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h264_cuvid crashed when meets with dynamic resolution stream.

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#2,384 opened on Mar 30, 2026

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Description

Recently, while using JavaCV to ingest a video stream, I encountered a crash when the connected live stream's resolution dynamically increased. Interestingly, the stream remains stable if the resolution decreases.

The error message is: [h264_cuvid @ ...] AVHWFramesContext is already initialized with incompatible parameters

After inspecting the source code, I found the following check

    if (hwframe_ctx->pool && (
            hwframe_ctx->width < avctx->width ||
            hwframe_ctx->height < avctx->height ||
            hwframe_ctx->format != AV_PIX_FMT_CUDA ||
            hwframe_ctx->sw_format != avctx->sw_pix_fmt)) {
        av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "AVHWFramesContext is already initialized with incompatible parameters\n");
        // ... debug logs ...
        ctx->internal_error = AVERROR(EINVAL);
        return 0;

It appears this is related to the hardware context initialization.

My Question: Is it possible to manually preset a hardware context (AVHWFramesContext) with a sufficiently large resolution (e.g., a maximum expected size) to accommodate dynamic resolution upscaling without triggering this incompatibility error?

Any advice or workarounds would be greatly appreciated.

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