[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] tests: switch to a test image that is under public domain

[Clément Bœsch]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> > I'm fine with the patch, even though Lena has a special meaning in video
> > processing...
> 
> yep, i wonder if this is the best solution after sleepng over it.
> the lena image is well known, also people know how girls look,
> people will recognize artiacts easily in it.
> Noone would easily notice if a flower has a different color tone or
> some spots. So it may be better to actually try to keep using lena
> 

Yes. Also, the picture is really under fair use in FFmpeg…

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenna.png#Fair_use_for_Playboy

> In that light ive posted a naive patch that just downloads lena.pnm
> if its missing, a 3rd alternative to that would be to move it to the
> fate suite as andreas initially suggested.

It's really insane to wget this in a code that worked without access to
the net. The wget is unexpected here. Also, this is probably not going to
help for the package since the goal is to run the tests depending on the
picture.

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-- 
Clément B.
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