[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v6 1/3] avcodec: add flags for packets with top/bottom field

Rostislav Pehlivanov atomnuker at gmail.com
Sat May 19 00:28:42 EEST 2018


On 18 May 2018 at 22:17, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

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>
> But I think a new side data type would be much saner. We could even
> just make it something generic, like AV_PKT_DATA_ANCILLARY or
> something. It's apparently just packet data which somehow couldn't go
> into the packet data.
>

I agree, a generic ancillary side data type sounds better. It would have to
be handled the same way as mastering metadata (e.g. to allocate it you'd
need to use a separate function), since the size of the data struct can't
be part of the API if we intend to add fields later.
Patrick, if you're okay with that you should submit a patch which bases
such side data on libavutil/mastering_display_metadata.h/.c


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