Quoting Mark Thompson (2017-02-02 13:48:47)
> For use by codec implementations which can allocate frames internally.
> ---
> Go back to setting hw_device_ctx before avcodec_open2() only. Clarify
> interaction with hw_frames_ctx, including the possibility that a device is
> required for everything else to work.
>
>
> doc/APIchanges | 3 +++
> libavcodec/avcodec.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> libavcodec/utils.c | 1 +
> libavcodec/version.h | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
> index c161618..6940585 100644
> --- a/doc/APIchanges
> +++ b/doc/APIchanges
> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ libavutil: 2015-08-28
>
> API changes, most recent first:
>
> +2017-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.34.0 - avcodec.h
> + Add AVCodecContext.hw_device_ctx.
> +
> 2017-02-01 - xxxxxxx - lavc - avcodec.h
> Deprecate AVCodecContext.refcounted_frames. This was useful for deprecated
> API only (avcodec_decode_video2/avcodec_decode_audio4). The new decode APIs
> diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> index 8d8fa59..b7bf85a 100644
> --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> @@ -3093,7 +3093,8 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
> /**
> * A reference to the AVHWFramesContext describing the input (for
> encoding)
> * or output (decoding) frames. The reference is set by the caller and
> - * afterwards owned (and freed) by libavcodec.
> + * afterwards owned (and freed) by libavcodec - it should never be read
> by
> + * the caller after being set.
> *
> * - decoding: This field should be set by the caller from the
> get_format()
> * callback. The previous reference (if any) will always be
> @@ -3139,6 +3140,28 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
> * (with the display dimensions being determined by the crop_* fields).
> */
> int apply_cropping;
> +
> + /**
> + * A reference to the AVHWDeviceContext describing the device which will
> + * be used by a hardware encoder/decoder. The reference is set by the
> + * caller and afterwards owned (and freed) by libavcodec.
> + *
> + * This should be used if either the codec device does not require
> + * hardware frames or any that are used are to be allocated internally by
> + * libavcodec. If the user wishes to supply any of the frames used as
> + * encoder input or decoder output then hw_frames_ctx should be used
> + * instead. When hw_frames_ctx is set in get_format() for a decoder,
> this
> + * field will be ignored while decoding the associated stream segment,
> but
> + * may again be used on a following one after another get_format() call.
> + *
> + * For both encoders and decoders this field should be set before
> + * avcodec_open2() is called and must not be written to thereafter.
> + *
> + * Note that some decoders may require this field to be set initially in
> + * order to support hw_frames_ctx at all - in that case, all frames
> + * contexts used must be created on the same device.
> + */
> + AVBufferRef *hw_device_ctx;
> } AVCodecContext;
>
> /**
> diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
> index 2978109..1d316bd 100644
> --- a/libavcodec/utils.c
> +++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
> @@ -801,6 +801,7 @@ av_cold int avcodec_close(AVCodecContext *avctx)
> avctx->nb_coded_side_data = 0;
>
> av_buffer_unref(&avctx->hw_frames_ctx);
> + av_buffer_unref(&avctx->hw_device_ctx);
>
> if (avctx->priv_data && avctx->codec && avctx->codec->priv_class)
> av_opt_free(avctx->priv_data);
> diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
> index 2ade539..a6eda6a 100644
> --- a/libavcodec/version.h
> +++ b/libavcodec/version.h
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> #include "libavutil/version.h"
>
> #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR 57
> -#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 33
> +#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 34
> #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO 0
>
> #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR, \
> --
> 2.7.4
LGTM
--
Anton Khirnov
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