[FFmpeg-devel] Video decoding error asks me to upload video to non-existing site ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/

[Thilo Borgmann]

Am 31.01.17 um 13:00 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
> On 1/31/17, DogFilm <videobrain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a video here that will make ffmpeg hang and eat all CPU without
>> doing any actual work and produces a lot of errors. It is quite a normal
>> video downloaded from a public media library, nothing special.
>>
>> The error message asks me to upload the file to
>> ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/ and report here about that error.
>> Unfortunately that ftp server does not seem to exist.

Thanks for reporting back to us.


>> Where should I upload that ffmpeg-killer-video?
> 
> Anywhere from where it can be easily downloadable.
> 
>>
>> Also should I file the missing ftp server as a bug?
> 
> Nope.

We mention ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/incoming/ in several places. If it is not the place to upload things then these messages should be changed accordingly and the preferred way to upload samples need to be documented.

-Thilo