[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/movenc: Explicitly address potential division by zero.

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Lucas Cooper
<bobobo-at-google.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> find_fps attempts to infer framerate from AVCodec's timebase. When this
> results in a frame rate that isn't explicitly marked as supported in
> av_timecode_check_frame_rate, find_fps returns the AVStream's
> avg_frame_rate, which, per avformat.h, _may_ be set (or not).
>
> mov_get_mpeg2_xdcam_codec_tag, mov_get_h264_codec_tag and
> find_compressor attempt to call av_q2d on the return value of find_fps,
> which in the above case, may result in division by zero.

Floating point division by zero is not an error (as av_q2d performs),
and in these cases the wrong return value is likely harmless.

What is the actual error you are trying to fix?

- Hendrik