[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH/RFC] libavcodec/cinepak: Separate decoding from parsing

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am So., 1. Sept. 2019 um 22:58 Uhr schrieb Tomas Härdin <tjoppen at acc.umu.se>:

> Attached patch separates parsing from decoding in the Cinepak decoder.
> It puts in some rather strict checks which are in line with how I've
> figured the VfW 1.1 decoder works. Parsing is still intermixed with
> validation, but the code should be much easier to read this way
> compared to before. Some avpriv_request_sample()s should probably be
> switched to outright rejection, I haven't decided yet

Your patch looks to me as if it would break decoding broken samples
instead of returning as much decoded data as is possible with the
input.

Carl Eugen