[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffprobe: generalize writer subsection nesting model

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Tue Sep 18 01:52:14 CEST 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:43:55AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2012-09-18 00:38:39 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > Discard unflexible structure based on the root/chapter/section structure
> > in favor of a generalized concept of section.
> > 
> > This should allow to represent sections at generic level of nesting, and
> > allow subsections printing selection.
> > 
> > Also, slightly simplify the code.
> > ---
> >  ffprobe.c |  515 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
> 
> Note: I tested the patch against a local fate test for each
> writer. The test file was generated with:
> 
> ffmpeg  -f lavfi -i "aevalsrc=sin(400*PI*2*t)::d=0.5[out0]; testsrc=d=0.5[out1]; testsrc=s=100x100:d=0.5[out2]" \
>    -flags +bitexact  -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 \ 
>    -metadata "title=ffprobe test file" \
>    -metadata "comment='A comment wih XML & JSON special chars': <tag value=\"x\">" \
>    -y tests/data/fate/ffprobe-test.nut
> 
> and I'm not sure if it is best to auto-generate it when fate is run or
> I should just push the generated file to the samples FATE collection.

some points to consider:
how large are the files?
how much time is spend by generating them?
is it worth to test the creation of the files too?

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