Implement av_get_bits_per_pixel().

Originally committed as revision 18709 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/pixdesc.c b/libavcodec/pixdesc.c
index 162b5826d2..a313c95cf1 100644
--- a/libavcodec/pixdesc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/pixdesc.c
@@ -581,3 +581,16 @@ const AVPixFmtDescriptor av_pix_fmt_descriptors[PIX_FMT_NB] = {
         .flags = PIX_FMT_BE,
     },
 };
+
+int av_get_bits_per_pixel(const AVPixFmtDescriptor *pixdesc)
+{
+    int c, bits = 0;
+    int log2_pixels = pixdesc->log2_chroma_w + pixdesc->log2_chroma_h;
+
+    for (c = 0; c < pixdesc->nb_channels; c++) {
+        int s = c==1 || c==2 ? 0 : log2_pixels;
+        bits += (pixdesc->comp[c].depth_minus1+1) << s;
+    }
+
+    return bits >> log2_pixels;
+}
diff --git a/libavcodec/pixdesc.h b/libavcodec/pixdesc.h
index 6660ea1710..0a2acab719 100644
--- a/libavcodec/pixdesc.h
+++ b/libavcodec/pixdesc.h
@@ -193,4 +193,14 @@ static inline void write_line(const uint16_t *src, uint8_t *data[4], const int l
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns the number of bits per pixel used by the pixel format
+ * described by pixdesc.
+ *
+ * The returned number of bits refers to the number of bits actually
+ * used for storing the pixel information, that is padding bits are
+ * not counted.
+ */
+int av_get_bits_per_pixel(const AVPixFmtDescriptor *pixdesc);
+
 #endif /* AVCODEC_PIXDESC_H */