On 11 Sep 2003, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 23:36, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
Can a linux application link with a winlib shared library.
Nope. Not yet, anyway.
-- run avisynth in a separate process, and devise some sort of RPC mechanism to marshall calls back and forth.Unless the processes can share memory that will add a huge overhead as video frames will need to be send between processes.
You can use POSIX IPC to set up SHM segments, that make transfer of large amounts of data easy.
But can I say I need this block of memory (ie an arbitrary block which already has data in it) to be shared. I want to avoid having to copy large amounts of data. If that can not be done Avisynth will need to be modified to allocate memory for its frames from a specific region of memory.
Just to be sure. A normal Linux application CAN NOT load a winlib shared library. Correct?
Also, how is the calling of Windows codec done in mplayer, xine, and the like? Could something like that be done. Avisynth has so GUI.