[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 11/31] fftools/ffmpeg_filter: stop accessing encoder AVCodecContext

[Dennis Mungai]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 19:54, Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> wrote:

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> On 2024-04-05 10:20 pm, Dennis Mungai wrote:
> >
> > Does this imply that down the line, with this and additional patchsets,
> > that FFmpeg can handle tasks such as stream copy and filtering in the
> same
> > invocation?
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> What do you mean? If you map a stream twice, you already can do that now.
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> Regards,
> Gyan
>

What of doing the same *without* mapping the stream twice?
A complex filtergraph could have a stream mapped, split and then passed to
a copy codec operation, for example, without needing the double re-map
implied above.