[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: add fillborders filter

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/29/17, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Paul B Mahol (2017-11-29):
>> +Fill borders of the input video.
>
> Am I missing something or are you proposing 277 lines of code for
> something that drawbox or crop+pad can already do?

By careful patch examination, one can find out that filter provides
additional functionality: filling by smearing and mirroring - no
crop/drawbox/pad filter combinations can archieve this at all or if
it can in case of just blanking it comes with extra cost of copying
video frame.