diff --git a/libavformat/mux.c b/libavformat/mux.c
index 6fa1c5495b..b1ad0dd561 100644
--- a/libavformat/mux.c
+++ b/libavformat/mux.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ FF_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
 //FIXME merge with compute_pkt_fields
 static int compute_muxer_pkt_fields(AVFormatContext *s, AVStream *st, AVPacket *pkt)
 {
-    int delay = FFMAX(st->codecpar->video_delay, st->internal->avctx->max_b_frames > 0);
+    int delay = st->codecpar->video_delay;
     int i;
     int frame_size;