diff --git a/libavcodec/mjpegenc_common.c b/libavcodec/mjpegenc_common.c
index 0076e94296..c37c964931 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mjpegenc_common.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mjpegenc_common.c
@@ -423,7 +423,6 @@ void ff_mjpeg_escape_FF(PutBitContext *pb, int start)
 
     if(ff_count==0) return;
 
-    flush_put_bits(pb);
     skip_put_bytes(pb, ff_count);
 
     for(i=size-1; ff_count; i--){