[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] several EA demuxer fixes, issue 956

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:57:25PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:45:46PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > attached patch fixes several issues:
> > 1) it returns partial packets, e.g. at the end of badly cut files. This
> > I think is the normal behaviour for FFmpeg, if not av_get_packet should
> > be changed instead.
> > 2) as an unavoidable side effect of 1) this fixes memleaks with partial
> > packets since pkt was not free if av_get_packet succeeded and we still
> > returned with an error (issue 956)
> > 3) since it is simple to do, along with 1) we also return the correct
> > error code we got from av_get_packet instead of always AVERROR_IO or
> > AVERROR(EIO).
> > 
> > These IMO should be applied as one patch, splitting does not really make
> > sense.
> > The second patch is just another minor simplification after that.
> 
> do we have a maintainer for electronicarts.c ?
> (noone is listed in MAINTAINERS)
> peter?

I was just going to do it the usual way for those "fringe" formats,
maintainer or not: wait a few days and then just change it.
This one would change the FATE test results though (only an additional
line), so I'd hope that Mike takes note of this so it can be resolved
quickly.