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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 11:23:40AM +0200, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 6/6/18, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer (2018-06-04):
> >> If noone, who has time to reply knows the awnser then you probably have
> >> to
> >> find it out from the code and any unfinished patchsets
> >>
> >> sending nicolas a private mail may also be more vissible to him than the
> >> ML
> >> in case he is busy
> >
> > In terms of design, the big thing missing from lavfi is a clean API to
> > run a filter graph. Right now, it relies on requests on outputs, with a
> > fragile heuristic to find the "oldest" one. A clean API would allow to
> > run it as a whole and react to frames on output or requests on inputs,
> > possibly with callbacks.
> >
> > This must come before threading, because it is what allows to control
> > threading: threading is efficient when the system can start several
> > threads and let them run, doing their work. If it is constantly stopping
> > and re-starting because the calling API makes too small steps, much time
> > is wasted.
> >

> > But more than that, it requires somebody working on it. Speaking for
> > myself, the toxic ambiance in the project since a few months has
> > destroyed my motivation for doing anything ambitious on it. And to be
> > completely forthright, I feel that Paul is partly responsible for that
> > toxic ambiance; see his interventions on the thread about enforcing the
> > code of conduct for example.
> 
> Your contributions will be missed.
> 
> Good bye.

Id like to see both you and nicolas work together on libavfilter. Thats a
"WIN" for the community and FFmpeg. You two are the top 2 libavfilter
develoepers currently. Its really _REALLY_ stupid if you two fight like this.
Because no matter who "wins" this, everyone looses.

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