[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Lavfi test system

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Jan 10 20:12:32 CET 2010


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:01:44PM +0530, Jai Menon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:08:30PM +0530, Jai Menon wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Stefano Sabatini
> >> <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> >> > On date Saturday 2010-01-09 15:43:34 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> >> >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:58:30PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> >> >> > On date Friday 2010-01-08 03:48:37 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> >> >> > > also dont use avi as output but something that supports timestamps so
> >> >> > > they are tested as well (filters may change them)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Both avi and nut fail with some of the pixel formats supported, maybe
> >> >> > I'll be more lucky with mp4/mov.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > But I want to know if there is some way to fix them, for example for
> >> >> > AVI there doesn't seem to be fourCC tags for some of the pixel formats
> >> >> > we support, the same for NUT (we can maybe fix the latter extending
> >> >> > its specs), anyway I believe we should fail if some pixel format is
> >> >> > not supported during encoding.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any thought?
> >> >>
> >> >> read fourcc.org or M$ specs
> >> >
> >> > Ah, funny that I have to read a third party site for something related
> >> > to a M$ standard. This reminds me of why computer tech sucks so much.
> >> >
> >> >> read nut4cc.txt
> >> >
> >> > From the mplayer/DOCS/tech/nut.txt
> >> >
> >> > |the nut spec has been moved to another svn repo you can find it at:
> >> > |http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/docs/nut.txt?view=markup
> >> > |
> >> > |its future location will be in a git repository, ill update this file
> >> > |here when its location changes again
> >> >
> >> > The referenced page is missing.
> >> >
> >> > Then I tried:
> >> > http://nut-container.org/
> >> >
> >> > The link to the specification leads nowhere.
> >> >
> >> > I googled in search of some reference to the nut repo in vain.
> >> >
> >> > Then I tried:
> >> > svn list svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut
> >> >
> >> > and finally I got the repo.
> >> >
> >> > Please fix the dangling links.
> >>
> >> The links are valid, just that websvn isn't available anymore.
> >> Might I suggest pushing it to github/gitorious etc, it would be useful
> >> if people could view the documentation without having to create a
> >> checkout.
> >
> > or someone could just make a cronjob that does
> > svn up and put that on a public http accessable directory
> 
> Sure that works too. The publically hosted git repo could be done by
> anyone. This however requires root at mphq's help :)

no roots needed
just one of many people needs to sit down and spend a few minutes
i could do it but iam too busy and lack motivation
actually i do have a nut.txt on www1.mplayerhq.hu/~michael
but theres no cronjob updating that so it may be outdated

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