On 12/5/13, Bruce Wheaton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2013, at 3:41 AM, Paul B Mahol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/5/13, Eric Beuque <[email protected]> wrote: >>> How i can tell libavcodec that i want to become the owner of the data >>> and >>> be able to free it, to without codec context instance? I was thinking >>> about >>> using get/release_buffer functions, but i don't know how to compute size >>> of >>> the data. >>> >>> Is data memcpy the only way to do this? >>> >>> Note, that i also can't upgrade to new version of FFMPEG. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >> >> Use reference counting system. >> They you need to manually free frame once you will not need it >> (otherwise you leak memory), so you do not need to do copy. > > > In my recent experiments, it seemed that closing the codec actually frees > all buffers, regardless of reference count. That makes sense - if the codec > is gone, what would detect the decreased reference count?
That sound wrong to me, either when decoding or encoding frames should not be freed if frame is still used. > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > Libav-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user > _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
