# HG changeset patch
# User michael
# Date 1264081787 0
# Node ID 0c50a3c33c03023ee28d73500f639466c509816d
# Parent  16db91dd49ebf2f90434f5879fa91c6a927b03c6
Clarify CODEC_CAP_SUBFRAMES.

diff -r 16db91dd49eb -r 0c50a3c33c03 avcodec.h
--- a/avcodec.h	Thu Jan 21 12:57:24 2010 +0000
+++ b/avcodec.h	Thu Jan 21 13:49:47 2010 +0000
@@ -619,6 +619,14 @@
 #define CODEC_CAP_HWACCEL_VDPAU    0x0080
 /**
  * Codec can output multiple frames per AVPacket
+ * Normally demuxers return one frame at a time, demuxers which do not do
+ * are connected to a parser to split what they return into proper frames.
+ * This flag is reserved to the very rare category of codecs which have a
+ * bitstream that cannot be split into frames without timeconsuming
+ * operations like full decoding. Demuxers carring such bitstreams thus
+ * may return multiple frames in a packet. This has many disadvantages like
+ * prohibiting stream copy in many cases thus it should only be considered
+ * as a last resort.
  */
 #define CODEC_CAP_SUBFRAMES        0x0100