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Minimalistic plugin API for video effects, by the Piksel Developers Union
Updated info on https://frei0r.dyne.org
Frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video effects.
The main emphasis is on simplicity for an API that will round up the most common video effects into simple filters, sources and mixers that can be controlled by parameters.
It's our hope that this way these simple effects can be shared between many applications, avoiding their reimplementation by different projects.
Frei0r is not meant as a competing standard to more ambitious efforts that try to satisfy the needs of many different applications and more complex effects.
It is not meant as a generic API for all kinds of video applications, as it doesn't provides things like an extensive parameter mechanism or event handling.
Eventually the frei0r API can be wrapped by higher level APIs expanding its functionalities (for instance as GStreamer, MLT, FFmpeg and others do).
Developers are sporadically contributing and we are happy if more people like to get involved, so let us know about your creations! Code and patches are well accepted, get in touch with us on the mailinglist (see the section Communication below).
Frei0r has been around since 2004, born from yearly brainstormings held at the Piksel conference with the participation of various free and open source video software developers.
It works on all hardware platforms without the need for any particular hardware acceleration (GNU/Linux, Apple/OSX and MS/Win) and consists of more than 100 plugins. Among the free and open source video application supporting frei0r are: KDEnLive, FFmpeg, MLT, PureData, Open Movie Editor, DVEdit, Gephex, LiVES, FreeJ, VeeJay, Flowblade, and Shotcut among the others.
Wikipedia page about frei0r: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frei0r
Stable frei0r releases are packaged periodically and distributed on
Frei0r sourcecode is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and, eventually other compatible Free Software licenses.
The latest source for frei0r plugins can be attained using git on https://github.com/dyne/frei0r
Make sure to get in touch with our mailinglist if you like to contribute.
Frei0r can be built on GNU/Linux, M$/Windows and Apple/OSX platforms, possibly in even more environments like embedded devices.
For details see the INSTALL file.
Binary packages are mantained on various distributions, but they may not be completely up to date with latest release.
MacPorts provides packages for OSX: [MacPorts]: http://www.macports.org $ sudo port install frei0r-plugins
Pre-compiled binaries are also uploaded on our website.
We encourage Apple/OSX application distributors to compile the plugins directly and to include frei0r within their bundle.
Pre-compiled binaries are often provided by third-parties, but they may not to be up to date.
We encourage MS/Win application distributors to compile the plugins directly and to include frei0r within their bundle.
If you are new to frei0r (but not to programming) the best thing is probably to have a look at the frei0r header, which is quite simple and well documented. The doxyfied documentation is also available for browsing on-line.
You could find a tutorial filter here in the source code. A simple skeleton for a frei0r video filter looks like this:
#include <frei0r.hpp>
typedef struct {
int16_t w, h;
uint8_t bpp;
uint32_t size;
} ScreenGeometry;
class MyExample: public frei0r::filter {
public:
MyExample(int wdt, int hgt);
~MyExample();
virtual void update();
private:
ScreenGeometry geo;
void _init(int wdt, int hgt);
}
MyExample::MyExample() { /* constructor */ }
MyExample::~MyExample() { /* destructor */ }
void MyExample::_init(int wdt, int hgt) {
geo.w = wdt;
geo.h = hgt;
geo.bpp = 32; // this filter works only in RGBA 32bit
geo.size = geo.w*geo.h*(geo.bpp/8); // calculate the size in bytes
}
void MyExample::update() {
// we get video input via buffer pointer (void*)in
uint32_t *src = (uint32_t*)in;
// and we give video output via buffer pointer (void*)out
uint32_t *dst = (uint32_t*)out;
// this example here does just a copy of input to output
memcpy(dst, src, geo.size);
}
frei0r::construct<MyExample>
plugin("MyExample", "short and simple description for my example",
"Who did it", 1, 0);You can get in touch with our developer community, send your new effects and share your intentions with us.
We have a free mailinglist open to subscription and we provide public archives of the discussions there that are also searchable and indexed online.
For bug reporting the mailinglist is preferred, but is also possible to use an issue tracker.
Frei0r is the result of a collective effort in coordination with several software developers meeting to find a common standard for video effect plugins to be used among their applications.
For a full list of contributors and the project history, see the file AUTHORS, the ChangeLog and the project web page: https://frei0r.dyne.org