In particular, allows users to go all the way up to PL_LOG_TRACE if
desired. (While also avoiding some potentially unnecessary callbacks for
filtered messages, including e.g. the CPU cost of printing out shader
sources)
Response to runtime log level changes by updating it once per
filter_frame(), which should hopefully be often enough.
This filter conceptually maps the libplacebo `pl_renderer` API into
libavfilter, which is a high-level image rendering API designed to work
with an RGB pipeline internally. As such, there's no way to avoid e.g.
chroma interpolation with this filter, although new versions of
libplacebo support outputting back to subsampled YCbCr after processing
is done.
That being said, `pl_renderer` supports automatic integration of the
majority of libplacebo's shaders, ranging from debanding to tone
mapping, and also supports loading custom mpv-style user shaders, making
this API a natural candidate for getting a lot of functionality out of
relatively little code.
In the future, I may approach this problem either by rewriting this
filter to also support a non-renderer codepath, or by upgrading
libplacebo's renderer to support a full YCbCr pipeline.
This unfortunately requires a very new version of libplacebo (unreleased
at time of writing) for timeline semaphore support. But the amount of
boilerplate needed to hack in backwards compatibility would have been
very unreasonable.
