[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter: add pad_npp filter

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 16/06/2025 03:38, Jorge Estrada wrote:
> Got it. I don't mind writing a CUDA variant of this and submitting it
> separately. What's the reasoning behind preferring a plain CUDA filter over
> an NPP based one?

npp is a non-free library that pulls along quite hefty dependencies and 
demands nonredistributable builds.
Since pretty much everything can be done without it, as long as someone 
writes the necessary CUDA kernels, that's simply preferable.

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 16.06.2025 02:14, Jorge Estrada wrote:
>>> This patch adds the pad_npp video filter. A filter similar to the
>> existing pad filter but accelerated by NPP.
>>
>> I'm honestly not keen on adding another npp based filter, specially one
>> this simple that a plain CUDA filter could easily do as well.
>>
>> My goal in the long term would be to make all npp based filters obsolete
>> and then deprecate them.
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