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-rw-r--r--libavformat/avformat.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index ea93e85f08..6a73e76096 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -197,7 +197,11 @@ typedef struct AVInputFormat {
const char *long_name;
/** size of private data so that it can be allocated in the wrapper */
int priv_data_size;
- /** tell if a given file has a chance of being parsed by this format */
+ /**
+ * tell if a given file has a chance of being parsed by this format.
+ * The buffer provided is guranteed to be AVPROBE_PADDING_SIZE bytes big
+ * so you dont have to check for that unless you need more.
+ */
int (*read_probe)(AVProbeData *);
/** read the format header and initialize the AVFormatContext
structure. Return 0 if OK. 'ap' if non NULL contains