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The movie and amovie filters currently use two packets. One of the two, pkt0, is the owner of the returned packet; it is also the destination packet for av_read_frame(). The other one pkt is initially (i.e. after av_read_frame()) a copy of pkt0; copy means that the contents of both are absolutely the same: They both point to the same AVBufferRef and the same side data. This violation of the refcounted packet API is only possible because pkt is not considered to own its data. Only pkt0 is ever unreferenced. The reason for pkt's existence seems to be historic: The API used for decoding audio (namely avcodec_decode_audio4()) could consume frames partially, i.e. it could return multiple frames for one packet and therefore it returned how much of the input buffer had been consumed. The caller was then supposed to update the packet's data and size pointer to reflect this and call avcodec_decode_audio4() again with the updated packet to get the next frame. But before the introduction of refcounted AVPackets where knowledge and responsibility about what to free lies with the underlying AVBuffer such a procedure required a spare packet (or one would need to record the original data and size fields separately to restore them before freeing the packet; notice that this code has been written when AVPackets still had a destruct field). But these times are long gone, so just remove the secondary AVPacket. Reviewed-by: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com> |
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FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodec
provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformat
implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutil
includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilter
provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdevice
provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresample
implements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscale
implements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat
,ismindex
andqt-faststart
.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch
or git send-email
. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.