On 02/05/14 20:31, Josh Allmann wrote:
> If pulling in libswscale is undesirable, then the scale filter should
> not be auto-inserted.

That part is hard to achieve.

> Auto-inserted scale filters don't even work that well anyway. For
> example, in the overlay filter, it is only used for colorspace
> conversion -- the user still has to manually resize the overlay if the
> dimensions are incorrect, which adds another pass to the processing.

That might be an interesting improvement.

> What's more, unless the user sets a high debug level, he's probably
> not even going to realize another conversion is being done within
> lavfi (I didn't...). Principle of least astonishment: violated.

Agreed.

> This desire for granular control is really at odds with the automagic
> nature of filter auto-insertion.

The best we can do in a short time is document better the --disable-
options and add a better warning regarding suggested dependencies.

lu
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