[Libav-user] h264 illegal short term buffer state detected

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:49:24 -0300
Gonzalo Garramuno <ggarra13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> After upgrading to 2.1, I am getting in my player for a h264 movie.
> 
> "illegal short term buffer state detected"
> 
> whenever I stop the playback and resume it immediately.  When I stop the 
> playback I flush all caches.
> 
> I am wondering if someone can explain what might be causing it.
> ffplay seems fine, thou, so it is something I am probably doing wrong.

If by flushing the caches you mean dropping packet data and/or
flushing the decoder just for pausing, you can't do that.

Either you don't drop/flush anything, or you have to issue a seek to
resume playback properly.