lavc: Add refcounted api to AVPacket

Provide a clean way to manipulate packets.

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index adfd25a230..caf828496d 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -3229,6 +3229,66 @@ uint8_t* av_packet_get_side_data(AVPacket *pkt, enum AVPacketSideDataType type,
                                  int *size);
 
 /**
+ * Convenience function to free all the side data stored.
+ * All the other fields stay untouched.
+ *
+ * @param pkt packet
+ */
+void av_packet_free_side_data(AVPacket *pkt);
+
+/**
+ * Setup a new reference to the data described by a given packet
+ *
+ * If src is reference-counted, setup dst as a new reference to the
+ * buffer in src. Otherwise allocate a new buffer in dst and copy the
+ * data from src into it.
+ *
+ * All the other fields are copied from src.
+ *
+ * @see av_packet_unref
+ *
+ * @param dst Destination packet
+ * @param src Source packet
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success, a negative AVERROR on error.
+ */
+int av_packet_ref(AVPacket *dst, AVPacket *src);
+
+/**
+ * Wipe the packet.
+ *
+ * Unreference the buffer referenced by the packet and reset the
+ * remaining packet fields to their default values.
+ *
+ * @param pkt The packet to be unreferenced.
+ */
+void av_packet_unref(AVPacket *pkt);
+
+/**
+ * Move every field in src to dst and reset src.
+ *
+ * @see av_packet_unref
+ *
+ * @param src Source packet, will be reset
+ * @param dst Destination packet
+ */
+void av_packet_move_ref(AVPacket *dst, AVPacket *src);
+
+/**
+ * Copy only "properties" fields from src to dst.
+ *
+ * Properties for the purpose of this function are all the fields
+ * beside those related to the packet data (buf, data, size)
+ *
+ * @param dst Destination packet
+ * @param src Source packet
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success AVERROR on failure.
+ *
+ */
+int av_packet_copy_props(AVPacket *dst, const AVPacket *src);
+
+/**
  * @}
  */