[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] libmpcodecs libavfilter wrapper?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:02:12PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:20:06PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >> On 11/25/2010 05:03 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > And i told already that such wraper needs to be written by someone who has
> >> > more experience with porting code between projects. For such person it should
> >> > not be much pain to do it.
> >> > You surely will have to agree that mplayer is able to use the filters from
> >> > libmpcodecs.
> >> > Now you can surely take vf_*.c from libmpcodecs and check that into
> >> > libavfilter/libmpcodecs
> >> > and then write the surrounding code to translate libavfilter API to libmpcodecs
> >> > API.
> >> > You dont want to implement it that way maybe, i dont know but iam not aware of
> >> > any problem in this approuch
> >>
> >> There isn't a problem per-se beside the fact mplayer codebase is quite
> >> scattered and the faster way to achieve a wrapper might be fix the
> >> missing function/struct one by one through the gcc output...
> >>
> >> > Also ill wager a bet that arpi could implement a wraper in less than a day
> >> > arpi has very extensive experience with porting code between projects and he
> >> > wrote large parts of libmpcodecs.
> >>
> >> 24h? Probably, maybe 30h and I guess we'd have some restriction in its
> >> usage.
> >
> > i think we should ask arpi, the foundation could pay him for it
> 
> To port, or to wrap?

Anything that allows us to use >=90% of the libmpcodec filters in libavfilter
implementation should be completely up to arpi to decide

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