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 'e926b5ceb1962833f0c884a328382bc2eca67aff':
avformat: Drop unnecessary ff_ name prefixes from static functions
Conflicts:
libavformat/audiointerleave.c
libavformat/mux.c
libavformat/mxfenc.c
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>
* qatar/master: (40 commits)
H.264: template left MB handling
H.264: faster fill_decode_caches
H.264: faster write_back_*
H.264: faster fill_filter_caches
H.264: make filter_mb_fast support the case of unavailable top mb
Do not include log.h in avutil.h
Do not include pixfmt.h in avutil.h
Do not include rational.h in avutil.h
Do not include mathematics.h in avutil.h
Do not include intfloat_readwrite.h in avutil.h
Remove return statements following infinite loops without break
RTSP: Doxygen comment cleanup
doxygen: Escape '\' in Doxygen documentation.
md5: cosmetics
md5: use AV_WL32 to write result
md5: add fate test
md5: include correct headers
md5: fix test program
doxygen: Drop array size declarations from Doxygen parameter names.
doxygen: Fix parameter names to match the function prototypes.
...
Conflicts:
libavcodec/x86/dsputil_mmx.c
libavformat/flvenc.c
libavformat/oggenc.c
libavformat/wtv.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Yes this breaks ABI/API but ive already broken it and will bump avutil major
soon.
Originally committed as revision 17869 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
outside of audiointerleave.c. Also remove the function declaration
from the header as it is now static.
Originally committed as revision 17068 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
