[MPlayer-dev-eng] Seeking beta testers for libnut!

[Oded Shimon]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> Well, it works for me. :)
> 
> I'm asking everyone to test libnut as much as possible... tell me about 
> assert failure, crashes, any other weird problems, bad seeks.
> 
> Don't bother feeding libnut even slightly broken avi files, it will not 
> tolerate them.
> 
> As for broken NUT files, well, truncated files will work just fine, but 
> other invalid files probably won't work well. Tell me if it works, don't 
> bother telling me if it doesn't.
> 
> Most importantly, check seeking, seeking should be percise and never result 
> in a position higher than requested pts.
> 
> If you see the error "NUT error: Cannot seek to that position.", when you 
> made a small seek and the video gets a bunch of mpeg-4 artifacts, don't 
> bother telling me, it's a bug in mplayer, not in libnut. libnut couldn't 
> find a keyframe closer to position you requested then the position you are 
> at right now, so it failed. No way to inform mplayer about a failed seek, 
> and it craps out the video...
> 
> nutmerge accepts avi, ogg vorbis, and nut files...
> 
> Please people, test it! Tell me everything! If we don't find any serious 
> problems, we will finalize NUT spec. (although there is some stuff I want 
> to finish in spec first)

Oh, I forgot to mention, do NOT archive any of the NUT files created and 
don't release this libnut/nututils anywhere, nutmerge is still 
broken/non-compliant ...

As planned quite a while ago, when NUT will be finalized, we will bump the 
NUT version and any older files will not play...

- ods15