[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] lavu/frame: clarify doxy

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Thu Nov 25 17:33:15 EET 2021


AVFrame.data[] elements not used by the format should ALWAYS be null,
hwaccel formats are not an exception.
---
 libavutil/frame.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavutil/frame.h b/libavutil/frame.h
index f7be2340fd..b7be3fa441 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.h
+++ b/libavutil/frame.h
@@ -322,8 +322,7 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
      * up to 16 bytes beyond the planes, if these filters are to be used,
      * then 16 extra bytes must be allocated.
      *
-     * NOTE: Except for hwaccel formats, pointers not needed by the format
-     * MUST be set to NULL.
+     * NOTE: Pointers not needed by the format MUST be set to NULL.
      *
      * @attention In case of video, the data[] pointers can point to the
      * end of image data in order to reverse line order, when used in
-- 
2.33.0



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