[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question about cross-reporting bugs

[compn]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:23:51 -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a quick question about bug reporting etiquette. I have a file
>that produces the same playback errors on both ffmpeg and mplayer
>(SVN). I filed a bug report with ffmpeg. If you're interested, it's
>here:
>
>https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue987

looks like a bug in ffmpeg flv demuxer, so its their problem :)

>Since I would really like to be able to play this file in mplayer
>also, I was wondering whether I should also file this as a bug with
>mplayer now, or wait until the ffmpeg guys resolve it and try to get
>their fix (if any) incorporated into mplayer at that point.
>
>I know there is some level of interaction between the ffmpeg and
>mplayer teams (sample files for this bug are already on the MPlayer
>FTP server) but I want to follow the proper protocol. Advice?

mplayer and ffmpeg share some developers. in this case the bug does not
need to be reported to us, because we only have ffmpeg's flv demuxer.

-compn