The field is intended to overflow and have only its low 16bits stored.
This commit avoids the implicit truncation and clarifies that its
intended and not a bug
S326m section 7.6 ("Continuity count"):
> The continuity count word consists of 2 bytes allow-
> ing a number to be created by a modulo 65536
> counter (bits C15 to C0 in figure 7). The continuity
> count shall increment by 1 for each newly transmit-
> ted content package with the same SDTI source and
> destination addresses. The continuity count may
> be used to detect whether the content package
> sequence has been broken by an operation such as
> a routing switch.
Approved-by: Tjoppen
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
FFmpeg README
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1) Documentation
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* Read the documentation in the doc/ directory in git.
You can also view it online at http://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
2) Licensing
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* See the LICENSE file.
3) Build and Install
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* See the INSTALL file.
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