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I successfully applied a FFmpeg filter from C API (my previous question here). I see the filters are running sequentially. Now the question is, how can I run multiple filters in parallel? If run sequentially, that causes so much delays.

I'm using ffmpeg as the base for stream processing. As we receive the streams, I need to apply 2 filters and produce metadata in parallel. Of course, with minimum delay issues.

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Filters cant really run in parallel because they can modify frames, and you can’t modify a frame in two threads at the same time. You can make a copy of the frame and run two filter graphs.

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  • Yes. Of course. But the filters I am targeting should only read frames (for detection. Like freezedetect, silencedetect, and blackdetect).
    – Tina J
    Aug 12, 2019 at 21:14
  • Btw, when calling a filter, it gets a buffersrc along with the frame. Each filter should have its own buffer, right?
    – Tina J
    Aug 12, 2019 at 21:27
  • Yes, you can use separate filtergraph for each detection filter you use, i dunno how much speed gain you can expect from this. It is same approach as running 2 or more ffmpeg commands in parallel.
    – user12174
    Aug 13, 2019 at 13:18

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