[FFmpeg-user] 1024 character limit for a filterchain

[Dave Rice]

> On Feb 15, 2016, at 6:53 PM, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Dave Rice wrote:
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>>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 5:31 PM, Dave Rice <dave at dericed.com> wrote:
> [..]
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>> Through more testing I realize that this is not a filterchain limit but a limit on the input. For instance this 1,026 character filterchain works fine.
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> It is probably a limitation of AVFormatContext->filename.
> 
> As changing it to an alloced/freed string would break compatibiliy, I guess you must use the -graph option of lavfi for now which does not have this limitation.

I hadn’t seen the -graph option before, but that solved my issue.
Thanks,
Dave