[MPlayer-dev-eng] Seeking beta testers for libnut!
Oded Shimon
ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org
Fri Jan 27 15:57:15 CET 2006
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> Well, it works for me. :)
>
> I'm asking everyone to test libnut as much as possible... tell me about
> assert failure, crashes, any other weird problems, bad seeks.
>
> Don't bother feeding libnut even slightly broken avi files, it will not
> tolerate them.
>
> As for broken NUT files, well, truncated files will work just fine, but
> other invalid files probably won't work well. Tell me if it works, don't
> bother telling me if it doesn't.
>
> Most importantly, check seeking, seeking should be percise and never result
> in a position higher than requested pts.
>
> If you see the error "NUT error: Cannot seek to that position.", when you
> made a small seek and the video gets a bunch of mpeg-4 artifacts, don't
> bother telling me, it's a bug in mplayer, not in libnut. libnut couldn't
> find a keyframe closer to position you requested then the position you are
> at right now, so it failed. No way to inform mplayer about a failed seek,
> and it craps out the video...
>
> nutmerge accepts avi, ogg vorbis, and nut files...
>
> Please people, test it! Tell me everything! If we don't find any serious
> problems, we will finalize NUT spec. (although there is some stuff I want
> to finish in spec first)
Oh, I forgot to mention, do NOT archive any of the NUT files created and
don't release this libnut/nututils anywhere, nutmerge is still
broken/non-compliant ...
As planned quite a while ago, when NUT will be finalized, we will bump the
NUT version and any older files will not play...
- ods15
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