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gistfile1.c

// Allocate video frame
  pFrame=avcodec_alloc_frame();
  
  // Allocate an AVFrame structure
  pFrameRGB=avcodec_alloc_frame();
  if(pFrameRGB==NULL)
    return -1;
  
  // Determine required buffer size and allocate buffer
  numBytes=avpicture_get_size(PIX_FMT_RGB24, pCodecCtx->width,
			      pCodecCtx->height);
  buffer=(uint8_t *)av_malloc(numBytes*sizeof(uint8_t));

  sws_ctx =
    sws_getContext
    (
        pCodecCtx->width,
        pCodecCtx->height,
        pCodecCtx->pix_fmt,
        pCodecCtx->width,
        pCodecCtx->height,
        PIX_FMT_RGB24,
        SWS_BILINEAR,
        NULL,
        NULL,
        NULL
    );
  
  // Assign appropriate parts of buffer to image planes in pFrameRGB
  // Note that pFrameRGB is an AVFrame, but AVFrame is a superset
  // of AVPicture
  avpicture_fill((AVPicture *)pFrameRGB, buffer, PIX_FMT_RGB24,
		 pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height);
  
  // Read frames and save first five frames to disk
  i=0;
  while(av_read_frame(pFormatCtx, &packet)>=0) {
    // Is this a packet from the video stream?
    if(packet.stream_index==videoStream) {
      // Decode video frame
      avcodec_decode_video2(pCodecCtx, pFrame, &frameFinished, 
			   &packet);
      
      // Did we get a video frame?
      if(frameFinished) {
	// Convert the image from its native format to RGB
        sws_scale
        (
            sws_ctx,
            (uint8_t const * const *)pFrame->data,
            pFrame->linesize,
            0,
            pCodecCtx->height,
            pFrameRGB->data,
            pFrameRGB->linesize
        );

	// Save the frame to disk
	if(++i<=5)
	  SaveFrame(pFrameRGB, pCodecCtx->width, pCodecCtx->height, 
		    i);
      }
    }
    
    // Free the packet that was allocated by av_read_frame
    av_free_packet(&packet);
  }