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.
* qatar/master: (24 commits)
yop: set channel layout
wtv: set channel layout for mpeg audio
westwood_aud: set channel layout
wc3movie: set channel layout
tmv: set channel layout
tiertexseq: set channel layout
swfdec: set channel layout
sol: set channel layout
smacker: set channel layout
siff: set channel layout
sierravmd: set channel layout
rtpdec_amr: set channel layout
rsodec: set channel layout
rmdec: set channel layout for RA version 3
qcp: set channel layout
psxstr: set channel layout
omadec: set channel layout
oggparsespeex: validate channel count and set channel layout
nuv: set channel layout
mxg: set channel layout
...
Conflicts:
libavformat/swfdec.c
libavformat/wtv.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
avformat: Drop pointless "format" from container long names
swscale: bury one more piece of inline asm under HAVE_INLINE_ASM.
wv: K&R formatting cosmetics
configure: Add missing descriptions to help output
h264_ps: declare array of colorspace strings on its own line.
fate: amix: specify f32 sample format for comparison
tiny_psnr: support 32-bit float samples
eamad/eatgq/eatqi: call special EA IDCT directly
eamad: remove use of MpegEncContext
mpegvideo: remove unnecessary inclusions of faandct.h
af_asyncts: avoid overflow in out_size with large delta values
af_asyncts: add first_pts option
Conflicts:
configure
libavcodec/eamad.c
libavcodec/h264_ps.c
libavformat/crcenc.c
libavformat/ffmdec.c
libavformat/ffmenc.c
libavformat/framecrcenc.c
libavformat/md5enc.c
libavformat/nutdec.c
libavformat/rawenc.c
libavformat/yuv4mpeg.c
tests/tiny_psnr.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
