Hi,

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Chris Stankevitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Please identify any false statements:

Oh, fun.

> 1. I am supposed to use avcodec_decode_video2 and not avcodec_decode_video
>
> 2. avcodec_decode_video2 takes as input a AVPacket (and not a uint8* buffer 
> as avcodec_decode_video does)
>
> 3. avcodec_decode_video2 requires "The input buffer must be 
> FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE larger than the actual read bytes because some 
> optimized bitstream readers read 32 or 64 bits at once and could read over 
> the end."
>
> 4. (3) Is referring to AVPacket::buffer
>
> 5. I do not allocate AVPacket::buffer
>
> 6. somebody_else allocates AVPacket::buffer (av_read_frame?)
>
> 7. (3) should be adhered to by somebody_else.
>
> 8. I can safely ignore (3)
>
> 9. avcodec_decode_video2 requires "The end of the input buffer buf should be 
> set to 0 to ensure that no overreading happens for damaged MPEG streams."
>
> 10. For similar reasons, I can also safely ignore (9)

All correct. If you use libav-API for all of this, libav-API takes
care of it all. It's only relevant if you manually allocated
AVPacket.buffer.

Ronald
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