Currently, AVStream contains an embedded AVCodecContext instance, which
is used by demuxers to export stream parameters to the caller and by
muxers to receive stream parameters from the caller. It is also used
internally as the codec context that is passed to parsers.
In addition, it is also widely used by the callers as the decoding (when
demuxer) or encoding (when muxing) context, though this has been
officially discouraged since Libav 11.
There are multiple important problems with this approach:
- the fields in AVCodecContext are in general one of
* stream parameters
* codec options
* codec state
However, it's not clear which ones are which. It is consequently
unclear which fields are a demuxer allowed to set or a muxer allowed to
read. This leads to erratic behaviour depending on whether decoding or
encoding is being performed or not (and whether it uses the AVStream
embedded codec context).
- various synchronization issues arising from the fact that the same
context is used by several different APIs (muxers/demuxers,
parsers, bitstream filters and encoders/decoders) simultaneously, with
there being no clear rules for who can modify what and the different
processes being typically delayed with respect to each other.
- avformat_find_stream_info() making it necessary to support opening
and closing a single codec context multiple times, thus
complicating the semantics of freeing various allocated objects in the
codec context.
Those problems are resolved by replacing the AVStream embedded codec
context with a newly added AVCodecParameters instance, which stores only
the stream parameters exported by the demuxers or read by the muxers.
* commit 'bb4a310bb85f43e62240145a656b1e5285b14239':
rtpdec: Don't free the payload context in the .free function
Conflicts:
libavformat/rtpdec_latm.c
libavformat/rtpdec_mpeg4.c
libavformat/rtpdec_mpegts.c
libavformat/rtpdec_xiph.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '5d8cae45737bed6239bd6b6e0698802dbe1463c8':
rtpdec: Get rid of all trivial .alloc/.free functions
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Many of these functions were named foo_free_context, and since
the functions no longer should free the context itself, only
allocated elements within it, the previous naming was slightly
misleading.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This makes it more consistent with depacketizers that don't have any
.free function at all, where the payload context is freed by the
surrounding framework. Always free the context in the surrounding
framework, having the individual depacketizers only free any data
they've specifically allocated themselves.
This is similar to how this works for demuxer/muxers/codecs - a
component shouldn't free the priv_data that the framework has
allocated for it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
* commit '0307cc2253e76772b1c645ac6117d08da87a147c':
rtpdec: pass an AVFormatContext to ff_parse_fmtp()
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit 'c6f1dc8e4cd967ae056698eafb891a08003c211c':
rtpdec: Move setting the parsing flags to the actual depacketizers
rtpdec: Split handling of mpeg12 audio/video to a separate depacketizer
Conflicts:
libavformat/rtpdec.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '90c784cc13f6bf21a8eb69f3b88b50c7a70f6c59':
rtpdec: Pass the sequence number to depacketizers
configure: Make avconv depend on null, anull and resample filters
Conflicts:
configure
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
dv1394: Swap the min and max values of the 'standard' option
rtpdec_vp8: Don't parse fields that aren't used
lavc: add some AVPacket doxy.
audiointerleave: deobfuscate a function call.
rtpdec: factorize identical code used in several handlers
a64: remove interleaved mode.
doc: Point to the new location of the c99-to-c89 tool
decode_audio3: initialize AVFrame
ws-snd1: set channel layout
wmavoice: set channel layout
wmapro: use AVCodecContext.channels instead of keeping a private copy
wma: do not keep private copies of some AVCodecContext fields
Conflicts:
libavcodec/wmadec.c
libavcodec/wmaenc.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '0a7005bebd23ade7bb852bce0401af1a8fdbb723':
rtpdec_xiph: fix function return type
smjpeg: fix type of 'ret' variable in smjpeg_read_packet()
mpegvideo: remove write-only variable
Use proper return values in case of missing features
fate: add avstring test
rangecoder-test: Set error message log level to error, instead of debug
Conflicts:
libavcodec/aacdec.c
libavcodec/amrnbdec.c
libavcodec/mpegvideo.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
rtsp: Don't use av_malloc(0) if there are no streams
rtsp: Don't use uninitialized data if there are no streams
vaapi: mpeg2: fix slice_vertical_position calculation.
hwaccel: mpeg2: decode first field, if requested.
cosmetics: Fix indentation
rtsp: Don't expose the MS-RTSP RTX data stream to the caller
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This avoids exposing a dummy AVStream which won't get any data
and which will make avformat_find_stream_info wait for info about
this stream.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
* qatar/master:
Handle unicode file names on windows
rtp: Rename the open/close functions to alloc/free
Lowercase all ff* program names.
Refer to ff* tools by their lowercase names.
NOT Pulled Replace more FFmpeg instances by Libav or ffmpeg.
Replace `` by $() syntax in shell scripts.
patcheck: Allow overiding grep program(s) through environment variables.
NOT Pulled Remove stray libavcore and _g binary references.
vorbis: Rename decoder/encoder files to follow general file naming scheme.
aacenc: Fix whitespace after last commit.
cook: Fix small typo in av_log_ask_for_sample message.
aacenc: Finish 3GPP psymodel analysis for non mid/side cases.
Remove RDFT dependency from AAC decoder.
Add some debug log messages to AAC extradata
Fix mov debug (u)int64_t format strings.
bswap: use native types for av_bwap16().
doc: FLV muxing is supported.
applehttp: Handle AES-128 encrypted streams
Add a protocol handler for AES CBC decryption with PKCS7 padding
doc: Mention that DragonFly BSD requires __BSD_VISIBLE set
Conflicts:
ffplay.c
ffprobe.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
