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From: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: POC: enable out-of-tree filters
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:58:50 +0100
Message-ID: <20250314205850.GN4991@pb2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66647849-682a-45d1-8015-e6173a8e51f8@gmail.com>


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On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 05:13:23PM +0100, Leandro Santiago wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > also there is the quite intriguing option of using "git merge" to include
> > external filters
> > What i mean here is that there could be a script lets call it ffmerge

> How would it work when using release tarballs, without git?

it would tell the user to run it in a git checkout or an empty directory.
The script would already have the ability to merge external filter repos
so also pulling mainline is no real extra complexity


> > "ffmerge available" would check some online repository and list whats
> > compatible with the current checkout
> > 
> > "ffmerge merge shiny_filter" would then merge the shiny filter repository/branch

> Wouldn't it put more burden over the devs to maintain such
> catalog/repository and the tooling around it? I am fine with that, I just
> wonder how the community would accept it. Having no filter catalog/repo
> feels to be the simplest step one could take at the moment.

theres no need for such catalog. I just think that if external filter
support is added, that someone will then likely start maintaining a catalog
of these filters.


thx

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-14 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-13 12:18 Leandro Santiago
2025-03-13 12:20 ` Leandro Santiago
2025-03-14 15:04 ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-03-14 16:13   ` Leandro Santiago
2025-03-14 20:58     ` Michael Niedermayer [this message]
2025-03-14 16:57 ` Lynne
2025-03-14 18:21   ` Nicolas George
2025-03-14 19:43     ` Leandro Santiago
2025-03-14 22:45   ` Soft Works

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