Merge commit 'fd056029f45a9f6d213d9fce8165632042511d4f'

* commit 'fd056029f45a9f6d213d9fce8165632042511d4f':
  lavc: add avcodec_free_context().

Conflicts:
	doc/APIchanges
	libavcodec/version.h

Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 9a24c96633..45a9a7de20 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -3455,9 +3455,8 @@ void avcodec_register(AVCodec *codec);
 void avcodec_register_all(void);
 
 /**
- * Allocate an AVCodecContext and set its fields to default values.  The
- * resulting struct can be deallocated by calling avcodec_close() on it followed
- * by av_free().
+ * Allocate an AVCodecContext and set its fields to default values. The
+ * resulting struct should be freed with avcodec_free_context().
  *
  * @param codec if non-NULL, allocate private data and initialize defaults
  *              for the given codec. It is illegal to then call avcodec_open2()
@@ -3472,6 +3471,12 @@ void avcodec_register_all(void);
 AVCodecContext *avcodec_alloc_context3(const AVCodec *codec);
 
 /**
+ * Free the codec context and everything associated with it and write NULL to
+ * the provided pointer.
+ */
+void avcodec_free_context(AVCodecContext **avctx);
+
+/**
  * Set the fields of the given AVCodecContext to default values corresponding
  * to the given codec (defaults may be codec-dependent).
  *