[Libav-user] Decoding/encoding api

[Steve]

Timur Guseynov wrote
> I'm a bit confused with decoding/encoding api. I've read this
> <https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/3.1/group__lavc__encdec.html>
> documentation and
> it says "Receive output in a loop. Periodically call one of the
> avcodec_receive_*()...".
> 
> avcodec_receive_frame() docs say "the function will always call
> av_frame_unref(frame) before doing anything else." The same goes for
> avcodec_receive_packet().
> 
> So, for example, I will write such code:
> 
> AVCodecContext *codecContext;
> AVPacket *packet;
> AVFrame *frame;
> // allocating codec context, getting packet
> .................................
> //
> avcodec_send_packet(codecContext, packet);
> while(avcodec_receive_frame(codecContext, frame) == 0)
> {
> }
> 
> Will this code be functioning right?
> 
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The doc for avcodec_receive_packet has  you need to check a typo, it calls
av_packet_unref. This is just convenience, you would have to call
av_packet_unref or av_frame_unref yourself otherwise on each turn.

Your code would be ok but you need to call av_packet_unref at the end
because you retain ownership of the packet.



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