[FFmpeg-devel] Frame blending filter

[Robert Krüger]

Hi,

I'm trying to make slomos smoother, e.g. interpolating 25fps to 50fps to have a smooth 50% slomo when the resulting 50 fps is played back at 25 fps. My understanding is that no filter for that kind of thing exists currently as part of ffmpeg. AFAIK ffmpeg just duplicates frames when increasing frame rate or allows framerate to be interpreted differently using the setPTS filter.

As a "cheap" alternative to real frame interpolation (which would probably involve motion vectors, I suppose btw. are these exposed in public API at the moment?) I'm thinking about playing around with a frame blending filter, i.e. one that computes frames as a weighted average between a adjacent frames in the original material. Does anyone have a recommendation, which existing filter would be a good starting point to get into the topic?

Thanks very much,

Robert