#define AVFMT_NOBINSEARCH 0x2000 /**< Format does not allow to fallback to binary search via read_timestamp */
#define AVFMT_NOGENSEARCH 0x4000 /**< Format does not allow to fallback to generic search */
#define AVFMT_NO_BYTE_SEEK 0x8000 /**< Format does not allow seeking by bytes */
+#define AVFMT_ALLOW_FLUSH 0x10000 /**< Format allows flushing. If not set, the muxer will not receive a NULL packet in the write_packet function. */
/**
* @addtogroup lavf_encoding
enum CodecID audio_codec; /**< default audio codec */
enum CodecID video_codec; /**< default video codec */
int (*write_header)(struct AVFormatContext *);
+ /**
+ * Write a packet. If AVFMT_ALLOW_FLUSH is set in flags,
+ * pkt can be NULL in order to flush data buffered in the muxer.
+ * When flushing, return 0 if there still is more data to flush,
+ * or 1 if everything was flushed and there is no more buffered
+ * data.
+ */
int (*write_packet)(struct AVFormatContext *, AVPacket *pkt);
int (*write_trailer)(struct AVFormatContext *);
/**
* can use flags: AVFMT_NOFILE, AVFMT_NEEDNUMBER, AVFMT_RAWPICTURE,
* AVFMT_GLOBALHEADER, AVFMT_NOTIMESTAMPS, AVFMT_VARIABLE_FPS,
- * AVFMT_NODIMENSIONS, AVFMT_NOSTREAMS
+ * AVFMT_NODIMENSIONS, AVFMT_NOSTREAMS, AVFMT_ALLOW_FLUSH
*/
int flags;
/**
*
* @param s media file handle
* @param pkt The packet, which contains the stream_index, buf/buf_size,
- dts/pts, ...
- * @return < 0 on error, = 0 if OK, 1 if end of stream wanted
+ * dts/pts, ...
+ * This can be NULL (at any time, not just at the end), in
+ * order to immediately flush data buffered within the muxer,
+ * for muxers that buffer up data internally before writing it
+ * to the output.
+ * @return < 0 on error, = 0 if OK, 1 if flushed and there is no more data to flush
*/
int av_write_frame(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt);
int av_write_frame(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt)
{
- int ret = compute_pkt_fields2(s, s->streams[pkt->stream_index], pkt);
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!pkt) {
+ if (s->oformat->flags & AVFMT_ALLOW_FLUSH)
+ return s->oformat->write_packet(s, pkt);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ ret = compute_pkt_fields2(s, s->streams[pkt->stream_index], pkt);
if(ret<0 && !(s->oformat->flags & AVFMT_NOTIMESTAMPS))
return ret;