From b360c917523ea4a896285160db4b20c695145fc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:28:46 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] avcodec/codecpar: mention how to allocate coded_side_data

Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
---
 libavcodec/codec_par.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavcodec/codec_par.h b/libavcodec/codec_par.h
index 64882a9726..f42dd3b1d5 100644
--- a/libavcodec/codec_par.h
+++ b/libavcodec/codec_par.h
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ typedef struct AVCodecParameters {
 
     /**
      * Additional data associated with the entire stream.
+     *
+     * Should be allocated with av_packet_side_data_new() or
+     * av_packet_side_data_add(), and will be freed by avcodec_parameters_free().
      */
     AVPacketSideData *coded_side_data;