Quoting wm4 (2016-01-12 12:04:22)
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:26:21 +0100
> Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > This is properly namespaced and consistent with the naming in the rest
> > of Libav. Also, add a constructor for this struct.
> > +} AVVAAPIContext;
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * Allocate and initialize a new context. When no longer needed, it must be
> > + * freed by the caller using av_free().
> > + */
> > +AVVAAPIContext *av_vaapi_context_alloc(void);
> >  
> 
> Maybe we should arrive at a consistent way to do this for hwaccels in
> general, instead of changing the API over an over?
> 

There already is a semi-consistent way -- in get_buffer() you allocate
the format-specific hwaccel struct (using the constructor in the
corresponding header) and fill it. Since the specific details of how
exactly it's filled are format specific, I don't see an obvious way to
improve this.

> I for one can't tell when this has to be called, where the resulting
> pointer has to be set, and when/how it has to be deallocated. (I could
> look at my own vaapi client code, I'm sure it'd come back to me. But it
> doesn't help anyone who is new to this.)
> 
> And it's the same (with subtle differences) for most other hwaccels.

Yes it is, which is why if any new docs are added, they should be in a
generic place, not specific to one given hwaccel.

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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