[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] increase picture buffer alignment to 16-byte on x86

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:24:16PM -0500, Alexander Strange wrote:
> I was doing some sse2 code with an ffmpeg buffer and was surprised to  
> find it crashing.
> This turned out to be because avcodec_default_get_buffer was aligning  
> the U/V buffers to 8-byte instead of 16-byte alignment. As 16-byte  
> alignment works fine on PPC, the attached patch changes it to match  
> on x86.
> 
> Although if there's a reason for this, I can certainly just go to  
> using movdqu.

if your code has alignment requirements beyond what ffmpeg needs internally
then you should override get_buffer() or suggest some more flexible way to
tell default_get_buffer() what alignment is wanted, simply increasing
the alignment even if its not needed is bad, because it wastes memory and
reduces cache efficiency

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