changeset 11674:bb0470c1ebd9 libavcodec

Clarify how allocation works for the picture argument for avcodec_decode_video3.
author reimar
date Sun, 02 May 2010 16:07:29 +0000
parents da59da296153
children 5c1363c233b8
files avcodec.h
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/avcodec.h	Sat May 01 18:45:02 2010 +0000
+++ b/avcodec.h	Sun May 02 16:07:29 2010 +0000
@@ -3464,6 +3464,8 @@
  *
  * @param avctx the codec context
  * @param[out] picture The AVFrame in which the decoded video frame will be stored.
+ *             Use avcodec_alloc_frame to get an AVFrame, the codec will call
+ *             get_buffer to get memory for the actual image data.
  * @param[in] avpkt The input AVpacket containing the input buffer.
  *            You can create such packet with av_init_packet() and by then setting
  *            data and size, some decoders might in addition need other fields like