This structure served as a bridge between data pointers and frames,
but it suffers from several limitations:
- it is not refcounted and data must be copied to every time
- it cannot be expanded without ABI break due to being used on the stack
- its functions are just wrappers to imgutils which add a layer of
unneeded indirection, and maintenance burden
- it allows hacks like embedding uncompressed data in packets
- its use is often confusing to our users
AVFrame provides a much better API, and, if a full blown frame is not
needed, it is just as simple and more straightfoward to use data and
linesize arrays directly.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
The number of pixel formats outgrew the number of available bits in
the bitmask used in avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt().
avcodec_find_best_pix_fmt2() uses a PIX_FMT_NONE terminated list
of pixel formats instead.
It's never been touched or used in any way since it was added in 2003
and only works for PIX_FMT_PAL8, which makes me conclude that nobody's
ever used it.
It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
Signed-off-by: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
The new implementation is more compact, more correct and doesn't hurt
the eyes.
Originally committed as revision 25792 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
descriptors for printing the number of channels/components.
Also replace the term "nb_channels" with "nb_components" which is more
consistent with the FFmpeg internal terminology, and is somehow
different with respect to the current definition of nb_channels in
PixFmtInfo.
See thread:
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 6/8] Make avcodec_pix_fmt_string() use the
information in the pixel format descriptors for printing the
number of planes. Also replace the term "nb_channels" with
"nb_planes" which is more correct.
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:01:38 +0100
Originally committed as revision 25717 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk