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

[Paul B Mahol]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:12 PM Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>

v360 then?