[FFmpeg-cvslog] r22288 - trunk/libavcodec/avcodec.h

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:21:46AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> 3. add a field to AVCodec that specifies the required padding for each decoder
>
> That's not very nice, it means and application needs a reverse data
> path from decoder to demuxer to tell it what value it needs.

1. open demux
2. open codecs
3. pass padding from codecs back to demux
4. profit

Doesn't seem that complicated to me.

> At least it should be done in a way that an application at least
> also has the choice of querying a padding value sufficient for all
> codecs.

That would encourage people to use that value rather than go the
slightly longer, but more efficient, route.

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