called “modern” usually isn't, and it's really not a toolkit.
Movit aims to be a _high-quality_, _high-performance_, _open-source_
-library for video filters. It is currently in alpha stage.
+library for video filters.
TL;DR, please give me download link and system demands
part of OpenGL 3.0 or newer, although most OpenGL 2.0 cards also
have what's needed through extensions). If your machine is less than five
years old _and you have the appropriate drivers_, you're home free.
-* The [Eigen 3] and [Google Test] libraries. (The library itself
- depends only on the former, but you probably want to run the unit tests.)
+ GLES3 (for mobile devices) will also work.
+* The [Eigen 3], [FFTW3] and [Google Test] libraries. (The library itself
+ does not depend on the latter, but you probably want to run the unit tests.)
* The [epoxy] library, for dealing with OpenGL extensions on various
platforms.
Still TL;DR, please give me the list of filters
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-Blur, diffusion, glow, lift/gamma/gain (color correction), mirror,
-mix (add two inputs), overlay (the Porter-Duff “over” operation),
-scale (bilinear and Lanczos), sharpen (both by unsharp mask and by
-Wiener filters), saturation (or desaturation), vignette, and white balance.
+Blur, diffusion, FFT-based convolution, glow, lift/gamma/gain (color
+correction), mirror, mix (add two inputs), luma mix (use a map to wipe between
+two inputs), overlay (the Porter-Duff “over” operation), scale (bilinear and
+Lanczos), sharpen (both by unsharp mask and by Wiener filters), saturation
+(or desaturation), vignette, white balance, and a deinterlacer (YADIF).
Yes, that's a short list. But they all look great, are fast and don't give
-you any nasty surprises. (I'd love to include denoise, deinterlace and
+you any nasty surprises. (I'd love to include denoise and
framerate up-/downconversion to the list, but doing them well are
all research-grade problems, and Movit is currently not there.)
TL;DR, but I am interested in a programming example instead
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-Assuming you have an OpenGL context already set up (currently you need
-a classic OpenGL context; a GL 3.2+ core context won't do):
+Assuming you have an OpenGL context already set up (either a classic OpenGL
+context, a GL 3.x forward-compatible or core context, or a GLES3 context):
<code>
using namespace movit;
Backwards compatibility is fine and all, but sometimes we can do better
by observing that the world has moved on. In particular:
-* It's 2014, so people want to edit HD video.
-* It's 2014, so everybody has a GPU.
-* It's 2014, so everybody has a working C++ compiler.
+* It's 2016, so people want to edit HD video.
+* It's 2016, so everybody has a GPU.
+* It's 2016, so everybody has a working C++ compiler.
(Even Microsoft fixed theirs around 2003!)
-While from a programming standpoint I'd love to say that it's 2014
+While from a programming standpoint I'd love to say that it's 2016
and interlacing does no longer exist, but that's not true (and interlacing,
hated as it might be, is actually a useful and underrated technique for
-bandwidth reduction in broadcast video). Movit will eventually provide
-limited support for working with interlaced video, but currently does not.
+bandwidth reduction in broadcast video). Movit may eventually provide
+limited support for working with interlaced video; it has a deinterlacer,
+but cannot currently process video in interlaced form.
What do you mean by “high-performance”?
Exactly what speeds you can expect is of course highly dependent on
your GPU and the exact filter chain you are running. As a rule of thumb,
you can run a reasonable filter chain (a lift/gamma/gain operation,
-a bit of diffusion, maybe a vignette) at 720p in around 30 fps on a two-year-old
+a bit of diffusion, maybe a vignette) at 720p in around 30 fps on a four-year-old
Intel laptop. If you have a somewhat newer Intel card, you can do 1080p
-video without much problems. And on a mid-range nVidia card of today
+video without much problems. And on a low-range nVidia card of today
(GTX 550 Ti), you can probably process 4K movies directly.