[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fftools/ffmpeg_dec: abort if avcodec_send_packet() returns EAGAIN

[James Almer]

As the comment in the code mentions, EAGAIN is not an expected value here
because we call avcodec_receive_frame() until all frames have been returned.
avcodec_send_packet() returning EAGAIN means a packet is still buffered, which
hints that the underlying decoder is buggy and not fetching packets as it
should.

An example of this behavior was in the libdav1d wrapper before f209614290,
where feeding it split frames (or individual OBUs) would result in the CLI
eventually printing the unuseful "Error submitting packet to decoder: Resource
temporarily unavailable" error message, and just keep until EOF without
returning new frames.

Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
---
Now compiling.

 fftools/ffmpeg_dec.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fftools/ffmpeg_dec.c b/fftools/ffmpeg_dec.c
index e06747d9c4..b1db9b30d0 100644
--- a/fftools/ffmpeg_dec.c
+++ b/fftools/ffmpeg_dec.c
@@ -390,6 +390,11 @@ int dec_packet(InputStream *ist, const AVPacket *pkt, int no_eof)
     if (ret < 0 && !(ret == AVERROR_EOF && !pkt)) {
         // In particular, we don't expect AVERROR(EAGAIN), because we read all
         // decoded frames with avcodec_receive_frame() until done.
+        if (ret == AVERROR(EAGAIN)) {
+            av_log(ist, AV_LOG_FATAL, "A decoder returned an unexpected error code. "
+                   "This is a bug, please report it.\n");
+            exit_program(1);
+        }
         av_log(ist, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Error submitting %s to decoder: %s\n",
                pkt ? "packet" : "EOF", av_err2str(ret));
         if (exit_on_error)
-- 
2.40.1