[FFmpeg-devel] I've written a filter in Rust

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025, 14:30 Soft Works, <softworkz-at-hotmail.com at ffmpeg.org>
wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > Michael Niedermayer
> > Sent: Freitag, 21. Februar 2025 14:22
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] I've written a filter in Rust
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:01:56AM +0100, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> > > tor 2025-02-20 klockan 23:49 +0100 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 02:06:47PM +0100, Leandro Santiago wrote:
> > > > > [insert meme here]
> > > > [...]
> > > > > I also recorded a video showing the filter in action [7].
> > > > [...
> > > > > [7] https://youtu.be/U_y4-NnaINg
> > > >
> > > > cool, it doesnt detect everyone though
> > > >
> > > > also i think this shows how useful a plugin framework would be for
> > > > ffmpeg
> > > >
> > > > with plugins everyone could use,test and contribute to this today.
> > > > without plugins, this needs to be merged in ffmpeg git master. (which
> > > > will take some time i suspect)
> > >
> > > Have we not gone over and rejected plugins many times? I recall points
> >
> > no
> > there was no formal and no public informal vote that i remember.
> >
> > ive raised the issue with plugins many times. Because it would
> > allow people and myself to contribute more complex features and
> > end the stagnation of FFmpeg.
>
> Yup, that's exactly one of the reasons why other projects like GStreamer
> have gained that much popularity. It might not have happened when
> ffmpeg would have been more open and extensible in the first place.
>

It's quite the opposite. Gstreamer is successful in its vertical because it
allows easy inclusion of vendor binary blobs. This is not "open and
extensible".

Don't confuse the history of avisynth in the 2000s with today's reality.

Kieran

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