Unfortunately this was not explicitly documented and thus might be risky. But all uses I could find in FFmpeg and one in VLC had a memleak in these cases, and I could not find any that relied on the previous behaviour.
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| 15 | 15 | |
| 16 | 16 | API changes, most recent first: |
| 17 | 17 | |
| 18 | +2014-08-23 - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.7.100 - dict.h | |
| 19 | + AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY and AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL arguments are now | |
| 20 | + freed even on error. This is consistent with the behaviour all users | |
| 21 | + of it we could find expect. | |
| 22 | + | |
| 18 | 23 | 2014-08-21 - 980a5b0 - lavu 54.6.100 - frame.h motion_vector.h |
| 19 | 24 | Add AV_FRAME_DATA_MOTION_VECTORS side data and AVMotionVector structure |
| 20 | 25 | |