[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 7/30] avformat/matroskaenc: Avoid allocations for SeekHead

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Andreas Rheinhardt:
> Andreas Rheinhardt:
>> Up until e7ddafd5, the Matroska muxer wrote two SeekHeads: One at the
>> beginning referencing the main level 1 elements (i.e. not the Clusters)
>> and one at the end, referencing the Clusters. This second SeekHead was
>> useless and has therefore been removed. Yet the SeekHead-related
>> functions and structures are still geared towards this usecase: They
>> are built around an allocated array of variable size that gets
>> reallocated every time an element is added to it although the maximum
>> number of Seek entries is a small compile-time constant, so that one should
>> rather include the array in the SeekHead structure itself; and said
>> structure should be contained in the MatroskaMuxContext instead of being
>> allocated separately.
>>
>> The earlier code reserved space for a SeekHead with 10 entries, although
>> we currently write at most 6. Reducing said number implied that every
>> Matroska/Webm file will be 84 bytes smaller and required to adapt
>> several FATE tests; furthermore, the reserved amount overestimated the
>> amount needed for for the SeekHead's length field and how many bytes
>> need to be reserved to write a EBML Void element, bringing the total
>> reduction to 89 bytes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com>
>> ---
> 
> Ping.
> 
> - Andreas
> 
Ping (the actual patch (which has been omitted for brevity) is here:
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-February/256997.html).

- Andreas