[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: add vr360 filter

[Thilo Borgmann]

Am 05.08.19 um 21:07 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:01 PM Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Am 05.08.19 um 21:00 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
>>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:57 PM Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 05.08.19 um 20:46 schrieb Eugene Lyapustin:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Eugene Lyapustin <unishifft at gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  doc/filters.texi         |  137 +++
>>>>>  libavfilter/Makefile     |    1 +
>>>>>  libavfilter/allfilters.c |    1 +
>>>>>  libavfilter/vf_vr360.c   | 1847 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +AVFilter ff_vf_vr360 = {
>>>>> +    .name          = "vr360",
>>>>> +    .description   = NULL_IF_CONFIG_SMALL("Convert 360 projection of
>>>> video."),
>>>>
>>>> "vr360" does not make any sense to me. VR and 360 degree are two
>> different
>>>> things.
>>>>
>>>> And since VR-related filters may very well emerge in the future, we
>> should
>>>> be as clear as possible about these.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isnt VR just 360 but for each eye?
>>
>> That would be stereoscopic 360.
>>
>> What makes it VR is that the camera can move within space, not only change
>> viewing direction.
>>
> 
> Ah, than vr360 stands for Video processoR 360.
> What name should be instead?

"mono360" could make sense if a "stereo360" would process two inputs (that are not L-R or T-B coded)

Or just "video360"... but we really should save us "vr" for the future.

-Thilo