[Libav-user] Problems with ffvhuff and huvvyuv

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/16/13, James Board <jpboard2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Why don't you simply test this yourself?
>>It cannot take more time to test than to write your
>>mail, let alone write (and read!) the answers.
>
> I did.  It generated the extra frames.  So the libav implementation
> works this way.  Or at least my code works that way, and my code
> might be screwed.  The question I mean to ask (maybe I wasn't clear)
> is whether there is anything fundamental to the huffyuv algorithm
> which prevents me from decoding a single frame.  If the answer
> is 'yes', then I know not to dig through the source code (big
> learning curve) because that effort can't possibly work.  If
> the answer is 'no, then I'll press on.

There is nothing in huffyuv algorithm and ffvhuff which could cause this.