This is an extended version of the AVFrame.opaque field, which can be
used to attach arbitrary user information to an AVFrame.
The usefulness of the opaque field is rather limited, because it can
store only up to 32 bits of information (or 64 bit on 64 bit systems).
It's not possible to set this field to a memory allocation, because
there is no way to deallocate it correctly.
The opaque_ref field circumvents this by letting the user set an
AVBuffer, which makes the user data refcounted.
Signed-off-by: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
Currently it's exported as AVFrame.pkt_pts, which is also the only use
for that field. The reason it is done like this is that lavc used to
export various codec-specific "timing" information in AVFrame.pts, which
is not done anymore.
Since it is confusing to the callers to have a separate field which is
used only for decoder timestamps and nothing else, deprecate pkt_pts and
use just AVFrame.pts everywhere.
These field are difficult to interpret, and are provided by a single
encoder (mpegvideoenc). In general they do not belong to a structure
containing raw data only, so remove them from AVFrame.
Mpegvideoenc now uses a private field in Picture for its internal
computations.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
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Anton Khirnov
Diego Biurrun
Clément Bœsch
Vittorio Giovara
Luca Barbato
Roman Savchenko
Hendrik Leppkes
Janne Grunau