[vlc] Re: h.263 bug in transcode.c?

[Gildas Bazin]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 14:57, Callan, Wilson wrote:
> Hi, i'm using VLC 0.7.1 on x86 Debian linux without a display, just as a 
streamer.  i used this command line:
> ./vlc udp:// --sout 
'#transcode{vcodec=H263,scale=1,vb=32,acodec=mpga,ab=32,channels=1}:\
> standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=12.46.113.63:1234}' 
> 
> i got an error from ffmpeg-20040222/libavcodec/mpegvideo.c "Input picture 
size isn't suitable for h263 codec! try h263+\n".  this is because H263 
only supports standard resolutions (QCIF etc) and 
vlc-0.7.1/modules/stream_out/transcode.c calls it with this code: 
>       id->p_encoder->fmt_in.video.i_width = 16;
>       id->p_encoder->fmt_in.video.i_height = 16;
> 
> 16x16 is rejected.  i fixed it with:
>       id->p_encoder->fmt_in.video.i_width  = id->f_src.video.i_width;
>       id->p_encoder->fmt_in.video.i_height = id->f_src.video.i_height;
> 
> here's my questions:
> 1) is this a known bug or should i enter it in bugzilla?
>

Ok, I committed a fix for it.

The problem is that id->f_src.video.i_width/height is not necessarily known 
at this stage and we only want to test if the encoder is useable.

> 2) could somebody build this fix into an executable for windows for me?
> 

Nightly builds are available here:
http://www.videolan.org/~videolan/build/

--
Gildas

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