Since it is declared as a string AVOption, the generic freeing code
attempts to free it on codec close. Some codecs might have already freed
it elsewhere (or didn't even allocate it with av_malloc() in the first
place), so this might lead to an invalid free.
There is no point in having this field accessible as an AVOption, so
remove it from the options table.
Fixes Bug 380.
CC: libav-stable@libav.org
These functions are not faster than other mmx implementations on
any hardware I have been able to test on, and they are horribly
inaccurate. There is thus no reason to ever use them.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Its documentation states that it is allocated/freed by the caller, but
it is declared as an AV_OPT_TYPE_STRING AVOption. Since
367732832f the AVOptions system frees
strings automatically. This can be considered an API break, since it
won't work when the caller doesn't use av_malloc() to allocate the
memory or wants to use the string after closing the codec.
Since there is not much value in this field being an AVOption, the best
solution is to remove it from the options table.
