make AVCodec.init() optional

Originally committed as revision 8589 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
index 619613f2d2..4539cb945e 100644
--- a/libavcodec/utils.c
+++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
@@ -829,12 +829,14 @@ int avcodec_open(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVCodec *codec)
     avctx->codec = codec;
     avctx->codec_id = codec->id;
     avctx->frame_number = 0;
+    if(avctx->codec->init){
     ret = avctx->codec->init(avctx);
     if (ret < 0) {
         av_freep(&avctx->priv_data);
         avctx->codec= NULL;
         goto end;
     }
+    }
     ret=0;
 end:
     entangled_thread_counter--;