[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavfi: Port fspp to FFmpeg

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 08:04:33PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 06:42:22PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:55:32PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > then one filter that i remember was requested (longer ago) is
> > > > > nnedi3 but that would need to have its asm removed or ported which
> > > > > is not trivial i suspect
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > The problem with nnedi3 is that it requires 13MB of learned data.
> > > 
> > > and fate is 900mb, still it seems we have no problem running it
> > > putting these 13MB on rsync would be rather easy
> > > 
> > 
> > If you want to distribute that binary data with the filter (that is if you
> > want the filter to work out of the box), it will probably have to end up
> > in the git; we are not requiring our users to make fate-rsync.
> > 
> > Or do you want to add another layer of specific distribution just for that
> > filter?
> 
> i dont think this really differs much from something like drawtext
> the user needs some fonts installed for it to be able to draw text
> same here.

Except most systems actually have many fonts available...

> I dont even think we really need to automate it in principle but its
> more user friendly. But as theres no really clean way to do it
> maybe its best to just have the filter print a url from where to
> download the file if its not found and where to put it.
> distro packageers can then also decide if they want a seperate
> package for the file or not or not support the filter at all.

I think it's just too bad to provide a filter that can't work out of the
box and depend on an external heavy resource.

> 
> I dont think we should just dump it into git and the tarballs
> it would very significantly increase their size

I obviously agree with this.

-- 
Clément B.
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