NAME

blind-gauss-blur - Apply Gaussian blur to a video

SYNOPSIS

blind-gauss-blur [-j jobs] [-s spread | -s 'auto'] [-achvy] sd-stream

DESCRIPTION

blind-gauss-blur reads a video from stdin and a mask video from sd-stream. The video is printed to stdout, with all pixels are blurred using Gaussian blur with a standard deviation calculated for each pixel individually. The standard deviation is calculated by multiplying the X, Y, or Z value with the alpha value of the corresponding pixel and frame in sd-stream. The X value is used when blurring the X channel, and analogously for Y and Z. If the standard deviation is 0, the pixel is not blurred.

If stdin is longer than sd-stream, the remainder of stdin is printed without any changes. If stdin is shorter than sd-stream, the remainder of sd-stream is ignored but may be partially read.

OPTIONS

-a: Used to optimise performance if it is known that the video is opaque, and to ensure that the output video is opaque.
-c: Blur the chroma only, not the luma.
-h: Blur horizontally only. Has no affect if -v is also specified.
-j jobs: Process the video in parallel, using jobs processes.
-s spread: Pixels with Manhattan distances exceeding spread shall not affect each other. If 'auto' is specified, this value is calculated from the standard deviation used to blir a pixel. If -s is not used, there will not be distance limit.
-v: Blur vertically only. Has no affect if -h is also specified.
-y: Use the Y value (multiplied by the alpha value) from sd-stream as the standard deviation all channels.

REQUIREMENTS

blind-compress requires enough free memory to load three full frames into memory. A frame requires 32 bytes per pixel it contains.

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