[FFmpeg-devel] I've written a filter in Rust

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:01:56AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> tor 2025-02-20 klockan 23:49 +0100 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 02:06:47PM +0100, Leandro Santiago wrote:
> > > [insert meme here]
> > [...]
> > > I also recorded a video showing the filter in action [7].
> > [...
> > > [7] https://youtu.be/U_y4-NnaINg
> > 
> > cool, it doesnt detect everyone though
> > 
> > also i think this shows how useful a plugin framework would be for
> > ffmpeg
> > 
> > with plugins everyone could use,test and contribute to this today.
> > without plugins, this needs to be merged in ffmpeg git master. (which
> > will take some time i suspect)
> 
> Have we not gone over and rejected plugins many times? I recall points

no
there was no formal and no public informal vote that i remember.

ive raised the issue with plugins many times. Because it would
allow people and myself to contribute more complex features and
end the stagnation of FFmpeg.
Think of AI filters (like text to image, automated language translation of subtiltes,
image to metadata, audio to subtitle, upscaling, and infinite more ideas)
Neural network based image, video and audio compression
thats both local neural networks and also using some server based APIs

In general innovation needs the innovators to be in charge.
Plugins arent the only way to achieve that of course.


> about them encouraging proliferation of proprietary code. I also feel

Thats nonsense, you can make the plugin system GPL or AGPL if you like.


> this project is increasingly forgetting about the power of the UNIX
> pipe.

The unix pipe gave us gzip and tar. And the world gave it the middle
finger and used pkzip because pkzip did what everyone needs, and the
pipe did not

PS: if someone sends me a pull request that cleanly adds plugin support to
FFmpeg, i will merge it.

thx

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