Commit 933e8667 authored by Sascha Sommer's avatar Sascha Sommer

extend description of avcodec_decode_audio3:

- clarify when 0 is returned
- explain that decode_audio3 has to be called multiple times when there
  are multiple frames in a single packet

Originally committed as revision 20215 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
parent 90aa6ace
......@@ -3228,9 +3228,11 @@ attribute_deprecated int avcodec_decode_audio2(AVCodecContext *avctx, int16_t *s
/**
* Decodes the audio frame of size avpkt->size from avpkt->data into samples.
* Some decoders may support multiple frames in a single AVPacket, such
* decoders would then just decode the first frame.
* decoders would then just decode the first frame. In this case,
* avcodec_decode_audio3 has to be called again with an AVPacket that contains
* the remaining data in order to decode the second frame etc.
* If no frame
* could be decompressed, frame_size_ptr is zero. Otherwise, it is the
* could be outputted, frame_size_ptr is zero. Otherwise, it is the
* decompressed frame size in bytes.
*
* @warning You must set frame_size_ptr to the allocated size of the
......@@ -3260,7 +3262,7 @@ attribute_deprecated int avcodec_decode_audio2(AVCodecContext *avctx, int16_t *s
* data and size, some decoders might in addition need other fields.
* All decoders are designed to use the least fields possible though.
* @return On error a negative value is returned, otherwise the number of bytes
* used or zero if no frame could be decompressed.
* used or zero if no frame data was decompressed (used) from the input AVPacket.
*/
int avcodec_decode_audio3(AVCodecContext *avctx, int16_t *samples,
int *frame_size_ptr,
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