avutil.h

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/*
 * copyright (c) 2006 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
 *
 * This file is part of FFmpeg.
 *
 * FFmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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 *
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 */

#ifndef AVUTIL_AVUTIL_H
#define AVUTIL_AVUTIL_H

/**
 * @file
 * external API header
 */

/**
 * @mainpage
 *
 * @section ffmpeg_intro Introduction
 *
 * This document describes the usage of the different libraries
 * provided by FFmpeg.
 *
 * @li @ref libavc "libavcodec" encoding/decoding library
 * @li @ref lavfi "libavfilter" graph based frame editing library
 * @li @ref libavf "libavformat" I/O and muxing/demuxing library
 * @li @ref lavd "libavdevice" special devices muxing/demuxing library
 * @li @ref lavu "libavutil" common utility library
 * @li @ref lswr "libswresample" audio resampling, format conversion and mixing
 * @li @ref lpp  "libpostproc" post processing library
 * @li @ref lsws "libswscale" color conversion and scaling library
 */

/**
 * @defgroup lavu Common utility functions
 *
 * @brief
 * libavutil contains the code shared across all the other FFmpeg
 * libraries
 *
 * @note In order to use the functions provided by avutil you must include
 * the specific header.
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_crypto Crypto and Hashing
 *
 * @{
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_math Maths
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_string String Manipulation
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_mem Memory Management
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_data Data Structures
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_audio Audio related
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_error Error Codes
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_misc Other
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_internal Internal
 *
 * Not exported functions, for internal usage only
 *
 * @{
 *
 * @}
 */


/**
 * @addtogroup lavu_ver
 * @{
 */

/**
 * Return the LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT constant.
 */
unsigned avutil_version(void);

/**
 * Return the libavutil build-time configuration.
 */
const char *avutil_configuration(void);

/**
 * Return the libavutil license.
 */
const char *avutil_license(void);

/**
 * @}
 */

/**
 * @addtogroup lavu_media Media Type
 * @brief Media Type
 */

enum AVMediaType {
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_UNKNOWN = -1,  ///< Usually treated as AVMEDIA_TYPE_DATA
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO,
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_AUDIO,
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_DATA,          ///< Opaque data information usually continuous
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_SUBTITLE,
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_ATTACHMENT,    ///< Opaque data information usually sparse
    AVMEDIA_TYPE_NB
};

/**
 * Return a string describing the media_type enum, NULL if media_type
 * is unknown.
 */
const char *av_get_media_type_string(enum AVMediaType media_type);

/**
 * @defgroup lavu_const Constants
 * @{
 *
 * @defgroup lavu_enc Encoding specific
 *
 * @note those definition should move to avcodec
 * @{
 */

#define FF_LAMBDA_SHIFT 7
#define FF_LAMBDA_SCALE (1<<FF_LAMBDA_SHIFT)
#define FF_QP2LAMBDA 118 ///< factor to convert from H.263 QP to lambda
#define FF_LAMBDA_MAX (256*128-1)

#define FF_QUALITY_SCALE FF_LAMBDA_SCALE //FIXME maybe remove

/**
 * @}
 * @defgroup lavu_time Timestamp specific
 *
 * FFmpeg internal timebase and timestamp definitions
 *
 * @{
 */

/**
 * @brief Undefined timestamp value
 *
 * Usually reported by demuxer that work on containers that do not provide
 * either pts or dts.
 */

#define AV_NOPTS_VALUE          ((int64_t)UINT64_C(0x8000000000000000))

/**
 * Internal time base represented as integer
 */

#define AV_TIME_BASE            1000000

/**
 * Internal time base represented as fractional value
 */

#define AV_TIME_BASE_Q          (AVRational){1, AV_TIME_BASE}

/**
 * @}
 * @}
 * @defgroup lavu_picture Image related
 *
 * AVPicture types, pixel formats and basic image planes manipulation.
 *
 * @{
 */

enum AVPictureType {
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_NONE = 0, ///< Undefined
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_I,     ///< Intra
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_P,     ///< Predicted
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_B,     ///< Bi-dir predicted
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_S,     ///< S(GMC)-VOP MPEG4
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_SI,    ///< Switching Intra
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_SP,    ///< Switching Predicted
    AV_PICTURE_TYPE_BI,    ///< BI type
};

/**
 * Return a single letter to describe the given picture type
 * pict_type.
 *
 * @param[in] pict_type the picture type @return a single character
 * representing the picture type, '?' if pict_type is unknown
 */
char av_get_picture_type_char(enum AVPictureType pict_type);

/**
 * @}
 */

#include "common.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "version.h"
#include "mathematics.h"
#include "rational.h"
#include "intfloat_readwrite.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "pixfmt.h"

/**
 * Return x default pointer in case p is NULL.
 */
static inline void *av_x_if_null(const void *p, const void *x)
{
    return (void *)(intptr_t)(p ? p : x);
}

/**
 * @}
 * @}
 */

#endif /* AVUTIL_AVUTIL_H */