[vlc-devel] Project: Video Barcodes for VLC

[vianney boyer]

Hi,

As an alternative, it may be possible to insert thumbnails (from keyframes)
in the timeline?

Vianney



2013/2/6 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>

>         Hello,
>
> Le mercredi 6 février 2013 17:03:12, Sebastian Morr a écrit :
> > - Where to put the functionality of barcode-generation? Where does it
> >   belong, logically? Is it a filter module or something else?
>
> As Denis already pointed out, a dedicated input thread will be required,
> with
> its own demuxer and video decoder instances. It wouldn't be the trivial
> matter
> of inserting a video filter in the existing playlist input thread: such a
> filter
> can only access pictures just before they are output.
>
> With a dedicated input, there are at least three different ways to model
> it:
> 1/ a stream output plugin,
> 2/ a video filter with the dummy video output behind it,
> 3/ a video output.
> But with just that, you will need to decode the whole video track. as
> explained by Denis.
>
> > - Can you recommend an (image-holding) data structure that allows easy
> >   conversion to the different GUIs?
>
> There is the image_handler, maybe. But that's the least of concerns, I
> think.
>
> > - I need to access the currently open video at arbitrary positions (I'm
> >   thinking of building the barcode non-sequentially like an interlaced
> >   GIF). Which modules would I need to do this and how are they related?
> >   Is there any documentation on the data flow through VLC?
>
> That belongs in the component that will control your dedicated input. That
> does not really fit in any existing abstraction.
>
>
> That being said, where is this feature provided currently? I somehow
> suspect
> that it is normally being precomputed offline and passed to the media
> player as
> some meta-data associated with the media file.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
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