[FFmpeg-devel] Segfault calling av_interleaved_write_frame

[Jonathan Noble]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 11:52, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Jonathan Noble (12020-01-19):
> > I'm writing a wrapper around libav.
> > https://github.com/jonno85uk/mediahandling/tree/Issue4_encoding
> > I know what was causing this condition,  avformat_write_header() hadn't
> > been called at that time.
>
> Calling avformat_write_header() is not optional, writing frames before
> it is not supported.

I'd gathered that, but rather than bombing out shouldn't there be a AVERROR
returned or something else to notify the user of their error, like so many
other non-optional checks in ffmpeg?

>
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> Regards,
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
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