[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: list the allocation requirements for intra_matrix and inter_matrix fields

[James Almer]

Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
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See https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d86c4c87aa78130a4fd00294e25df865d0e2b327

 libavcodec/avcodec.h | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 2528bd89ab..646b8f05fc 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -2057,15 +2057,19 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
 
     /**
      * custom intra quantization matrix
-     * - encoding: Set by user, can be NULL.
-     * - decoding: Set by libavcodec.
+     * Must be allocated with the av_malloc() family of functions, and will be freed in
+     * avcodec_free_context().
+     * - encoding: Set/allocated by user. Freed by libavcodec. Can be NULL.
+     * - decoding: Set/allocated/freed by libavcodec.
      */
     uint16_t *intra_matrix;
 
     /**
      * custom inter quantization matrix
-     * - encoding: Set by user, can be NULL.
-     * - decoding: Set by libavcodec.
+     * Must be allocated with the av_malloc() family of functions, and will be freed in
+     * avcodec_free_context().
+     * - encoding: Set/allocated by user. Freed by libavcodec. Can be NULL.
+     * - decoding: Set/allocated/freed by libavcodec.
      */
     uint16_t *inter_matrix;
 
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