[FFmpeg-devel] About avpicture_alloc (deprecate?)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 05:57:48PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 11:38:12AM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On May 2, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Reimar D?ffinger
> > <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >I wanted to hear about your ideas on avpicture_alloc, why is it
> > >part of the
> > >public API (is it?)? Should it be? Or should we deprecate it?
> > >Internally, it seems only libschroedinger and qtrleenc.c use it,
> > >which makes
> > >it look quite likely that even those uses are outdated/suboptimal
> > >or even wrong.
> > 
> > It's for applications, so we can grow the struct w/o breaking
> > API/ABI. There's no reason why we'd use it inside lavc.
> 
> I think you are confusing it with avcodec_alloc_frame.

the names of these functions have been a bit unfortunately choosen
the words bitmap and struct in the names might help



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