Hi Niklas

On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 11:38:46PM +0000, Niklas Haas via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> at VDD'25 multiple people discussed interest in the ability to improve the
> filter negotiation around hardware filters; specifically about avoiding
> the need to constantly set the pixel formats manually when going from HW to
> SW, and also automatically insert hwupload/hwdownload filters when needed.
> 
> I raised the possibility of funding it via an SPI bounty, and received
> widespread approval.
> 
> I am familiar with this code and have previously attempted solving this
> exact problem on my own time, so I feel like I have a good understanding of
> what needs to be done to make it possible.
> 
> I would like to formally propose allocating a bounty of 10,000 EUR for this
> task; which would cover all necessary prerequisite changes (such as fixing
> the hwupload/hwmap), full negotiation of swformats, and automatic
> hwupload/hwdownload insertion.
> 
> Thoughts?

I like the idea

Note, the SPI Vice President, who helped us with the STF stuff is possibly
on vacation ATM (not 100% sure). And also this is the first sw development task we do without
STF/GSoC/OPW. So there could be some extra delay.
I thus suggest if we want to do this, that we move forward with it ASAP so that
we dont add additional delay

thx


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