lavc/avcodec: Improve av_parser_parse() documentation, mention padding.

Fixes ticket #5809.

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 4d92f69274a9b6c0aa0b714e7bc991469a72c7b4..01f9b29773338138813bd43d9629358ff7a6bd4f 100644 (file)
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -5146,7 +5146,10 @@ AVCodecParserContext *av_parser_init(int codec_id);
  * @param poutbuf       set to pointer to parsed buffer or NULL if not yet finished.
  * @param poutbuf_size  set to size of parsed buffer or zero if not yet finished.
  * @param buf           input buffer.
- * @param buf_size      input length, to signal EOF, this should be 0 (so that the last frame can be output).
+ * @param buf_size      buffer size in bytes without the padding. I.e. the full buffer
+                        size is assumed to be buf_size + AV_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE.
+                        To signal EOF, this should be 0 (so that the last frame
+                        can be output).
  * @param pts           input presentation timestamp.
  * @param dts           input decoding timestamp.
  * @param pos           input byte position in stream.