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it's even worse than that on my side :<br>
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i couldn't find a decent test environnement on linux,<br>
and windows binaries ( urgg ) crash on my ME system,<br>
so, i kinda agree with Matju.<br>
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cheers,<br>
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sevy/yves<br>
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Mathieu Bouchard wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Freeframe is an open-source cross-platform real-time video effects <br>plugin API. We have just released our first public version (v0.5) <br>which works on Windows and Linux (OSX we reckon but not proven ;¬).<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freeframe.org">http://www.freeframe.org</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeframe">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeframe</a><br>Plugins are implemented as shared libraries with a very simple <br>interface.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, august wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">just thought I'd pass this on for the visually oriented. first I've<br>heard of this. looks cool.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>The effects look quite good, but the API is horrible. The "very simple<br>interface" is about as friendly as ioctl() or as the MS-DOS Kernel API...<br>This brings us seriously closer to assembly language, and we know how many<br>of us love assembly language...<br><br>But that's a detail... you can skip the specification itself and work from<br>the sample plugin... that's what most would do anyway.<br><br>the part that really decides between good/ok and bad is whether you can<br>have several objects of the same class... you can't (at least not by using<br>the sample code). you load the .so once, you create one object by calling<br>initialise(), and then you can't create a second one.<br><br>Multiple instances are planned but the way it's done it means an<br>incompatible API... and we know what incompatible APIs mean.<br><br>So I'm not interested at all.<br><br>________________________________________________________________<br>Mathieu Bouchard
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