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Andreas Rheinhardt 731c775898 avutil/mem: Use max_alloc_size as-is
The size of a single allocation performed by av_malloc() or av_realloc()
is supposed to be bounded by max_alloc_size, which defaults to INT_MAX
and can be set by the user; yet currently this is not completely
honoured: The actual value used is max_alloc_size - 32. How this came
to be can only be understood historically:

a) 0ecca7a49f disallowed allocations
> INT_MAX. At that time the size parameter of av_malloc() was an
unsigned and the commentary added ("lets disallow possible ambiguous
cases") indicates that this was done as a precaution against calling the
functions with negative int values. Genuinely limiting the size of
allocations to INT_MAX doesn't seem to have been the intention given
that at this time the memalign hack introduced in commit
da9b170c6f (which when enabled increased
the size of allocations slightly so that one can return a correctly
aligned pointer that actually does not point to the beginning of the
allocated buffer) was already present.
b) Said memalign hack allocated 17 bytes more than actually desired, yet
allocating 16 bytes more is actually enough and so this was changed in
a9493601638b048c44751956d2360f215918800c; this commit also replaced
INT_MAX by INT_MAX - 16 (and made the limit therefore a limit on the size
of the allocated buffer), but kept the comment, although there is nothing
ambiguous about allocating (INT_MAX - 16)..INT_MAX.
c) 13dfce3d44 then increased 16 to 32 for
AVX, 6b4c0be558 replaced INT_MAX by
MAX_MALLOC_SIZE (which was of course defined to be INT_MAX) and
5a8e994287 added max_alloc_size and made
it user-selectable.
d) 4fb311c804 then dropped the memalign
hack, yet it kept the -32 (probably because the comment about ambiguous
cases was still present?), although it is no longer needed at all after
this commit. Therefore this commit removes it and uses max_alloc_size
directly.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com>
2020-05-26 06:47:31 +02:00
compat compat/avisynth: remove avisynth headers 2020-04-05 01:17:55 +02:00
doc h264dec: support exporting QP tables through the AVVideoEncParams API 2020-05-25 11:59:42 +02:00
ffbuild common.mak: Also clean Windows debug files. 2020-03-21 18:46:00 +01:00
fftools Stop hardcoding align=32 in av_frame_get_buffer() calls. 2020-05-22 14:38:57 +02:00
libavcodec avcodec/mediacodec_wrapper: use MediaFormat to probe frame color characteristics 2020-05-25 18:07:45 +02:00
libavdevice avdevice/v4l2enc: Allow writing non-rawvideos to v4l2. 2020-05-09 15:44:43 +01:00
libavfilter lavfi/vulkan: use all enabled queues in the queue family 2020-05-23 19:07:50 +01:00
libavformat avformat/matroskadec: Beautify matroska_parse_laces() 2020-05-26 06:19:25 +02:00
libavresample avresample: remove deprecated attribute from the AVAudioResampleContext struct 2018-01-09 10:56:53 -03:00
libavutil avutil/mem: Use max_alloc_size as-is 2020-05-26 06:47:31 +02:00
libpostproc libavcodec, libpostproc: Remove outcommented START/STOP_TIMER 2020-03-14 18:24:04 +01:00
libswresample Silence "string-plus-int" warning shown by clang. 2020-01-06 22:38:56 +01:00
libswscale swscale: aarch64: Add a NEON implementation of interleaveBytes 2020-05-15 23:38:17 +03:00
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tests fate: add tests for h264 and vp9 video enc parameters export 2020-05-25 11:59:45 +02:00
tools fate: add tests for h264 and vp9 video enc parameters export 2020-05-25 11:59:45 +02:00
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Changelog lavfi: add untile filter. 2020-05-23 15:52:27 +02:00
configure avcodec: Add MediaFoundation encoder wrapper 2020-05-19 21:34:04 +03:00
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MAINTAINERS oggdec: remove the oggparsedaala subdemuxer 2020-05-23 19:07:20 +01:00
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FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.