On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 14:55 +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
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> Quoting Carotti, Elias (2023-06-26 11:50:59)
> > We can do whatever you want. However I am not clear on how that<br>
> > would work.
> > 
> > We could have a side data creation api with the standard parameters
> > and
> > another method to allocate memory so that ownership is kept by
> > libavutil returns a pointer to the rectangles (with bounds checking
> > and
> > so on on the caller):
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > av_video_hint_create_side_data(AVFrame *frame, AVVideoHintType
> > type);
> > 
> > AVVideoRect* av_video_hint_set_number_of_rectangles(
> >                                       AVVideoHint *video_hint,
> >                                       size_t n_rects,
> >                                       AVVideoHintType
> > changed_flag);
> > (Names can change I just want to convey a possible api).
> > 
> > Would that work for you?
> > 
> > Or, do you prefer a creation api which already allocates memory and
> > sets the number of rectangles but doesn't copy them and that's
> > responsibility on the caller?
> > What I'd like in this latter case is that (like now) memory would
> > be
> > flat with no need for specific custom deallocators.
> > Something along the lines:
> > 
> > 
> > AVVideoHint *av_video_hint_create_side_data(AVFrame *frame,
> >                                           size_t n_rects,
> >                                           AVVideoHintType type);
> > 
> > AVVideoRect *av_video_hint_get_rects(AVVideoHint *video_hint);
> > 
> > 
> > Third option: side information creation api and the caller has to
> > alloc/realloc the rectangle buffer and hand out ownership to
> > libavutil,
> > but I guess this is the worst one for various reasons.
> > 
> > I do not see any further option.
> 
> What I'm proposing is this:
> AVVideoHint *av_video_hint_create_side_data(AVFrame *frame, size_t
> num_rects);
> AVVideoHint *av_video_hint_alloc(size_t nb_rects, size_t *out_size);
> 
> The caller filles the type and the rectangles manually.
> 

I implemented the changes, I hope it is better now. The libavcodec part
remains unchanged and only this part was affected by the change.
Best,

Elias


> > > AVVideoEncParams describes the block-level parameters of an
> > > encoded
<snip>
> > code.
> 
> Ok, I see your point and drop my objection.




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