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Andreas Rheinhardt 725e2300af avcodec/mpegvideo: Enable private contexts
MpegEncContext is used by many different codecs and
every one of these uses just a subset of its fields.
If one tries to separate this and e.g. add a real MpegContext
and extension structures (say MpegDecContext and MpegEncContext),
one runs into two difficulties:

a) Some code is shared between decoder and encoder of
the same format and they therefore use the same contexts,
either MpegEncContext itself or identical extensions thereof.
The latter is the case for H.261 as well as WMV2.
b) In case of slice threading, the generic code can only allocate
and initialize the structure it knows about; right now this is
an MpegEncContext. If the codec has an even more extensive structure,
it is only available for the main thread's MpegEncContext.
Fixing this would involve making ff_mpv_common_init() aware
of the size the size of slice context to allocate and would be
part of separating the main thread's context from the slice contexts
in general.

This commit only intends to tackle the first issue by adding
a pointer to MpegEncContext that codecs can set to a common
context so that the aforementioned codecs can use this context
(together with the MpegEncContext) in their common code.
This will allow to move fields only used by the main thread
to more specialized contexts.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
2022-02-13 15:16:28 +01:00
2021-03-09 02:09:55 +00:00
2019-12-28 11:20:48 +01:00

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 means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected 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 and qt-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.

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