[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Lavfi test system

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:08:30PM +0530, Jai Menon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Stefano Sabatini
> <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > On date Saturday 2010-01-09 15:43:34 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:58:30PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> >> > On date Friday 2010-01-08 03:48:37 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> >> > > also dont use avi as output but something that supports timestamps so
> >> > > they are tested as well (filters may change them)
> >> >
> >> > Both avi and nut fail with some of the pixel formats supported, maybe
> >> > I'll be more lucky with mp4/mov.
> >> >
> >> > But I want to know if there is some way to fix them, for example for
> >> > AVI there doesn't seem to be fourCC tags for some of the pixel formats
> >> > we support, the same for NUT (we can maybe fix the latter extending
> >> > its specs), anyway I believe we should fail if some pixel format is
> >> > not supported during encoding.
> >> >
> >> > Any thought?
> >>
> >> read fourcc.org or M$ specs
> >
> > Ah, funny that I have to read a third party site for something related
> > to a M$ standard. This reminds me of why computer tech sucks so much.
> >
> >> read nut4cc.txt
> >
> > From the mplayer/DOCS/tech/nut.txt
> >
> > |the nut spec has been moved to another svn repo you can find it at:
> > |http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/docs/nut.txt?view=markup
> > |
> > |its future location will be in a git repository, ill update this file
> > |here when its location changes again
> >
> > The referenced page is missing.
> >
> > Then I tried:
> > http://nut-container.org/
> >
> > The link to the specification leads nowhere.
> >
> > I googled in search of some reference to the nut repo in vain.
> >
> > Then I tried:
> > svn list svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut
> >
> > and finally I got the repo.
> >
> > Please fix the dangling links.
> 
> The links are valid, just that websvn isn't available anymore.
> Might I suggest pushing it to github/gitorious etc, it would be useful
> if people could view the documentation without having to create a
> checkout.

or someone could just make a cronjob that does
svn up and put that on a public http accessable directory

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