Hi,

Testing FFmpeg FFV1 encoder on big frames (more than 4K: 4300x3956), I have a warning for each frame encoded (so a lot of warnings!): [ffv1 @ 0000024a6bcfe880] Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could fail

Checking avcodec/ffv1enc.c, it is due to the following lines:
    int64_t maxsize =   AV_INPUT_BUFFER_MIN_SIZE
                      + avctx->width*avctx->height*37LL*4;
[...]
   if (maxsize > INT_MAX - AV_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE - 32) {
        av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING, "Cannot allocate worst case packet size, the encoding could fail\n");
        maxsize = INT_MAX - AV_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE - 32;
    }

The value of maxsize is 2517614784, more than INT_MAX, sure, but I don't understand:
- why does FFmpeg need to allocate 148 times the size of a frame?
- why is having a number > INT_MAX an issue? modern machines are 64-bit and have 8+ GB of RAM, and in practice I currently saw no encoding failure on thousands of frames.

Additionally I didn't get why maxsize is reduced ("only" need of 12 times the size of the frame) in case of FFV1 version > 3 (experimental right now):
    if (f->version > 3)
        maxsize = AV_INPUT_BUFFER_MIN_SIZE + avctx->width*avctx->height*3LL*4;

maxsize is used for calling ff_alloc_packet2(), which accepts 64-bit numbers.
   if ((ret = ff_alloc_packet2(avctx, pkt, maxsize, 0)) < 0)
        return ret;

Is it possible to reduce this "37x4" multiplier without risk and/or remove maxsize reduction in case of sizeof(size_t) == 8 and/or show the warning only once?

Issue can be reproduced with:
./ffmpeg.exe -f lavfi -i testsrc2=size=4300x3956 -t 0.040 -pix_fmt rgba64 rgba64.dpx
./ffmpeg.exe -i rgba64.dpx -c:v ffv1 rgba64.mkv

Jérôme

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