[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Move ffplay engine to separate library

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Tuesday 2013-10-01 18:03:23 +0200, Lukasz M encoded:
> On 1 October 2013 12:53, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > As I envision FFmpeg, a player should be built based on the basic
> > blocks provided by the libraries, in particular by composing filters
> > and input / output devices.
> >
> > For example you could have something like this:
> >
> > [input device] -> [movie source] -> [filters] -> [output device]
> > |--------------------------------------------------------------|
> >                             ^
> >                             |
> >                             v
> >                     [control device]
> >
> > and provide some way to send interactive commands, e.g. to adjust
> > filtering and/or to seek back.
> >
> 

> By output device you mean stuff available in libavdevice?

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html

> And I'm not sure what you mean by input device and movie soruce.

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#movie-1

Input devices are automatically supported through the libavformat API,
so they are probably not relavant in this context.

> I understand general idea, but not sure what you mean by these particular
> blocks.
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