lavf: Document the codec context initialization

During remuxing avcodec_copy_context() is discouraged as certain fields
(such as codec_tag) could reflect invalid values between input and
output contextes.
pull/113/head^2
Vittorio Giovara 10 years ago
parent cb70a93ca1
commit bb7701684c
  1. 4
      libavformat/avformat.h

@ -198,6 +198,10 @@
* be set to the timebase that the caller desires to use for this stream (note * be set to the timebase that the caller desires to use for this stream (note
* that the timebase actually used by the muxer can be different, as will be * that the timebase actually used by the muxer can be different, as will be
* described later). * described later).
* - It is advised to manually initialize only the relevant fields in
* AVCodecContext, rather than using @ref avcodec_copy_context() during
* remuxing: there is no guarantee that the codec context values remain valid
* for both input and output format contexts.
* - The caller may fill in additional information, such as @ref * - The caller may fill in additional information, such as @ref
* AVFormatContext.metadata "global" or @ref AVStream.metadata "per-stream" * AVFormatContext.metadata "global" or @ref AVStream.metadata "per-stream"
* metadata, @ref AVFormatContext.chapters "chapters", @ref * metadata, @ref AVFormatContext.chapters "chapters", @ref

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