[Live-devel] Question about a resizing filter

[Ross Finlayson]

>I view adding a morphological filter to my network streaming library 
>as a rather substantial kludge, so I'll chalk this up to "difference 
>of opinion."

Well maybe.  However, because I was the person who designed the 
library and its architecture, some opinions are more valuable than 
others :-)

"Media processing" (which includes transcoding) is exactly the sort 
of thing I had in mind when I designed this library.  Although the 
code that we ship focuses on network I/O - and doesn't include any 
codec software - there's no reason why you couldn't use a 3rd-party 
library (e.g., FFMPEG or Intel IPP) to help implement a decoding 
and/or encoding filter.  (The internal implementation of a particular 
filter could even be multi-threaded (to exploit multiple cores) if 
you wished, even though the filter chain as a whole remains 
single-threaded.)
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/