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| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 8 |
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diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index ace4863284..aa59097e35 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -619,6 +619,14 @@ typedef struct RcOverride{ #define CODEC_CAP_HWACCEL_VDPAU 0x0080 /** * Codec can output multiple frames per AVPacket + * Normally demuxers return one frame at a time, demuxers which do not do + * are connected to a parser to split what they return into proper frames. + * This flag is reserved to the very rare category of codecs which have a + * bitstream that cannot be split into frames without timeconsuming + * operations like full decoding. Demuxers carring such bitstreams thus + * may return multiple frames in a packet. This has many disadvantages like + * prohibiting stream copy in many cases thus it should only be considered + * as a last resort. */ #define CODEC_CAP_SUBFRAMES 0x0100 |