[FFmpeg-devel] Evolution of lavfi's design and API

[Paul B Mahol]

On 9/10/16, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Le quartidi 24 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Paul B Mahol a ecrit :
>> So everybody agrees, we should proceed.
>
> I am proceeding, but as you can see in the patch, there is still a fair
> amount of work to be done. Still, people can help if they want to speed
> things up, especially since a significant part of the work is design
> decisions that I can not do alone and will need to be discussed.
>
> What needs to be done (using this mail as a notepad, but including the
> tasks
> where help is required):
>
> - Finish documenting the scheduling and make sure the implementation
> matches
>   the documentation.
>
> - Discuss if "private_fields.h" is acceptable or decide another solution.
>
> - Clearly identify and isolate the parts of the scheduling that are needed
>   only for request_frame()/request_frame() compatibility.
>
> - Decide exactly what parts of the scheduling are the responsibility of
>   filters (possibly in the compatibility activate function) and what parts
>   are handled by the framework.
>
> - Think ahead about threading and use wrapper to access fields that will
>   require locking or synchronization.
>
> - Think about features whose need I realized while trying to get it
> working:
>   distinguish productive / processing activation, synchronize several
> filter
>   graphs.
>
> Please feel free to ask details about any of these points: not only would
> getting interest help me stay motivated, but discussing implementation
> details and explaining the design would help me having a clear idea of the
> whole system.

For start removal of recursiveness is mostly I'm interested in.
What needs to be done for that, can I help somehow?