libavformat: Add a function for freeing an AVFormatContext

This function is useful for freeing data structures allocated by
muxers, which currently have to be freed manually by the caller.

Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
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Martin Storsjö 2011-02-04 12:04:16 +02:00 committed by Ronald S. Bultje
parent 1338dc0823
commit f124b087ee
3 changed files with 17 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -1072,8 +1072,8 @@ attribute_deprecated AVFormatContext *av_alloc_format_context(void);
/**
* Allocate an AVFormatContext.
* Can be freed with av_free() but do not forget to free everything you
* explicitly allocated as well!
* avformat_free_context() can be used to free the context and everything
* allocated by the framework within it.
*/
AVFormatContext *avformat_alloc_context(void);
@ -1229,6 +1229,12 @@ void av_close_input_stream(AVFormatContext *s);
*/
void av_close_input_file(AVFormatContext *s);
/**
* Free an AVFormatContext and all its streams.
* @param s context to free
*/
void avformat_free_context(AVFormatContext *s);
/**
* Add a new stream to a media file.
*