[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] another experiment w/ ffserver regression test

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:48:03 +0100
Jindrich Makovicka <makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz> wrote:

> Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:32:58 +0100
> > Jindrich Makovicka <makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>could you please try the server-regression test with this patch? It adds
> >>the BitExact option to ffserver and fixes the test.conf file. My results
> >>of the test are also attached.
> > 
> > 
> > Well, this patch smells good.
> > The good news is that I tested it on amd64 and several x86 and got the
> > same md5 as you.
> > Now the bad news is that I tested it on ppc and it gives totally
> > different results :
> > 9b6ccb5cdd4f6677b79d0e06557fdb7e  ff-test_h.avi
> > c8bd4680156fa412635f011909eef081  ff-test_l.avi
> > b892f296c47d1b9a2b64edc502f6819b  ff-test.swf
> > b987e804ca459245f8fd572717bb7714  ff-test_h.asf
> > 25d55bb8e9d43ea2fb57d94af215f56e  ff-test_l.asf
> > fbe0a4ed463f5a589d4ba9f68fd4fae4  ff-test_h.rm
> > 45792412d2120b610824ce7e2ef9365a  ff-test_l.rm
> > e18ff0e88892c88549bab394fe28ef8d  ff-test.jpg
> > 228057fa69aededfd078e657ae12eb88  ff-test_small.jpg
> > 7bcccb92c3c9e38b5a9d54e44360bbb1  ff-test.mjpg
> > 
> > 
> >>I am just curious if it's possible to make a regression test which
> >>actually tests something :)
> > 
> > 
> > Indeed, with your patch, the regression tests seems much more useful ;-)
> > It really produces playable files, and results are consistents.
> > So I think it should be applied.
> > And then someone will have to dig into the ppc problem (which is maybe
> > an endianness issue somewhere).
> 
> Couldn't it be that PPC doesn't honor the bitexact flag? Can you run the
> test with Altivec optimizations disabled?

Hum... I did the test on a G3, so yes, altivec was disabled ;-)

Aurel