On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 02:41 -0700, Baby Octopus wrote: Hi, > Is anyone aware of how exactly buffers are handled by libavdec? > Gstreamer plugin seems to set callbacks for get_buffer and > release_buffer. When exactly these callbacks are invoked by avdec? Have you tried looking at the libav AVCodecContext API documentation? Cheers -Tim