* then passed to muxers.
*
* For video, it should typically contain one compressed frame. For audio it may
- * contain several compressed frames.
+ * contain several compressed frames. Encoders are allowed to output empty
+ * packets, with no compressed data, containing only side data
+ * (e.g. to update some stream parameters at the end of encoding).
*
* AVPacket is one of the few structs in FFmpeg, whose size is a part of public
* ABI. Thus it may be allocated on stack and no new fields can be added to it
* - decoding: Set by user, may be overwritten by libavcodec
* if this info is available in the stream
*/
- int bit_rate;
+ int64_t bit_rate;
/**
* number of bits the bitstream is allowed to diverge from the reference.
* - encoding: Set by user.
* - decoding: Set by user, may be overwritten by libavcodec.
*/
- int rc_max_rate;
+ int64_t rc_max_rate;
/**
* minimum bitrate
* - encoding: Set by user.
* - decoding: unused
*/
- int rc_min_rate;
+ int64_t rc_min_rate;
#if FF_API_MPV_OPT
/**
*/
uint64_t vbv_delay;
+#if FF_API_SIDEDATA_ONLY_PKT
/**
- * Encoding only. Allow encoders to output packets that do not contain any
- * encoded data, only side data.
+ * Encoding only and set by default. Allow encoders to output packets
+ * that do not contain any encoded data, only side data.
*
* Some encoders need to output such packets, e.g. to update some stream
* parameters at the end of encoding.
*
- * All callers are strongly recommended to set this option to 1 and update
- * their code to deal with such packets, since this behaviour may become
- * always enabled in the future (then this option will be deprecated and
- * later removed). To avoid ABI issues when this happens, the callers should
- * use AVOptions to set this field.
+ * @deprecated this field disables the default behaviour and
+ * it is kept only for compatibility.
*/
+ attribute_deprecated
int side_data_only_packets;
+#endif
/**
* Audio only. The number of "priming" samples (padding) inserted by the