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| author | Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com> | 2015-09-11 17:47:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com> | 2015-09-12 13:38:31 +0200 |
| commit | 6064f697a321174232a3fad351afb21150c3e9e5 (patch) | |
| tree | aa83e7afc13097a44bdfadebda3bcb4bff3d1a62 /libavcodec/avcodec.h | |
| parent | 1e0b8bf0b3b3b4247fb21e9839af342ae879607c (diff) | |
lavc: Enable side data only packets by default
Deprecate the now unused option, but temporarily retain the capability
to disable the now default behaviour.
Mention this change in the AVPacket documentation.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/avcodec.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index 9b386551c9..8a073d4c4f 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -1140,7 +1140,9 @@ typedef struct AVPacketSideData { * then passed to muxers. * * For video, it should typically contain one compressed frame. For audio it may - * contain several compressed frames. + * contain several compressed frames. Encoders are allowed to output empty + * packets, with no compressed data, containing only side data + * (e.g. to update some stream parameters at the end of encoding). * * AVPacket is one of the few structs in Libav, whose size is a part of public * ABI. Thus it may be allocated on stack and no new fields can be added to it @@ -2867,20 +2869,20 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext { */ uint64_t vbv_delay; +#if FF_API_SIDEDATA_ONLY_PKT /** - * Encoding only. Allow encoders to output packets that do not contain any - * encoded data, only side data. + * Encoding only and set by default. Allow encoders to output packets + * that do not contain any encoded data, only side data. * * Some encoders need to output such packets, e.g. to update some stream * parameters at the end of encoding. * - * All callers are strongly recommended to set this option to 1 and update - * their code to deal with such packets, since this behaviour may become - * always enabled in the future (then this option will be deprecated and - * later removed). To avoid ABI issues when this happens, the callers should - * use AVOptions to set this field. + * @deprecated this field disables the default behaviour and + * it is kept only for compatibility. */ + attribute_deprecated int side_data_only_packets; +#endif /** * Audio only. The number of "priming" samples (padding) inserted by the |