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Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/internal.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/internal.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/internal.h b/libavcodec/internal.h index a681329f20..5aa77129a2 100644 --- a/libavcodec/internal.h +++ b/libavcodec/internal.h @@ -34,11 +34,16 @@ #include "config.h" /** - * Codec is thread safe. + * The codec does not modify any global variables in the init function, + * allowing to call the init function without locking any global mutexes. */ #define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 0) /** - * Codec cleans up memory on init failure. + * 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 + * init function and does not expect the close function to be called at + * all. */ #define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_CLEANUP (1 << 1) |