[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] missing close/free functions for avformat?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:28:51PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > unless I missed something there are no corresponding close/free
> > functions for av_alloc_format_context and av_open_input_stream.
> > But these are part of the public API, what use are they if there
> > is no proper way in freeing the allocated memory...
> > It actually seems to me that almost everything except the url_fclose
> > should go into a av_free_format_context, do you agree with that?
> 
> have you tried:
> 
> av_alloc_format_context() - av_free()
> av_open_input_stream()    - av_close_input_file
> 
> ?

and yes this should be documented, also iam not against simplifying
things or moving common operations into some function ...

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