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nevcairiel/lavfilters vs shadps4-emu/shadps4

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, lavfilters and shadps4 both show mixed maintenance signals. lavfilters last saw a commit 2 months ago with 1+ active contributor, while shadps4 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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nevcairiel/lavfilters

Mixed

Solo project — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 6w ago
  • GPL-2.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

shadps4-emu/shadps4

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit today
  • 19 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
  • GPL-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

lavfiltersshadps4
Stars8,86531,040
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseGPL-2.0GPL-2.0
Open issues108139
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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