[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Lavfi test system

[Jai Menon]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Saturday 2010-01-09 15:43:34 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
>> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:58:30PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> > On date Friday 2010-01-08 03:48:37 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
>> > > also dont use avi as output but something that supports timestamps so
>> > > they are tested as well (filters may change them)
>> >
>> > Both avi and nut fail with some of the pixel formats supported, maybe
>> > I'll be more lucky with mp4/mov.
>> >
>> > But I want to know if there is some way to fix them, for example for
>> > AVI there doesn't seem to be fourCC tags for some of the pixel formats
>> > we support, the same for NUT (we can maybe fix the latter extending
>> > its specs), anyway I believe we should fail if some pixel format is
>> > not supported during encoding.
>> >
>> > Any thought?
>>
>> read fourcc.org or M$ specs
>
> Ah, funny that I have to read a third party site for something related
> to a M$ standard. This reminds me of why computer tech sucks so much.
>
>> read nut4cc.txt
>
> From the mplayer/DOCS/tech/nut.txt
>
> |the nut spec has been moved to another svn repo you can find it at:
> |http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/docs/nut.txt?view=markup
> |
> |its future location will be in a git repository, ill update this file
> |here when its location changes again
>
> The referenced page is missing.
>
> Then I tried:
> http://nut-container.org/
>
> The link to the specification leads nowhere.
>
> I googled in search of some reference to the nut repo in vain.
>
> Then I tried:
> svn list svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut
>
> and finally I got the repo.
>
> Please fix the dangling links.

The links are valid, just that websvn isn't available anymore.
Might I suggest pushing it to github/gitorious etc, it would be useful
if people could view the documentation without having to create a
checkout.

-- 
Jai Menon