[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix crash in libx264 when rc_eq is not set

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
>> On date Monday 2008-08-25 17:41:05 +0200, Guillaume POIRIER encoded:
>>>
>>> no need to. x264 won't need rc_eq to be set in a few days...
>>
>> But older libx264 versions will lye around for a long time, so IMO is
>> still a good idea to fix the problem.
>
> But we need to support the latest x264, which won't even have that
> field in the struct.  What does old/current x264 do if it isn't
> touched at all?

x264_param_default sets rc_eq to a sane value. The problem only occurs 
when ffmpeg overrides that and sets it to null. So removing the line from 
ffmpeg will work with all x264 versions.

--Loren Merritt