[MPlayer-dev-eng] dynamic loaded video filters

[Arpi]

Hi,

it's on my TODO after 0.90, but not as a hack inside a vf filter, but for
the whole libmpcodecs, so optionaly compile each vd/ve/vf/ad/af/ae *.c
to .so, and load them runtime by ??_<drivername>.so.

so don't bother messing with it now.

> I've been considering writing a vf module that dlopen's a library
> containing a video filter, then replaces itself with what it just
> loaded. Source for dynamic loaded vf's would be identical to static
> ones; the dl filter would just look for vf_info_[modulename] and use
> it to bootstrap the module.
> 
> The benefits of this would be that it would allow experimental
> filters, or filters that are useful to just a few people but don't
> actually belong in mplayer itself, to be used without modifying the
> mplayer codebase.
> 
> It should be really simple to implement; I just want to check and make
> sure this is a desirable/acceptable feature to be included in mplayer
> before I bother writing it. Also, naturally it will be excluded if the
> user's system doesn't have a working libdl.
> 
> Rich
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