[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil/frame: document data alignment restriction

[Muhammad Faiz]

The behaviour is based on assumptions:
    - copying audio data is cheap, so keeping data alignment is cheap,
    - copying video data is not cheap, so keeping data alignment is not cheap,
      e.g. crop filter.

Should fix Ticket6349.
Note that after fc3a03fcf9cd7eafe7342e2508e6128888efa0bb, the crash has
been fixed.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Faiz <mfcc64 at gmail.com>
---
 libavutil/frame.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavutil/frame.h b/libavutil/frame.h
index 26261d7e40..1b08eec231 100644
--- a/libavutil/frame.h
+++ b/libavutil/frame.h
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ typedef struct AVFrame {
      * up to 16 bytes beyond the planes, if these filters are to be used,
      * then 16 extra bytes must be allocated.
      *
+     * For audio, the data should be aligned to CPUs alignment preference.
+     * For video, no restriction on the alignment.
+     *
      * NOTE: Except for hwaccel formats, pointers not needed by the format
      * MUST be set to NULL.
      */
-- 
2.13.2