[FFmpeg-devel] Files crashing FFmpeg

Mike Melanson mike
Wed Dec 3 17:50:47 CET 2008


Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> 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

Wow! Processing that list of crashers was like having to eat my 
vegetables. This list is more like dessert!

-- 
     -Mike Melanson




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