[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] avformat/ivfenc: Comment the length field encoding process

[Raphaël Zumer]

Signed-off-by: Raphaël Zumer <rzumer at tebako.net>
---
 libavformat/ivfenc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/ivfenc.c b/libavformat/ivfenc.c
index adf72117e9..ae461a872b 100644
--- a/libavformat/ivfenc.c
+++ b/libavformat/ivfenc.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int ivf_write_header(AVFormatContext *s)
     avio_wl16(pb, par->height);
     avio_wl32(pb, s->streams[0]->time_base.den);
     avio_wl32(pb, s->streams[0]->time_base.num);
-    avio_wl64(pb, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL);
+    avio_wl64(pb, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL); // length is overwritten at the end of muxing
 
     return 0;
 }
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ static int ivf_write_trailer(AVFormatContext *s)
         size_t end = avio_tell(pb);
 
         avio_seek(pb, 24, SEEK_SET);
+        // overwrite the "length" field (duration)
         avio_wl64(pb, ctx->frame_cnt * ctx->sum_delta_pts / (ctx->frame_cnt - 1));
         avio_seek(pb, end, SEEK_SET);
     }
-- 
2.23.0