On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:39:31 +0200
Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14/10/15 11:33, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> > 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 <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/avcodec.h    | 50 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> >  libavcodec/avpicture.c  |  3 ++-
> >  libavcodec/imgconvert.c |  2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
> Ok, I'll add few helpers to avframe later.

Which helpers?
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