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

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Wed Aug 30 12:01:26 CEST 2006


Hi

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:53:35AM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 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.

the 'other' scaler will be droped, the c code of the swssaler will be made
LGPL

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