[Libav-user] Uploading large video files to bugtracker/ftp?

[Matthew Einhorn]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Matthew Einhorn <moiein2000 at ...> writes:
>
> > There's an option to attach a file to the bug report,
> > but I imagine 300MB is too much.
>
> It is not, there is no hard filesize limit.
>
> To elaborate a bit what is written on
> http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html :
> There were many bugreports in the past (esp.
> crashes) were 10MB is far too much, 100k were
> often enough. I remember a bug about a buggy
> first frame in a an asf stream, the user
> uploaded 30MB, one would have been more than
> enough. Otoh, if you want to report A/V sync
> issues with a HD stream, 100MB can be appropriate
> (or even not enough). So you should upload enough
> to (very easily) reproduce your problem, not ten
> times as much.
>
> Use tools/qt-faststart to produce a mov file
> that you can cut with dd.
>

qt-faststart with dd did the trick.

On a side note, I initially tried to make qt-faststart on Windows in
cygwin, however, I kept getting this error "make: *** No rule to make
target `tools/qt-faststart'.  Stop." But when I did the identical think on
ubuntu it worked perfectly. I'm not that good with scripts so I'm not
exactly sure how to debug this. But I did run configure successfully in
cygwin. But it's not that important.

Matt
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