Make it clear that the returned reference is owned by the caller. --- libavcodec/avcodec.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index c9baf859ac..cadd213301 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -3728,10 +3728,10 @@ int avcodec_send_packet(AVCodecContext *avctx, const AVPacket *avpkt); * Return decoded output data from a decoder. * * @param avctx codec context - * @param frame This will be set to a reference-counted video or audio - * frame (depending on the decoder type) allocated by the - * decoder. Note that the function will always call - * av_frame_unref(frame) before doing anything else. + * @param frame This parameter should point to a "clean" (unallocated) frame, + * into which the decoder will write a reference to the decoded + * frame. The returned reference is owned by the caller and must be + * freed with av_frame_unref(). * * @return * 0: success, a frame was returned -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
