[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ac3_parser type punning fix

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:26:31PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 05:23:52PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
[...]
> >> Looking at the code, I see one significant difference between
> >> aac_sync() and ac3_sync().  Whereas aac_sync() only calls inlined
> >> get_bits() functions (meaning gcc can know exactly what accesses are
> >> happening), ac3_sync() calls another function to do the parsing.  In
> >> light of this, I agree it's unlikely that gcc is able to exploit any
> >> aliasing tricks.  The disassembly above also suggests that something
> >> more sinister is afoot here.
> >>
> >> The change to aac_sync() fixed a real aliasing violation, and I
> >> verified the assembler before and after the change.  This seems to be
> >> a bit different.
> > 
> 
> FYI, Mans and I talked about this issue some time ago, and then I filled
> a roundup issue regarding this (raw aac playback is broken)

i cant find that issue, do you maybe know its number or a search term that
works?


> 
> Even at r15647 raw aac is still borken because the parser is still broken.

i dont know about the parser but raw aac is broken because
the aac decoder does
    if (avccontext->extradata_size <= 0 ||
        decode_audio_specific_config(ac, avccontext->extradata, avccontext->extradata_size))
        return -1;

and nothing in raw.c nor in the parser sets extradata, nor is there a 
AVCodecParser.split() that would cause extradata to be set.
Thats also why aac in mpeg-ts does not work ...

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