[FFmpeg-devel] Question about av_frame_is_writable

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/12/15, Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can av_frame_is_writable() ever return 1, and if so, when?
>
> Context: I am testing corner cases of the delogo filter. To my
> surprise, even for a simple test case such as:
>
> $ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "color=color=white:size=24x24" -frames:v 1 -vf
> "delogo=7:3:8:8" -f image2 debug.png
>
> av_frame_is_writable() returns 0, which disables direct mode of the
> delogo filter and forces the allocation of a new buffer. My
> understanding was that we were trying to avoid allocation and data copy
> as much as possible, for performance reasons, and with such a simple
> filter graph I can't see why we can't modify the video data in-place.
> Can someone enlighten me?

Non-refcounted frames are never writable. And color source is made of one single
frame which is cloned multiple times.
Use different input file perhaps?

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
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