[Effectv-developers] effectv and libavfilter

[Stefano S. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'm an FFmpeg developer, and since more than two years I'm working on
and maintaining the FFmpeg libavfilter library:
http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html

Effectv was one of the main sources of inspiration for my work on this
library, and porting the effectv filters to it has always been one of
my hidden dreams.

So my proposal: I want you to be aware of libavfilter and of the
possibility to port some of your filters to libavfilter.

libavfilter has been designed in order to be fast, so should be able,
in conjuction with the v4l2/v4l input device, to render the various
effects in real time. You may also benefit from the abundant generic
utilities and high quality DSP code already implemented in FFmpeg in
order to achieve even more astonishing effects.

Also libavfilter natively supports filters chaining (no need for loop
module), and will be able to perform transmedia filtering (audio
support will be integrated soon). It still lacks some way to manage
interactively user controls but that's something which will be
eventually implemented.

And of course libavfilter allows to process not only the camera input
but each file and input device supported by FFmpeg.

It would be great if someone of you may consider to port some of your
effects to FFmpeg, I'll try to assist as best as I can in this process
on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.

Best regards.