[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/movenc: Do not write empty av1C boxes

[James Almer]

On 3/30/2020 7:44 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Am Di., 31. März 2020 um 00:35 Uhr schrieb James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 3/30/2020 7:19 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Attached patch avoids writing an mp4 file that cannot be read by
>>> FFmpeg (only be vlc) in some use cases.
>>>
>>> Please comment, Carl Eugen
>>
>> This enables writing non compliant files, so no.
> 
> The current situation is that unreadable files are
> written, so I don't think this is a very useful answer.
> 
> Carl Eugen

Both the current situation and the one you propose are unacceptable.
Hence me asking you to propagate errors instead of ignoring them in this
kind of scenario, seeing it's not a valid one.