[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/mov: Fix endian-dependent parsing

[Martin Storsjö]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:

> MOVAtom.type is always read as a little-endian number
> (despite MOV/ISOBMFF being big-endian).
> Fixes the matroska-dovi-write-config8 FATE-test on big-endian
> arches (which runs into the "index out of range" warning message).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com>
> ---
> A few days ago I sent a patch using the dv84.mov sample
> that also failed on the PPC BE endian FATE box, yet this test
> reencoded the audio and so I blamed this (despite encoder and
> decoder being fixed-point); see [1]. Seems like I was wrong
> and the fixed-point codecs are indeed bitexact.
>
> [1]: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2022-January/291792.html
>
> libavformat/mov.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libavformat/mov.c b/libavformat/mov.c
> index e401cd39b5..1437d160f8 100644
> --- a/libavformat/mov.c
> +++ b/libavformat/mov.c
> @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ retry:
>             atom.size -= 16;
>
>             if (!key && c->found_hdlr_mdta && c->meta_keys) {
> -                uint32_t index = AV_RB32(&atom.type);
> +                uint32_t index = av_bswap32(atom.type); // BE number has been read as LE

LGTM.

// Martin