* Fixed an alignment problem on startup.

diff --git a/src/input/input_ext-dec.c b/src/input/input_ext-dec.c
index ced9bdd5b9676cb8c9a3ec26197576cfbd1c3863..bb29b1fec9951c4d26fe80f8b834c924101e9917 100644 (file)
--- a/src/input/input_ext-dec.c
+++ b/src/input/input_ext-dec.c
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ void InitBitstream( bit_stream_t * p_bit_stream, decoder_fifo_t * p_fifo )
     p_bit_stream->fifo.buffer = 0;
     p_bit_stream->fifo.i_available = 0;
     vlc_mutex_unlock( &p_fifo->data_lock );
+
+    if( p_bit_stream->p_byte <= p_bit_stream->p_end - sizeof(WORD_TYPE) )
+    {
+        /* Get aligned on a word boundary.
+         * NB : we _will_ get aligned, because we have at most 
+         * sizeof(WORD_TYPE) - 1 bytes to store, and at least
+         * sizeof(WORD_TYPE) - 1 empty bytes in the bit buffer. */
+        AlignWord( p_bit_stream );
+    }
 }
 
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