ffmpeg: Replace deprecated and soon removed avcodec_close with avcodec_free_context in ffmpeg plugin. #4837
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avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years Signed-off-by: Vlad (Kuzmin) Erium <[email protected]>
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Not sure about version, but there is a changelog |
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Our oldest is ffmpeg 4.0, which corresponds to 58.18.100, so I think we are safe. |
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…c_free_context (AcademySoftwareFoundation#4837) avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years Global avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) Do not use this function. Use avcodec_free_context() to destroy a codec context (either open or closed). Opening and closing a codec context multiple times is not supported anymore – use multiple codec contexts instead. In ffmpeg master, it has already been removed. But still work in v7.1 We checked the ffmpeg changelog, and avcodec_free_context was added 7 years ago and should be present in ffmpeg 4.0, the oldest version we support. Signed-off-by: Vlad (Kuzmin) Erium <[email protected]>
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…c_free_context (AcademySoftwareFoundation#4837) avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years Global avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) Do not use this function. Use avcodec_free_context() to destroy a codec context (either open or closed). Opening and closing a codec context multiple times is not supported anymore – use multiple codec contexts instead. In ffmpeg master, it has already been removed. But still work in v7.1 We checked the ffmpeg changelog, and avcodec_free_context was added 7 years ago and should be present in ffmpeg 4.0, the oldest version we support. Signed-off-by: Vlad (Kuzmin) Erium <[email protected]>
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…c_free_context (AcademySoftwareFoundation#4837) avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years Global avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) Do not use this function. Use avcodec_free_context() to destroy a codec context (either open or closed). Opening and closing a codec context multiple times is not supported anymore – use multiple codec contexts instead. In ffmpeg master, it has already been removed. But still work in v7.1 We checked the ffmpeg changelog, and avcodec_free_context was added 7 years ago and should be present in ffmpeg 4.0, the oldest version we support. Signed-off-by: Vlad (Kuzmin) Erium <[email protected]>
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…c_free_context (AcademySoftwareFoundation#4837) avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years Global avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) Do not use this function. Use avcodec_free_context() to destroy a codec context (either open or closed). Opening and closing a codec context multiple times is not supported anymore – use multiple codec contexts instead. In ffmpeg master, it has already been removed. But still work in v7.1 We checked the ffmpeg changelog, and avcodec_free_context was added 7 years ago and should be present in ffmpeg 4.0, the oldest version we support. Signed-off-by: Vlad (Kuzmin) Erium <[email protected]>
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avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx) removing in ffmpeg 7.2 and was deprecated for couple years
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Global avcodec_close (AVCodecContext *avctx)
Do not use this function. Use avcodec_free_context() to destroy a codec context (either open or closed). Opening and closing a codec context multiple times is not supported anymore – use multiple codec contexts instead.
In ffmpeg master, it has already been removed. But still work in v7.1
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need to update the documentation, for example if this is a bug fix that
doesn't change the API.)
(adding new test cases if necessary).
corresponding Python bindings (and if altering ImageBufAlgo functions, also
exposed the new functionality as oiiotool options).
already run clang-format before submitting, I definitely will look at the CI
test that runs clang-format and fix anything that it highlights as being
nonconforming.