[Ffmpeg-devel] Some PCM codecs incosistent wrt avcodec_encode_audio()

[Vagelis Savvas]

Hi,
Some PCM encoders (MULAW, ALAW, etc), due to their non-variable  
compression (?)
encode samples in a loop in their encode routine, until the input buffer
is filled, typically consuming many frame_size(=1) chunks of input data in  
each run.

The said encode routine is called by avcodec_encode_audio(...),
which then increases avctx->frame_number++, something not equal
to the count of frames the encoder routine actually produced

Obviously, a quick workaround would be to add something like
avctx->frame_number += frames_encoded - 1
in the PCM's encode function,  but that smells like an ugly hack,
plus I am not familiar enough with libavcodec.
Has somebody that can judge the situation anything to comment?

Keep up the excellent work!

Regards,

Vagelis

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