[SCM] libav/experimental: Clarify what av_read_frame() returns.
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siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
Sun Jun 30 17:15:49 UTC 2013
The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit 4faf628f2015b7c04510d39a99a2c52f11b765f3
Author: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
Date: Tue Sep 14 22:20:46 2010 +0000
Clarify what av_read_frame() returns.
Originally committed as revision 25123 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index ed9dfb3..0520530 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -1088,6 +1088,11 @@ int av_read_packet(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt);
/**
* Return the next frame of a stream.
+ * This function returns what is stored in the file, and does not validate
+ * that what is there are valid frames for the decoder. It will split what is
+ * stored in the file into frames and return one for each call. It will not
+ * omit invalid data between valid frames so as to give the decoder the maximum
+ * information possible for decoding.
*
* The returned packet is valid
* until the next av_read_frame() or until av_close_input_file() and
--
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