[Ffmpeg-devel] Two ASF related bugs and fixes

[Steve Lhomme]

emild at cs.technion.ac.il wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have found two bugs related to ffmpeg's ASF file format.
> 
> 1) The first bug has to do with the ASF writer. The problem is caused by the
> fact that the size of the padding is not adjusted to include the size of
> the padding length field. This causes the last byte of the payload to be
> overwritten with zeroes before it is written to disk, thus yielding an invalid
> bitstream.
> mplayer and even ffmpeg complain when such streams are passed to them.
> 
> I have put an input file which illustrates the problem at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ASF_PROBLEM/WRITER/IN/Philips_qcif.mp4
> 
> and the resulting output at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ASF_PROBLEM/WRITER/OUT/buggy_Philips_qcif.mp4.asf
> 
> The command line used was:
> 
> ffmpeg -i Philips_qcif.mp4 -r 15 -b 64 -an -s 176x144 -vcodec wmv1
> buggy_Philips_qcif.mp4.asf
> 
> 
> For example this is what mplayer has to say about the resulting output file:

I think you ended up your email prematurely. The output of Mplayer is 
not there, and there is no mention of the second bug.

Steve