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Diffstat (limited to 'libavformat')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavformat/avformat.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h index 98cfee1173..cd7ece8458 100644 --- a/libavformat/avformat.h +++ b/libavformat/avformat.h @@ -610,7 +610,18 @@ typedef struct AVStream { * encoding: set by the user */ int id; - AVCodecContext *codec; /**< codec context */ + /** + * Codec context associated with this stream. Allocated and freed by + * libavformat. + * + * - decoding: The demuxer exports codec information stored in the headers + * here. + * - encoding: The user sets codec information, the muxer writes it to the + * output. Mandatory fields as specified in AVCodecContext + * documentation must be set even if this AVCodecContext is + * not actually used for encoding. + */ + AVCodecContext *codec; /** * Real base framerate of the stream. * This is the lowest framerate with which all timestamps can be |