[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Do not add extradata size to bitmapinfoheader size

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:51:25AM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Attached patch is one of two patches necessary to fix ticket #1304.
> The MSDN documentation indicates that the palette is not part of the 
> bitmapinfoheader but the bitmapinfoheader is part of the bitmapinfo 
> structure that also contains the palette.
> 
> An alternative is to add the extradata_size except if it is a palette 
> but imo, attached is more correct.

biSize must be calculated so that it points to the palette, so if you
have both extradata and palette you absolutely need to add the
extradata size:

> An application should use the information stored in the biSize member to
> locate the color table in a BITMAPINFO structure, as follows.