Re: [Libquicktime-devel] [PATCH] Another compatibility fix for the latest FFMpeg

[Burkhard P. <bur...@ig...>]

Hi,

Am 13.05.2013 18:09, schrieb Joseph Artsimovich:
> This time it's a runtime issue. When avcodec_encode_video2() is called, we pass it an AVPacket with pkt.data pointing to a buffer we've allocated ourselves. Now, an AVPacket can be a managed one (requiring a call to av_free_packet()) or an unmanaged one (backed by some external buffer AVPacket
> doesn't own). Since very recently, some codecs (in this case it was ProRes, with multithreading enabled) started converting an unmanaged AVPacket we pass to avcodec_encode_video2() to a managed one. As a result, the "data" member get overwritten and a call to av_packet_free() is now required. BTW,
> calling av_packet_free() on an unmanaged AVPacket is still fine. The fix is attached.
>

Applied

Burkhard