[Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] regression tests and options/license

[Michel Bardiaux]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:10:03PM +0200, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I notice that currently there are some problems with regression tests
>> and GPL/LGPL (gxf muxer, libswscale) and it could be nice to also tests
>> features (mp3 muxing in flv if enabled, h264 muxing in mov/mp4, amr etc...)
>>
>> How that should be cleanly done ? Different ref files ? Any idea ?
> 
> mp3, h264 and amr need external libraries which almost certainly will have
> different output in different versions so they cannot be part of any
> regression test
> 
> about GPL vs. LGPL, id suggest simply requireing --config-gpl for the
> regression tests
> 
> [...]

That would mean no regression tests for some parts of the code, such as 
the 'other' scaler. Not good.

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