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authorAurelien Jacobs <aurel@gnuage.org>2010-10-06 20:49:25 +0000
committerAurelien Jacobs <aurel@gnuage.org>2010-10-06 20:49:25 +0000
commit2899a28cdcc63a97d476de2bba523033d8b02486 (patch)
treef363444894c17fb73c3c463fef5560b3437b2a33 /libavformat/avformat.h
parent6612d8cf3170a5bf1b3460c22f8c725c02542533 (diff)
document the fact that av_new_stream() can't be called in a background thread
Originally committed as revision 25379 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diffstat (limited to 'libavformat/avformat.h')
-rw-r--r--libavformat/avformat.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index feb285bdb8..d55a44689b 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ typedef struct AVInputFormat {
/**
* Read one packet and put it in 'pkt'. pts and flags are also
* set. 'av_new_stream' can be called only if the flag
- * AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER is used.
+ * AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER is used and only in the calling thread (not in a
+ * background thread).
* @return 0 on success, < 0 on error.
* When returning an error, pkt must not have been allocated
* or must be freed before returning