diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
index b6412a5313d3382a4b8fa9cda150f93e3f7d9e2d..4134586c5a8e1ad10c4725ee7c136576a5561c69 100644
--- a/libavcodec/utils.c
+++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ int avcodec_default_get_buffer(AVCodecContext *s, AVFrame *pic){
         int h_chroma_shift, v_chroma_shift;
         int size[4] = {0};
         int tmpsize;
+        int unaligned;
         AVPicture picture;
         int stride_align[4];
 
@@ -254,8 +255,14 @@ int avcodec_default_get_buffer(AVCodecContext *s, AVFrame *pic){
             h+= EDGE_WIDTH*2;
         }
 
+        do {
+            // NOTE: do not align linesizes individually, this breaks e.g. assumptions
+            // that linesize[0] == 2*linesize[1] in the MPEG-encoder for 4:2:2
         ff_fill_linesize(&picture, s->pix_fmt, w);
+            // increase alignment of w for next try (rhs gives the lowest bit set in w)
+            w += w & ~(w-1);
 
+            unaligned = 0;
         for (i=0; i<4; i++){
 //STRIDE_ALIGN is 8 for SSE* but this does not work for SVQ1 chroma planes
 //we could change STRIDE_ALIGN to 16 for x86/sse but it would increase the
@@ -267,8 +274,9 @@ int avcodec_default_get_buffer(AVCodecContext *s, AVFrame *pic){
             else
 #endif
             stride_align[i] = STRIDE_ALIGN;
-            picture.linesize[i] = ALIGN(picture.linesize[i], stride_align[i]);
+                unaligned |= picture.linesize[i] % stride_align[i];
         }
+        } while (unaligned);
 
         tmpsize = ff_fill_pointer(&picture, NULL, s->pix_fmt, h);
         if (tmpsize < 0)