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diff --git a/libavcodec/codec_internal.h b/libavcodec/codec_internal.h
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@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
*/
#define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 0)
/**
+ * The codec is not known to be init-threadsafe (i.e. it might be unsafe
+ * to initialize this codec and another codec concurrently, typically because
+ * the codec calls external APIs that are not known to be thread-safe).
+ * Therefore calling the codec's init function needs to be guarded with a lock.
+ */
+#define FF_CODEC_CAP_NOT_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 9)
+/**
* The codec allows calling the close function for deallocation even if
* the init function returned a failure. Without this capability flag, a
* codec does such cleanup internally when returning failures from the