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Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/avcodec.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index 5ebad92604..b6a4b0ec24 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -2406,7 +2406,12 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext { * * Decoders cannot use the buffer after returning from * avcodec_decode_audio4(), so they will not call release_buffer(), as it - * is assumed to be released immediately upon return. + * is assumed to be released immediately upon return. In some rare cases, + * a decoder may need to call get_buffer() more than once in a single + * call to avcodec_decode_audio4(). In that case, when get_buffer() is + * called again after it has already been called once, the previously + * acquired buffer is assumed to be released at that time and may not be + * reused by the decoder. * * As a convenience, av_samples_get_buffer_size() and * av_samples_fill_arrays() in libavutil may be used by custom get_buffer() |