• Vittorio Giovara's avatar
    lavc: Deprecate avctx.rtp_callback field · 462a54e2
    Vittorio Giovara authored
    This function returns the encoded data of a frame, one slice at a time
    directly when that slice is encoded, instead of waiting for the full
    frame to be done. However this field has a debatable usefulness, since
    it looks like it is just a convoluted way to get data at lowest
    possible latency, or a somewhat hacky way to store h263 in RFC-2190
    rtp encapsulation.
    
    Moreover when multi-threading is enabled (which is by default) the order
    of returned slices is not deterministic at all, making the use of this
    function not reliable at all (or at the very least, more complicated
    than it should be).
    
    So, for the reasons stated above, and being used by only a single encoder
    family (mpegvideo), this field is deemed unnecessary, overcomplicated,
    and not really belonging to libavcodec. Libavformat features a complete
    implementation of RFC-2190, for any other case.
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarVittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
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