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-rw-r--r--libavcodec/mpegvideo.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/mpegvideo.c b/libavcodec/mpegvideo.c
index 7a14dc1413..21fa5ed794 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mpegvideo.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mpegvideo.c
@@ -842,7 +842,19 @@ int ff_find_unused_picture(MpegEncContext *s, int shared){
}
}
- assert(0);
+ av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_FATAL, "Internal error, picture buffer overflow\n");
+ /*we could return -1 but the codec would crash anyway, trying to draw
+ into, a non existing frame, this is safer than waiting for a random crash
+ also the return of this is never usefull, a encoder must only allocate
+ as many as allowed in the spec which has no relation to how many lavc
+ could allocate (and MAX_PICTURE_COUNT is always large enough for such
+ valid streams)
+ and a decoder has to check stream validity and remove frames if too many
+ reference frames are around. waiting for "OOM" is not correct at all, it
+ similarely has to replace missing reference frames by (interpolated/MC)
+ frames anything else is a bug in the codec ...
+ */
+ abort();
return -1;
}