Document the need of buf=NULL buf_size=0 at the end to obtain all frames.

Originally committed as revision 16482 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
16 years ago · 1b9bbf8674
parent 0d9efa287a
commit 1b9bbf8674
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--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@ -2797,6 +2797,9 @@ int avcodec_decode_audio2(AVCodecContext *avctx, int16_t *samples,
 * the linesize is not a multiple of 16 then there's no sense in aligning the
 * start of the buffer to 16.
 *
+ * @note Some codecs have a delay between input and output, these need to be
+ * feeded with buf=NULL, buf_size=0 at the end to return the remaining frames.
+ *
 * @param avctx the codec context
 * @param[out] picture The AVFrame in which the decoded video frame will be stored.
 * @param[in] buf the input buffer