[Ffmpeg-devel] [Patch] DV in AVI fixes

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:28:12PM -0500, Jeff Downs wrote:
> This patch fixes two issues with AVI files that contain "Type 1" DV.
> Searching the mailing list indicates a number of people have seen at
> least the first problem below.  The others become more apparent after
> the first problem is fixed.
> 
> 1. Seeking with DV-AVI files would cause a null pointer dereference in
> avi_read_seek because the "logical" streams (all streams but the primary
> video stream) have no backing AVIStream structure stored in AVStream
> priv_data. This patch fixes this by limiting seek index lookups to the
> first stream (with DV there is only one possible stream that could have
> indexes anyway).
> 
> 2. The DV demux was only partially informed of the seek having occurred.
> Thus, while a seek would give you data starting at the right place in
> the file, the synthesized timestamps would continue as though the seek
> never happened. This is fixed by restructuring the way that DV is
> informed about, and handles, the seek.  Briefly, it brings the DV
> demux's seek handling for DV-AVI more in line that of raw DV.
> 
> 3. The duration for DV-in-AVI ended up being computed at a high level
> (utils.c), estimated based on bit rate. This turned out an incorrect
> duration, probably because the computation used the file size (which, of
> course, includes more than just the DV data). This was significantly off
> for some samples we tested. This patch fixes this by setting the 
> AVFormatContext's duration parameter to the correct duration
> during header parsing, based on values in the AVI header.

the avidec.c change looks ok

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