[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavfi/vf_libvmaf: update to use libvmaf v1.3.9

[Gyan Doshi]

On 20-08-2018 03:17 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> I believe that if a general option exists (as in this case), it is a bad
> idea to have a specifically targeted option that has to be used instead.

The user may not want the thread pool to be available for any other 
threaded filters in the graph. Encoding/decoding threads can have stream 
specifiers suffixed to limit scope. The filter_[complex_]threads options 
don't.

>> We have -filter_complex_threads for that, so no.
> 
> For which use-case is this an advantage?

For when the intended recipient is a complex filtergraph.


Gyan