[FFmpeg-devel] Files crashing FFmpeg

Benjamin Larsson banan
Wed Dec 3 09:57:30 CET 2008


Mike Melanson wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
>   
>> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>     
>>> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> This list http://tranquillity.ath.cx/ffmpeg_crashfiles.txt contains
>>>>> links to files that crashes a FFmpeg version from 2007. Can anyone come
>>>>> up with a good tool so we can run through and check all these files ?
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> Download them and attempt to decode them.  Did I miss something?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> It's over 5000 files and maybe there are more things to look at then 
>>> just if it crashes FFmpeg.
>>>       
>> I should be able to come up with a tool. It's what I do these days.
>>     
>
> I finally downloaded and processed as many as I could. I was able to 
> obtain about 4400 of the original 5100+ samples. Initial results 
> indicate that more than half (2316) of the samples return 0 when fed 
> into FFmpeg. I construe that to mean that those samples now work. I will 
> have a more detailed breakdown of the problems in the next few days.
>
> I also learned that FFmpeg can bring Mac OS X to its knees.
>
>   

Goodie. Here comes a list of the most uncommon files (video codecs) 
found by Picsearch.

http://tranquillity.ath.cx/uncommon_video_codecs_final.txt
http://tranquillity.ath.cx/codecs.txt

MvH
Benjamin Larsson






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