[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] (for discussion): cuvid: allow to crop and resize in decoder

[Timo Rothenpieler]

> "Doing the operation where it costs least" looks like a reasonable
> criteria, doesn't it?
>
> Which criteria would make a decoder (or any tool) a wrong place
> for something it does much better than anyone else?

It's about having scaling-functionality in libavcodec, while it belongs 
into libavfilter, but the cuvid API does not offer that possibility.