[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/7] avcodec/avcodec: Document current behaviour of subtitle_header

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Andreas Rheinhardt:
> Mention that avcodec_free_context() always frees it even when
> encoding. And mention that freeing is of course performed in
> avcodec_close() when decoding and not necessarily in avcodec_open2().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com>
> ---
>  libavcodec/avcodec.h | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> index 8a71c04230..9b68aecd31 100644
> --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> @@ -2011,7 +2011,9 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
>       * [Script Info] and [V4+ Styles] section, plus the [Events] line and
>       * the Format line following. It shouldn't include any Dialogue line.
>       * - encoding: Set/allocated/freed by user (before avcodec_open2())
> -     * - decoding: Set/allocated/freed by libavcodec (by avcodec_open2())
> +     * - decoding: Set/allocated/freed by libavcodec (by avcodec_open2()
> +     *             resp. avcodec_close())
> +     * Furthermore, avcodec_free_context() always frees it even when encoding.
>       */
>      uint8_t *subtitle_header;
>      int subtitle_header_size;
> 
Will apply patches 2-6 later today unless there are objections.

- Andreas