[FFmpeg-devel] some renames in the regression testsuite

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:04:34PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> On 3/30/2009 10:17 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:59:44PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:32:18PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:22:46PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>>>> Those changes are done.  Next I wanted to change the filenames of the
> >>>>>> generated regression files to use lavf instead of libav, but when I
> >>>>>> apply the attached patch, the lavftest target fails with a difference
> >>>>>> during the gxf test.  I'm completely puzzled, all this does is rename
> >>>>>> a few files, how can this affect the result?
> >>>>> Upload the two gxf files (assuming they differ).
> >>>> I have uploaded a dir named 'regtest_fail_file_rename' with 'before' and
> >>>> 'after' subdirectories to incoming.
> >>> gxf_write_material_data_section writes the file name into the output.
> >> WTF is that supposed to be good for?
> > 
> > i agree this is sick, i can only imagine this to leak info the user is not
> > aware of (even we wherent aware of it ...)
> 
> Like libavformat version by default ? Is the user aware of this ?
> Almost every muxer is already leaking this information....

the user probably isnt but the lavf version is at least usefull
just look at how many divx&xvid version checks we have in our mpeg4
decoder to workaround bugs. And our lavf isnt bugfree either ...

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