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authorRalph Giles <giles@xiph.org>2008-01-04 20:11:22 +0000
committerRalph Giles <giles@xiph.org>2008-01-04 20:11:22 +0000
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Document the memory ownership when passing ogg packets in and out.
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<p><i>declared in "ogg/ogg.h";</i></p>
-<p>This function takes a packet and submits it to the bitstream. After this is called, we can continue submitting packets, or we can write out pages.
-<p>In a typical decoding situation, this should be used after filling a packet with data
+<p>This function submits a packet to the bitstream for page
+encapsulation. After this is called, more packets can be submitted,
+or pages can be written out.</p>
+
+<p>In a typical encoding situation, this should be used after filling a
+packet with data.
+The data in the packet is copied into the internal storage managed by
+the <a href="ogg_stream_state.html">ogg_stream_state</a>, so the caller
+is free to alter the contents of <i>os</i> after this call has returned.
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