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-rw-r--r--libavcodec/avcodec.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 623da5e..a5fd2e7 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -3832,6 +3832,10 @@ int avcodec_open2(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVCodec *codec, AVDictionary **options)
* samples should be 16 byte aligned unless the CPU doesn't need it
* (AltiVec and SSE do).
*
+ * @note Codecs which have the CODEC_CAP_DELAY capability set have a delay
+ * between input and output, these need to be fed with avpkt->data=NULL,
+ * avpkt->size=0 at the end to return the remaining frames.
+ *
* @param avctx the codec context
* @param[out] samples the output buffer, sample type in avctx->sample_fmt
* @param[in,out] frame_size_ptr the output buffer size in bytes
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