[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] another experiment w/ ffserver regression test

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:48:03 +0100
> Jindrich Makovicka <makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:32:58 +0100
> > > Jindrich Makovicka <makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>could you please try the server-regression test with this patch? It adds
> > >>the BitExact option to ffserver and fixes the test.conf file. My results
> > >>of the test are also attached.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Well, this patch smells good.
> > > The good news is that I tested it on amd64 and several x86 and got the
> > > same md5 as you.
> > > Now the bad news is that I tested it on ppc and it gives totally
> > > different results :
> > > 9b6ccb5cdd4f6677b79d0e06557fdb7e  ff-test_h.avi
> > > c8bd4680156fa412635f011909eef081  ff-test_l.avi
> > > b892f296c47d1b9a2b64edc502f6819b  ff-test.swf
> > > b987e804ca459245f8fd572717bb7714  ff-test_h.asf
> > > 25d55bb8e9d43ea2fb57d94af215f56e  ff-test_l.asf
> > > fbe0a4ed463f5a589d4ba9f68fd4fae4  ff-test_h.rm
> > > 45792412d2120b610824ce7e2ef9365a  ff-test_l.rm
> > > e18ff0e88892c88549bab394fe28ef8d  ff-test.jpg
> > > 228057fa69aededfd078e657ae12eb88  ff-test_small.jpg
> > > 7bcccb92c3c9e38b5a9d54e44360bbb1  ff-test.mjpg
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>I am just curious if it's possible to make a regression test which
> > >>actually tests something :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Indeed, with your patch, the regression tests seems much more useful ;-)
> > > It really produces playable files, and results are consistents.
> > > So I think it should be applied.
> > > And then someone will have to dig into the ppc problem (which is maybe
> > > an endianness issue somewhere).
> > 
> > Couldn't it be that PPC doesn't honor the bitexact flag? Can you run the
> > test with Altivec optimizations disabled?
> 
> Hum... I did the test on a G3, so yes, altivec was disabled ;-)

you didnt forget:
AVCodecContext.idct_algo= FF_IDCT_SIMPLE;
AVCodecContext. dct_algo= FF_DCT_INT;

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Michael