document how to free the result of av_alloc_format_context()

Originally committed as revision 11225 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
17 years ago · 88808c60af
parent 30dc554153
commit 88808c60af
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@ -569,7 +569,11 @@ int av_open_input_file(AVFormatContext **ic_ptr, const char *filename,
                       AVInputFormat *fmt,
                       int buf_size,
                       AVFormatParameters *ap);
-/** no av_open for output, so applications will need this: */
+/**
+ * Allocate an AVFormatContext.
+ * can be freed with av_free() but dont forget to free everything you
+ * explicitly allocated as well!
+ */
 AVFormatContext *av_alloc_format_context(void);

 /**