[FFmpeg-devel] trying to pass a command to an input filter

[JULIAN GARDNER]

> From: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com>

>To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 12:04
>Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] trying to pass a command to an input filter
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>On date Monday 2013-09-09 18:03:15 +0100, JULIAN GARDNER encoded:
>> My command line is 
>> 
>> ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=s=720x576:c=green -c:v libx264 -b:v 1500k -y -f mpegts test.ts
>> 
>> Im having a play around with the 'c' command line way of passing commands to filters and I cannot work out something.
>> 
>> in vsrc_testsrc.c the "color" command has a .process_command setup in its structure, but when i press 'c' and then
>> 
>> all -1 color black
>> 
>> The command does not get to the vsrc_testsrc, now debugging this it looks like the commands are not passed to the vsrc_testsrc.c:color_process_command as it is not in the filtergraphs.
>> 
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>> So my question is how do i get this working, or is it not possible to pass commands to input sources
>
>Last time I tried I used the sendcmd and zmq filters. Don't know if
>the (undocumented) ffmpeg command is still working.
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Well to me it will only send commands to filters and as a vsrc_XXXX is not a filter per se, it wont work.

So either remove this excess code, or add in code to pass the commands to input and output sources

joolz