lavc: replace AVCodecInternal.allocate_progress with an internal cap

This is a constant codec property, so a capability flag is more appropriate.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/internal.h b/libavcodec/internal.h
index bccd9222d4..700807cd75 100644
--- a/libavcodec/internal.h
+++ b/libavcodec/internal.h
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@
  * Codec initializes slice-based threading with a main function
  */
 #define FF_CODEC_CAP_SLICE_THREAD_HAS_MF    (1 << 5)
+/*
+ * The codec supports frame threading and has inter-frame dependencies, so it
+ * uses ff_thread_report/await_progress().
+ */
+#define FF_CODEC_CAP_ALLOCATE_PROGRESS      (1 << 6)
 
 /**
  * AVCodec.codec_tags termination value
@@ -142,21 +147,6 @@ typedef struct AVCodecInternal {
     int is_copy;
 
     /**
-     * Whether to allocate progress for frame threading.
-     *
-     * The codec must set it to 1 if it uses ff_thread_await/report_progress(),
-     * then progress will be allocated in ff_thread_get_buffer(). The frames
-     * then MUST be freed with ff_thread_release_buffer().
-     *
-     * If the codec does not need to call the progress functions (there are no
-     * dependencies between the frames), it should leave this at 0. Then it can
-     * decode straight to the user-provided frames (which the user will then
-     * free with av_frame_unref()), there is no need to call
-     * ff_thread_release_buffer().
-     */
-    int allocate_progress;
-
-    /**
      * An audio frame with less than required samples has been submitted and
      * padded with silence. Reject all subsequent frames.
      */