[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/mp3dec: avoid early EOF with concatenated gapless mp3s

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:51:41PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> Consider a file created with something like:
> 
>     cat file1.mp3 file2.mp3 > result.mp3
> 
> Then if file2.mp3 has gapless information, result.mp3 would stop playing
> something in the middle. This happens because the gapless info directs
> the decoder to discard all samples after a certain position. To make
> matters worse, the gapless info of file2.mp3 will be used when playing
> the file1.mp3 part, because the gapless info is located at the end of
> the file.
> 
> While handling concatenated gapless files correctly would be insane and
> a lot of effort (especially without scanning the whole file on opening),
> it's easy to prevent at least early EOF. Playback will happen to work,
> even if it's slightly broken.
> ---
>  libavformat/avformat.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  libavformat/mp3dec.c   | 6 ++++--
>  libavformat/utils.c    | 7 ++++---
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

applied

thanks

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write
readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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