diff --git a/libavcodec/h264.c b/libavcodec/h264.c
index 0497624ba1..2bf0cc1a64 100644
--- a/libavcodec/h264.c
+++ b/libavcodec/h264.c
@@ -7730,7 +7730,7 @@ static int decode_frame(AVCodecContext *avctx,
     s->flags= avctx->flags;
     s->flags2= avctx->flags2;
 
-   /* no supplementary picture */
+   /* end of stream, output whats still in the buffers */
     if (buf_size == 0) {
         Picture *out;
         int i, out_idx;