diff avcodec.h @ 1464:51239e385475 libavcodec

final word on RGBA byte order

--- a/avcodec.h	Fri Sep 12 18:25:04 2003 +0000
+++ b/avcodec.h	Sat Sep 13 02:31:03 2003 +0000
@@ -115,7 +115,19 @@
 };
 
 /**
- * Pixel format.
+ * Pixel format. Notes: 
+ *
+ * PIX_FMT_RGBA32 is handled in an endian-specific manner. A RGBA
+ * color is put together as:
+ *  (A << 24) | (R << 16) | (G << 8) | B
+ * This is stored as BGRA on little endian CPU architectures and ARGB on
+ * big endian CPUs.
+ *
+ * When the pixel format is palettized RGB (PIX_FMT_PAL8), the palettized
+ * image data is stored in AVFrame.data[0]. The palette is transported in
+ * AVFrame.data[1] and, is 1024 bytes long (256 4-byte entries) and is
+ * formatted the same as in PIX_FMT_RGBA32 described above (i.e., it is
+ * also endian-specific).
  */
 enum PixelFormat {
     PIX_FMT_YUV420P,   ///< Planar YUV 4:2:0 (1 Cr & Cb sample per 2x2 Y samples)
@@ -124,7 +136,7 @@
     PIX_FMT_BGR24,     ///< Packed pixel, 3 bytes per pixel, BGRBGR...
     PIX_FMT_YUV422P,   ///< Planar YUV 4:2:2 (1 Cr & Cb sample per 2x1 Y samples)
     PIX_FMT_YUV444P,   ///< Planar YUV 4:4:4 (1 Cr & Cb sample per 1x1 Y samples)
-    PIX_FMT_RGBA32,    ///< Packed pixel, 4 bytes per pixel, BGRABGRA...
+    PIX_FMT_RGBA32,    ///< Packed pixel, 4 bytes per pixel, BGRABGRA..., stored in cpu endianness
     PIX_FMT_YUV410P,   ///< Planar YUV 4:1:0 (1 Cr & Cb sample per 4x4 Y samples)
     PIX_FMT_YUV411P,   ///< Planar YUV 4:1:1 (1 Cr & Cb sample per 4x1 Y samples)
     PIX_FMT_RGB565,    ///< always stored in cpu endianness