[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avutil: add HDR10+ dynamic metadata serialization function

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Raphaël Zumer (2023-03-02 22:43:29)
> +/**
> + * Serialize dynamic HDR10+ metadata to a user data registered ITU-T T.35 buffer,
> + * excluding the country code and beginning with the terminal provider code.
> + * @param s A pointer containing the decoded AVDynamicHDRPlus structure.
> + *
> + * @return Pointer to an AVBufferRef containing the raw ITU-T T.35 representation
> + *         of the HDR10+ metadata if succeed, or NULL if buffer allocation fails.
> + */
> +AVBufferRef *av_dynamic_hdr_plus_to_t35(AVDynamicHDRPlus *s);

Why is this an AVBufferRef rather than a plain av_malloced() uint8_t
array? You can very easily turn the latter into the former, but the
reverse is a lot more annoying.

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Anton Khirnov