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 'a717f9904227d7979473bad40c50eb40af41d01d':
mpegts: Share the cleanup code between the demuxer and lavf-internal parser functions
rtpdec_mpeg4: Return one AAC AU per AVPacket
ppc: Include string.h for memset
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This makes the returned data valid to stream copy into other
containers as well, not only for decoding straight away.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
* qatar/master:
lavc: Move vector_fmul_window to AVFloatDSPContext
rtpdec_mpeg4: Check the remaining amount of data before reading
Conflicts:
libavcodec/dsputil.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '977d4a3b8a2dbc2fb5e747c7072485016c9cdfaa':
rtpdec_mpeg4: Check the return value from malloc
srtp: Mark a few variables as uninitialized
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>
* commit 'f3f60dcbdd6ff2201526a603fe28293975bb7667':
rtpdec_mpeg4: Cosmetic cleanup
rtpdec: Cosmetic cleanup of the header
rtpdec: Get rid of a useless _s suffix on a struct name
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit 'cbcd497f384f0f8ef3f76f85b29b644b900d6b9f':
adxdec: use planar sample format
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_thp
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_ea_xas
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_ea_r1/r2/r3
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_xa
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_ima_ws for vqa version 3
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_4xm
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_ima_wav
adpcmdec: use planar sample format for adpcm_ima_qt
pcmdec: use planar sample format for pcm_lxf
mace: use planar sample format
atrac1: use planar sample format
build: non-x86: Only compile mpegvideo optimizations when necessary
rtpdec_mpeg4: au_headers is a single array, simple av_free is enough
avcodec: free extended_data instead address of it
fate: Add tests of the ff_make_absolute_url function
url: Handle relative urls starting with two slashes
url: Handle relative urls being just a new query string
url: Don't treat slashes in query parameters as directory separators
Conflicts:
libavcodec/adxdec.c
libavcodec/mips/Makefile
libavcodec/pcm.c
libavcodec/utils.c
libavformat/Makefile
libavformat/utils.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
