Adding an image in the padding area of the video instead of black color using FFMPEG

Question

I have some videos of resolution 1280 X 720 with black padding area in both left and right side around the display area of all videos. I want to display a static image in padding area of video instead of solid black color. I am working with FFMPEG library but can't find any way to do so. Can you please help me regarding this?

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question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65939618/adding-an-image-in-the-padding-area-of-the-video-instead-of-black-color-using-ff

Answer 1

1. Use the cropdetect filter to determine crop parameters to remove the black. See Remove black bars using ffmpeg for an example of how to get the crop parameters.

2. Crop the black area and overlay the video over the image:

   ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i background.jpg -filter_complex "[0]crop=404:720:438:0[vid];[1][vid]overlay=(main_w-overlay_w)/2:(main_h-overlay_h)/2" -c:a copy output.mp4