} plane_t;
+/**
+ * Maximum number of plane for a picture
+ */
+#define PICTURE_PLANE_MAX (VOUT_MAX_PLANES)
+
/**
* A private definition to help overloading picture release
*/
* wishes, it can even swap p_pixels buffers. */
uint8_t *p_data;
void *p_data_orig; /**< pointer before memalign */
- plane_t p[ VOUT_MAX_PLANES ]; /**< description of the planes */
+ plane_t p[PICTURE_PLANE_MAX]; /**< description of the planes */
int i_planes; /**< number of allocated planes */
/** \name Type and flags
*/
VLC_EXPORT( picture_t *, picture_New, ( vlc_fourcc_t i_chroma, int i_width, int i_height, int i_aspect ) );
+/**
+ * This function will create a new picture using the given format.
+ *
+ * When possible, it is prefered to use this function over picture_New
+ * as more information about the format is kept.
+ */
+VLC_EXPORT( picture_t *, picture_NewFromFormat, ( const video_format_t *p_fmt ) );
+
+/**
+ * Resource for a picture.
+ */
+typedef struct
+{
+ picture_sys_t *p_sys;
+
+ /* Plane resources
+ * XXX all fields MUST be set to the right value.
+ */
+ struct
+ {
+ uint8_t *p_pixels; /**< Start of the plane's data */
+ int i_lines; /**< Number of lines, including margins */
+ int i_pitch; /**< Number of bytes in a line, including margins */
+ } p[PICTURE_PLANE_MAX];
+
+} picture_resource_t;
+
+/**
+ * This function will create a new picture using the provided resource.
+ *
+ * If the resource is NULL then a plain picture_NewFromFormat is returned.
+ */
+VLC_EXPORT( picture_t *, picture_NewFromResource, ( const video_format_t *, const picture_resource_t * ) );
+
/**
* This function will force the destruction a picture.
* The value of the picture reference count should be 0 before entering this
/**
* This function will increase the picture reference count.
* It will not have any effect on picture obtained from vout
+ *
+ * It returns the given picture for convenience.
*/
-static inline void picture_Hold( picture_t *p_picture )
+static inline picture_t *picture_Hold( picture_t *p_picture )
{
if( p_picture->pf_release )
p_picture->i_refcount++;
+ return p_picture;
}
/**
* This function will release a picture.
/* FIXME: copy ->p_q and ->p_qstride */
}
+/**
+ * This function will reset a picture informations (properties and quantizers).
+ * It is sometimes usefull for reusing pictures (like from a pool).
+ */
+VLC_EXPORT( void, picture_Reset, ( picture_t * ) );
+
/**
* This function will copy the picture pixels.
* You can safely copy between pictures that do not have the same size,