[Libav-user] avcodec_open2 error -542398533 "Generic error in an external library"

[Yu Ang Tan]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 at 22:41 Gonzalo <ggarra13 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> El 24/03/16 a las 03:03, Yu Ang Tan escribió:
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> // allocate context
> pFormatCtx = avformat_alloc_context();
> pFormatCtx->oformat = pOutFormat;
> memcpy(pFormatCtx->filename,filename,
> min(strlen(filename), sizeof(pFormatCtx->filename)));
>
> Here you are trashing memory.  You need to allocate pFormatCtx->filename
> (or use something like strdup).
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Hi Gonzalo

I don't think that's the case. AVFormatContext::filename is of type
char[1024] not char*. Therefore I cannot assign to it.
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