[GEM-dev] Re: [GEM-cvs] Gem/src/Pixes FreeFrame.h, NONE,

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

chris clepper wrote:
> 
> On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:15 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
>>
>> 1) my primary point is not to double coding efforts: i like the idea of
>> heaving 1 standard api for people to develop fx on, and others being
>> able to use it with whatever software (and yes, i agree with matju's
>> mail on that topic (2 years ago) that the API is totally crap. using
>> ioctl...
> 
> 
> I think GEM has a pretty decent pixel processing API already.  It takes
right...this seems to be a misunderstanding.

i was referring to the FreeFrame host-side API, which is very similar to
the famous ioctl() on unices, which i think is ugly (but nevertheless works)


> about 90 seconds to write the necessary setup calls from scratch for
> most objects and the rest of the time is spent doing the pixel mangling
> stuff.  It handles both computer and video native color spaces too,
> which seems like a rarity.

the fruits of hard discussions...


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