[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC PATCH] avfilter/fastdeint: import simple cpu-optimized deinterlacing algorithms from VLC

[Aman Gupta]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 2:47 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Mo., 9. Sept. 2019 um 22:19 Uhr schrieb Aman Gupta <ffmpeg at tmm1.net>:
> >
> > From: Aman Gupta <aman at tmm1.net>
> >
> > These are simple algorithms which can be run efficiently
> > on low powered devices to produce deinteraced images.
>
> Please provide some numbers about the performance
> (and subjective visual quality) of the new C code in
> comparison to existing deinterlacers in FFmpeg.
>

Comparison of visual quality can be seen on VLC's website:
https://wiki.videolan.org/Deinterlacing

Regarding performance- none of the filters currently available in ffmpeg
are fast enough to deinterlace video in real time on ARM chips used by
popular Android or iOS devices. They're all very computationally expensive,
and do not have any ARM SIMD implementations. The deinterlacers from VLC
use simple mathematical averages optimized by SIMD, and have been used by
VLC on such devices for many years. I don't have any hard numbers to share,
but in my experience I can decode+deinterlace video for real time playback
in VLC on any cheap Android phone, whereas other ffmpeg-based players
cannot.

Aman


> Carl Eugen
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