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Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/avcodec.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index 284c7f8cb8..77abec59f6 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -3417,7 +3417,8 @@ int avcodec_get_context_defaults3(AVCodecContext *s, AVCodec *codec); /** * Allocate an AVCodecContext and set its fields to default values. The - * resulting struct can be deallocated by simply calling av_free(). + * resulting struct can be deallocated by calling avcodec_close() on it followed + * by av_free(). * * @param codec if non-NULL, allocate private data and initialize defaults * for the given codec. It is illegal to then call avcodec_open2() @@ -3809,6 +3810,15 @@ int avcodec_encode_video(AVCodecContext *avctx, uint8_t *buf, int buf_size, int avcodec_encode_subtitle(AVCodecContext *avctx, uint8_t *buf, int buf_size, const AVSubtitle *sub); +/** + * Close a given AVCodecContext and free all the data associated with it + * (but not the AVCodecContext itself). + * + * Calling this function on an AVCodecContext that hasn't been opened will free + * the codec-specific data allocated in avcodec_alloc_context3() / + * avcodec_get_context_defaults3() with a non-NULL codec. Subsequent calls will + * do nothing. + */ int avcodec_close(AVCodecContext *avctx); /** |