avcodec.h

    // maybe define some simple structure which
    // might be passed to the user - but they can't
    // contain any codec specific parts and these
    // calls are usualy necessary only few times

    // set video commands
    AVC_SET_WIDTH = 0xACD000,
    AVC_SET_HEIGHT,

    // set video encoding commands
    AVC_SET_FRAME_RATE = 0xACD800,
    AVC_SET_QUALITY,
    AVC_SET_HURRY_UP,

    // set audio commands
    AVC_SET_SAMPLE_RATE = 0xACE000,
    AVC_SET_CHANNELS,

} avc_cmd_t;

/**
 * \param handle  allocated private structure by libavcodec
 *                for initialization pass NULL - will be returned pout
 *                user is supposed to know nothing about its structure
 * \param cmd     type of operation to be performed
 * \param pint    input parameter
 * \param pout    output parameter
 *
 * \returns  command status - eventually for query command it might return
 * integer resulting value
 */
int avcodec(void* handle, avc_cmd_t cmd, void* pin, void* pout);

/* memory */
void *av_malloc(int size);
void *av_mallocz(int size);
void av_free(void *ptr);
void __av_freep(void **ptr);
#define av_freep(p) __av_freep((void **)(p))

#endif /* AVCODEC_H */