From e35c674d13a7f180412cfe058530a2e7f1d49a90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Ruggles <justin.ruggles@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:38:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] alsa: limit buffer_size to 32768 frames.

In testing, the file output plugin gave a max buffer size of about 20 million
frames, which is way more than what is really needed and causes a memory
allocation error on my system.
---
 libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c | 1 +
 libavdevice/alsa-audio.h        | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c b/libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c
index 1e945fc389e..126695f7542 100644
--- a/libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c
+++ b/libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ av_cold int ff_alsa_open(AVFormatContext *ctx, snd_pcm_stream_t mode,
     }
 
     snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size_max(hw_params, &buffer_size);
+    buffer_size = FFMIN(buffer_size, ALSA_BUFFER_SIZE_MAX);
     /* TODO: maybe use ctx->max_picture_buffer somehow */
     res = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near(h, hw_params, &buffer_size);
     if (res < 0) {
diff --git a/libavdevice/alsa-audio.h b/libavdevice/alsa-audio.h
index 1e0be1cac78..ee434636962 100644
--- a/libavdevice/alsa-audio.h
+++ b/libavdevice/alsa-audio.h
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
         other formats */
 #define DEFAULT_CODEC_ID AV_NE(CODEC_ID_PCM_S16BE, CODEC_ID_PCM_S16LE)
 
+#define ALSA_BUFFER_SIZE_MAX 32768
+
 typedef struct {
     AVClass *class;
     snd_pcm_t *h;
-- 
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