[Libav-user] Possible fix for rare core-dumps in H264

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Mark Stevans <mark39518 at ...> writes:

> It takes hours of testing to generate a stack trace

I am not sure I understand: The additional effort 
should be far below five minutes, could you 
elaborate?

> And it's very difficult to get a clip for reproduction, 
> as this is a live stream running for hours.

rtmpdump should allow to record a sample.

Allow me to explain that it is extremely unlikely 
that a developer will work on a ticket that does 
not nearly contain enough information to allow 
fixing it, as you may have seen there is a large 
number of open and reproducible tickets.

Posting your patch on ffmpeg-devel could be an 
alternative (as said, there is a very long history 
of patches that are ignored on trac, this is why 
the New Ticket page says "Patches should be 
submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list and not 
this bug tracker." - if you believe this sentence 
can be improved, please tell us).

Carl Eugen