[MPlayer-dev-eng] branching off rc4

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On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:58:13 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:07:43PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
>> Are there any known regressions or bugs that should be fixed
>> before a release?
>
>I ran my codec test suite (mostly binary) against current trunk, and it's
>bombing left and right. Something central has changed, although I cannot say
>exactly what, nor whether it's something benign (ie. some roundoff somewhere
>changed) or sign of a real bug. (FWIW, the test asks MPlayer to decode a
>sample to an yuv4mpeg output and then compares its checksum to a known one,
>so it will certainly be sensitive to changes in roundoff.)
>
>Does anyone have any good ideas that would save me from a long bisect?
>The tests are:
>
>Passing: fraps qt3ivx qtavui qtcvid qtprores qtsvq3 rv40win wmv9dmo wmvdmo wmvvc1dmo
>Failing (different output): divxds ffh264 indeo5 msuscls qt261 smartsight vp6 vp7 vsswlt wmv8 zmbv

according to my binaries, it was between r30521 and r31372 for
vp6. so at least that narrows it down a bit.

btw, why not use -vo md5sum?

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