Did you try to build ffmpeg with TENSORFLOW_BACKEND enabled, and run it without TF library? This case is possible when an end user install pre-built package on a machine without TF library.
In function init, the logic is to fall back to cpu path (DNN_NATIVE) if unable to load tensorflow backend. While in function ff_get_dnn_module, it has no chance to 'return NULL'. static av_cold int init(AVFilterContext* context) { SRCNNContext* srcnn_context = context->priv; #ifdef TENSORFLOW_BACKEND srcnn_context->dnn_module = ff_get_dnn_module(DNN_TF); if (!srcnn_context->dnn_module){ av_log(context, AV_LOG_INFO, "could not load tensorflow backend, using native backend instead\n"); srcnn_context->dnn_module = ff_get_dnn_module(DNN_NATIVE); } #else srcnn_context->dnn_module = ff_get_dnn_module(DNN_NATIVE); #endif DNNModule* ff_get_dnn_module(DNNBackendType backend_type) { ... case DNN_TF: #ifdef TENSORFLOW_BACKEND //add a runtime check here, possible? dnn_module->load_model = &ff_dnn_load_model_tf; dnn_module->load_default_model = &ff_dnn_load_default_model_tf; dnn_module->execute_model = &ff_dnn_execute_model_tf; dnn_module->free_model = &ff_dnn_free_model_tf; #else av_freep(dnn_module); return NULL; #endif Thanks Yejun (郭叶军) -----Original Message----- From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Sergey Lavrushkin Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:01 PM To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> Cc: Pedro Arthur <bygran...@gmail.com> Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [GSOC] [PATCH] TensorFlow backend introduction for DNN module Hello, This patch introduces TensorFlow backend for DNN inference module. This backend uses TensorFlow binary models and requires from model to have the operation named 'x' as an input operation and the operation named 'y' as an output operation. Models are executed using libtensorflow. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel