[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix encoding when delay > number of frames

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:06:26AM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> >Also I think that our x264 encoder still does not use x264_encoder_delayed_frames,
> >sure that isn't the real issue maybe?
> 
> That is the issue, but I'm not sure how it would be useful here.
> Problem is:
> All frames are given to the encoder in the main loop, no frames are
> output in the main because delay is too big.
> The flush loop outputs no frame because of the <= 0 return value check.

The FFmpeg API is that way that an encoder should never return 0 if there
are still delayed frames.
So the libx264 module should loop itself until either it has some new data
or there are no more delayed frames.