[FFmpeg-devel] Encoder width/height checks breaking MPlayer...

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:05:43PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> I just got a report that
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=419ade4b6193c6eb626cda01b21e7091f42b2cc2
> breaks PNG screenshots in MPlayer.
> The reason is that at least for image-format encoders there was no
> reason to specify the video size on encoder open.
> The advantage of this is that it is possible to encode images with
> lots of different resolutions without having to open and close
> the codec all the time, with all the processing overhead and
> memory fragmentation that causes.

> Maybe it's time to finally introduce that codec flag that indicates
> that an encoder supports resolution changes and require valid
> dimensions on open only for those that don't?
> Any other ideas/comments?

yes, possible

anyway, ive added a workaround for PNG when i read it in IRC ...

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