[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/cbs_apv: don't return an error when reading empty buffers

[James Almer]

On 4/30/2025 6:17 PM, Mark Thompson wrote:
> On 29/04/2025 20:57, James Almer wrote:
>> The output will be a fragment with zero units, which is a lot more user friendly
>> than making them think something went wrong, as it already happens with cbs_av1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   libavcodec/cbs_apv.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libavcodec/cbs_apv.c b/libavcodec/cbs_apv.c
>> index 2c4a1daaf0..66ea4cebab 100644
>> --- a/libavcodec/cbs_apv.c
>> +++ b/libavcodec/cbs_apv.c
>> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static int cbs_apv_split_fragment(CodedBitstreamContext *ctx,
>>   
>>       if (frag->data_size < 4) {
>>           // Too small to be a valid fragment.
>> -        return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
>> +        return 0;
>>       }
>>   
>>       // Don't include parsing here in trace output.
> 
> Seems fair for a zero-size buffer, but I don't like this for a three-byte fragment containing { 0xab, 0xcd, 0xef } - that feels like it should return an error.
> 
> Maybe it would make more sense to have a separate check for zero.  What do you think?

Sure, will send an updated patch in a bit.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Mark
> 
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