FFDshow like

[Guilllo]

Hi all !

Is there an equivalent of FFDshow for postprocessing videos with a lot of filters ?

Thanks

[Hellworm]

There is: mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)

btw wasn't there a thread with the same question some hours ago? I think I answered to it. Where did it go? Am I paranoid :confused:

[Guilllo]

I deleted it because I was confused with some others questions.


But where in mplayer do i find these options to adjust the filters ? Is it possible with the GUI ?

[Oline 61]

Mplayer is no where near as versatile as FFDshow. It can decode and play everything, but not much filtering can be done. The GUI has some configuration. It would be best to just try it out. It's really your best option for Linux.

[Hellworm]

actually threre's a lot of filtering that can be applied, it's not in the gui, but if you look at the man page under video filters you find many filters.

[RedDwarf69]

Actually I was hopping that a ffdshow-like filter for gstreamer was released. But I'm not even sure that a gstreamer filter can have a GUI... at least I never saw one.

[KpeX]

FFdshow is based on ffmpeg, same as mplayer. Every feature of ffdshow AFAIK is available in mplayer or ffmpeg, it's just a matter of reading the docs.

[Guilllo]

Ok but would it be possible to write a GUI doing this ?

[Hellworm]

Everything is possible. So why don't you write one ;)

[Guilllo]

Why not, I'm learning C. When I will be able, why not

[shevegen]

"it's just a matter of reading the docs."
Not always. There are many examples where the docs just simply suck.
And I cant get answers to certain questions like - why does mencoder add
a strange noise at the end of an encoded file when i use xvid.

"Why not, I'm learning C."
I believe you are best off if you write it in a GTK application.
It doesnt have to be fancy at all, just add clicky clicky buttons that do certain things, and input fields where users can write in extra struff. You can also use a "scripting" language like python or ruby and not fiddle too much with C internals such as variable declaring, memory freeing and so on.

[rushin_911]

The only limitation I can see is that with mplayer you can apply the filters only at the beginning when opening the files unlike with ffdshow where you can change the filters and settings on the fly,,,

[Manao]

Every feature of ffdshow AFAIK is available in mplayer or ffmpegNo, FFDShow has additionnal features ( on the fly filter configuration ), and supports a lot more filtering options : several deblocking methods ( XviD, mplayer ), several noise adding schemes, more deinterlacing filters, importing avs scripts...

There're no counterpart as complete yet in the linux world, especially on the 'on the fly' part, which is lacking in both vlc ( except for the deblocking / deinterlacing ) and mplayer. Dunno for xine, but i guess it's the same too.

[rushin_911]

No, FFDShow has additionnal features ( on the fly filter configuration ), and supports a lot more filtering options : several deblocking methods ( XviD, mplayer ), several noise adding schemes, more deinterlacing filters, importing avs scripts...

There're no counterpart as complete yet in the linux world, especially on the 'on the fly' part, which is lacking in both vlc ( except for the deblocking / deinterlacing ) and mplayer. Dunno for xine, but i guess it's the same too.

Xine actually has it I think (at least it works in Kaffeine which uses the xine engine), however it still doesn't support as many formats as mplayer or vlc (it can't play avc video yet) and there are some filters which some may find necessary that are lacking (e.g. noise filter)