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

[Christopher Meredith]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, okay. Then feel free to table/disregard/ridicule the bug report I
filed an hour ago. :-)