesn't look very
> > feasible to me.
> > 
> > So I'm thinking to implement a sort of lavfi virtual input
> > device/demuxer, which takes in input a filtergraph description with
> > exactly one output which is passed to the input (we may have two
> > distinct filtergraphs for audio and video), something like:
> > 
> > ffplay -f lavfi -graph "color=bikeshed [video_out]; notes=AC#E [audio_out]" dummy 
> > 
> > This should also provide a nice example of how to integrate lavfi into
> > a libav* application.
> > 
> > Do you consider this approach feasible? Better ideas?
> 
> First proof of concept attached (audio still not supported, for that
> we need the asink_buffer, and some audio source...).

If it works and doesnt break anything it might make sense to commit
and work in git on it. that way users can easier  test and other devs
can easier contribute

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