[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 09/14] h264dec: do not abort if decoding extradata fails

[Anton Khirnov]

Such errors are not necessarily fatal and decoding might still be
possible, e.g. it happens for MVC streams where we do not handle the
subset SPS thus failing to parse its corresponding PPS.
---
 libavcodec/h264dec.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/h264dec.c b/libavcodec/h264dec.c
index b6c51ed1e2..dba0634fa0 100644
--- a/libavcodec/h264dec.c
+++ b/libavcodec/h264dec.c
@@ -414,10 +414,14 @@ static av_cold int h264_decode_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
             ret = ff_h264_decode_extradata(avctx->extradata, avctx->extradata_size,
                                            &h->ps, &h->is_avc, &h->nal_length_size,
                                            avctx->err_recognition, avctx);
-            if (ret < 0) {
-                h264_decode_end(avctx);
-                return ret;
-            }
+           if (ret < 0) {
+               av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING, "Error decoding the extradata\n");
+               if (avctx->err_recognition & AV_EF_EXPLODE) {
+                   h264_decode_end(avctx);
+                   return ret;
+               }
+               ret = 0;
+           }
         }
     }
 
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2.25.1