[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware acceleration decoding question

[Asaf Kave]

Thanks Timo for the reply , no it's clear to me, and sorry for the question
location i made.


On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:29 PM Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org>
wrote:

> On 23.05.2019 10:06, Asaf Kave wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am using FFmpeg libarary in my software to do HW decoding for video
> > (H.264\H.265) on windows machine.
> > My decoding is based on 'hw_decode.c' example, and after i call decode a
> > frame i am using  AVFrame::data[3] to get the pointer to
> > the IDirect3DSurface9 and use it in my video player.
> >
> > i didn't find any direction\example how to handle this pointer after i
> done
> > with it, do i need to release it? or the library is responsible for that
> ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Asaf
>
> This list is about development of FFmpeg itself, not for developing
> against its libraries. You are probably looking for libav-users.
>
> Regarding your question, the Hardware Buffers are wrapped in the
> internal buffers of the frame. So whenever you unref the frame, you
> should consider them as freed.
> In reality they just going to be re-used though.
>
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