[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Description of avcodec_encode_audio()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:14PM +0100, John Fletcher wrote:
> > > I wish to encode 1920 samples of audio to a 16-bit PCM 
> > format, say for example using CODEC_ID_PCM_S16BE.
> > > 
> > > I need to set the size of the output buffer, buf_size, to 
> > 1920 * 2 = 3840 to achieve that.
> > 
> > no, you need to set it to 3840 or a larger value
> 
> No, the function uses buf_size to decide how many samples to encode so you have to set it to exactly 3840 in this case.

right, i remembered that short after sending my reply ...
maybe we should consider changing this API one day, i suspect its annoying
for user apps as well ...

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