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authorStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2015-01-27 13:21:56 +0100
committerStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2015-01-29 10:12:34 +0100
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lavfi: document assumptions about the input and output labels of a filter graph description
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@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ instance two input pads. The first output pad of split is labelled
output pad of split is linked to the second input pad of overlay,
which are both unlabelled.
+In a filter description, if the input label of the first filter is not
+specified, "in" is assumed; if the output label of the last filter is not
+specified, "out" is assumed.
+
In a complete filterchain all the unlabelled filter input and output
pads must be connected. A filtergraph is considered valid if all the
filter input and output pads of all the filterchains are connected.