[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lavf: fall back to a more meaningful log instance name

[Anton Khirnov]

An uninitialized AVFormatContext instance with neither iformat nor
oformat set will currently log as 'NULL', which is confusing and
unhelpful. Print 'AVFormatContext' instead, which provides more
information.

This happens e.g. if choosing an output format fails in
avformat_alloc_output_context2().
---
 libavformat/options.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/options.c b/libavformat/options.c
index 22ad523b2d..e4a3aceed0 100644
--- a/libavformat/options.c
+++ b/libavformat/options.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static const char* format_to_name(void* ptr)
     AVFormatContext* fc = (AVFormatContext*) ptr;
     if(fc->iformat) return fc->iformat->name;
     else if(fc->oformat) return fc->oformat->name;
-    else return "NULL";
+    else return fc->av_class->class_name;
 }
 
 static void *format_child_next(void *obj, void *prev)
-- 
2.39.1