Re[2]: [XviD-devel] image pre-processing

[Milan Cutka]

>> That depends... e.g. the preprossing lib could contain a routine to
>> smoothen the image at different strength for every 16x16 block (just an
>> example). Then the codec would just have to fill a data table and call the
>> external routine.

MF> okay.

>> Of course, the same routine could be interesting for MPEG decoder output
>> postprocessing, so a video player could fill these values as well and call
>> the same routine.

MF> post-processing is different.

MF> okay, so you want an external libimageproc to do all the image processing.
MF> that's not a bad idea, but i dunno how you can get that portable
MF> (dynamic linking in linux and windows.)

MF> i'd like to create this lib with milan, so it would have all the
MF> great features of ffdshow's image filtering , and efforts done by coders
MF> on this lib will improve the 2 projects (and even others).

MF> what do you think ?

I'm not sure if you're asking me :) , but anyway I think it's a good
idea. I have this in ffvfw already: it calls ffdshow through COM
interface exposed by ffdshow.ax to process each frame.