[FFmpeg-soc] libavfilter audio work - qualification task

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2010-04-05 19:32:59 +0200, Reimar Döffinger encoded:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:11:50PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > For the deinterlace filter, do we want just a vf_* wrapper for
> > > imgconvert functions or should the code be ported to the
> > > vf_deinterlace filter?
> > 
> > It should be ported, lavfi should not depend on lavc (that is it
> > should be usable without any libavcodec installed).
> 
> Uh, any of the advanced deinterlace filters and some more of MPlayer's
> filters depend on lavc.
> I don't think Michael will accept if you propose to duplicate half the
> snow encoder in lavfi.
> So except for basic functionality I don't see that much point in avoid
> a dependency on lavc if it duplicates more than just a few lines of
> code.

Yes of course some filter may depend on lavc. As for what regards the
deinterlacing implemented in imgconvert.c it looked to me simple
enough to not require to add a dependancy just for that, also I think
that feature (as well as cropping/padding in lavc) is going to be
deprecated.

Regards.