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Up until now, an AVFilter's lists of input and output AVFilterPads were terminated by a sentinel and the only way to get the length of these lists was by using avfilter_pad_count(). This has two drawbacks: first, sizeof(AVFilterPad) is not negligible (i.e. 64B on 64bit systems); second, getting the size involves a function call instead of just reading the data. This commit therefore changes this. The sentinels are removed and new private fields nb_inputs and nb_outputs are added to AVFilter that contain the number of elements of the respective AVFilterPad array. Given that AVFilter.(in|out)puts are the only arrays of zero-terminated AVFilterPads an API user has access to (AVFilterContext.(in|out)put_pads are not zero-terminated and they already have a size field) the argument to avfilter_pad_count() is always one of these lists, so it just has to find the filter the list belongs to and read said number. This is slower than before, but a replacement function that just reads the internal numbers that users are expected to switch to will be added soon; and furthermore, avfilter_pad_count() is probably never called in hot loops anyway. This saves about 49KiB from the binary; notice that these sentinels are not in .bss despite being zeroed: they are in .data.rel.ro due to the non-sentinels. Reviewed-by: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.