[vlc-devel] Re: modules/codec/ffmpeg/mux.c oddness

Remi Denis-Courmont rem at videolan.org
Thu Feb 15 15:31:50 CET 2007


On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:34:32 +0100, Olivier Houchard <cognet at ci0.org> wrote:
> In modules/codec/ffmpeg/mux.c, IOWrite(), the callback used by ffmpeg to
> write
> into the buffer, wrongly assumes sout_AccessWrite() returns the number of
> bytes
> written. It is true for the "file" access_out, however it is wrong for
> others,
> such as http, which just returns 0 on success. I applied the attached
> patch,
> which just returns the value returned by sout_AccessWrite() to ffmpeg.
> That
> should work, as ffmpeg assumes any negative value to be an error, and just
> discards any >= 0 value.
> Most other muxers just ignore the return value of sout_AccessWrite().

Still, this looks very much like a bug in the http access output rather
than ffmpeg muxer.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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