[FFmpeg-devel] libavfilter: get name of input file/stream

[compn]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 00:35:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>On date Monday 2013-03-04 23:52:20 +0100, Georg Martius encoded:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> for implementing the filter for deshaking with vid.stab I need some hints. I 
>> will ask them in different threads.
>> 
>> The filterering is a 2-phase process, so I want to write a file in the first 
>> phase and read in in the second. 
>> 
>> I would like to use the name of the input file if present. How can I access it 
>> from within my libavfilter?
>
>You can access a file by reading it the usual way (see removelogo for
>an example). On the other hand if you want to do a multi-pass
>filtering this may be more difficult, since a filter is not supposed
>to read a file that way (unless you want to duplicate the movie source
>functionality in the filter, which I would reject).
>
>So the question is: what do you exactly want to achieve? Note: asking
>on IRC may be faster.

perhapse he wants to have per-file logs?

so you can run ffmpeg -i onefile -vf vidstab:pass=1 and then run ffmpeg
-i otherfile -vf vidstab:pass=1 without killing off the pass=1 log of
onefile ?

-compn