Re: NUBIE API design.

Paul wrote:

> 'nuff said.  The API passes messages to the master, and then it determines
> what to do.  DirectShow is the greatest blackbox of media.  Half the time
> you don't really know what its doing or why.

Just because it's closed source. It's not a design problem.

> I think that most of the comments that I've seen so far have been about
> passing the video frames.  IE, if you have to pass the same video frame 5
> times, that is a lot of memory bandwidth.  If you are working with
> 1920x1080x32bpp @24p, then you have almost 1.6 Gigabytes per second just on
> video frames.  Any copying of the video buffer that you have to do at this
> point is going to stretch the limits of many computers.

Hopefully a frame is a shared pointer, not the whole data :)