[Ffmpeg-devel] Modding ffmpeg to add fade-in/out and sound looping

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:37:01PM +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> 
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
> >ffmpeg does not do sound effects, other apps exist for that. Use  
> >them to produce a .wav in pcm at the correct length.
> >
> >Use ffmpeg to mux the 2 together(and maybe encode the sound).
> 
> I cannot take this approach, unfortunately, as it's gonna be very  
> detrimental to performance. I need to overlay several audio samples  
> (chunks of streams) over given places in the video. Extracting audio  
> samples outside of ffmpeg would result in multiple runs of outside  
> tools, plus multiple compressions and decompressions of the sound.
> 
> I would like to go ahead and modify the main ffmpeg encoding loop.  
> Any recommendations?

write a audio filter system for ffmpeg, submit a patch and then implement
filters for it to do what you need and yes submit patches for these too :)

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