frame_count = 0; for(;;) { avpkt.size = fread(inbuf, 1, INBUF_SIZE, f); if (avpkt.size == 0) break; /* NOTE1: some codecs are stream based (mpegvideo, mpegaudio) and this is the only method to use them because you cannot know the compressed data size before analysing it. BUT some other codecs (msmpeg4, mpeg4) are inherently frame based, so you must call them with all the data for one frame exactly. You must also initialize 'width' and 'height' before initializing them. */ /* NOTE2: some codecs allow the raw parameters (frame size, sample rate) to be changed at any frame. We handle this, so you should also take care of it */ /* here, we use a stream based decoder (mpeg1video), so we feed decoder and see if it could decode a frame */ avpkt.data = inbuf; while (avpkt.size > 0) if (decode_write_frame(outfilename, c, frame, &frame_count, &avpkt, 0) < 0) exit(1); }