[Ffmpeg-devel] Coverity defect scan

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/13/06, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Well, judging from the commits I'm seeing on mplayer-cvslog, quite a few
> > of them seem to be real bugs.
> >
> > Fixing these defects is also going to be a status thing I guess.  The
> > xine people loudly say how horrible the MPlayer code is at every
> > possible occasion.  Nevertheless their defect rate is considerably
> > higher than ours.
> >
> > I couldn't help but grin ;)
>
>         Okay, I finally got access to Coverity's xine scan. Does MPlayer's scan
> include any external libraries? As you know, xine chooses to maintain
> external libraries in its own CVS codebase. Out of 343 bugs,  33 come
> from FFmpeg, 52 from libdvdnav, 5 from liba52, 11 from libfaad, 5 in
> libmad, and at least 2 from files that aren't even used anymore (hmm,
> maybe this scan was useful after all).

Yes, MPlayer also has its own copy of essential libraries it uses.

Guillaume
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