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-rw-r--r--libavfilter/avfilter.h4
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diff --git a/doc/filters.texi b/doc/filters.texi
index 6fd192c285..cba2697fb6 100644
--- a/doc/filters.texi
+++ b/doc/filters.texi
@@ -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.
diff --git a/libavfilter/avfilter.h b/libavfilter/avfilter.h
index b5220b96d9..d296536151 100644
--- a/libavfilter/avfilter.h
+++ b/libavfilter/avfilter.h
@@ -1419,6 +1419,10 @@ int avfilter_graph_parse(AVFilterGraph *graph, const char *filters,
/**
* Add a graph described by a string to a graph.
*
+ * In the graph filters 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.
+ *
* @param graph the filter graph where to link the parsed graph context
* @param filters string to be parsed
* @param inputs pointer to a linked list to the inputs of the graph, may be NULL.