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

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Mon Dec 17 13:09:14 CET 2007


On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:44:09AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:32:53PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> [...]
> > > It's untested, but does something like this look good?
> > 
> > if you test it and are sure its correct and theres no way to make
> > av_close_input_file() work with _stream as well ...
> 
> Of course there are ways, e.g. a autoalloced_byteio flag (ok, preferably
> a better name) in the AVFormatContext that indicates if we should do
> url_fclose on the byteiocontext or not.
> That would mean we could get rid of the (very minor) "must_open_file"
> code duplication between open and close functions.
> But then IMO the naming is inconsistent, and calling it
> av_free_format_context would be better (keeping the av_close_input_file
> as deprecated for compatibility).
> I find that name appropriate because such a function frees the
> AVFormatContext and everything that avformat allocated "behind the back"
> of the user, and the only alternative that would give a consistent

ok

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