[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] avformat/matroskaenc: Don't use stream side-data size

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

James Almer:
> On 5/22/2020 12:31 AM, James Almer wrote:
>> On 5/21/2020 10:24 PM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
>>> av_stream_get_side_data() tells the caller whether a stream has side
>>> data of a specific type; if present it can also tell the caller the size
>>> of the side data via an optional argument. The Matroska muxer always
>>> used this optional argument, although it doesn't really need the size,
>>> as the relevant side-data are not buffers, but structures. So change
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, relying on the size also made the code susceptible to
>>> a quirk of av_stream_get_side_data(): It only sets the size argument if
>>> it found side data of the desired type.
>>
>> Sounds like something that should be fixed instead.
>> av_packet_get_side_data() sets the size argument to 0 if it doesn't find
>> the requested side data type. This function should do the same.
> 
> Right, you did as much in patch 3/3.
> 
> This patch is worth applying either way seeing it removes things like
> the API violating usage of sizeof(AVMasteringDisplayMetadata), so LGTM.

Ok, applied the set. Thanks.

- Andreas