[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v0 10/14] avcodec: add function for setting avctx side data

[Jan Ekström]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 12:49 PM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Jan Ekström (2023-03-21 00:34:04)
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > index 30f1d312f4..8f535a0cc8 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > @@ -3223,6 +3223,18 @@ void av_fast_padded_mallocz(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size);
> >   */
> >  int avcodec_is_open(AVCodecContext *s);
> >
> > +/**
> > + * Configure a side data set to an encoder AVCodecContext. With multiple
> > + * calls new side data gets added in addition to the existing set of side data.
>
> I have no idea what does "configure" mean in this context and what
> effect will this actually have.
>

It becomes available to any encoder which utilizes it for
configuration of itself, basically.

Jan