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Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/avcodec.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index c76ee04cf5..5640710850 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -3146,9 +3146,8 @@ void avcodec_register(AVCodec *codec); void avcodec_register_all(void); /** - * Allocate an AVCodecContext and set its fields to default values. The - * resulting struct can be deallocated by calling avcodec_close() on it followed - * by av_free(). + * Allocate an AVCodecContext and set its fields to default values. The + * resulting struct should be freed with avcodec_free_context(). * * @param codec if non-NULL, allocate private data and initialize defaults * for the given codec. It is illegal to then call avcodec_open2() @@ -3163,6 +3162,12 @@ void avcodec_register_all(void); AVCodecContext *avcodec_alloc_context3(const AVCodec *codec); /** + * Free the codec context and everything associated with it and write NULL to + * the provided pointer. + */ +void avcodec_free_context(AVCodecContext **avctx); + +/** * Set the fields of the given AVCodecContext to default values corresponding * to the given codec (defaults may be codec-dependent). * |