[FFmpeg-devel] libx264.c bug?

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Tue Oct 4 23:15:05 CEST 2011


On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:02:07PM +0000, C Chatterjee wrote:
> 
> Noticed an issue with the X264_frame() function in libx264.c in libavcodec in the 0.8.5 release.
> The do-while() loop below:
>    do {
>     if (x264_encoder_encode(x4->enc, &nal, &nnal, frame? &x4->pic: NULL, &pic_out) < 0)
>         return -1;
> 
>     bufsize = encode_nals(ctx, buf, bufsize, nal, nnal, 0);
>     if (bufsize < 0)
>         return -1;
>     } while (!bufsize && !frame && x264_encoder_delayed_frames(x4->enc));
> 
> bufsize returned by encode_nals(() is the buffer used. If it does not use any buffer it returns 0. So bufsize=0 at the end of thisiteration.
> Next iteration it uses bufsize=0 as an argument to encode_nals(). Clearly this is a problem.
> 
> Did I miss something?

no, issue confirmed, ill fix it in a moment in git master, will be
in the next release.


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