[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2008

[Compn]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:01:29 -0400, andy g wrote:

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>On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:
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>> With that, I'd like to remind students working on qualification  
>> tasks to
>> engage us and ask questions if stuck.
>
>In that vein, I'm stuck. I've emailed Ian, but the latest version of  
>his patch fails catastrophically on all test cases I run.  
>Unfortunately, I cannot fix anything simply because he reverse  
>engineered the MLP codec, meaning that there is no spec for me to use  
>to debug it. Since I was hoping on completing a qualification task in  

you only need to security test it. not get it to the hidden spec :)
e.g. use zzuf fuzzer program and give it some mlp input file until it
crashes. when it crashes, run ffmpeg_g inside of gdb and see if there
are any problems in the code.

or did you mean you tried that already? :)

-compn