diff --git a/libavcodec/rle.c b/libavcodec/rle.c
index cbbde93f56..8a2d922ab6 100644
--- a/libavcodec/rle.c
+++ b/libavcodec/rle.c
@@ -22,16 +22,7 @@
 #include "rle.h"
 #include "libavutil/common.h"
 
-/**
- * Count up to 127 consecutive pixels which are either all the same or
- * all differ from the previous and next pixels.
- * @param start Pointer to the first pixel
- * @param len Maximum number of pixels
- * @param bpp Bytes per pixel
- * @param same 1 if searching for identical pixel values.  0 for differing
- * @return Number of matching consecutive pixels found
- */
-static int count_pixels(const uint8_t *start, int len, int bpp, int same)
+int ff_rle_count_pixels(const uint8_t *start, int len, int bpp, int same)
 {
     const uint8_t *pos;
     int count = 1;
@@ -63,14 +54,14 @@ int ff_rle_encode(uint8_t *outbuf, int out_size, const uint8_t *ptr , int bpp, i
 
     for(x = 0; x < w; x += count) {
         /* see if we can encode the next set of pixels with RLE */
-        if((count = count_pixels(ptr, w-x, bpp, 1)) > 1) {
+        if ((count = ff_rle_count_pixels(ptr, w - x, bpp, 1)) > 1) {
             if(out + bpp + 1 > outbuf + out_size) return -1;
             *out++ = (count ^ xor_rep) + add_rep;
             memcpy(out, ptr, bpp);
             out += bpp;
         } else {
             /* fall back on uncompressed */
-            count = count_pixels(ptr, w-x, bpp, 0);
+            count = ff_rle_count_pixels(ptr, w - x, bpp, 0);
             if(out + bpp*count >= outbuf + out_size) return -1;
             *out++ = (count ^ xor_raw) + add_raw;
 
diff --git a/libavcodec/rle.h b/libavcodec/rle.h
index 00261d3598..c9677647cb 100644
--- a/libavcodec/rle.h
+++ b/libavcodec/rle.h
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
+/**
+ * Count up to 127 consecutive pixels which are either all the same or
+ * all differ from the previous and next pixels.
+ * @param start Pointer to the first pixel
+ * @param len Maximum number of pixels
+ * @param bpp Bytes per pixel
+ * @param same 1 if searching for identical pixel values, 0 for differing
+ * @return Number of matching consecutive pixels found
+ */
+int ff_rle_count_pixels(const uint8_t *start, int len, int bpp, int same);
+
 /**
  * RLE compress the row, with maximum size of out_size. Value before repeated bytes is (count ^ xor_rep) + add_rep.
  *                                                      Value before raw bytes is      (count ^ xor_raw) + add_raw.
diff --git a/libavcodec/sgienc.c b/libavcodec/sgienc.c
index a449f8c03b..236c72b250 100644
--- a/libavcodec/sgienc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/sgienc.c
@@ -39,6 +39,44 @@ static av_cold int encode_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static int sgi_rle_encode(PutByteContext *pbc, const uint8_t *src,
+                          int w, int bpp)
+{
+    int val, count, x, start = bytestream2_tell_p(pbc);
+    void (*bytestream2_put)(PutByteContext *, unsigned int);
+
+    bytestream2_put = bytestream2_put_byte;
+
+    for (x = 0; x < w; x += count) {
+        /* see if we can encode the next set of pixels with RLE */
+        count = ff_rle_count_pixels(src, w - x, bpp, 1);
+        if (count > 1) {
+            if (bytestream2_get_bytes_left_p(pbc) < bpp * 2)
+                return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
+
+            val = *src;
+            bytestream2_put(pbc, count);
+            bytestream2_put(pbc, val);
+        } else {
+            int i;
+            /* fall back on uncompressed */
+            count = ff_rle_count_pixels(src, w - x, bpp, 0);
+            if (bytestream2_get_bytes_left_p(pbc) < bpp * (count + 1))
+                return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
+
+            bytestream2_put(pbc, count + 0x80);
+            for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+                val = src[i];
+                bytestream2_put(pbc, val);
+            }
+        }
+
+        src += count * bpp;
+    }
+
+    return bytestream2_tell_p(pbc) - start;
+}
+
 static int encode_frame(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVPacket *pkt,
                         const AVFrame *frame, int *got_packet)
 {
@@ -110,7 +148,7 @@ FF_ENABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
     length = SGI_HEADER_SIZE;
     if (avctx->coder_type == FF_CODER_TYPE_RAW)
         length += depth * height * width;
-    else // assume ff_rl_encode() produces at most 2x size of input
+    else // assume sgi_rle_encode() produces at most 2x size of input
         length += tablesize * 2 + depth * height * (2 * width + 1);
 
     if ((ret = ff_alloc_packet(pkt, bytes_per_channel * length)) < 0) {
@@ -166,15 +204,12 @@ FF_ENABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
                 for (x = 0; x < width; x++)
                     encode_buf[x] = in_buf[depth * x];
 
-                length = ff_rle_encode(pbc.buffer,
-                                       bytestream2_get_bytes_left_p(&pbc),
-                                       encode_buf, 1, width, 0, 0, 0x80, 0);
+                length = sgi_rle_encode(&pbc, encode_buf, width, 1);
                 if (length < 1) {
                     av_free(encode_buf);
                     return -1;
                 }
 
-                bytestream2_skip_p(&pbc, length);
                 bytestream2_put_be32(&tablen_pcb, length);
                 in_buf -= p->linesize[0];
             }