[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavcodec/ccaption_dec: remove unnecessary buffering of closed caption packets

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:24:15PM +0530, Anshul wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6 January 2016 1:55:27 am IST, "Clément Bœsch" <u at pkh.me> wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 01:07:15PM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> >[...]
> >> This indeed LGTM, but I'm not the maintainer.
> >> 
> >
> >OK I finally understood why it's done that way: validate_cc_data_pair()
> >alters the pkt data, but the decoder isn't supposed to do that.
> >
> >So this patch is actually incorrect in this state.
> 
> 
> I did not knew, what could be the disadvantage of changing pkt data, I
> changed it to save some CPU cycles.

The packet is considered read-only for the decoder. It appears not to be
marked as const for whatever bad reason.

But what CPU cycles would you be saving anyway here? I don't see what
operation you are saving.

[...]

-- 
Clément B.
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