[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Reading from a lavfi source

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:53:23AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to experiment with lavfi sources so I would like to directly
> read from them. Acutally, e.g. if I need to read from the color
> source, I use the overlay on top of the input video (same could be
> done for audio by implementing a mixer filter).
> 
> Now I wonder what could be a more direct way to achieve the same
> result. A possibility would be to make ffmpeg/ffplay directly read
> from libavfilter sources (by converting each input file to a movie
> source), but this requires a major rework so doesn't look very
> feasible to me.
> 
> So I'm thinking to implement a sort of lavfi virtual input
> device/demuxer, which takes in input a filtergraph description with
> exactly one output which is passed to the input (we may have two
> distinct filtergraphs for audio and video), something like:
> 
> ffplay -f lavfi -graph "color=bikeshed [video_out]; notes=AC#E [audio_out]" dummy 
> 
> This should also provide a nice example of how to integrate lavfi into
> a libav* application.
> 
> Do you consider this approach feasible? Better ideas?

feasible and interresting idea

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