[Ffmpeg-devel] x264 global headers?

[Måns Rullgård]

Luca Abeni <lucabe72 at email.it> writes:

> Hi M?ns,
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:43 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
>> I'd prefer the attached patch as it allocates a more reasonable amount
>> of memory for the headers.  I'm not sure how to test it, so I won't
>> commit until someone has confirmed that it works.
> I just tried it, and it works for me. The application is not
> segfaulting, so I assume the FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE padding I
> mentioned this morning should not be a problem (but I have no valgrind
> or any memory debugger installed). The content in "extradata" allows me
> to create a valid "sprop-parameter-sets" (at least, mpeg4ip likes it),
> so I assume it is correct.

The buffer padding is only needed when the data will be read by the
bitstream reader.  That is not the case here, since we are encoding.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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