[mythtv] FilterManager

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:55 am, Andrew Mahone wrote:
> I think I have FilterManager finished, and I've ported existing filters to
> the new interface.  I wrote a quick FilterManager test app, and
> FilterManager appears to be working perfectly.  The test app enumerates
> available filters, tries to look up filters by their names, tries to load
> one filter, and tries to load all filters listed in a filter string into a
> new filter chain, and all tests are successful.
>
> Now comes the hard part, making MythTV use the new FilterManager class.  If
> anyone has suggestion on where I ought to store the FilterManager instance,
> or where I'd need calls to load filters (they need to be reloaded any time
> frame size or format changes), it would be very helpful.  I'm going to bed
> now, hopefully over the next few days I can integrate FilterManager into
> MythTV and make sure that the ported filters function properly.

Well, I'd assume that it'd be similar to the existing filter stuff, so it'd 
probably just be best to replace the list of filters in 
NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp and NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp with this new class.  As 
for reloading, just hook into NuppelVideoPlayer::ReinitVideo().

Isaac