[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] fftools/ffmpeg_mux: fix reporting muxer EOF as error

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Mon Apr 24 13:02:30 EEST 2023


Quoting Marton Balint (2023-04-24 11:09:44)
> The real risk is that they unintentionally do that, when the error code is 
> coming from some underlying operation for example.
> 
> So previsouly a muxer could return any error code to signal error 
> condition and reasonably assume that ffmpeg.c will report it back to the 
> user as an error.
> 
> The change in ffmpeg.c "forces" muxers to check if they ever get 
> AVERROR_EOF for some real error condition and map them to 
> e.g. AVERROR(EIO). And that is an API change.

I don't follow, how is fixing bugs in muxers in any way an API change?

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Anton Khirnov


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