Thanks for the perspective, Phil :-) As I am not an ffmpeg expert, when I [attempt to] mentally digest the documentation, I drill down into the minutia until I hit "descriptively fundamental particles" ...often, where I expect to find fundamental descriptions, there is just a hole (in the meaning)..so I drop a rock, as a sounding method (oh crap, more audio terminology) and listen for the splash. In the [filtergraph] context of Pad, that splash never came :-D
So.. It seems like its more of a temporary gateway/portal for specifically crunched data. >> In the case of ffmpeg _filters_, it looks like #3 is closest as a point of> >> interconnection but #2 could apply to 'pad' and 'apad' although IMHO 'fill'> >> would be a better term. > I would tend to agree that what's going on here is that the English word > "pad" has a very large number of meanings and ffmpeg appears to be mixing > those meanings in a way that might reasonably be expected to cause confusion. > At least part of this is happening because ffmpeg, by its nature, crosses > disciplines between IT and media production. Because of changes in the media > industry over the life of the ffmpeg project, this has become more and more > true over time, as digital post production has become ubiquitous. It's sort > of inevitable this would happen and it probably isn't anyone's fault. Dafter > things have happened to Premiere. > It's also not the first time that this sort of collision has occurred > (witness the state of colour management in ffmpeg until fairly recently, and > I'll never forget the time someone fairly senior started complaining that > drop-frame timecode was untidy, to a reaction from more experienced hands > that ranged from mirth to disbelief). > It seems that a cleanup of terminology is in order and at least something's > going to have to give. > P _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
