Since bae8844e351, the packet is automatically unreferenced in
ff_read_packet() when an error is returned; but the documentation of
this of AVInputFormat.read_packet has not been updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinha...@gmail.com>
---
libavformat/avformat.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index d4d9a3b06e..9b9b634ec3 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -715,8 +715,7 @@ typedef struct AVInputFormat {
* AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER is used and only in the calling thread (not in a
* background thread).
* @return 0 on success, < 0 on error.
- * When returning an error, pkt must not have been allocated
- * or must be freed before returning
+ * Upon returning an error, pkt must be unreferenced by the caller.
*/
int (*read_packet)(struct AVFormatContext *, AVPacket *pkt);
--
2.20.1
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