GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 519481
Applying or Request Video filters before transmission
Last modified: 2020-06-06 16:30:52 UTC
The ability to request from the peer-client to apply specific perceptual & visual filters on the video being transmitted. A collection of filters could be contributed to the videophone that would improve 1. the perceptual qualities of an image, according to the one who receives it 2. the image compression ratio and bandwidth usage, hence the image quality and flow. Example of useful filters: * Colour maps - to highlight certain objects or for people who are color blind * Edge enhancer - reduce the amount of information detail on the image while preserving the flow and movement * Codec specific image preparation - some preprocessing to that H263 etc can work better on the image * It is currently possible to adjust the client image contrast/saturation but this information, unless applied at the Webcam driver level, doesn't get sent. * Currently there is a trend for video based mods such as hasciicam, cheese
It would be interesting to have pre-filters for outgoing video and post-filters for incoming video, and I don't think it would be that hard -- but the big issue is : how do we present it sanely to the user?!
*** Bug 530554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ekiga is not under active development anymore: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273 Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.