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.
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>
If src_len is too small for nal_size, we already print a warning
above, and the next step is to check the while loop condition
anyway, so this one serves no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Previously, errors were only logged but the code kept on trying,
and never actually returning the error as a return value.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Including libavcodec/get_bits.h is superfluous for AV_RB16 - nothing
in this file uses any actual bitstream reader.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Add/fix spacing, split long lines, align assignments where suitable.
Signed-off-by: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Split long comments, move long comments at the end of lines to
separate lines above, fix vertical alignment, fix up comment style
(unify trailing dots - comments had a mix of 2, 3 or 4 dots, where
it would be just as good without them at all).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
It is worth keeping instead of removing, in case reading this
bit becomes necessary at some later point.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
