[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] lavc/libxvid: workaround for bug in libxvidcore

Lukasz Marek lukasz.m.luki2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 01:17:30 CET 2014


libxvidcore calculate number of threads basing on video height.
If height is small enough it allocates 0 bytes long memory and
writes to it.
Setting thread_count to 0 uses 1 thread and skips bugged code.

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Marek <lukasz.m.luki2 at gmail.com>
---
 libavcodec/libxvid.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavcodec/libxvid.c b/libavcodec/libxvid.c
index 70d52b9..efe7b8a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/libxvid.c
+++ b/libavcodec/libxvid.c
@@ -471,6 +471,17 @@ static av_cold int xvid_encode_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     xvid_enc_create.num_zones = 0;
 
     xvid_enc_create.num_threads = avctx->thread_count;
+    /* workaround for a bug in libxvidcore */
+    if (avctx->height < 18) {
+        if (avctx->thread_count < 2) {
+            xvid_enc_create.num_threads = 0;
+        } else {
+            av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR,
+                   "Too small height for threads > 1.");
+            ret = AVERROR(EINVAL);
+            goto fail;
+        }
+    }
 
     xvid_enc_create.plugins     = plugins;
     xvid_enc_create.num_plugins = 0;
-- 
1.9.1



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