[FFmpeg-devel] Evolution of lavfi's design and API

[Paul B Mahol]

On 6/2/18, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/18, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/11/16, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 9/10/16, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
>>>> Le quartidi 24 fructidor, an CCXXIV, Paul B Mahol a ecrit :
>>>>> So everybody agrees, we should proceed.
>>>>
>>>> I am proceeding, but as you can see in the patch, there is still a fair
>>>> amount of work to be done. Still, people can help if they want to speed
>>>> things up, especially since a significant part of the work is design
>>>> decisions that I can not do alone and will need to be discussed.
>>>>
>>>> What needs to be done (using this mail as a notepad, but including the
>>>> tasks
>>>> where help is required):
>>>>
>>>> - Finish documenting the scheduling and make sure the implementation
>>>> matches
>>>>   the documentation.
>>>>
>>>> - Discuss if "private_fields.h" is acceptable or decide another
>>>> solution.
>>>>
>>>> - Clearly identify and isolate the parts of the scheduling that are
>>>> needed
>>>>   only for request_frame()/request_frame() compatibility.
>>>>
>>>> - Decide exactly what parts of the scheduling are the responsibility of
>>>>   filters (possibly in the compatibility activate function) and what
>>>> parts
>>>>   are handled by the framework.
>>>>
>>>> - Think ahead about threading and use wrapper to access fields that
>>>> will
>>>>   require locking or synchronization.
>>>>
>>>> - Think about features whose need I realized while trying to get it
>>>> working:
>>>>   distinguish productive / processing activation, synchronize several
>>>> filter
>>>>   graphs.
>>>>
>>>> Please feel free to ask details about any of these points: not only
>>>> would
>>>> getting interest help me stay motivated, but discussing implementation
>>>> details and explaining the design would help me having a clear idea of
>>>> the
>>>> whole system.
>>>
>>> For start removal of recursiveness is mostly I'm interested in.
>>> What needs to be done for that, can I help somehow?
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So what's remain to be done to have frame threading in lavfi?
>>
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