From 2899a28cdcc63a97d476de2bba523033d8b02486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aurelien Jacobs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 20:49:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document the fact that av_new_stream() can't be called in a background thread Originally committed as revision 25379 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- libavformat/avformat.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h index feb285b..d55a446 100644 --- a/libavformat/avformat.h +++ b/libavformat/avformat.h @@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ typedef struct AVInputFormat { /** * Read one packet and put it in 'pkt'. pts and flags are also * set. 'av_new_stream' can be called only if the flag - * AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER is used. + * AVFMTCTX_NOHEADER is used and only in the calling thread (not in a + * background thread). * @return 0 on success, < 0 on error. * When returning an error, pkt must not have been allocated * or must be freed before returning -- 2.7.4