[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Proposal regarding cleaning up our samples collection

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:50:33PM +0100, Ivo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I mentioned recently on ffmpeg-devel, I have taken on the job of 
> reorganizing and maintaining our samples collection at 
> samples.mplayerhq.hu.
> 
> Before I actually start working on it, I want to share the following 
> proposal with the developers on both ffmpeg-devel and mplayer-dev-eng. It 
> has been based on the ideas put forward by Aurelien and Michael.
> 
> Filename conventions: ( [] means optional, "" means literal )
> 
> [issue000001-]container-vcodec-acodec-[subtitles-]filename.extension
> [issue000001-]"image"-format-filename.extension
> 
> Accompanying text files will have the same filename with the .txt extension.
> 
> 
> Directory layout:
> 
> all         // contains all the actual files
> 
> // All other directories contain symlinks to the files in all
> 
> issues
>     issue000001
>     issue000002
> container
>     containerx
>     containery
> vcodec
>     vcodecx
>     vcodecy
> acodec
>     acodecx
>     acodecy
> subtitles
>     subtitlesx
>     subtitlesy
> 
> et cetera.
> 
> Example:
> 
> all/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi
> issues/issue000001/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> container/avi/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> vcodec/mpeg4/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> acodec/mp3/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> subtitles/ass/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> 
> In case there is a *.txt file, it will be linked from the same places.
> 
> 
> I could extend the hierarchy by subdividing the subdirectories further.
> For example:
> 
> all/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi
> issues/issue000001/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> container/avi/mpeg4/mp3/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> vcodec/mpeg4/avi/mp3/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> acodec/mp3/avi/mpeg4/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> subtitles/ass/avi/issue000001-avi-mpeg4-mp3-ass-fubar.avi@
> 
> 
> This will increase the number of symlinks dramatically, but makes it easier 
> to find a certain combination of container and codecs.
> 
> After we have settled on a common filename convention and directory layout, 
> I will setup a framework of a few scripts and apply them to the current 
> mess. After that, I'll keep maintaining the collection manually. I don't 
> think a cronjob for automation is necessary, at least not anything beyond a 
> script that sends me an e-mail when new files have arrived in incoming.
> 
> 
> Any comments, suggestions, opinions?

comments,
files can contain only video or only audio, they can contain more than
1 video or audio codec.

Also it likely makes sense to keep/have additional directores like
idct_rounding_artifacts
old_divx
AV_sync_issues
non_interleaed_avi
all_audio_in_single_chunk_avi
...

also mplayer and ffmpeg issue numbers have to be kept somehow seperated

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