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avutil/frame: Document the possibility of negative line sizes

Signed-off-by: softworkz <softworkz@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
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Soft Works 2021-11-14 20:15:56 +00:00 committed by Marton Balint
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@ -311,7 +311,8 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
#define AV_NUM_DATA_POINTERS 8
/**
* pointer to the picture/channel planes.
* This might be different from the first allocated byte
* This might be different from the first allocated byte. For video,
* it could even point to the end of the image data.
*
* Some decoders access areas outside 0,0 - width,height, please
* see avcodec_align_dimensions2(). Some filters and swscale can read
@ -320,12 +321,20 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
*
* NOTE: Except for hwaccel formats, pointers not needed by the format
* MUST be set to NULL.
*
* @attention In case of video, the data[] pointers can point to the
* end of image data in order to reverse line order, when used in
* combination with negative values in the linesize[] array.
*/
uint8_t *data[AV_NUM_DATA_POINTERS];
/**
* For video, size in bytes of each picture line.
* For audio, size in bytes of each plane.
* For video, a positive or negative value, which is typically indicating
* the size in bytes of each picture line, but it can also be:
* - the negative byte size of lines for vertical flipping
* (with data[n] pointing to the end of the data
* - a positive or negative multiple of the byte size as for accessing
* even and odd fields of a frame (possibly flipped)
*
* For audio, only linesize[0] may be set. For planar audio, each channel
* plane must be the same size.
@ -337,6 +346,9 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
*
* @note The linesize may be larger than the size of usable data -- there
* may be extra padding present for performance reasons.
*
* @attention In case of video, line size values can be negative to achieve
* a vertically inverted iteration over image lines.
*/
int linesize[AV_NUM_DATA_POINTERS];