[FFmpeg-devel] Evolution of lavfi's design and API

[Paul B Mahol]

On 6/6/18, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer (2018-06-04):
>> If noone, who has time to reply knows the awnser then you probably have
>> to
>> find it out from the code and any unfinished patchsets
>>
>> sending nicolas a private mail may also be more vissible to him than the
>> ML
>> in case he is busy
>
> In terms of design, the big thing missing from lavfi is a clean API to
> run a filter graph. Right now, it relies on requests on outputs, with a
> fragile heuristic to find the "oldest" one. A clean API would allow to
> run it as a whole and react to frames on output or requests on inputs,
> possibly with callbacks.
>
> This must come before threading, because it is what allows to control
> threading: threading is efficient when the system can start several
> threads and let them run, doing their work. If it is constantly stopping
> and re-starting because the calling API makes too small steps, much time
> is wasted.
>
> But more than that, it requires somebody working on it. Speaking for
> myself, the toxic ambiance in the project since a few months has
> destroyed my motivation for doing anything ambitious on it. And to be
> completely forthright, I feel that Paul is partly responsible for that
> toxic ambiance; see his interventions on the thread about enforcing the
> code of conduct for example.

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