[FFmpeg-devel] Any way to delay input frame in avcodec_encode_video2

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 06:12:35PM +0400, Smirnov eugene wrote:
> Currently AVFrame passed to encoder has const modifier, this logically
> prevents me from using any manipulation with buffer references, like
> av_frame_ref, and av_frame_unref. However writing an asynchronous encoder
> I’m thinking it doesn’t make sense to copy entire AVFrame data planes for
> every frame from performance point of view. Looking at libx264 integration
> there is nothing to do with av_frame_ref, so internally x264 does copy of
> all uncompressed in help of x264_frame_copy_picture().
> 

> Why const modifier is so necessary?

its not necessary, and some encoders change fields IIRC in it anyway



> Will there be any problems if I start
> using c-style cast in form of (AVFrame*)frame and then play with
> av_frame_ref / unref functions

the only sure way to find out is to try

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