These tables are only used by encoders and only for the current picture;
ergo they need not be put into the picture at all, but rather into
the encoder's context. They also don't need to be refcounted,
because there is only one owner.
In contrast to this, the earlier code refcounts them which
incurs unnecessary overhead. These references are not unreferenced
in ff_mpeg_unref_picture() (they are kept in order to have something
like a buffer pool), so that several buffers are kept at the same
time, although only one is needed, thereby wasting memory.
The code also propagates references to other pictures not part of
the pictures array (namely the copy of the current/next/last picture
in the MpegEncContext which get references of their own). These
references are not unreferenced in ff_mpeg_unref_picture() (the
buffers are probably kept in order to have something like a pool),
yet if the current picture is a B-frame, it gets unreferenced
at the end of ff_mpv_encode_picture() and its slot in the picture
array will therefore be reused the next time; but the copy of the
current picture also still has its references and therefore
these buffers will be made duplicated in order to make them writable
in the next call to ff_mpv_encode_picture(). This is of course
unnecessary.
Finally, ff_find_unused_picture() is supposed to just return
any unused picture and the code is supposed to work with it;
yet for the vsynth*-mpeg4-adap tests the result depends upon
the content of these buffers; given that this patchset
changes the content of these buffers (the initial content is now
the state of these buffers after encoding the last frame;
before this patch the buffers used came from the last picture
that occupied the same slot in the picture array) their ref-files
needed to be changed. This points to a bug somewhere (if one removes
the initialization, one gets uninitialized reads in
adaptive_quantization in ratecontrol.c).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
