[FFmpeg-devel] attribute_deprecated int avpicture_deinterlace ??

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Friday 2013-11-29 08:30:51 -0500, Don Moir encoded:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefano Sabatini"
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> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] attribute_deprecated int avpicture_deinterlace ??
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> >On date Friday 2013-11-29 09:06:57 -0500, Don Moir encoded:
> >>deinterlacing is directly related to decoding in that you want a
> >>properly decoded image and not some effect.
> >>
> >>Looks like we are now pointed to avlibfilter and yadif. I have no
> >>use for avlibfilter so I should link it so I can deinterlace ?
> >>avlibfilter is just excess baggage from my viewpoint.
> >>
> >>Hate to bring this up late but seems silly or am I the only one that
> >>thinks that? Hope I am misunderstanding something.
> >
> >Possibly: we could extract the yadif code and move it somehow to the
> >library (libavfilter public low-level API or something, so you don't
> >need to build a filtergraph to apply it). It might be non trivial.
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> Would be good if avpicture_deinterlace was improved possibly using
> yadif and left where it is. Other than that, I would probably roll
> my own rather than use avfilter if avpicture_deinterlace goes away.

What's exactly your problem with libavfilter (please no trolling)? The
main problem seems that you are not willing to configure a filtergraph
for that, so the alternative I proposed is a low level deinterlacing
API, based on yadif which could be used without filters.
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